[Theme] Art Book

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.

pjft

@alphatoanant just saying, looks awesome! Thank you! :)

peligwe

Just added the Sharp X1 to my build and was wondering if logo could also be added to theme?

alphatoanant

@peligwe yes totally will look at it today

alphatoanant

@peligwe ok I have added the x1 system theme and it’s up on GitHub. I added 2 options for a logo. One with the sharp logo (system.svg) and one without (system-alt.svg).

peligwe

Just pulled down the latest version. As always thanks for the quick response and great work.

Unfortunately the splashscreen generator didn't like your logo for pc98.

alphatoanant

@peligwe thank you I’ll check to see what’s going on with that

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant Happy New Year!

I'm tinkering again. Today I got a desire to scrape up a mix image of front and back of boxes, so I started a small sampling with the Virtual Boy (only 27 roms). The scrape mix looks great, but I wish I had more real estate.

I'm using the video view.

I thought since the NES has a potrait layout for its large boxes, I thought simply adding "<include>./../_inc/templates/portrait.xml</include>
" into the virtual boy theme would change the layout. It didn't, it broke it.

So I reverted back.

What am I not seeing? Can I get some pointers on how to change the layout of the small hand held systems to be similar to the consoles such as NES and MegaDrive?

alphatoanant

Hi @phoenixflood! Happy New Year to you too - hope you have been well.

What you are trying should have worked so I am not sure but lets step through it...

VirtualBoy theme.xml (es-theme-art-book/virtualboy/theme.xml) in the base theme should look like this before any changes...

<theme>
   <formatVersion>4</formatVersion>
   <include>./../theme.xml</include>
   <view name="system, basic, detailed, video">
      <image name="logo">
         <path>./_inc/system.svg</path>
      </image>
   </view>
</theme>

Then to get it to use portrait layout it should only need one addition like this...

<theme>
   <formatVersion>4</formatVersion>
   <include>./../theme.xml</include>
   <include>./../_inc/templates/portrait.xml</include>
   <view name="system, basic, detailed, video">
      <image name="logo">
         <path>./_inc/system.svg</path>
      </image>
   </view>
</theme>

Is that what your change looked like when things broke?

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant Yup, I put that line in there exactly like that, and you can see how it changes. It even changes the main menu.

Here's the before:

Then I add the line:

Then here's the result:

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant And on emulationstation restart after adding that line, I get this error.

alphatoanant

@phoenixflood this had me stumped 😀. I looked at it with fresh eyes this morning and I think I see the issue - try moving the include line above the view line and see if that fixes it (check my code block above - that’s the main difference between what you and I have)

PhoenixFlood

@alphatoanant You were right, I'm an id10t. Thank you!

PhoenixFlood

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peligwe

@alphatoanant Did you ever figure out the splashscreen generator issue for pc98?

alphatoanant

@peligwe, no I haven't had a moment to go back to that unfortunately.

REK607

@jesseblue said in [Theme] Art Book:

I love this theme!! :D But i think the main menu is a little bit to clean.

Would something like this be possible with ES? The background image is from the "bichromatic pads" collection of retroarch.

Hello and thank you for such an ellegant theme.
Is there a way to have this background per system with the joypad activated?
Is there a way to activate a custom splashscreen while launching every different system? I have a custom launching jpg at this moment for my chosen systems.