New Comic Book Theme!

Red5ive

Hi guys, love the theme.
Trying to get it to work with video clips on my windows box. I have the latest windows release that jdrassa is putting out here:
https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases/tag/continuous

I have made a new folder in .emulationstation and edited my gamelist entry for a test game with the path to the video:
<video>~/.emulationstation/downloaded_videos/amiga/batman.mp4</video>

In emulation station I switched to the video layout B
but the video does not show, I just get the artwork image repeated in the black window.
Am I using the wrong tags or video format or is something else wrong?
Thanks in advance!
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mitu

@red5ive said in New Comic Book Theme!:

Am I using the wrong tags or video format or is something else wrong?

Check the es_log.txt file to see if the video file is found, otherwise check if the file can be played by VLC.

Red5ive

@mitu Taking a look at the es_log.txt I realised that I had lots of 'failure to find file' errors because one of the scrapers I had used had re-named some of the roms, so I had two entries in my gameslist for the same game and I had added the video path to the one that does not exist.
Anyway working now!

This may have been asked before but is there a way to have the main image not duplicate itself or use an alternative for when a video is not found for a game, such as use the joypad/joystick graphic for that system as used in the detailed view?

dizmodawg

So i have a question, so i am building a arcade only image for my bartop and i don't want any metadata to show, How would i edit the comicbook theme to have no metadata to show? All i want is the videos to show.

TMNTturtlguy

@dizmodawg Sorry for not replying, for some reason i am not getting post notifications these days. You can go into the text file for your games and just delete all of the meta data. That will be the easiest.

Flexserve

Mind Blown! This looks great! Good job!

Sano

@tmntturtlguy
I had the same Issue about posts notifications.
I think a forum update disabled it, you have to re-enable it via your account settings (notify "When a new reply is posted in a topic you are watching ", and be sure you watch "topic you create" and "topics you reply to") .

BlockABoots

So if i download the comicbook theme from within Emulation Station it will download the latest release?, the only reason i ask is i have just done this yet im not getting the Loading screens when i load a game for each system??

Also as the built in scrapper only seems to download boxart what method are you guys using to get videos, marquees and 3d box art please?

Also how do you enable music for each of the system menus?

TMNTturtlguy

@blockaboots wow, lots of questions here. The download through emulationstation is the current release. Loading screens are a separate download and not part of the theme. The splash/loading screens should be available through rpie-art, or you can see posts and a link to them here: post 785 as far as scraper, there are several methods to do that and tons of posts. Just search the forum and you will find a method that meets your needs. There is no music for the system menus. Music would come from and video snaps that are used for the games.

retroprogrammer

@TMNTturtlguy I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask but could you make me custom art for my Bartop arcade? I read from here that you can do it. and if u can how do I print it, do I take it to my local sticker/printing company?

holy2tack

I decided to take a stab at this. My first time even attempting graphic design, but I followed the instructions and used the templates. The Zelda logo is a little bigger than i wanted, but I think i have the method down. I can tweak it.

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Oh and I made a dirty trick to use the launching images based on the title of a game. You have to edit the runcommand.sh file and add that to where it chooses a launching image.

    # look for custom launching images
    if [[ "$IS_SYS" -eq 1 ]]; then
	# look for name match
        if [[ "$ROM_BN" =~ "Mario" ]]; then 
            images+=("$CONFIGDIR/mario/launching")
    	elif [[ "$ROM_BN" =~ "Sonic" ]]; then
            images+=("$CONFIGDIR/sonic/launching")
        elif [[ "$ROM_BN" =~ "Mega Man" ]]; then
            images+=("$CONFIGDIR/megaman/launching")
        elif [[ "$ROM_BN" =~ "Star Wars" ]]; then
            images+=("$CONFIGDIR/starwars/launching")
        elif [[ "$ROM_BN" =~ "Turtles" ]]; then
            images+=("$CONFIGDIR/TMNT/launching")
        elif [[ "$ROM_BN" =~ "Zelda" ]]; then
	    images+=("$CONFIGDIR/zelda/launching")
        else
            images+=(
                "$HOME/RetroPie/roms/$SYSTEM/images/${ROM_BN}-launching"
                "$CONF_ROOT/launching"
            )
        fi
    fi

EDIT:
Well I felt a lot more comfortable with Photoshop and the process to create logos that fit this theme this morning. So I redid the logo.
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holy2tack

Just did up some Metroid stuff!

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holy2tack

Grr. Getting marked as spam lol.

Here's an updated comic.png for Zelda.

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PittStone

@holy2tack I like the new Stuff's. Whats the Difference between holy2tack and yours?

holy2tack

@pittstone I'm not sure what you mean? I am me. lol

holy2tack

Donkey Kong up and ready to break some barrels!

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holy2tack

Someone's hungry to get in on this action.

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Alturis

@holy2tack Good shite!

Alturis

Each one gets better and better. Nice job. Did you add that comic dot matrix to kirby too?

holy2tack

Probably my last for the day. I really wanted to get this one done though.

I took some liberties with this logo so it would not only match the comic book theme but stay true to the heart of what makes these logos iconic. I made a few different ones because I couldn't decide what color would be best.
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