[Theme] Art Book

Jaxel

@alphatoanant What command do you use for FBA?

JesseBlue

I love this theme!! :D But i think the main menu is a little bit to clean.

Would something like this be possible with ES? The background image is from the "bichromatic pads" collection of retroarch.

Chalamannn

How can i change a logo or make mine? i made one with illustrator but it see Smaller and Darker

HurricaneFan

@jesseblue I like the subtle controller image background. How many other controller images do you have?

greekmanx

those background images plus a wider gamelist and this would be perfect

alphatoanant

@jesseblue awesome idea for system view. I think it adds really nicely while still keeping it clean. That’s very possible to do in ES theming.

These are the images right?
https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets/tree/master/wallpapers/bichromatic pads/1440x900
I’ll need to check the license to see if they are allowed to be modified and used in other works. If so I can try adding them. And if you are interested in helping source or create images like these for any missing systems i’d be more than happy to collaborate.

alphatoanant

@jaxel I have all of my arcade games under the mame folder currently so I haven’t had a chance to test scrape of FBA. I think the arcade commands I have should work though. I can try a test tonight and see.

HurricaneFan

@alphatoanant That would be so awesome to see those in the system view!

pjft

I agree that those images could be a nice option for the system view screen. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

alphatoanant

@JesseBlue, @HurricaneFan, @greekmanx and @pjft I made an initial commit to github for the system view update with a few systems to test with (nes, gb are probably the best to look at)

I am converting each controller to an SVG so they scale well and am playing with variables in my main theme.xml to avoid having to update the xml for each system individually.

Interested in what you think before I dive deeper on color, placement, size etc...
Getting latest from either retropie es-themes menu or direct from github will get you the changes to check out.

It's going to take me time to create an svg controller for each system so I don't have a good idea on timeframe for all yet but I am liking the way it looks so its something i'll try my best to do. The good news is some systems use the same artwork (like genesis and segacd). Any help of course will be awesome.

Thank you again for the idea @JesseBlue

HurricaneFan

@alphatoanant I'll test this later today. Thanks @alphatoanant !

blubbblubb

@jaxel @alphatoanant The arcade command works fine for fbalpha, i scraped some images and videos over the weekend.

I made some changes to the command though, different order for the regions, enable video reencoding to 320x240@30fps (needs HandBrakeCli, i scraped on my Desktop PC instead of the Pi), and i used adb as the primary source as they seem to have more game flyer available, for adb you need the latest version of the scraper as there was an update to their API recently (took me some time to find out why the download was not working correctly)

Flyer
./scraper -mame=true -mame_src=adb,gdb,ss -mame_img=fly,b,t,s -max_height=540 -max_width=394 -image_dir=media -image_path=media -ss_user=xxx -ss_password=xxx -lang "en" -region "eu,wor,us,jp,xx"

Video/Marquee (after asking about marquees i actually went for a bigger SD Card and just went all in with the game media ;) )
./scraper -mame=true -mame_src=adb,ss,gdb -download_videos=true -download_marquees=true -image_dir=media -image_path=media -video_dir=media -video_path=media -marquee_dir=media -marquee_path=media -ss_user=xxx -ss_password=xxx -convert_videos -lang "en" -region "eu,wor,us,jp,xx"

HurricaneFan

@alphatoanant I love the look of the new system backgrounds. They are just subtle enough without making the theme too busy looking. I think they look amazing in your theme! Keep up the good work.

JesseBlue

@alphatoanant Awesome! I´ve just tested the update and it looks even better than I could have hoped! :)

This image might be useful to create the missing Famicom SVG: Famicom Controller

And one for Neo Geo AES: SNK Arcade Stick

CDI: Philips CDI Controller

MSX, MSX2, X68000: ASCII Stick X

Unfortunately I pretty much suck at vector graphics.

alphatoanant

Thank you for those scrape details @blubbblubb. Wondering if there is a way to install handbrake cli on the pi to save me the re-encode step i go through now on the PC.

Chalamannn

@alphatoanant How to make a Logo? i tryed with Illustrator but see's darker.
Thanks! :) Amazing theme so minimal ♥

alphatoanant

@chalamannn try this tutorial - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7357/tutorial-create-vector-logo-from-bitmap. Its what helped me get started.

blubbblubb

@alphatoanant It is possible to compile HandBrake from source, but it takes a really long time, my estimate would be around 3 hours on a rpi2 and probably double that on a rpi1
edit:
I created a new Thread for the how to compile HandBrake, you can find it over here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/13092/scrape-videos-and-reencode-them-directly-on-the-raspberry-pi-with-sselph-s-scraper

alphatoanant

@blubbblubb amazing! Thank you for the detailed walkthrough and packages. This will be a nice time saver for sure. Could be a good tutorial thread to create as well.

blubbblubb

@alphatoanant yeah i probably should move this to another thread about scraping or create a new one, this thread is about your awesome theme after all ;)