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      nikiran
      last edited by nikiran

      hello! Great theme!
      a Question, in which file can I change background color for each system?
      Example. For nes,psx grey color is perfect, but for sega genesis and master system i'like to change it in dark grey. Thank you

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      • alphatoanantA
        alphatoanant @nikiran
        last edited by

        Hi @nikiran

        As an example if you wanted to change the background color for sega genesis you would edit this file:

        /genesis/theme.xml
        

        and add the following before the closing </theme>:

        <view name="detailed,video">
         <image name="background" extra="true">
          <color>cccccc</color>
         </image>
        </view>
        

        Changing the "cccccc" value in the <color> node to the color you are looking for

        That should do the trick. Hope that helps and thank you for checking out the theme.

        My RetroPie Themes:
        Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
        Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
        TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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          nikiran @alphatoanant
          last edited by

          @alphatoanant said in [Theme] Art Book:

          Hi @nikiran

          As an example if you wanted to change the background color for sega genesis you would edit this file:

          /genesis/theme.xml
          

          and add the following before the closing </theme>:

          <view name="detailed,video">
           <image name="background" extra="true">
            <color>cccccc</color>
           </image>
          </view>
          

          Changing the "cccccc" value in the <color> node to the color you are looking for

          That should do the trick. Hope that helps and thank you for checking out the theme.

          thank you!
          if I want change background with image file? it's the same? thank you

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            nikiran
            last edited by

            last question ( hihi )
            I'd like to change color also on fade, between systems in menu, or add an image.
            How can I do?

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            • JesseBlueJ
              JesseBlue @alphatoanant
              last edited by

              @alphatoanant

              Did you remove the system view art again?

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                Chalamannn
                last edited by

                @alphatoanant Theres any way to port this to Recalbox? Thanks!

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                • alphatoanantA
                  alphatoanant @JesseBlue
                  last edited by

                  @jesseblue yeah unfortunately I had to remove them again - I found after further testing that I was getting the same error "glGetError 0x505" after extended use on my 1080p screen. I think I know what I need to do to resolve it but its going to take some time (converting the controller images to pngs and making sure the sizes look good for each system). I don't yet have a timeline but hoping with the holidays coming up I can spend time getting it sorted out when I have some time off.

                  I am sorry for the back and forth on it.

                  That said I have left the code in place for it so if you do want to run it in the meantime you can download the theme direct from github and uncomment these lines in the root theme.xml

                  <!--<image name="artwork" extra="true">
                  <origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
                  <pos>0.5 0.5</pos>
                  <maxSize>0.4 0.6</maxSize>
                  <path>./${system.theme}/_inc/art.svg</path>
                  </image>-->
                  

                  That should do the trick for now. Though fair warning you might experience slowdowns if you have a lot of systems (the "glGetError 0x505" from above).

                  Hope that helps and sorry again

                  My RetroPie Themes:
                  Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                  Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                  TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                    alphatoanant @Chalamannn
                    last edited by

                    @chalamannn I gather that might be possible - Recalbox uses EmulationStation right? Some things might need to be tweaked/removed as the EmulationStation fork for Recalbox is different I believe.

                    Its not something I have considered (as my main go to has always been RetroPie) but am open to helping out with a port if that works.

                    My RetroPie Themes:
                    Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                    Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                    TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                    • alphatoanantA
                      alphatoanant
                      last edited by alphatoanant

                      And now for something a bit different...

                      In the time between working out the system view changes and digging deeper on @moosepr's work with very tiny screens I have started to play with a variant of this theme that works well at 128x128 resolutions.

                      I know its not a large use case - it just interested me and its been a fun side project to see how close I could get a theme to be useable at that scale.

                      Here is where I am at so far:

                      Preview
                      (shows system and detailed view)

                      Animated Preview

                      Mockup of how it might look on say... a VMU =)

                      System View

                      Its for sure not something a lot of people will end up using. Its been fun to create though and I am interested in building a smaller device of my own soon to try it for real. The cool side effect of the way ES themes scale is it sizes up well to other resolutions too. So if you are looking for a really really really simple theme this could work for those cases as well.

                      Download - https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book-micro

                      My RetroPie Themes:
                      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                      • mooseprM
                        moosepr @alphatoanant
                        last edited by

                        @alphatoanant said in [Theme] Art Book:

                        And now for something a bit different...

                        In the time between working out the system view changes and digging deeper on @moosepr's work with very tiny screens I have started to play with a variant of this theme that works well at 128x128 resolutions.

                        I know its not a large use case - it just interested me and its been a fun side project to see how close I could get a theme to be useable at that scale.

                        Here is where I am at so far:

                        Preview
                        (shows system and detailed view)

                        Animated Preview

                        Mockup of how it might look on say... a VMU =)

                        System View

                        Its for sure not something a lot of people will end up using. Its been fun to create though and I am interested in building a smaller device of my own soon to try it for real. The cool side effect of the way ES themes scale is it sizes up well to other resolutions too. So if you are looking for a really really really simple theme this could work for those cases as well.

                        Download - https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book-micro

                        oooh very nice!! I might need to test this!!

                        want to get a tft into your project, look no further than here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7464/ili9341-tft-screen-guide

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                        • alphatoanantA
                          alphatoanant @moosepr
                          last edited by

                          Awesome =). Looking forward to hearing what you think.

                          My RetroPie Themes:
                          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                            alexkiddd
                            last edited by

                            Hi there, I love this theme, it's so polished! Thanks for your hard work! Are you planning of doing a version with the buttons swapped?

                            Thanks!

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                            • alphatoanantA
                              alphatoanant @alexkiddd
                              last edited by

                              @alexkiddd thank you for checking it out and your kind words. I am not fully following your question regarding swapped buttons. Can you help clarify?

                              My RetroPie Themes:
                              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                SammyBoy
                                last edited by

                                @alphatoanant I absolutely love your theme but after I started scraping roms using Skyscraper by @muldjord something really bugged me and that's where the text is for example I wish I could make art book a bit more like this image : https://goo.gl/images/3s2wQz
                                (But just the image section, I like the way the game list is already)
                                Can you tell me what I need to edit in order to make it like this - I don't mind if I lose access to video previews. Sorry this message is really long.

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                                • HurricaneFanH
                                  HurricaneFan @SammyBoy
                                  last edited by

                                  @sammyboy What you are looking at in that image is a scraper that makes a MIX image. I believe that is documented in the forum some where.

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                                  • hooperreH
                                    hooperre @HurricaneFan
                                    last edited by

                                    @hurricanefan said in [Theme] Art Book:

                                    @sammyboy What you are looking at in that image is a scraper that makes a MIX image. I believe that is documented in the forum some where.

                                    XML Scraper

                                    4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                      SammyBoy
                                      last edited by

                                      @hooperre @HurricaneFan Thanks for the help but now my problem is that I want art book to display the image like it does on carbon with the picture above and the description, release date, rating, developer, etc all below the image. And what I need is someone to tell me what to change in the theme.xml file of art book.

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                                        duiz
                                        last edited by

                                        Was there ever any update on the optional code to display publisher and developer info rather than last played and ratings in this theme?

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                                          SammyBoy @duiz
                                          last edited by

                                          @duiz sorry I was going giving examples that I thought were there

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                                            SammyBoy
                                            last edited by

                                            @alphatoanant how will I change the layout of another system (e. g. Arcade) into the snes layout?

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