Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Happy new year to GameEx users new and old. I am happy to release the first GameEx version of 2012.Theme/Skinning:New static HTPC style list option in the theme editor. This gives an alternative list in the start page menus.New theme editor option to not show the weather condition icon and just the temperatureWeather condition icons can now be loaded from a theme if in the [theme]mediaweather folderThe auto update image can be used with a theme if in the [theme]media folder. Change autoupdate1.png [*]Display and Emulators:New game specific background snap folder for emulators and MAME. These images will be shown in the background when browsing the list when set.If the above path is not specified there is a new display mode to show snaps in the background based on existing art paths.Custom artwork paths for emulators now support videos.The image ribbon display mode now support paging up and down.Several minor cosmetic related bugs fixed. [*]Media:GameEx can now act as a full UPNP/DNLA client. This is supported for all media including the jukebox, pictures, media library and Videos. In terms of the Jukebox, GameEx will try to load the entire library and act as it normally does displaying the entire collection. At the present time videos have to be download from the media server and do not stream. The client has been tested with Windows Media Player, Mezzmo and Serviio. GameEx will now download and display artist pictures in the Jukebox and will display these if album artwork cannot be found.New Get MetaData menu option for the Jukebox to download all artwork.Better support of album artwork in the Jukebox.With thanks, GameEx now uses the TMDb API for movie artwork and metadata. In addition it will now download movie ratings. TMDb has a very good search engine so matches appear to be quite accurate. Therefore with this release the movie database utility is legacy and no longer included with the install. Please consider contributing to TMDb.For videos the create snaps menu option is now called Get MetaData since it now also retrieves box art, descriptions, year of release and rating.Their are now three separate folders for videos so GameEx can properly identify metadata. That is Movies, TV shows and other videos. I am currently awaiting approval from theTVdb.com to do more with TV shows. Hopefully I will get it,.Again, in my tests the matching is much more accurate than before.GameEx will now display videos at the correct aspect ratio when they have a different display size.View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Just wanted to bump as didnt seem to post at top of forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehuonder Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 That's quite the long list of updates!!! Thanks for all of the work Tom. I'm looking forward to playing with all of this... although you're outdating my theme work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks Tom installing now and look forward to checking it out.Long delay when I ran it to the point I thought it crashed but then it stuttered then ran ok. When I ran again it stuttered then ran ok.Also I noticed in the Setup Wizard very strange Weather Icon settings is displayed twice with also video options ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks Tom installing now and look forward to checking it out.Long delay when I ran it to the point I thought it crashed but then it stuttered then ran ok. When I ran again it stuttered then ran ok.Also I noticed in the Setup Wizard very strange Weather Icon settings is displayed twice with also video options ???It searches for media servers in the background at startup, that might be what is causing the stutter. What sort of system do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Win 7 x64 ATI 5870 card w/16gb system ram. Also I am not running any media servers currently.Did you see the setup wizard issues under the HTPC settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Yes, I see the issue. Both issues should be addressed in 12.46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks Tom Glad it wasn't just me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fRequEnCy Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks Tom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 D/l'ing and testing 12.46.UPDATE!: The Setup Wizard HTPC options are now fixed and so is the loading. No longer delays or stutters.Thanks Tom for the very fast fix update.Will have more time tomorrow to play around with it. Those two issues have been fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thank you for testing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Always glad to help out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ok Tom I'm a bit confused on the MAME game specific background snap feature. So this actually doesn't allow you to make a custom theme for each rom does it? All it appears