I spent most of this weekend figuring out how to use Figma properly as before this project I'd never designed anything before. The very first design featuring a sidebar After a weekend of messing with colors and icons in Figma we had our first shell. Me and my friend came to the conclusion that the interface would benefit from a sidebar, so we set to work on creating a prototype design that featured one. It just so happened that I have a friend who is a professional graphics designer so I asked her to help me create an initial design. This was nothing special but it gave me many ideas for what to design next. Everyone knows dark theme is always better

The first prototype I made involved creating a dark version of the current interface to get a feel for things. Right from the start I knew I wanted the new GUI to be dark, or at least have a dark theme. Exciting things are happening with Xenia right now, such as the previously-mentioned D3D12 backend (and maybe even a new Vulkan backend too 👀). This interface is perfectly adequate allowing users to select their games through a file dialog and providing very basic configuration through the menu bar, but apart from that it is extremely barebones.Īlthough this basic interface has served the emulator well for over 4 years now, I believe it is now the right time to create a new, and much more advanced UI. Support for DPI-aware scaling was added, and a new logo was created but those are the only major changes the interface has seen. Since then the interface of xenia has remained mostly unchanged. The original xenia window, almost unchanged since 2015 It wasn't until 2015 that the main window was even shown on launch. Users were expected to either run the executable from the command line or drag an xbox 360 game onto it from the file explorer. That has, for the most part, stayed the same. The one area that has barely changed however is Xenia's user interface.

Over the last few years progress has been made in every department, from a new D3D12 renderer being created to an ever increasing kernel implementation. Xenia is an experimental Xbox 360 emulator that has been in development for quite a few years now. Nothing in this blog post is final and any part of it is likely to change in the future. Because of that, this blog is quite long so I apologise for that. I decided to start this blog post detailing the development of the new GUI after about 9 months of working on it so most of the post is me recollecting decisions I made earlier rather than writing what I've been doing as it happens. Menu Creating a new GUI for the Xenia Emulator 16 September 2019 on xenia, qt, ui, emulator, xbox 360 Contents

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