Old TV Theme Idea

mattrixk

@Capeman I don't know, but my gut says probably not. Would you want the same sprite for every game in a system, or a different sprite for each game?

Capeman

@mattrixk I was thinking of using the marquee tag to load a custom one per game, it'd take a while to make them, but it would be cool looking when done. Also some games could have still PNGs instead.

mattrixk

@Capeman Hmm. It's an interesting idea, but I don't know how well it would work in practice. You would have to create an image for each game, then add the <marquee> tag for each game to your gamelist.xml for each system. Then if someone else wanted to use your theme, they would also need to manually add each <marquee> tag to each game for each system. It's a lot of work, both for you and for whoever wants to use your theme.

An idea: You could have a couple of sprites as part of the background image (the TV and desk and what-not) for each system. Eg: for the NES you could have an old TV sitting on the desk, with Mario on top of the TV jumping up and breaking a block, while Samus and MegaMan are having a shootout on the table in front of the TV and some Ninja Turtles are climbing down the side.

HurricaneFan

@Capeman ES doesn't support animated gifs.

HurricaneFan

@Capeman this is sort of similar to Old Room Theme that Nismo is working on.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8019/oldroom-theme-w-i-p-media-packs

HurricaneFan

@mattrixk Wheel art/marquees images are pretty easy to find online. I've been collecting those for all of my roms along with boxart and video previews. It's been a bit of work but having it all change for each game looks awesome.

mattrixk

@HurricaneFan Yup. I'm making a new theme with video support and I've created custom MIX and Scrape profiles for UXS that scrape videos and screenshots, but also scrape boxart, media art (cartridges), and wheels/logos and MIX them into a single image. It then creates the gamelist.xml with all the metadata and adds the videos into the <video> tag, the screenshots into the <image> tag and the MIX image into the <marquee> tag. It's awesome, but it's not ready yet. Still quite a bit of work to do making images for each system.

Also, @screech has recently done a major update to UXS and I haven't had a chance to see if the new version will still play nice with my new Profiles or if I'll have to update them.

I'm tempted to give a sneak peek, but I don't want to derail someone else's thread. It seems rude.

HurricaneFan

@mattrixk said in Old TV Theme Idea:

UXS

Does UXS work on mac?

mattrixk

@HurricaneFan said in Old TV Theme Idea:

Does UXS work on mac?

I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that question. You'd have to ask @screech.

Capeman

@HurricaneFan said in Old TV Theme Idea:

@Capeman this is sort of similar to Old Room Theme that Nismo is working on.

Yes, another forum member pointed that one out to me - seems like a pretty obvious idea that lots of people would try. I'm planning on making mine much simpler than that, but a little bit more refined and cohesive.

@mattrixk said in Old TV Theme Idea:

I'm tempted to give a sneak peek, but I don't want to derail someone else's thread. It seems rude.

No, please do! I'm here for the sole purpose of seeing other people's work. Always looking for inspiration!

mattrixk

@Capeman Fair enough.

Indent Theme Sneak Peek:

The logo, boxart and cartridge are a single image using the <marquee> tag while the screenshot in the middle is using the <image> tag. If you leave it on a single game for longer than 1 second, the screenshot disappears and the video preview starts playing in its place. That is something built into the Video Preview mod so users can scroll through lists of games without setting off every video in the list as they quickly scroll through.

Each system has a different colour based on some colour of the system iteself (eg: the SNES theme is purple because of the purple buttons on top of the console).

Still lots of work to do, as I have to draw each system, and need to keep testing the UXS Scrape and MIX Profiles.

I'll be asking for help testing once it's closer to done.

lilbud

@mattrixk Slowly raises hand

HurricaneFan

@Capeman I'm all for seeing what cool things you come up with. I like your first screenshot. :)

mattrixk

@lilbud I also have something special for anyone using @Zigurana's Carousel Mod:

Indent Theme Carousel Mod

Carousel Mod is still a WIP, but I can't wait until it becomes part of Core.

HurricaneFan

@mattrixk Oh that is cool!

lilbud

@mattrixk Has @Zigurana announced anything on that recently? Other than that it's a thing that exists.

mattrixk

@lilbud Not that I'm aware of. I think this thread was the one where he last mentioned it.

tronkyfran

That layout with the carousel down is pretty cool!!

Zigurana

Heya guys, I'm back from the dead! The carousel is still wip, but I made some progress last night, and will be doing some more work on it tonight.

Capeman

This is the first im hearing about this carousel mod, is it completely customizable and movable? This is a neat idea, do you have any other examples of this mod in action? Are they considering adding it to the main distro?