[Release] HEX-Flow Launcher - A 3d coverflow like launcher (VitaHEX Games)

Nvm that site mentioned doesn't have full 3d covers, only 2d. I wonder if anyone would want to submit for a psvita section to be added to gametdb

 

Hi @VitaHEX , this app already looks great, even more for a first release. Seeing that there is currently no way to automatically scrape the covers, I wonder if an alternative option could be added to show the library but showing the icon images of each game, as apps already do, but perhaps in a square shape and without frames so that they alter or stretch the image. In addition, this would avoid having to use additional storage space for the covers.
I also think that other categories such as Utilities, PSP Games, PS1 Games, Emulators etc. would be very convenient.
Congratulations for the already done and thank you very much for sharing it with the community.

Vita friends: Remember that these kind of projects require a lot of work and time and are shared selflessly, so if it is within our reach it is good to make a small donation to support them: https://www.patreon.com/vitahex

 

Vita friends: Remember that these kind of projects require a lot of work and time and are shared selflessly, so if it is within our reach it is good to make a small donation to support them: https://www.patreon.com/vitahex

Nice friend,thanks.
@VitaHEX

 

Wow! Thanks.

 

EDIT: I subscribed to your patreon a couple of hours ago. Here's a list of features that would be nice to have for this

a custom category system
toggle to change the blur, or opacity of the reflection
bar color changer
option for title text location, on top or below the box art
support rectangle box art
toggle, or remove the psvita part of the box art for people who want rectangle box art, if you can't do that make something fun for psp games, like a 3d model of a umd disc with the game cover on it
add a ps1 box art feature like the psvita part

 

Pleasr i need some help.

 

Hi there... perhaps you like to share or collaborate?

I am currently also working on a library of cover images/ boxarts for HEXFlow.
https://github.com/andiweli/hexflow-covers

Greets!

 

your box arts don't look right on hexflow, the top vita part gets cut off so you have to make the image square. the vita part on top is built in to the app. I forked your github project, I'm currently adding psp game covers and ps1 game covers

 

Hmm, they look correct on my VITA. If I make them square the proportions won't be correct as the image will be stretched up to the top behind the blue "PSVITA" layer. So I decided to make covers with suitable proportions - the "PSVITA" header at the top will be overwritten by the one from the launcher

Anyway, the overlay from the launcher will be a layer over the image, not really cut off.

Here you can see a comparison if the image is square - top: square image on my computer, bottom: image in HEXFlow is stretched and top pixels will be overwritten by the "PSVITA" header...

 

could you also add ps1 box art at some point too? all the box art for the ps1 is square

 

I found that if the games title name is long enough it overlaps with the bottom section stating what numbered game I am looking at out of a total number. Is there any way to fix this?

 

Can you fix this? It only happens on psp games. It's cutting out the middle characters of the name and adding a d to the end of the name

 

Thanks! I am happy I can support in some way...

For the interested ones of you...
There are now 100 "handmade" cover images available. Since most of the original covers have different icons, logos etc. on it, most of them are "handmade" from nearly clean covers or wallpapers, single game logos and some shadowing/gradients.

There's a .PSD photoshop template file available too now - so you can create your own covers.

I will update the cover images too - as well as the .PSD file.

 

Why is there no source code for this project? There's only images, and the release

 

@VitaHEX I noticed that psp and psx game forwarders don't count as games, could you also fix that issue?