[Theme] Art Book

alexkiddd

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!

alphatoanant

@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?

SammyBoy

@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.

HurricaneFan

@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.

hooperre

@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

SammyBoy

@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.

duiz

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

SammyBoy

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

SammyBoy

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

alexkiddd

@alphatoanant In the control scheme of your theme you have the SNES layout, where B is where the X button is on the ps3 controller and the X and Y buttons are also swapped :D

duiz

I made a modification to the theme so it shows developer and publisher info rather than the last played and such. Moved ratings down as well.

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SammyBoy

@duiz would it be possible to have all six categories shown on the snes layout e.g. Developer, last played, ect.

duiz

@sammyboy It's possible, just a matter of placement and organizing

fastpop72

@duiz could you publish your mods? I'd like to have DEVELOPER and PUBLISHER displayed too...

SammyBoy

@duiz i agree with @fastpop72 please leave your modified file here

duiz

Sure!
https://www.sendspace.com/file/0seksi

SammyBoy

@duiz Thank you so much!

duiz

No problem!

Is @alphatoanant still making updates to this theme?

fastpop72

@duiz Many thanks!!!

alphatoanant

@duiz yup I am available to work on updates for the theme. Currently I have been testing the addition of controller images to the system view. Been running a test version with them added for the last month or so seeing if they cause any memory issues. Hopefully will have a commit ready for them soon. Thank you for creating a mod that has developer and publisher for the community! I don't have plans to add them to the main theme just yet but I am glad for your help.

@SammyBoy to change the layout of a given system to another one open up the XML for that system and look for a line like this

<include>./../_inc/templates/portrait.xml</include>

There are 3 different templates:

portrait
landscape
default (which is square)

So to change arcade to the layout seen on snes you would open the theme.xml in the arcade folder and change the template in the line above to "landscape.xml"