it does is display a snap image.I was kinda looking to create a custom theme for each game just like you do for emulators or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Just set the path, and change the view if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Well the view just shows a snap. I don't see where you can create a custom theme and go into the theme editor and move the boxes around to my liking for each game or was the feature not intended for that purpose?I guess I just have to create a new background image for the rom and name it the same as the rom file, but the image windows and list (ect ect that you setup in the Theme Editor) have to stay in the default locations that you setup in that emulator/MAME. Is that what I have to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 It just shows it as the background image. That's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehuonder Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Tom - Is there a mapping for the Weather icons? If I look in the GameEx/Media/Icons/Weather directory, there are images 0.png - 47.png. Looking at those, there are a lot of images that either are the same, or look very similar... Is there a text description of what each icon represents somewhere?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Can't help with that I am afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakerman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ok thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Speirs Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Something else in this release I forgot to mention. Individual background images for start page menu items based on the theme. Look at the default theme for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansolo77 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks for the great work Tom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Tom - Is there a mapping for the Weather icons? If I look in the GameEx/Media/Icons/Weather directory, there are images 0.png - 47.png. Looking at those, there are a lot of images that either are the same, or look very similar... Is there a text description of what each icon represents somewhere?Thanks!The complete list, courtesy of Adultery, is included in the spoiler below. This will allow users to adapt images (edit/rename/etc.) of their choice to replace the stock images for further theme customization. The icons must be named as noted - Image 0.png, etc. - in order to work correctly.Image 0.PNG - ThunderstormsImage 1.PNG - Windy/ThunderstormsImage 2.PNG - Windy/Heavy ThunderstormsImage 3.PNG - Heavy Rain/ThunderstormsImage 4.PNG - Thunderstorms/LightningImage 5.PNG - Snow/Rain MixImage 6.PNG - Rain/Hail MixImage 7.PNG - Snow/Rain Mix (Icy)Image 8.PNG - Light Rain (Icy)Image 9.PNG - Light RainImage 10.PNG - Heavy Rain (Icy)Image 11.PNG - RainImage 12.PNG - Heavy RainImage 13.PNG - Light SnowImage 14.PNG - SnowImage 15.PNG - SnowflakesImage 16.PNG - Heavy SnowImage 17.PNG - ThunderstormsImage 18.PNG - HailImage 19.PNG - DustImage 20.PNG - FogImage 21.PNG - HazyImage 22.PNG - SmokeImage 23.PNG - Windy (Night)Image 24.PNG - Windy (Day)Image 25.PNG - FrigidImage 26.PNG - CloudyImage 27.PNG - Mostly Cloudy (Night)Image 28.PNG - Mostly Cloudy (Day)Image 29.PNG - Partly Cloudy (Night)Image 30.PNG - Partly Cloudy (Day)Image 31.PNG - Clear/Fair (Night)Image 32.PNG - Sunny (Day)Image 33.PNG - Mostly Clear (Night)Image 34.PNG - Mostly Sunny (Day)Image 35.PNG - ThunderstormsImage 36.PNG - Hot Sunny DayImage 37.PNG - Isolated T-Storms (Day)Image 38.PNG - Scattered T-Storms (Day)Image 39.PNG - Scattered Showers (Day)Image 40.PNG - Heavy RainImage 41.PNG - Heavy Snow (Day)Image 42.PNG - Heavy SnowImage 43.PNG - Windy/SnowyImage 44.PNG - Partly Cloudy (Day)Image 45.PNG - Rain (Night)Image 46.PNG - Snow (Night)Image 47.PNG - Scattered T-Storms (Night)Image 48.PNG - Heavy Rain (Day)Image -.PNG - N/A Edited January 3, 2012 by Draco1962 Complete Weather Icons Schema courtesy of Adultery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ohh pumped! This will be great with my new 2nd monitor plugin... ...teaser... Thanks Tom and happy new year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Happy new year to GameEx users new and old. I am happy to release the first GameEx version of 2012.Theme/Skinning:The auto update image can be used with a theme if in the [theme]media folder. Change autoupdate1.pngDidn't we have this already? Or did you mean STATS.PNG? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flocke28 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 hello,gameex 12.47 shows only a black screen.. without an menu.. after 5 minutes i have break gameex over the taskmanager.. the logfile shows Starting Search for UPNP Media Servers.. how can i disable this feature? i can't find a entry in setup wizard..thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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