[Theme] Art Book

PhoenixFlood

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

@alphatoanant

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.

VrilDOX

Add Atomiswave, please!

alphatoanant

@vrildox I'll look at adding Atomiswave in the next week or so

alphatoanant

@rek607 I had looked at this in the past and it caused some performance issues if I remember so I dropped it until I could find time to dive deeper into it. Sadly I haven't had time to revisit it. I don't think there is a way in retropie yet to add this as a configurable option.

alphatoanant

@vrildox atomiswave has been added =)

VrilDOX

@alphatoanant thanks man, thanks for your attention and for making my day better, in the near future when it is better for me i will support the project!

anderocha

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Hello guys!
I would like your help to make 2 changes.

Remove the metadata information
Use a .PNG for the gameplay image

It's possible?
If so, could someone give me a light?

cnoto

@anderocha yes this is possible. It can be done by editing the theme.xml file within the theme. You can edit this file using a texteditor program. I would check out the info to give you a clearer picture of what you are looking at.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation-Advanced-Theming/

To erase the metadata you would erase the code pertaining to the data you want to eliminate.

The video can be replaced switching out the code pointing to a video with code referring to your screenshot.

Does this make sense?

anderocha

@cnoto First of all, thank you very much for the support! It has already cleared ...

I opened theme.xml but I didn't find these two codes that I need to change ...

Would you have the lines referring to metadata and replacing the video with the image?

anderocha

@cnoto About video, I found these lines here:

<video name="md_video">
<origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
<pos>0.540625 0.705555555555556</pos>
<maxSize>0.25 0.3333333333333333</maxSize>
<delay>0</delay>
<default>./_inc/videos/static.mp4</default>
<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
</video>

cnoto

@anderocha im away from my computer right now, but can hop on in a bit to give some more detailed advice.

From a high level, you can take the size and position data from the video related code you shares and create an entry in the “detailed” section of the code to add an entry for the screenshot.