Grid View Theme Ideas

[herb_fargus]

@mattrixk part of that is just my laptop is a bit dim, its more bright in implementation but yeah essentially the selected rom lights up more and the rest have a transparency of sorts on them. It also grows a tad when you select it so you know which game you're on.

As far as the rotated logo, I had to rotate it and save it as another svg as I dont believe ES has a rotation function.

[mattrixk]

@herb_fargus Okay, cool. I figured it was just a different image (but adding a rotate feature would be cool). Hopefully I'll have a chance to try the Grid build this weekend. I have a spare SD card, so I'll just set up a fresh install so I don't fudge my current setup.

[Ekstreme]

Looks great. A view like this would certainly encourage people to not just dump full rom sets onto their PI, but be more deliberate and selective to avoid chaos

[mattrixk]

@Ekstreme said in Grid View Theme Ideas:

A view like this would certainly encourage people to not just dump full rom sets onto their PI, but be more deliberate and selective to avoid chaos

Heh, I tried that... still ended up with a few hundred SNES roms.

[deathr0w]

This looks wonderful can't wait to fire it up on my Pie it's even making me hungry looking at it :)

[mattrixk]

@herb_fargus
Are you able to change how many rows and columns of games are shown? I notice in your screenshots that Carbon has a 5x3 grid, but Material has a 5x4 grid.

Landscape covers and screenshots are fine 5 across, but portrait covers could maybe go 6 across. Also, are you able to change the size of the images with the <size> property like a normal image?

[herb_fargus]

@mattrixk the grid layout is defined in the selector. You essentially define the area the grid will be in in the theme and then in the emulationstation menu you can change the scales roughly so diff numbers of images show up depending on the scale you choose

[lilbud]

Vertical view in ES. This will be the default grid view

[herb_fargus]

@lilbud heres my attempt at it:

I do like the simplicity of your version. did you do away with titles altogether or is the first one just not loaded yet?

[lilbud]

@herb_fargus I merged your pull request. The first one is not loaded yet.

[mattrixk]

@herb_fargus, @lilbud Those both look great. I can't wait to get my virtual machine running so I can play with Grid View too.

[lilbud]

@herb_fargus I did have an idea. Put all of the metadata in the sidebar. I tried it and soon realized some logos would be too big to fit.

[herb_fargus]

@lilbud logos like publishers? I have another idea that I'm trying out, just getting a screenshot ready to post

[herb_fargus]

@lilbud even more minimalist:

[lilbud]

@herb_fargus I think the logo should be smaller

[herb_fargus]

@lilbud yeah I was thinking so too, was trying to centre it proper.

[herb_fargus]

@lilbud something more like this?

Personally this is my favourite rendition thus far. There are really only two issues with this version:

• if your game name is too big it goes a bit off the screen because I don't believe the text values have an origin setting

• it is very clashy if you leave on the on screen help, so just turn it off (who uses it anyways?)

gists with xmls:

https://gist.github.com/HerbFargus/6c041c9793202d03930b49b7e4bc721a

https://gist.github.com/HerbFargus/1d861addd335da50e2bfc2ecb29a1d18

tbh for my personal build I think I'll just take out titles altogether. thats what boxart is for anyways

[mattrixk]

@herb_fargus Where did you get the title screens for your games? Did you replace each of your box art images with title screens for every game you have, or just select ones? Is there a repository or website I can go to get them, are they all on thegamesdb, or do I have to do some google-fu for each title, one at time?

[herb_fargus]

@mattrixk I made them myself with my swanky script see here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3353/take-and-scrape-your-own-screenshots

[herb_fargus]

I also kinda like removing the title altogether - as long as you have a complete scraped list.