[Theme] CRT

Capeman

Is the video preview support built into the ES version that is included in retropie 4.1 or do you need to get a forked version of ES to run these? I want to make sure before I try making one myself.

sam85461

Hey can anyone help me, i tried to install this on my computer version of emulation station but it shows as all white and none of the assets show up. thanks

Nismo

@sam85461 For windows you need the compiled version by @fieldofcows.

https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

But it doesn't have some fixes like the fix for ES crashing if you use subfolders in roms folder and other things.

And if you manually scrape a game inside ES, it deletes your video and marquees tags in gamelist.xml.

alphatoanant

Updates so far:

Increased the size of boxart displayed on the video view
Replaced genre and release date metadata with last played (genre and release date metadata does not appear to be consistent and last played does look like it will be more helpful overall)
Tightened up spacing for metadata on detail and video views

Quick preview:
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Download latest:
https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt/archive/master.zip

@Nismo - Thank you again for your sample boxart image. I have made updates to the size of its display on the video view. It's not as large as on your oldroom theme but I think I found a good balance for my theme based on the spacing I am working with. Please let me know what you think. Also no worries on offtopic above - I am excited to see more updates to oldroom.

@ebtalk - I played with metadata a lot this week; testing different scrapers and such. I was getting pretty spotty results for genre and release date so I made a change to replace those values with last played. I kept the ratings for now as I am planning on adding child-friendly theme icons on that row. Hoping to hear what you think.

@nasp2000 - Works well on a Pi2/3 on the latest versions of retropie (tested on 4.1.8 or later) I tried testing on my pi-zero earlier this week and video playback is choppy so a few of us are discussing alternatives for pi-zero/1 in the video preview thread.

@badhorse - I will try out a few options. The main reason I went with the logo centered was to have consistency in placement between the different views (moving from a video view to a basic view for example).

@Capeman - It's in the latest version you can update from with the retropie setup script. I know for sure its works on 4.1.8 and the latest from around 3 days ago which is 4.1.10.

ebtalk

@alphatoanant good work! Plan to test this out when I get home tonight.

Nismo

@alphatoanant I don't have too much time right now but i'll try it ASAP. Thanks for the improvements.

ebtalk

Like the changes. Very polished.

Devster

Registered just to comment and say this theme looks great; if/when it works with the "emulationstation-kids" experimental package, I'm switching.

I need those "favorite" and "kids" buttons along the bottom. :) Not sure if it helps, but there's some info on that package's page that migth help....

mattrixk

I can help with the kid friendly icons if needed.

alphatoanant

Updates 1/17:

Added initial child friendly emulation station icons for detail and video views (this may not work yet)
Added placeholder for backwards compatibility discussed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6964/video-view-for-all-themes (commented out for now - I think the commit is pending while fieldofcows is focused on metadata improvements)

Quick Preview:
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Download latest:
https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt/archive/master.zip

@ebtalk, very glad to hear you liked the updates. Thank you for the feedback!

@Devster, I just added initial support for child friendly es icons and added a preview of what it would look like above. I think I have the elements in place but I am not sure if the child friendly version available to download through retropie setup has video view support yet so my theme might not work. I have tested it on my local instance and its looks to be good to go but I would be grateful for your help as well. If it doesn't work yet I can create a version without the video view for the time being until backwards compatibility is added (the status of which can be followed in this thread - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6964/video-view-for-all-themes). I am available to help either way.

@mattrixk, thank you again for your help.
Is it safe to say the 3 elements needed are:

<image name="md_hidden">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>0.390625 0.558</pos>
   <path>./_inc/images/hidden.svg</path>
   <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
   <color>bba35880</color>
</image>
<image name="md_kidgame">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>0.4171875 0.558</pos>
   <path>./_inc/images/kid.svg</path>
   <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
   <color>bba35880</color>
</image>
<image name="md_favorite">
   <origin>0 0</origin>
   <pos>0.4359375 0.558</pos>
   <path>./_inc/images/favorite.svg</path>
   <maxSize>0.01875 0.025</maxSize>
   <color>bba35880</color>
</image>

If so is there anything else to watch out for?

mattrixk

@alphatoanant: That looks right. I had trouble for ages initially because I had extra="true" for each of them, but they didn't need it. I removed extra="true" and they worked.

alphatoanant

@mattrixk, I ran into the same thing when I started working on it initially...
If anything it helped out with testing placement =)
Thank you again

mattrixk

@alphatoanant No wuckers. It's a great looking theme.

abodi

Fantasic work! I love that it's so clean.

Been fiddling the last couple days manually adding videos to all my games, it's so damn good.

If I did have one thought. The box the roms names appear in is too short for many games especially considering the font size.
I was looking at the theme config files and I though I found what I needed to configure to make it wider but it didn't work. Can anyone suggest what I should be looking at?

mattrixk

@abodi The part you are looking for is in theme.xml (in root)

<textlist name="gamelist">
  ...
   <size>0.625 0.675</size>
  ...
</textlist>

Line 42 and line 99 (from github). The first number is the percentage of X, and the second number is percentage of Y.

So 0.625 is 62.5% of the screen width, and 0.675 is 67.5% of the screen height. To change the width of the gamelist, change the first number to anything from 0 to 1.

Alternatively you could change the <fontSize> of <textlist name="gamelist"> to make the text smaller.

To learn more you can read Creating Your Own EmulationStation Theme on the wiki.

Edit: formatting.

mrpinchy

@sam85461 said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

Hey can anyone help me, i tried to install this on my computer version of emulation station but it shows as all white and none of the assets show up. thanks

I'm having the same issue on my RetroPie actually. Not sure what the issue is. I'm running version 4.1.11

Nismo

@sam85461 The old windows version you can download doesn't have video support.

Download this one for windows: https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.1-beta.7

It has some issues, if you have subfolders with roms inside rom folder ES crash, and if you scrape games it deletes your video tags, but it's the latest for windows with video support till next release with all bugfixes.

@mrpinchy seems you have a theme without video support, you need a theme that support video.

wiltur

Nice job !
Is there a way to use a distant video ? (like http://domaine.tld/video.mp4 )

Devster

@alphatoanant You're right - the kid friendly version of ES I have (the default) doesn't support video so it reverts to the basic "so bright white you may go blind" theme. Not sure if that's in @ZIGURANA's area or not, but I'll follow the threads to see what is up and keep an eye on it. Thanks for passing it along.

mrpinchy

@Nismo I downloaded this theme directly from https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt