Description
This extension can show an intro video and an image when starting a game.
Videos can be configured:
- For specific game
- For specific game source
- For specific platform
- For specific Playnite mode (Desktop/Fullscreen)
If videos are enabled, the extension will look in the mentioned order to show a video and play it if available.
For the splash image, the extension will try to use the image in the following order:
- Game background image
- From configured background image of the game platform
- Use a generic Playnite image
Splash images can be configured to show the logo on top if it has been added by the Extra Metadata Tools extension.
Extension behavior can be configured independently for Playnite Desktop and Fullscreen modes.
Notes (Please read):
- Video support requires that Window Media Player is installed in your system.
- Videos need to be mp4 format. For supported videos, I can only confirm that videos with h264 codec, yuv420 color space and mp3 audio are supported so if your video isn't playing you should encode it with those specifications.
- Videos will lock Playnite until they finish playing so be sure to only use short videos, as intended.
- Please be aware that certain launchers like Amazon games will steal focus when launching games from it and will show over the splash image and nothing can be done as an attempt to fix it. Please understand that there will always be edge cases that the extension has no control over.
Usage
- Configure extension behavior from MainMenu -> Extensions -> Splash Screen -> View settings
- Add videos if wanted from MainMenu -> Extensions -> Splash Screen -> Open video manager
- Launch a game
Changelog
v1.0
- Initial Release
v1.1
- Added sources video support
- Added support to show configured background image of game platform
- Added option to disable automatic closing of image splashscreen. Disabling hides desktop when game closes but can cause issues.
- Minor fixes and improvements
v1.2
- Added image splashscreen exclude functionality
- Added option to use black splashscreen instead of the image splashscreen
v1.3
- Added option to disable showing splashscreen image globally for Desktop or Fullscreen mode
- Added settings to change the vertical and horizontal position of the game logo
- Disable child settings when they will not be used during execution in the settings window