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    • HyruleslinkH
      Hyruleslink @Rookervik
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      @rookervik which anime?

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      • RookervikR
        Rookervik Global Moderator @Hyruleslink
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        @hyruleslink Finishing up "Hajimete no Gal" and watching "Mahou Tsukai no Yome" from this season.

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        • RookervikR
          Rookervik Global Moderator
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          Here's a pretty big question: Are there any people using Pixel theme that have not updated at least to the version of ES that has video previews and layering?

          I need to know this as I am thinking about adding video previews in along with these collections and also moving the carousel down so you can see the pixel art on the system selection screens.

          I feel that the ES improvements have been in long enough that it's safe to go ahead and add these features to the main branch of Pixel.

          Please note: adding these changes and using the pixel theme on an old version of ES will not work.

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          • ruckageR
            ruckage @Rookervik
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            @rookervik I'd just move forward and make the changes. Even if people are reluctant to update retropie then ES itself can always be updated separately, and if they really don't want to update ES then they can just stick with the version of Pixel they're currently using.
            There are so many nice improvements to ES it's a shame not to take advantage of them.

            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

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            • RookervikR
              Rookervik Global Moderator @ruckage
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              @ruckage Yeah. I could honestly not care less about video previews. And it's a little bit of a hassle to add with the layering I use. But so many people ask for it. I am a little excited to move the carousel, though. That will look so much better. Shrink the pixel consoles a little so they fit above the carousel. Wish I could come up with something to replace all the tetris blocks. Haha. But that's where Pixel 2 comes.

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                jdrassa @Rookervik
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                @rookervik if the layering issue you are referring to is due to pixel having multiple background layers, that shouldn't be an issue anymore. When z-index support was added, I adjusted how the video is handled so that by default it should be rendered above any extras. Default z-index values are listed here

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                • RookervikR
                  Rookervik Global Moderator @jdrassa
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                  @jdrassa Awesome. I spent a week or so trying to get video working in the pixel version I had and couldn't get the videos to play over the background. This is wonderful news.

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                  • RookervikR
                    Rookervik Global Moderator
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                    Ok, tired for the night. Spent a couple hours on the logos. Don't know what's taking so long. Adding anti-aliasing seems to be taking me longer than normal. Probably cause of the gradient coloring on the letters.

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                    • hiulitH
                      hiulit @Rookervik
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                      @rookervik Yes, please! I would very much love to have video previews in Pixel :_D

                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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                      • RookervikR
                        Rookervik Global Moderator
                        last edited by Rookervik

                        Ok, we just about ready with this? Not going to mess with moving the carousel yet. I'll save that for a weekend.

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                        Update: Collections are now live in regular Pixel theme github. You can update it with the setup script.

                        Update2: Pixel-Metadata has been updated with Collections. Update through the setup script.

                        Let me know of oddities or bugs. I'll try to get them squashed before I add videos and move the carousel.

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                        • RookervikR
                          Rookervik Global Moderator
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                          Now for some carousel changes. Finally figured out what my logo scaling issue was.

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                          • RookervikR
                            Rookervik Global Moderator
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                            This looks pretty good. Now might need to do some color tweaks on the backgrounds, but I don't really feel like it. LOL.

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                            • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                              SgtJimmyRustles @Rookervik
                              last edited by SgtJimmyRustles

                              @rookervik Quick question. Is it just me and my monitor resolution, or does the SNES icon on the regular pixel theme overlap the trivia information about the SNES and it's resolution? I'm still loving Pixel Metadata after the help that @ruckage gave me though.

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                              • RookervikR
                                Rookervik Global Moderator @SgtJimmyRustles
                                last edited by Rookervik

                                @sgtjimmyrustles it probably overlaps. That's not a position I set custom for each system. It's a position to load every console image from and display them all to a certain size. I believe there are quite a few that overlap. But the overlapping didn't bother me so I left them. The wider your aspect, the less it will overlap.

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                                • SgtJimmyRustlesS
                                  SgtJimmyRustles @Rookervik
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                                  @rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

                                  @sgtjimmyrustles it probably overlaps. That's not a position I set custom for each system. It's a position to load every console image from and display them all to a certain size. I believe there are quite a few that overlap. But the overlapping didn't bother me so I left them. The wider your aspect, the less it will overlap.

                                  Interesting. Maybe if I shrunk the images down to a certain size, I could stop the overlap. Either way, like the update, it's nice.

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                                  • RookervikR
                                    Rookervik Global Moderator @SgtJimmyRustles
                                    last edited by Rookervik

                                    @sgtjimmyrustles you can change a single line in the pixel.xml (I think) to make them smaller. Look for "Bottom Console Image" and change the <maxSize>0.25 0.25</maxSize> smaller... like 0.2 or 0.15.

                                    Unless the themes are also setting the size. Then it's a massive ordeal. And I need to work on fixing that. Pixel was made before I learned you can ignore all those positions and size and just call for an image on the theme.xml to change an option like color, or image location.

                                    Pixel2 already has that incorporated. Time for an upgrade. LOL

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                                    • sergioadS
                                      sergioad
                                      last edited by sergioad

                                      @Rookervik I am REALY happy with Pixel allready, the actual theme plus the old carbon theme's sounds are a perfect match; sounds retro and looks retro :)

                                      D
                                      Even so, I love the new one, waiting for the update wich while its true that it would undo my changes it will enhance the UX

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                                      • meleuM
                                        meleu @sergioad
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                                        @sergioad you can download any previous version using git command and keep your desired version as custom theme in ~/.emulationstation/themes/.

                                        I'm on the phone now, but I can give you the exact command later.

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                                        • sergioadS
                                          sergioad @meleu
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                                          @meleu thanks, tough; I changed my opinion, I am now all in with the new version after reflexioning

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                                          • sergioadS
                                            sergioad @Rookervik
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                                            @rookervik I like this one, it keeps some aspects of the stock ES carrousel wich many refers it as a belt but also adds many enhancements

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