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    spannernick1
    last edited by 6 Oct 2016, 20:07

    Is there any skins for grid view for download..?

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      lilbud @spannernick1
      last edited by 6 Oct 2016, 20:20

      @spannernick1 If you mean themes, then yes. The Material theme is one of the only to support grid view. But so far I've only done the US system variants.

      Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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        jacobfk20
        last edited by 6 Oct 2016, 20:25

        @dudleydes It depends. Small changes only take thirty seconds or so to recompile. Big changes or first time compiling can take twenty minutes.

        @lilbud Just as I was about to hit submit you beat me to the answer lol.

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          lilbud @spannernick1
          last edited by 6 Oct 2016, 21:09

          @spannernick1 Both are now added to the Material repository

          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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            pompitousofseth @jacobfk20
            last edited by 7 Oct 2016, 00:34

            @jacobfk20 I used the newest on and it works with the themes. Two things that I've found so far. Sometimes after loading a system with lots of games the menus become transparent and can't be read, and when this happened I loaded a random game and es came back completely white. Second some systems the titles go more than one line, others cut of with ellipses.

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              jacobfk20
              last edited by 7 Oct 2016, 00:59

              @pompitousofseth How many games does the system have that causes this problem?

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                pompitousofseth @jacobfk20
                last edited by 7 Oct 2016, 01:04

                @jacobfk20 it was between 10-20. I was also going in-between systems really quickly.

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                  jacobfk20
                  last edited by 7 Oct 2016, 01:30

                  @pompitousofseth I cannot get the same problem you're having... Even jumping in/out of a system with 700 roms it still doesn't do what you're experiencing. What Pi are you using? Whats your GPU Memory split at? What theme are you using? Game Titles will get cut off into ellipses if they're too big to fit inside the tile. I will add a scroll option but that must be adding into ES's core components, so it'll have to happen slightly later.

                  @lilbud I will be changing <ninepatch> to <image> for gridtile_background and gridtile_background_selected in the next update. Just thought I would let you know. The reason is for backwards compatibility with vanilla ES. Just simply replace with image instead. You can actually do that now because I'm sure your theme is most likely broken on vanilla ES right now. Sorry :/

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                    pompitousofseth @jacobfk20
                    last edited by pompitousofseth 10 Jul 2016, 03:43 7 Oct 2016, 02:40

                    @jacobfk20 The split was at 256, I upped it to 512. Hopefully that will help. I am running a Pi 3, using a modified version of lilbud's material with just vertcal logos and the grid. I was used to the titles being cut off but some of them are showing multiple lines. Atari2600, Genesis, NES, and PSX all show multiple lines. Game gear, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, MAME, N64, PC, Ports, RetroPie, SNES, and Virtual Boy all are cut off.

                    http://m.imgur.com/Ih20zuv

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                      jacobfk20
                      last edited by 7 Oct 2016, 02:45

                      @pompitousofseth How many systems do you have?

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                        pompitousofseth @jacobfk20
                        last edited by 7 Oct 2016, 03:02

                        @jacobfk20 15. The ones listed in the previous post.

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                          Workman
                          last edited by 2 Dec 2016, 01:21

                          Are there any updates for this?? I'm trying to put together an awesome Retropie image for my brother for Christmas and this grid view would make it amazing for him! If anyone knows anything more for this please reply or PM me. Thank you! :)

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                            pompitousofseth @Workman
                            last edited by pompitousofseth 12 Feb 2016, 01:51 2 Dec 2016, 01:48

                            @Workman @jacobfk20 is the one doing the work on this and would be the one to give you an answer.

                            Edit: Also this version works very well. You just need a theme that supports grid view. @lilbud's material theme supports it or you can read the documentation on the theme items and make your own like I did.

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                              jacobfk20
                              last edited by 2 Dec 2016, 03:00

                              @Workman Yes, I am actively working on this still. I'll be releasing a minor update soon that fixes gridview eating too much vram. If you need help with anything, especially with installing this as it's still experamental and not officially supported, then just send me an email. (same username as here at gmail.)

                              Also, cool that you're making something for your brother for Christmas :)

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                                Workman
                                last edited by 2 Dec 2016, 04:10

                                I sent an email to you; any help you could give me would be amazing!

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                                  enigma7
                                  last edited by 2 Dec 2016, 09:17

                                  (http://i.imgur.com/SviqMo3.jpg)

                                  Would this be possible? Pop out selected image while the rest have an opacity?

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                                    dudleydes @enigma7
                                    last edited by 2 Dec 2016, 09:45

                                    @enigma7 I have been working on a theme based on the Carbon theme that does something like this. You can see a preview here - ignore the white triangles, that's an issue regarding vram use.

                                    You can download the theme here. Place it in /home/pi/.emulationstation/theme and you should be able to select it from the UI setting in EmulationStation. If you are using SNES or any landscape art, you can set Grid Size to Big in System UI Setting to make sure the art fits better across the screen.

                                    Quick warning that this theme is very much experimental. The Grid View ES build I have is a vram hog so I would recommend restarting ES regularly otherwise you are likely to see the white rectangles appearing.

                                    Also, I have manually edited my gamelists so Release Year occupies the Publisher field so it's likely your metadata may not appear as in the preview.

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                                      jacobfk20
                                      last edited by 2 Dec 2016, 15:22

                                      @dudleydes I'll be pushing an update today that helps keep vram from leaking.

                                      @enigma7 Steam's Big Picture Mode is my dream, though I'm more focused on stability.

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                                        enigma7
                                        last edited by 10 Dec 2016, 20:52

                                        @dudleydes That looks good, thanks. I'll give it a shot.

                                        @jacobfk20 Did the vram issue get fixed? I'd love to try this out. Is there a precompiled version available to download? I don't know how to compile.

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                                          radius
                                          last edited by 10 Dec 2016, 21:37

                                          Hi guys, I'm trying to get the gridview working on a debian jessie VM but for some reason it's not,
                                          I downloaded and compiled the source from https://github.com/jacobfk20/EmulationStation/tree/Gridview
                                          but I don't have the gridview option, I downloaded the theme from @dudleydes and still it doesn't appear with the grid view, could you please help get this working ?

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