I released the original Diamondplate layout about a week ago.. consider that mostly a BETA because I've done SO much more to the front end since then...
Lets begin with why I originally made this layout. I own a Dynamo HS5 arcade cabinet I've themed as "Capcom Anthology" and I wanted a front end layout that would compliment the original artwork I made for the cabinet. I also wanted to learn more about the squirrel language and how layouts are built, etc. I am no programmer, but I am capable of hacking my way through things to figure out how they work, etc... and over the last week I've managed to learn quite a bit about how things work in squirrel. This is my FIRST layout... (well, my second if you count the original Diamondplate layout)... and I am 100% positive the programming isn't the most efficient and I am sure much of what I've done could be done "better"... but I am still pretty darned proud of the end result...
Diamondplate v2 is more than just an "upgrade" from the original Diamondplate. Here are some of the features...
• Choice of 5 different main backgrounds.
• Choice of 17 different backgrounds for the game list section.
• Choice of the standard games list style that was used in the original Diamondplate or a Configurable "smooth" games list.
• Choice of 4 colors for both the un-selected games and the selected game text (configurable games list only).
• Choice of scroll speed (configurable games list only).
• Choice of text fade (configurable games list only).
With this layout you can make quite a number of different looking front ends...
Here are some examples:
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While most of the artwork components I've included have a Capcom slant, there is more than one background and many game list backgrounds that aren't branded in any way... for example...
[SEE BELOW - THIS FORUM DOESN'T DO LOCAL EMBEDDED IMAGES]
All of these changes are done via the display layout configuration area of Attract Mode...
One thing you WILL need to do is install the conveyor_helper module for attract mode... it can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6SHVZjz_r1fOUVTUmktUWF5blUSimply install the folder and .nut file in the modules folder of attract-mode. You will need access to your local drive... standard windows alone will not see the drive... I use a program called PANDORA to read/write to the drive. The modules folder, unfortunately, isn't on the BOOT drive that Windows can see.
Once conveyor_helper has been installed, simply download and install the front end as normal...
Let me know what you think! Any/all suggestions greatly appreciated! This has been quite entertaining and I've learned a bit as well!
You can download the layout here:
http://www.filedropper.com/diamondplatev2