Console Boxes Theme (WIP)
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@mattrixk said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
@SuperSirLink you might want to check your file extensions. One was png and other was jpg. That could be why it's not showing up.
Marquee only works in video view, not detailed view unfortunately.
It is definitely a png, the LS shows the file as it really does exist... I know the box art the scraper pulled was a jpg, but don't see that in the capture, maybe I am missing it though...
Okay, video view supports all the same tags as detailed though, yes? Can I tag all the views together like I did?
Edit... Nevermind, my test of replacing the static image was my typo of having the relative paths wrong... media folder was not in the same level as the theme.xml (duh) so ./media/ was never going to work...
Still doesn't explain why it was not filling in <marquee> tag is not populating... time to do more testing with other games...
Going to try and just replace the entire detailed view for video...
Where is there some documentation on what each tag does in video view?
What does
<feature supported="video">do? Is this just a global "enable"? -
@SuperSirLink said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
video view supports all the same tags as detailed though, yes? Can I tag all the views together like I did?
Yes, that should be fine. It's just video and marquee that Detailed View can't use, but Video View can use all of the Detailed View tags.
<feature supported="video">just means that if your version of ES supports video view, then use the code inside the<featured>tag. You can also use<feature supported="carousel">to avoid your Carousel code breaking older versions of ES that don't support it. -
Okay, thank @mattrixk looking at the basevid and carbon examples, that explains why it is in different locations...
Should I be able to use only the md_marquee tag? Doesn't matter what order I try, I can't get the marquee to work without adding a video tag set...
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okay, little more progress... I can get the marquee to display correctly as long as I have <video> tags in the gamelist and leave it blank between the tags...
Now I just have to get the overlay to draw on top of the marquee...
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@SuperSirLink said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
Now I just have to get the overlay to draw on top of the marquee...
I don't know if you can. I think the marquee has its z-index set to be on top of just about everything else, so I don't think you'll be able to add an image over the top of it.
I'm hoping someone adds
<zindex>as a viable property to all ES elements soon, but until that day we are stuck with what we have. -
@mattrixk said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
@SuperSirLink said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
Now I just have to get the overlay to draw on top of the marquee...
I don't know if you can. I think the marquee has its z-index set to be on top of just about everything else, so I don't think you'll be able to add an image over the top of it.
I'm hoping someone adds
<zindex>as a viable property to all ES elements soon, but until that day we are stuck with what we have.Ohh no... If I can't place an image on top of it, kinda kills where I was going with this theme... :(
According to the original themes.md readme, the order items are draw on screen are from top to bottom... That works for detailed view, I put the overlay at the bottom and it draws on top... But video view seems to be ignoring that...
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Think I have an idea of a work around until we can directly control images on the z axis... Does anyone know if the Universal XML scrapper will allow us to use a custom imported image?
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@SuperSirLink This is part of a tutorial for an older version of UXS, but it gives you an idea of what you can do with it:
You can add your own images, you can skew them, rotate them, merge them and cut pieces out of them.
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Thanks again @mattrixk !! Going to see if I can use the overlay frame and mix it with a screenshot as a work around for now...
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Just doesn't feel the same with out the overlay...
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I still love the way that looks honestly! Everything is so well spaced and presented.
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I totally Agree, It looks Perfect!! I cant wait for this theme, Its just what im looking for.
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I been holding off playing games just in preperation of this theme, can't wait to show my niece as she currently is in love with NES stuff.
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@duiz said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
I been holding off playing games just in preperation of this theme, can't wait to show my niece as she currently is in love with NES stuff.
No pressure! :P. I should have a beta version up for people to test with... Just polishing up a universal xml scraper profile to go with it...
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If you have question about creating a MIX profile ;) don't hesitate ;)
I can help ^^
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@SuperSirLink super excited to try out the beta!
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Okay updated the OP with the download link. Try it out and let me know how it works for you... Keep in mind this is only setup to theme NES right now... I will work on Atari2600 or SNES next once we know this is solid enough...
I also included the UXS profile and mix profile... (Use version 2.1.0.6 newer version breaks mixes) Not sure if it is a problem with my theme or just a requirement, but I had to have video files present to get the marquee image tag to work... I set the video delay to 999, if anyone knows away around that please point out my error...
If you don't use the UXS profiles, you just need to populate the marquee and video tags... I found the scraper by Steven Selph pulled more meta data, so I used UXS first to build the XML and do the marquee mix and video download. Then ran it through the SSS scraper to get what it missed...
Here is what it should look like after :
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The theme is amazing in nearly every way! Only issue I am having is that the video itself doesn't show, I hear the sound, but the static image remains. If I try to edit out the static image file context in the xml, it just shows a blank space and plays the video audio.
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After trying different settings and configurations, videos still do not show up in this theme unfortunately. The screenshots display fine, and the audio from the video plays, but not the video itself.
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I didn't test videos , only added the tags so that the marquee would work... I will take a look see if I get the same thing...
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