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    • mattrixkM
      mattrixk @jdrassa
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      @jdrassa said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:

      How would you want volume control to work? Would you just want the ability to mute the sound or variable control?

      Could it work as a scale? Like <volume>0</volume> would be no sound, <volume>5</volume> would be the full volume of the file?

      Speaking of sound, would it be possible to add other sounds to ES? I think currently there is only the gamelist cycle sound, but there could be a sound for switching Systems, or one for when you start a game. I'm sure other people could think of more.

      Maybe even as a "view" like this:

      <view name="sounds">
        <sound name="cycle_system">
          <path>./sounds/system.wav</path>
          <volume>3</volume>
        </sound>
        <sound name="cycle_gamelist_down">
          <path>./sounds/gamelist_down.wav</path>
          <volume>2</volume>
        </sound>
        <sound name="cycle_gamelist_up">
          <path>./sounds/gamelist_up.wav</path>
          <volume>2</volume>
        </sound>
        <sound name="open_game">
          <path>./sounds/game.wav</path>
          <volume>5</volume>
        </sound>
      </view>
      

      I don't really know why I'm mentioning this, as I don't use sounds, and it would just be making more work for myself to implement them, but I just all of a sudden got really curious if it could be done.

      My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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        robertybob @Rookervik
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        @Rookervik said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:

        That's a massive amount of space to take up on your SD card. Fine if you have 20 games per system. Not for collectors like me.

        There are 128gb cards so for the vast majority of users I bet it's not an issue - hell, that famous Attract / Retropie image that went around the Internet was 128gb and had all artwork and videos for the tens of thousands of roms it claimed to contain.

        I don't like how you can't control the volume of the playback

        Surely they're the same volume is the games themselves??

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        • ruckageR
          ruckage @jdrassa
          last edited by

          @jdrassa said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:

          @mattrixk the <feature> element was specifically implemented the way it is to ensure compatibility with earlier versions of ES. It is essentially invisible to older versions. (credit @fieldofcows for the great idea)

          Hi, is there any info I can read regarding the use of the <feature> element? I'm currently working on adding video support to my themes but want to ensure they are still compatible with older versions of ES.

          SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

          If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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            Nismo @ruckage
            last edited by Nismo

            @ruckage

            <feature supported="video">
              [configuration if ES supports video]
            </feature>
            
            <feature supported="grid">
              [configuration if ES supports grid]
            </feature>
            

            Example:

            <feature supported="video">
            
                <view name="video">	
            	  <image name="md_marquee">
            			<origin>0 0</origin>
            			<pos>0.800 0.01</pos>
            			<maxSize>0.19 0.10</maxSize>
            	  </image>
            	  
            	  <video name="md_video">
            			<pos>0.254 0.202</pos>
            			<origin>0 0</origin>
            			<size>0.185 0.327</size>
            			<delay>0.0</delay>
            			<default>./assets/static.mp4</default>
            			<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
            			<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
            	  </video>
            	  
            	</view>
               </feature>
            
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            • ruckageR
              ruckage @Nismo
              last edited by

              @Nismo
              Thanks.

              So if I use this then older versions should just ignore anything within the <feature> tags?
              I'll give it a try and see how it goes.

              SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

              If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                Nismo @ruckage
                last edited by

                @ruckage That's the idea, but I didn't test it yet.

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                  Nismo @mattrixk
                  last edited by Nismo

                  @mattrixk @fieldofcows already implemented cycle system sounds lot of months ago, it's working in my windows build:

                  Example for sound when switching between systems:

                  <view name="system">
                  	
                       <sound name="systemSound">
                           <path>./art/systemsound.wav</path>
                       </sound>
                  </view>
                  

                  It was a request I did to @fieldofcows lot of months ago, before video view was implemented in the main branch, it's working for me in windows, you can see it working in one of my videos here:

                  I don't know if it's working in the main branch (unfortunately I don't have a raspberry pi), because he removed a lot of features to add only video support to the main branch, but you can test it because it doesn't break the theme . My theme have that code and the sounds works in windows and nobody told me the theme it's broken in their rpi.

                  The code it's done and working very good, only that he removed some features for better testing if video implementation on main branch could cause bugs, don't need to worry about other commits.

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                    jdrassa @mattrixk
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                    @mattrixk it could work as a scale, but I am not sure that it should be something set in the theme. It should probably be a system setting. That way users can adjust to their personal preference.

                    Its certainly possible to add additional sounds, but I am unsure of the details.

                    Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                    • ruckageR
                      ruckage @jdrassa
                      last edited by ruckage

                      @jdrassa said in MetaPixel - A New Emulationstation Theme:

                      @mattrixk it could work as a scale, but I am not sure that it should be something set in the theme. It should probably be a system setting. That way users can adjust to their personal preference.

                      Its certainly possible to add additional sounds, but I am unsure of the details.

                      I agree. The end user should have control over video volume, not the theme designer, so a video volume setting in the options menu would be ideal.

                      SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                      If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                      • mattrixkM
                        mattrixk @jdrassa
                        last edited by

                        @jdrassa ahh yes, it makes much more sense as a system setting. I didn't even consider that.

                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                        • mattrixkM
                          mattrixk
                          last edited by

                          Just a quick note...

                          *ahem*

                          MetaPixel now supports Video Previews!

                          Thank you for your time.

                          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                          • SuperFromNDS
                            SuperFromND
                            last edited by SuperFromND

                            Really neat theme, Matt! Probably my favorite theme I've seen on RetroPie.

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