[Theme] Art Book

PhoenixFlood

Hello everyone! I've been tinkering but can't quite get the desired result. Is there a way to have the main menu icons to be colorized? I love the minimalisim of this theme, just want a touch of color to splash up the main menu. Again, just want to colorize the system logos on the main carousel.

HurricaneFan

@PhoenixFlood You could swap out the logos with logos from a different theme. You just have to make sure you name the replacement files the same as the art book theme files.

PhoenixFlood

@HurricaneFan Thank you! That totally triggered a lighbulb of new ideas in a different direction!

cnoto

@PhoenixFlood I actually had the same idea and swapped out the logos.

anderocha

Hello guys, what configuration to use a SCREENSHOT instead of the video?

alphatoanant

@anderocha this happens somewhat automatically in EmulationStation depending on what you have scraped (If you have video scrapped it will show the video view for example)

So there are 2 ways I know of to have it display images:

Scrape only images for your games (do not scrape video) - this makes emulationstation show detail view by default
or
you can manually set the view to detail view in emulationstation settings (its under settings menu / ui settings)

gnargoyle

@alphatoanant I have a couple questions. My guess is that I can fix these on my end, but I just bought a pre-made cabinet so I'm new to this.

Is there a way to remove the "favorite" and "launch" instruction imagery? It's not accurate to my button layout.
Any plans for a 5:4 aspect ratio version? Some of the font is too big/details are cut off, unless I can customize that?
Video doesn't seem to display in video mode, it's just a black rectangle.

alphatoanant

Hi @gnargoyle no worries and thank you for checking this out.

Re: "Is there a way to remove the "favorite" and "launch" instruction imagery? It's not accurate to my button layout."

Yes there is a way to remove those.

In theme.xml under the root:

<view name="basic,detailed,video">

comment out or remove:

<image name="help-random" extra="true">
 <path>./_inc/images/help-random.svg</path>
 <size>0.07734375 0.0263888888888889</size>
 </image>
<image name="help-launch" extra="true">
 <path>./_inc/images/help-launch.svg</path>
 <size>0.071875 0.0263888888888889</size>
</image>
<image name="help-favorite" extra="true">
 <path>./_inc/images/help-favorite.svg</path>
 <size>0.08046875 0.0263888888888889</size>
</image>

As an alternative if you wanted to change keep the images and update them to your layout you could also edit the SVGs referenced above. I'd be glad to help with this if that helps.

Re: Any plans for a 5:4 aspect ratio version? Some of the font is too big/details are cut off, unless I can customize that?

Not currently. But I do have a 4:3 aspect ratio version that I think I could tweak into a 5:4 version more easily. I'll take a look this upcoming weekend and see what would be needed. The sizing in emulation station takes a little bit to wrap your head around but I think the 4:3 version could be a good base to work from.

Re: Video doesn't seem to display in video mode, it's just a black rectangle.

Are you able to hear audio from the video just not see it? There have been a few reports in the past of this and I recall they were fixed by making sure you were on the latest version of retropie/emulationstation. Artbook layering relies on a z-index property that isn't supported in older versions of emulationstation. You can try an update through the retropie setup menu (there are options to update in there) and see if that corrects the error.

Hope this helps for now

anderocha

@alphatoanant small update here ;)

cnoto

@anderocha That looks awesome! Is there a place where the new artwork and code is located?

alphatoanant

@anderocha nice work! looks clean.

alphatoanant

@gnargoyle I have uploaded a version of art book for 5:4 resolutions to github just now.

You can download it here: https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book-5-4

This should address the font, size and spacing oddities you were seeing on your 5:4 monitor

pjft

Several years later, still the theme that I use the most on my set up. Well done. Hope you're doing great @alphatoanant

alphatoanant

Thank you @pjft 😊 . Wow, I just realized how long its been since starting this. Thank you for all of your help getting this built over the years. 😄 I still have an item simply entitled "grid view" on this theme's to-do list and have been reading up on the latest posts to see how things work.

I am doing well and hope you are too.

pjft

@alphatoanant Haha, not at all. Time flies indeed! :)

All is good on our end, glad to still see you around that all is doing great.

pjft

@alphatoanant apologies, actually a question: would you have plans for a Singe system?

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27426/request-add-daphne-singe-emulator

It's kind of like Daphne, but has a plethora of other games that aren't compatible with Daphne.

Just curious, as it's been recently added and it opens a lot more games to play.

Hope you're doing great!

alphatoanant

@pjft awesome I love laserdisc games - glad to see this available.

Yes would be happy to add this. I'll research logos, see what is out there already or think about a design for one from scratch.

Maybe something like the original laserdisc logo but with Singe lettering instead: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Laserdisc-logo.svg/1280px-Laserdisc-logo.svg.png

Boxart wise I remember from building the system theme for Daphne that most of these games fit well with arcade flyers so I'll go with a portrait layout for now.

Reading through that thread it looks like the folder name for the system theme would be "singe" is that correct?

pjft

@alphatoanant I imagine it might end up being "singe" - there is no current RetroPie-Setup script, but I imagine that singe would make sense indeed.

I think the old Laserdisc logo with Singe lettering - or, honestly, even "Laserdisc" already - would be awesome. These systems did have arcade flyers indeed for the most part, so that is the correct layout indeed.

Thank you so much, and let me know if I can help as well :)

alphatoanant

@pjft well that was quick =). Just made a first commit on the singe system theme. Decided to keep it simple out of the gate by just using the laserdisc logo.

pjft

Awesome, that was quick indeed :) I'll set it up during the weekend, thank you!

Hope you're doing well.