Carousel Enhancements

[Retroboy69]

@ectoone Hi, have you ever considered creating an enhancement that resembled a conveyor/escalator type of carousel?

[EctoOne]

@retroboy69 I'm not the guy who's coding the enhancements, I'm just trying to find the limits of them ;)
You need to ask @jdrassa for such requests.

[Retroboy69]

@jdrassa Have you ever considered creating conveyor/escalator type code. That would be cool.

[ruckage]

@retroboy69 said in Carousel Enhancements:

@jdrassa Have you ever considered creating conveyor/escalator type code. That would be cool.

I'm curious - what do you mean as that's very vague. Can you link to a video showing an example?

[Capeman]

@retroboy69

@jdrassa Have you ever considered creating conveyor/escalator type code. That would be cool.

@ruckage

I'm curious - what do you mean as that's very vague. Can you link to a video showing an example?

I think he means like the opening story roll from Star Wars. Amiright?

[dmmarti]

Quick question - trying to make the curvature of the vertical wheel reversed.

By default....the new carousel option code...

  <carousel name="systemcarousel">
    <type>vertical_wheel</type>
    <pos>0.5 0.0</pos>
    <size>0.5 1</size>
    <logoScale>1.125</logoScale>
    <logoSize>0.2 0.2</logoSize>
    <color>00000000</color>
    <maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
    <logoRotation>7.5</logoRotation>
<logoRotationOrigin>-5 0.5</logoRotationOrigin>
<logoAlignment>right</logoAlignment>        
  </carousel>

However, if we change the logoRotationOrigin from negative to positive...

  <carousel name="systemcarousel">
    <type>vertical_wheel</type>
    <pos>0.5 0.0</pos>
    <size>0.5 1</size>
    <logoScale>1.125</logoScale>
    <logoSize>0.2 0.2</logoSize>
    <color>00000000</color>
    <maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
    <logoRotation>7.5</logoRotation>
<logoRotationOrigin>5 0.5</logoRotationOrigin>
<logoAlignment>right</logoAlignment>        
  </carousel>

This switches the curvature of the vertical wheel (now bends to right instead of bending to the left)...however, that leads to a different behavior with the up/down buttons.

I see this referenced above (using up/down on a horizontal menu) ... but was curious if any updates were done to swap the behavior when the have a positive logoRotationOrigin value.

Thanks!

[jdrassa]

@dmmarti You should be able to fix this by making logoRotation negative.

[dmmarti]

@jdrassa - works like a charm now!

I didn't even think about making that a negative number..haha....I played with the others, but not that one.

Thanks again!

[jdrassa]

@ectoone said in Carousel Enhancements:

Am I stupid or is horizontal_view not an option!? Because it's kinda confusing to use Up/Down while browsing on this carousel.

It took a little bit longer than I had hoped, but I finally implemented support for 'horizontal_wheel'. It should be available now if you use the emulationstation-dev module.

[herb_fargus]

@jdrassa I hate it. But good work ;)

[paffley]

Love it, great work @jdrassa

[EctoOne]

@jdrassa Wow, I thought that it was added a long time ago. I stopped tinkering with it because I ran out of ideas for a matching detailed view for the Metroid carousel I made.

[zerobyzero]

Was the color/transparency selection for the selected/unselected elements of the carousel implemented in the end?

Regards