[ES Theme] VectorPie (16:9)

Zachariel

@SubZ3r0 Well sadly, all of the details and photos are a matter of what assets you have and are listed on your gamelist. If you have the info and the images scraped then I believe they should work fine.

So I can confirm I have I think close to 20 categories running on a non-oced Raspberry Pi 4 4GB, and it's running great! My guess is that the key is having more RAM, and not really the improved processing power of the Pi4.

SubZ3r0

Thanks for the reply. Ill have to try scraping again.

Zachariel

@SubZ3r0 No problem. I don't think it's an issue with the theme, but let me know how it turns out. I haven't tested SNES yet.

Zachariel

I have seen no slow downs or black/white/blank images in all my tests. I still need to edit the Readme, but then I would like to submit it to be added to the theme list, so if anyone knows the proper procedure for that, please let me know!

mitu

@Zachariel Submit a PR to the RetroPie-Setup repository - like this.

Zachariel

@mitu Thank you for the info and the speedy reply!

SeraphisCain

This theme is absolutely beautiful, one of the best I've ever seen. However, as I have 49 different categories in ES, I had to crank the VRAM limit up to 160 MB to eliminate white/black/blank/flickering images. It does take noticeably longer for ES to load on startup than it did with the previous theme I was using (Eudora), but it's totally worth it for such a great theme.

EDIT: I'm on a 2 GB Pi 4, just fyi.

Zachariel

@SeraphisCain Thank you very much for your kind words and for the information. I'll probably add to the readme that you may need to slowly increase the vram setting if you have a lot of categories. I'm also glad to hear it works on the 2GB version of RPI4, though I assumed that it would.

I'm happy you enjoy it!

SeraphisCain

@Zachariel I hope you don't mind, but I added a few categories of my own as well. They're all fairly niche systems/arcade hardware/developers so I didn't really want to bug you to add them. They're clearly not up to the standards of your work, but for something I threw together in an hour or so, they're not bad I think. :)

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Zachariel

@SeraphisCain No, of course, I don't mind. They aren't bad at all. I don't think I've seen any of them in themes before, except maybe Cage. I do recognize Naomi though.

SeraphisCain

@Zachariel X68000 has been in Carbon for a couple years now, but yeah, you don't often see these categories in a lot of themes, I agree.

Zachariel

@SeraphisCain Really? Well, I may have to add that one at least.

mattrixk

This is a really nice looking theme. I particularly like the way the different "strands" filter down from the console view to the detailed view. It's really really clever.

Zachariel

@mattrixk Thank you, sir. I'm a big fan of MetaPixel and Spare as well. I have both.

Clyde

@mattrixk said in [ES Theme] VectorPie (16:9):

I particularly like the way the different "strands" filter down from the console view to the detailed view. It's really really clever.

Absolutely!

Zachariel

I will also gladly take suggestions, or requests! I want to add another category already, so might as well do multiple things at once.

SeraphisCain

@Zachariel Aside from the categories I added, another change I made was swapping out the PlayStation logo for one where the PlayStation text is white with a black outline. Makes it far easier to read, as the text the logo uses now is almost the same shade of grey as the background. Maybe you could do something like that? Or at least darken the logo text a few shades?

Also, would it be possible to make the game description text use the entire space allotted for it? As it is now, the entire top 1/3 of the box isn't used.

Zachariel

@SeraphisCain Ah, good call. I haven't seen all of the categories in action so I've missed little things like that.

As far as the game description, that's by design because the top third is to display the logo title of the game, or "marquees". If you have those assets scraped, they should show up.

SeraphisCain

@Zachariel Ahh, okay. Yeah I've never used marquees so I never knew that. Good to know!

Zachariel

@SeraphisCain I have updated the theme and it should now cover those categories. The PSX logo should be fixed as well. Let me know if you notice any problems!