HyperTheme released! and new HyperSpin

[BadBoyBill]

Well after a ton of work, and a ton of jack n' cokes, I am finally able to put out a beta of HyperTheme. Please read for new additions to HyperSpin also. No more xml editing! No figuring out what animations there are! Quick preview player! Friendly interface!

What is HyperTheme and what does it do so far?

HyperTheme is our skinning application, it is meant to be used by anyone wanting to make themes for HyperSpin. It will help streamline your theme making process and its pretty fun to use.

So far since its still beta it doesnt do everything that I want it to do yet like installing and uninstalling themes, and editing existing themes, but thats next, the hard part is over which was getting the theme creation portion to work.

As it sits its fully capable of making themes and saving them in the proper format for you. So now we dont have to worry about themes being packaged differently, as long as its built in HyperTheme.

I encourage all future themes from this point forward to be made with this tool. It will ensure that themes can be opened from HyperTheme and saved in the right format and naming convention.

HyperTheme comes with a user manual the I suggest browsing for easy to answer questions.

HyperSpin will have a new release along with this to suppliment the new features that were added because of HyperTheme which is 3 color video overlays, you can now do 3 video borders and they can be rounded or squared instead of just one rounded border.

Main Features so far:
Instant preview playing of your theme with playback controls.
Animation viewer to see how animations act.
Move artwork and video around the stage with your mouse.
Adjust rotations, widths, heights with transformation tools.
Export themes as a zip file or just export folders.
Lots more..


http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/examples/ht/htmainmenu.jpg


http://hyperspin-fe.com/examples/ht/htex1.jpg


http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/examples/ht/colorpicker.jpg


Im still packaging some stuff up, give me a few minutes to upload everything.

[kingb33]

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!! i cant wait...give us the go when its rdy Bill!

[BadBoyBill]

Also I forgot to mention that the new HyperSpin doesnt have much new besides the video overlay features, and I just added them in so its not tested fully. But it also fixes the background bug with flash 8 and below swf's and also adds support for HyperLaunch (a multi emu wrapper) which isnt out yet, I still have to write up on how to use it, but it is ready.

[kingb33]

so we can use macromedia flash 8 now? to build themes? i hate CS3 all it does it crash over and over

[BadBoyBill]

Nope, you cant use flash8, it doesnt communicate with flash9 so support for it has been removed.

[The Loafer]

Thanks for the release!

[BadBoyBill]

Alright its release in the download section , have fun. Please let me know if or when you find bugs so I can get the fixed as fast as possible, dont forget to note the sequence of events that led you to any abnormalities.

[kingb33]

Awesome Bill, i really want to thank you for all your hard work man....ill give it a full testing out! We have to download the new HS release too right? is it ready too?

[BadBoyBill]

Yep, in the downloads.

[Ego-X]

Woah! that's one slick looking piece of software Boss. Nice one!

[kingb33]

playing with right now Bill w/ my kangaroo theme....very very impressive....im loving it , soooo mujch easier to see what u r doing now...thanks you for this!

1 thing i wish it had was a "hide wheel" option.... :)

[kingb33]

Does this mean we will finally get your Darkstalkers and KOF Themes soon? :)

[BadBoyBill]

there will be a hide the wheel option but it is hidden during playback. So when you take your screenshots, it wont show the wheel.

[alphaviper7]

This is awesome...thanks for everything.

[kingb33]

there will be a hide the wheel option but it is hidden during playback. So when you take your screenshots, it wont show the wheel.


Bill,
I meant an option to hide the wheel in the theme itself :)

I did find 1 small bug so far....when you resize your video it doesn't resize itself in preview mode.....

[BadBoyBill]

If you can repeat exactly what you did to get the video to not resize in the preview let me know, cuz it works for me.

[BadBoyBill]

Alright I found the bug, you can only edit a theme after starting up, if you go back to the main menu then go back to the editor, then themes dont edit properly, I know what the problem is but cant fix it till tomorrow.

[Dazz]

This has turned out very very good... I'm impressed. I'm just sad that my main computer is dead, so now I am using my work laptop. I just completed my Newegg purchase for my new computer parts and will have to wait until it is built until I can really play around with this. :(

[scrapple]

looks great... and it seems you removed that background bouncy animation when viewing new themes in 0605 that slowed my pc down, unless im mistaken...
cheers

[scrapple]

i added an image, and now i want to delete it or just remove it from the theme..
i highlighed it and hit delete, that didnt work..

whats the method to remove it?

NEVERMIND, found it

the red button

[amchine]

Looks great Bill. I'm looking forward to trying this out when I have the time.

[kingb33]

Bill,

Just curious, how hard would it be to eventually add a "background" animation control to HT? So its not randomized

thx!

[BadBoyBill]

Theres probably 200+ possible combinations of background animations, so I probably wont get around making individual choices for a while. If you dont want random backgrounds, then I'm sure you can find a png to swf tool or something that can make swf's out of your backgrounds, those do not animate.

[RetroBorg]

Just tried it out and it looks real nice, so far I really like the video overlay option that makes things real easy.

I've noticed chase from right still doesn't work though.

Is there mean't to be a start animation from center option?

This will be a far more effective tool when you include the edit theme option.

Is there an option to tell HyperTheme where to send the output files to, this would be handy.

Anyway impressive work as always Bill, well done.

[BadBoyBill]

I just wanted to get this release out so I know its missing features like editing existing themes, and setting your ouput location, but all that will be in the next releases.

I didnt fix many bugs with HS release but actually so I didnt add the feature of starting points for chase animations yet. Will be fixed tho.

[EVEGames]

Triple B,
Many thanks for all your hard work on this latest addition.
I have one (dumb) question about HyperTheme. I must be the only one who hasn't figured this out because no one has mentioned it yet... How are you supposed to close it? I have been right-clicking it in the taskbar and choosing Close, because I can't figure out the correct way to close it.:vollkommenauf:

[BadBoyBill]

Ya from the main menu I forgot to add an exit button, next release, if in edit mode just close like a normal window.

[EVEGames]

Ok thanks Triple B.

[EvilDindon]

Hi,

I'd know if there's a way to edit a theme with hypertheme ?

[RetroBorg]

The best thing so far about HyperTheme I think is the video overlay feature, at the moment it supports 3 colours any chance of upgrading that to five?

I'm trying to match a game that has a logo that is black, colour, black, colour, black.

[brian_hoffman]

Hi,

I'd know if there's a way to edit a theme with hypertheme ?

Coming soon!

[Kayoss]

Im having trouble with the video. I size and position it in hypertheme but when i run in hyperspin the video is masive and not in the correct position

[BadBoyBill]

Bad video with no metadata, inject it with this:

http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/ (http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/)

[Kayoss]

Thanks BADBOY, il gov it a bash