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Cool. He can't always be on with requests, but knowing what you want is helpful. PS: Nice catch on the Simon reference.

Nice drawring, Simon! So your request is awfully vague, what exactly did you have in mind?

My dad had one for his job at the Wi Lottery. He absolutely hated that thing, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I never saw a bill, but I can only imagine the cost of install and use. I remember they used to sell fake ones to trick people into thinking you could afford one. Funny, I never got any additional booty fire talking in the cell back in the day. Haha!

I didn't say it was a problem....

@null: Well maybe you should shift some of your Steam budget to that then. Lol! You have a seemingly massive collection.

No, it's not.

I personally just got a switch from radio shack and put it on the side. The switch and LED indicators cost me like $10 or so.

You probably won't see any size control for the font anytime soon, sorry. If you set the alpha channel to 0, doesn't that make that color transparent?

You have the right version because your custom tag is on your sig. #

My bad, I forgot to change the version number. Snag it again.

Oh and a PS: You can see exactly what the plugin is searching for if you add the wildcard and check the plugin log after running an emulator, which is located in GameEx->Plugins->GameTagger->GameTagger.log Here's a snippet of mine: 6/1/2014 4:21:12 AM : Checking for theme...6/1/2014 4:21:12 AM : VAR CHECK: Found emulator wildcard!6/1/2014 4:21:12 AM : EMU PATH OUT: c:\gameex\plugins\gametagger\themes\zelda3\systems\mame.png6/1/2014 4:21:12 AM : Loading theme...

When you browse the emulator list in GameEx to play a game, whatever is displayed in that list where you select the emulator from the list of all the emulators is the name of the system. I think it's the Start Page Name in the emulator's setup menu. I don't know which one it is there in that list, but I'm guessing it's the NAME column. PS: I don't mind, teach a man to fish and whatnot.

Oh and two things to remember: The case doesn't matter, ie Sega Genesis.png and sega genesis.png are the same. The plugin also strips illegal characters, so if your emulator shows up in the list as Sega: Genesis, since the colon isn't a valid filename char, it will search for Sega Genesis instead, dropping the colon. It's simple really... In your case, you would: Make a file called Atari 5200.png Add the wildcard to the xml -> <bgl4img>[emulator].png</bgl4img> When you run Atari 5200, it loads that layer. Here's my XML: <tagger> <theme name="Zelda: A Link To The Past" author="Adultery"> <desc>A GamerTag skin tribute to Zelda 3 for SNES!</desc> </theme> <images> <bg>zelda3\tag-bg.png</bg> <bgl2img>zelda3\bg-textbox.png</bgl2img> <bgl3img>zelda3\bg-triforce.png</bgl3img> <bgl4img>zelda3\systems\[emulator].png</bgl4img> <l2img>zelda3\border.png</l2img> <l3img>zelda3\fairy.png</l3img> <midl2img>zelda3\zelda.png</midl2img> <noimg>zelda3\no-img.png</noimg> <avatar>zelda3\avatar.png</avatar> </images> <font> <outline>437C17</outline> <outline_argb>128,67,124,23</outline_argb> <fill>FFFFFF</fill> <fill_argb>255,255,255,255</fill_argb> <path>zelda3\zelda3.ttf</path> </font></tagger> My system images for each emulator are in GameEx->Plugins->GameTagger->Themes->zelda3->systems It loads the system's layer when I play a game on it.

I'm not sure what you mean... Make a layer with the same name as your emulator's title page (ie sega genesis.png) Point the xml at a directory in your theme folder with that image in it, like say: systems/[emulator].png Every time you run a game from the Sega Genesis list, the plugin will sub that wildcard out and look for 'systems/Sega Genesis.png' If it doesn't find that, it will look for 'systems/emulator.png' If it didn't find that either, it won't load the layer. The only thing to remember is you need to name the layer the same as the emulator if you want it to find that layer. Make sense?

I figured I'd make a set for the theme I'm using... So here's an example of one: Pretty basic, but suits my needs. I'm probably not gonna distribute them though... Gotta have a little something you can't find anywhere else. LOL! And yeah, the GameEx logo is my system.png layer, it's the default for situations where no logo is found (mostly menus and whatnot). I thought about adding colsole icons too, but it was just a bit too busy, so I went this route.

