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    • DominusD
      Dominus @alphatoanant
      last edited by

      @alphatoanant THANKS! That worked perfectly!

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      • alphatoanantA
        alphatoanant
        last edited by alphatoanant

        Updates 4/30/2017:

        • Fixed box art scaling issue on video view
        • Added 4x3 layout option
        • Added display of genre and release date metadata
        • Increased the logo size a small amount
        • Added backward compatibility check for older versions of retropie without video support

        Preview:

        4x3 Layout
        Basic View

        Video View
        Video View

        Detailed View
        Detailed View

        Notes:

        4x3 Layout

        • thanks to help from @mattrixk and his IO theme a 4x3 layout option is available now
        • To use it you will need to edit the root theme.xml and change
        <include>./_inc/templates/16x9.xml</include>
        

        to

        <include>./_inc/templates/4x3.xml</include>
        

        Box Art Scaling Bug

        • The latest version of ES video tag supports maxSize for sizing the video
        • The introduction of this caused a bug in the theme as I was using an old static sizing approach and it conflicted with the maxSize values I was using for the box art
        • This new version fixes that issue by updating the theme to use maxSize for the video tag
        • make sure you are on the latest version of ES (4.2 or above)

        Display of Genre and Release Date metadata

        • I had been thinking of ways to add in genre and release date metadata based on comments in the thread and I think I found a way to display them while keeping the same clean layout
        • Please let me know what you think

        Up Next?

        • Will try to test z-index support from @jdrassa in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9785/z-index-support-for-themes (thinking this will help me add an image that sits underneath the video to fill the CRT frame for videos that don't fill the frame completely)
        • Start playing with marquee placement
        • Grid View possibly?

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

        Please let me know what you think, thank you!

        My RetroPie Themes:
        Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
        Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
        TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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        • alphatoanantA
          alphatoanant
          last edited by

          CRT and CRT Centered can be installed directly from the ES Themes menu within retropie now (just make sure you are on the latest version of the setup script)

          My RetroPie Themes:
          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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            KillerQ @alphatoanant
            last edited by

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

            CRT and CRT Centered can be installed directly from the ES Themes menu within retropie now (just make sure you are on the latest version of the setup script)

            Oh, fancy! Congrats!

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            • alphatoanantA
              alphatoanant
              last edited by

              Updates 5/3/2017:

              • Updated CRT Bezel images from PNG to SVG to help with clean scaling on different resolutions
              • Added future support for z-index layering being discussed in this thread - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9785/z-index-support-for-themes

              Up Next?

              • Work on marquee placement
              • Carousel Theming
              • Grid View possibly?

              My RetroPie Themes:
              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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              • ?
                A Former User
                last edited by

                Carousel theming!

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                • alphatoanantA
                  alphatoanant
                  last edited by

                  Updates 5/14/2017:

                  • Added display of marquee
                  • Cleaned up layout of metadata
                  • Added basic styling of carousel

                  My RetroPie Themes:
                  Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                  Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                  TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                    lolo
                    last edited by lolo

                    Hi great theme.
                    Can you make the crt-bezel.svg file in tate (vertical) mode.
                    I exported the file in png with Inkscape program to rotate it but I can't do it properly with the svg format.
                    0_1495227388024_crt-bezel.png

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                    • alphatoanantA
                      alphatoanant @lolo
                      last edited by

                      @lolo totally

                      I just pushed an update to github with svgs for the bezel (crt-bezel-tate.svg) and the screen (crt-screen-tate.svg)

                      You can find them both in the /_inc/images directory now

                      Hope that helps!

                      My RetroPie Themes:
                      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                        lolo @alphatoanant
                        last edited by

                        @alphatoanant Great, many thanks!

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                        • alphatoanantA
                          alphatoanant
                          last edited by alphatoanant

                          Updates 5/21/2017:

                          • Finishing up UXS profiles to streamline metadata scraping
                          • Starting to experiment with grid view layouts. Here is a preview...

                          With Metadata
                          alt text

                          No Metadata
                          alt text

                          What do you think?

                          My RetroPie Themes:
                          Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                          Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                          TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                          • DominusD
                            Dominus @alphatoanant
                            last edited by

                            @alphatoanant Wow that looks awesome too. Can Wheel art be used instead of boxes?

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                            • alphatoanantA
                              alphatoanant
                              last edited by

                              Experimenting with Grid Layouts a bit more

                              Using Screenshots instead of Boxart
                              alt text

                              No Meta Version
                              alt text

                              @Dominus thinking something like this?
                              alt text
                              I think it would be possible as long as the image scraped for each game is the wheel art (vs say the screenshot or boxart)

                              Main thing I am running into now is getting a version of grid view ES set up on windows to test with. Hoping to sort that out soon.

                              My RetroPie Themes:
                              Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                              Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                              TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                              • darkniorD
                                darknior
                                last edited by

                                Woaw really cool idea if it is possible to have this new view :)

                                Life is game, just play it !

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                                  numotiv
                                  last edited by

                                  I was really set on using the nes mini theme on my snes classic build. This theme is just too good though.... especially now that I sourced out a crt tv to play on. Really good job on it!

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                                  • DominusD
                                    Dominus @alphatoanant
                                    last edited by

                                    @alphatoanant Yeah like that. I am also wondering about Videos? Can you use videos, and the one that is highlighted will have the sound on that video?

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                                    • alphatoanantA
                                      alphatoanant @Dominus
                                      last edited by

                                      @Dominus I don't believe so. From what I understand gridview does not support the playback of video.

                                      My RetroPie Themes:
                                      Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                      Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                      TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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                                      • hoodleH
                                        hoodle
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi there, wondering if anyone can help? I have a gamelist set up for all consoles, and know it works as the OldRoom theme shows video previews correctly, but within the CRT theme, the audio from the video snap plays, but there is no video being displayed? Any ideas? Thanks.

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                                        • pjftP
                                          pjft @hoodle
                                          last edited by

                                          @hoodle you might want to start a separate topic, but yesterday there was a similar report.

                                          It might be video encoding, resolution, or you may need to update EmulationStation. I believe the last one solved it in that case.

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                                          • alphatoanantA
                                            alphatoanant @pjft
                                            last edited by

                                            thank you @pjft

                                            @hoodle here is the thread with the details on what to try (possibly a need to update emulationstation)
                                            https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11445/video-preview-sound-but-no-image

                                            If that doesn't work out just let me know and i'll try to help further no worries

                                            My RetroPie Themes:
                                            Art Book https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-art-book
                                            Art Book Next https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie
                                            TFT https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-tft

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