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    • HurricaneFanH
      HurricaneFan @HemiJJ
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      @HemiJJ What are the settings for putting the System logo on the right hand side?

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        HemiJJ @HurricaneFan
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        @HurricaneFan
        Modified this in the logo sections. Made a bunch of changes, but I think this was the trick.
        origin .5 .5
        pos .725 0.1
        maxSize 0.5 0.1

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        • HurricaneFanH
          HurricaneFan @HemiJJ
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          @HemiJJ Thank you!

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            HemiJJ
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            OK, So I got sucked into this theme building goodness and like @alphatoanant , I went back to the building themes guides and build some from scratch, but heavily influenced by the CRT theme. I even went back and tweaked the Carbon theme to better support video tags. I have many colors built but here are a few of them in both video and basic mode.
            0_1487785054032_Green_Theme1.jpg
            0_1487785064999_Green_Theme2.jpg
            0_1487785079443_Green_Theme3.jpg
            0_1487785231326_Gray_Theme1.jpg
            0_1487785290269_Gray_Theme2.jpg
            0_1487785301573_Gray_Theme3.jpg
            0_1487785344325_Carbon_Video2.jpg

            These are first attempts and I'm not 100% sure on the rights on the background images, so I probably wont share them as full themes, but feel free to ask questions.

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              Nismo @HemiJJ
              last edited by Nismo

              @HemiJJ I don't see any space for marquees if somebody have them.... will be displayed on top of video (if video is on left side) or on top of gamelist (if gamelist it's on left side).

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                HemiJJ
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                Thanks @Nismo, I appreciate feedback from such a trusted source. With only personal preference in mind, I decided to not design for marquees in these themes. If I decide to spend some time cleaning up the code to a good publishing point, I will probably modify to allow for them.

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                  Nismo @HemiJJ
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                  @HemiJJ Then if you don't want to have problems, you'll need to place marquees out from the screen, to fix marquees overlays on top of other elements, because even if you don't use marquees code in your theme xml, marquees will be displayed if they exist.

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                    HemiJJ
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                    Thanks @Nismo

                    So add an image tag for md_marquee and set the pos to something like -.5 -.5?

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                      Nismo @HemiJJ
                      last edited by Nismo

                      @HemiJJ Yes, I think that should work.

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                      • mattrixkM
                        mattrixk @Nismo
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                        @Nismo Quick question: If you have a gamelist with <marquee> tags, but not <video> tags, which View will be used? Detailed or Video? If Detailed View is used, will "md_marquee" images be displayed?

                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                        • HurricaneFanH
                          HurricaneFan @mattrixk
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                          @mattrixk It appears to use Detailed view if there is no video tag, and it ignores the marquee tag altogether.

                          With Video tags:
                          0_1487805588744_snapshot-with-videos.png

                          Another gamelist with no video tag, but has image and marquee tags:
                          0_1487805640354_snapshot.png

                          It totally ignored my marquee and moved the image inside the box.

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                          • mattrixkM
                            mattrixk @HurricaneFan
                            last edited by

                            @HurricaneFan That's good to know. Cheers for that.

                            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                            • mattrixkM
                              mattrixk
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                              Another question for whoever want to answer:

                              What does anyone put in the <marquee> tag? Do you scrape logos? Screenshots? Box art? Or a MIX image of any/all of the above?

                              The way I have my new theme set up, I have screenshots scraped into the <image> tag so the <video> will use them when <showSnapshotNoVideo> or <showSnapshotDelay> are set to "true", and I have a MIX image with logo, boxart and cartridge scraped into the <marquee> tag to show around the Video.

                              This looks great with my MIX marquee, but if someone has a different marquee, it might not look that good.

                              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                              • HurricaneFanH
                                HurricaneFan @mattrixk
                                last edited by HurricaneFan

                                @mattrixk In my setup, marquees are the logo and image is the boxart. I've spent the better part of several weeks collecting logos, boxart and videos for every rom I have. Looks awesome once it is done but took me a really long time.

                                My understanding was the marquee would be like the wheel image in attract mode which was just the game logo.

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                                  Nismo @HurricaneFan
                                  last edited by Nismo

                                  @mattrixk I use them for logos on console and marquees for arcade.

                                  And yes, if no video tags detailed view will be used, but if you have almost only one video tag entry in a gamelist, video view will be used.

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                                  • mattrixkM
                                    mattrixk @HurricaneFan
                                    last edited by

                                    @HurricaneFan Hmm... I may have to have 2 chunks of code: One for anyone using my MIX images and one for people who just use the <marquee> tag for logos.

                                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                      A Former User
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                                      Ok, so I'm a little confused on how to add videos to this theme. Do I have to go into the code and change the <video> tag? Or is it different with RetroPie 4.2?

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                                        robertybob @A Former User
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                                        @itsnitro
                                        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6589/easy-way-to-add-video-and-marquees-tags-in-your-gamelist-for-video-support

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                                          adon767
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                                          So I'm having a issue where all my bos art are not the correct size. They are correct in other themes for it this one which I like it is not. Any ideas

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                                          • HurricaneFanH
                                            HurricaneFan @adon767
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                                            @adon767 Check the xml file to see if its using maxsize on the box art image tag.

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