I present... AMBuilder: Layout Designer!

[Zednem]

liquid8d

I cannot thank you enough for this. I have tried several other layout apps and IMO, nothing has worked as well as this.
Thanks!

[theamity9]

this is outstand. thank you so much.

[Ford_Prefect]

I am playing around with AMbuilder, so far i am not very good at it.
Is there, or could you create some kind of tutorial.
I am trying to adapt my old Wahcade layouts to work with Attract mode.

[jedione]

I don't think he is working on this anymore  :(MO

[Ford_Prefect]

I am starting to get the hang of it.
I just adapted my first layout, looks promising.

[toothlessgrinn]

just a heads up maybe its just me but the layouts i have made with am builder work great for a few months then they start to crash AM. dont know why and questions i have asked on here have gone unanswered...  maybe it wont happen to you but it does happen to me. just a info bit. its a great app but he doesnt update it or answer any questions on it. good luck hope it works for you.

maybe im doing something wrong. idk... lol...

[Billyc666]

I am starting to get the hang of it.
I just adapted my first layout, looks promising.

When you say adapted , do you mean you can load in already made themes...i've just come across atract mode and it looks like it does everything i want
so i would like to learn the theming process... i've probably done themes for every other FE there is and never stuck with them

[tommiegunz]

hey can anyone tell me how to show more than just one wheel when scrolling through the game list i want to have 3-5 showing like a listbox but with wheel art horizontally

[chijb55]

I want so much to love this program.  But no matter what I change, the net result is a menu window that only occupies the top left 1/4 of my screen.

I've tried varying resolutions, height, width.  Nothing changes.

Has anyone made this program work properly?  It seems like it's.....almost great.  But I'm missing something.

Any help - hints, suggestions, sample files made with this, etc, greatly appreciated.

[jedione]

it was never finished......plus when you short hand it, is way less code, and makes cents..

[clockman]

It would be nice if someone would do a YouTube video tutorial on how to create a simple layout then we wouldn't need this program. Any one like to make a tutorial for us?

[superdan]

Great program but incomplete IMHO (or maybe I didn't understand something).
For some reason the outpout layout is tiny and sticks to the top left of the screen.



I couldn't find any way to centre it and zoom it to make it occupy the whole screen while maintaining the aspect ratio.
I have a normal 40 inch TV and I want a 4:3 layout like Attrac-Man for example.
Has anyone succeeded?
Here is my layout.nut

Code: [Select]

///////////////////////////////////////
// Generated with AMBuilder 1.0
// https://github.com/liquid8d/am-builder
///////////////////////////////////////

//layout configuration
//fe.layout.width = 640
//fe.layout.height = 480
fe.layout.preserve_aspect_ratio = true
fe.layout.font = "Arial"
fe.layout.base_rotation = RotateScreen.None
fe.layout.toggle_rotation = RotateScreen.None
fe.layout.page_size = 10

// Stored Object Properties
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// Find correct aspect
function findAspect( ratio ) {
    if ( ratio == 1.77778 ) return "HD (16x9)"
    else if ( ratio == 1.6 ) return "Wide (16x10)"
    else if ( ratio == 1.33333 ) return "Standard (4x3)"
    else if ( ratio == 1.25 ) return "SXGA (5x4)"
    else if ( ratio == 0.625 ) return "Wide Vert (10x16)"
    else if ( ratio == 0.5625 ) return "HD Vert (9x16)"
    else if ( ratio == 0.75 ) return "Standard Vert (3x4)"
    //use default aspect
    print("Unrecognized or missing aspect, using default: Standard (4x3)")
    return "Standard (4x3)"
}

local aspects = ["Standard (4x3)","Standard Vert (3x4)","SXGA (5x4)","Wide (16x10)","Wide Vert (10x16)","HD (16x9)","HD Vert (9x16)"]
local aspect = findAspect( ScreenWidth / ( ScreenHeight * 1.0 ) )
print( "Layout Aspect: " + aspect + "\n ")


// Create AM Objects
local AMImage1 = fe.add_image( "resources/" + props[aspect]["AMImage1"].file_name, -1, -1, 1, 1)
   foreach( key, val in props[aspect]["AMImage1"] )
      if ( key != "file_name" && key != "subimg_width" && key != "subimg_height" && key != "zorder" && key != "shader" )
         try { AMImage1[key] = val } catch(e) { print("error setting property: " + key + "\n" ) }

local AMArtwork2 = fe.add_artwork( props[aspect]["AMArtwork2"].file_name, -1, -1, 1, 1)
   foreach( key, val in props[aspect]["AMArtwork2"] )
      if ( key != "file_name" && key != "subimg_width" && key != "subimg_height" && key != "zorder" && key != "shader" )
         try { AMArtwork2[key] = val } catch(e) { print("error setting property: " + key + "\n" ) }

local AMListBox3 = fe.add_listbox( -1, -1, 1, 1)
   foreach( key, val in props[aspect]["AMListBox3"] )
      if ( key != "zorder" && key != "shader" )
         try { AMListBox3[key] = val } catch(e) { print("error setting property: " + key + "\n" ) }



// Begin Triggers
/*
local triggers = [triggers]

fe.add_transition_callback(this, "on_transition")
fe.add_ticks_callback(this, "on_tick")

function on_transition( ttype, var, ttime ) {
    return false
}

function on_tick( ttime ) {

}
*/
thats my wanted behaviour



with font Emulogic.TTF

Thanks