It was just too good an idea to not go ahead and do it... So thanks for the tip stigzler! Hopefully you'll get what you're after... I spent the last few hours making new system layers for my tag. It looks nice I must admit! UPDATED TO 1.0.5: Added wildcard support for all layersUse the following variables for dynamic files:[emulator] -> passes the emulator name as the image file name[game] -> passes the database game name as the image file name[rom] -> passes the rom file name as the image file name[developer] -> passes the developer name as the image file name[category] -> passes the game category as the image file name[year] -> passes the release year as the image file nameIf an item specific file is not found, the data will be subbed out for a default value for that category (using png as an example):[emulator] -> emulator.png[game] -> game.png[rom] -> rom.png[developer] -> developer.png[category] -> category.png[year] -> year.png NOTE: If an image is not found, the layer will not be loaded!Added Member Titles to the plugin (mostly for internal use, also a framework for a possible future enhancement) NOTE: These can only be set by an administrator on the DracLabs Tagger site!Image positioning, for the last time (I promise!) I really did this more for an exact layout where everything aligns perfectly. The locations of the images are like so:​TEXT LINE 1: X=178px; Y=15px; W=437px; H=25pxTEXT LINE 2: X=178px; Y=40px; W=437px; H=25pxTEXT LINE 3: X=178px; Y=65px; W=437px; H=25pxTEXT LINE 4: X=178px; Y=90px; W=437px; H=25pxTEXT LINE 5 : X=178px; Y=115px; W=345px; H=25pxTEXT LINE 5 GAME SNAP: X=8px; Y=8px; W=160px; H=134pxGAME SNAP [vertical]: X=36px; Y=8px; W=100px; H=134pxAVATAR: X=2px; Y=80px; W=68px; H=68px LAYERS: X=0px; Y=0px; W=625px; H=150pxStarted framework for uploading user history to the site (This isn't ready yet, but be on watch for it!)Code tuning to make upload times much faster and smootherMore logging for fixing those pesky bugs!!You can download it from the usual place, of course. I have also completed the database and the code for uploading themes to the site, and added a theme for an example of how it will look. The game tag templates are also available there for those that need them (although they will need to be updated now that everything is precisely where it needs to be). Soon you will see the controls to upload themes in your User CP page. So all you creative nuts, this is a call to feel free to get rocking on some content. The time will come soon where these will come in handy, and I would really appreciate the contributions. I will probably handle all the compression and packaging server side, you will just need to upload a few files from your machine, type some descriptions, and let the code handle the rest. Obviously I understand some of your tags are for personaluse (I probably won't release my Zelda tag anytime soon), and I can respect that. But if some of you would be willing to bang out some tag designs to share, I would greatly appreciate that. I mentioned it up there, but I also added a new Member Title feature to the game tags. This is reserved for admins right now, but I may roll it out for everyone after some testing. I'm really using this more to give shouts to some users that stand out and staff members at GameEx. You can view your member title in your information panel in the User CP. I have also completed the database table for your personal history, which I will soon be rolling out. I am also about 1/2 way through the personal messaging system... More about those features later. I think that about covers it. Thanks for your continued support! If you have any more ideas, I'd like to hear them, so far you guys have been a wealth of awesome ideas for making the tag pretty much the most flexible, best looking system on the interwebz. : X=485px; Y=115px; W=150px; H=25px

Well basically, I can pass emulator name, developer, game name, rom name, category, and year. I will probably utilize all of these variables if I decide to add it in, and it will just ignore the layer if that image isn't found since there are more than enough layers to play with already.

I like the idea, I just have to come to a place where I need to finish the stuff thats started before I add more. But then again, it's not that hard to add that functionality, so you might see that if I have to update the back-end again. Probably one small function, and I can add system, game, and maybe manufacturer variables. So yeah, you'll probably get it. The question is when.

I get it yeah, but no that isn't possible at this time. Maybe in the future though... not that it's terribly difficult, mind you. Just that I won't get to that for a while.

I like the amount of thought you guys put into these. Makes it all worthwhile. My tag uses like 5 layers, and I can swap stuff out for quick changes. It was indeed a great idea! Thanks Dazz!

+1

You should upgrade your snapper plugin boss. That version has a couple bugs in it.

I just wanted to say thanks again guys for all your help. This is coming along nicely. I couldn't make everything work without all your help in the testing. Kudos!

Ebay has always been straight with me, they don't typically leave you hanging in cases like this.

We try to jump on it, gotta keep the users happy and all that. Don't be afraid to ask if you need anything, we don't usually bite and most of us are super helpful. Welcome to the community.