[Theme] Art Book
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Hi,
I've signed up purely to say how much I love this theme. Please don't add colour or controllers or screenshots or any of that to the system menu; there are plenty of other themes that have that all over them, and I cannot stand most of them. What you have created here is something beautiful in it's elegance. It makes me actually WANT to use emulationstation. That's a genuine statement.
Everything about it - the clean logos, the box art/video slight overlap, the font choice, the button help... I adore it.
If you do go down the road of adding colours and filler to the system menu, would you consider keeping this one as clean as it is now? I would be gutted if you followed half of the suggestions here (no offence meant to those suggesting, we've all got our own likes and dislikes).
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How to Scrape HD images? in my TV the images screaped are in low graphics.
Another question: Square videos like GBC, is there a solution for black bars in the sides?
Thanks for this amazing work!! :)
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@jul1xxx depending on how many games you have scraped higher resolution images and video are hard for the pi to handle and you may have performance issues when in the gamelist. Most users actually reduce video sizes due to this.
You can reformat video sizes in a program like handbrake. That program allows you to resize and format.
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I had a chance to set up Game & Watch today and am really enjoying it. The implementation of lr-gw is awesome and very easy to get running.
It also gave me a chance to check out how it would look in the theme and work out the command for selph's scraper to get things looking clean.
Here is what it ends up looking like:
To get this look:
- make sure you have selph's scraper installed (see: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Scraper/)
- from the command line navigate to the gameandwatch roms folder
cd RetroPie/roms/gameandwatch- and run this command
/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -console_src=ss -console_img=clabel,b,s -img_format=png -max_height=540 -max_width=505 -image_dir=media -image_path=media- These settings make sure the scraper uses Screenscraper as a metadata source and prioritizes downloading Label images (clabel) which is how the system images are catalogued there
I added these details to my github readme (in addition to scraping options for other systems). Hope you find them helpful!
Thank you all for your feedback on genre icons. Are there any others that you would find useful (like "platformer", "puzzle")?
@DeadlyEdna thank you. The system view design as it looks now is what I was originally shooting for and I am very happy with it as well (and amped to know you and others are digging its simplicity).
I noted a few posts back that one of the principles I am following for this theme is "can I leave this on a tv in a room and not have it feel out of place, does it feel subtle, not overwhelming".
So if I do work on a variant design I will be checking it against that principle at each step - I have left a few ideas on the floor so far because of it =)
All that said I am focusing on custom system logos now so its not likely I am going to get to trying out other ideas for system view for a while
If I come up with something interesting my plans are:
- This theme and its design would remain as is
- and I would release the new design xml here for users to manually change by hand or release a variant (new name/github repo)
I hope that helps and I again I very much appreciate your thoughts on this. Thank you for joining the forums and helping out.
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Amazing theme, i love the layout! Quick question about the scraper settings -- i'm looking at the example command line you provide for consoles and was wondering if you are running that command line in each rom dir separately or just the roms (parent) dir?
When i run it in the roms dir it creates the \roms\media dir but i would prefer to have the media for each system in its own directory. Just curious if i'm missing something obvious before i go and run it multiple times in each systems directory. Thanks again for the great theme and all of the platforms you've added support for!
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@incunabula You run it inside of the system you want to scrape. so if its arcade roms, you have to go inside the arcade roms folder before you run the command.
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@incunabula yes you run the commands in each system's rom folder individually (example: run it in RetroPie/roms/nes). I'll update the readme with those details - thanks for catching that and asking.
I am wondering if there is a way to run it from /roms and still have it create the /media folder in each system's rom folder. Will see what I can find.
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 -
@alphatoanant I just threw on a Nintendo DS rom onto my system to run a test and I noticed the Nintendo DS logo looks super tiny compared to all your other logos. Any chance you can take a look at that?
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@hurricanefan totally - will check this evening. By chance have you updated the theme recently? (I made a bunch of changes last night and wanted to see if thats what caused it)
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 -
FYI, same issue with the SG-1000 logo. I updated the theme yesterday, btw.
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@incunabula well that sorts it =) I think I know what I messed up.
Will do a scrub through tonight and fix.
Sorry for the mix up and thank you for catching it.
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@alphatoanant I did update your theme last night cause I noticed you made updates to your GitHub.
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@hurricanefan sorry man - I should have tested more before the final commit. I have a plan tonight on how to fix.
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@HurricaneFan and @incunabula NintendoDS and SG-1000 logos look to be fixed now.
What happened?... This came up as I was making changes to each logo to make sure they worked well with the launchingimages script.
Whats next?... I am scrubbing each logo though to make sure all others are ok. Should have that done by tomorrow but if you see any others that before then please let me know.
Benefit of the work is that launching images generated from the script will match the theme well and not be blurry =)
side note: it looks like after you get latest from github you have to make sure to restart ES to get the logos to recognize their new size
Thank you for your help on this.
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 -
@alphatoanant updated the theme and it looks good on my end. Thank you!
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DS and SG-1000 look great, thanks. I just noticed that the colecovision logo isn't showing up even though it's on your list of supported systems - and if you wanted to add Dragon32 and TI-99 4/A to your list of supported platforms (they both have carbon logos) i would be very appreciative. I didn't see that poll that was done a few months back but I like messing with the obscure systems that are supported. Don't worry about it if it takes more than a few minutes; i'm not sure how many others would make use of it. :)
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Hello,
Thanks for your awesome theme.
I've managed to scrape the infos/images like you explained on Git, but I don't have a so nice cover like you, I found them quite ... pixelated ? (sorry I'm French I don't know the word). It's kinda blurry, not as clear and nice as yours on your screenshots. Do you have any ideas ?
I'm on a Raspberry Pi3, 1080p screen.
Thanks in advance -
Updates 8/11/17
- finished logo cleanup - for real this time =)
optimized each SVG to remove extra cruft and hopefully help them render more universally - that work allowed better support for the launching images script that @meleu created (see: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7193/runcommand-launching-images-for-any-theme)
with the logo updates the generated images look a lot better now - added themes for ti99 and dragon32 (heads up @incunabula)
- fixed colecovision theme (I had the folder named incorrectly)
For launching images you can leave all settings as default except "solid_bg_color"
For that setting change it to "get from theme" (aka "Use the system color defined by the theme"). Hope you like it and let me know how it looks.
@adu I have been experimenting a bit with getting better looking images but have more work to do on that front (and yes pixelated is good word to describe what you are seeing). For the screenshots above I had manually curated a few of them in PNG format which is why they look a bit sharper.
An option to try for now is to add a flag of -img_format=png to the strings I have on github. That may help get sharper images without manually having to curate them by hand.
The command I am using also downloads image resolutions more optimized for a 1280x720 screen so changing the sizes there could help - I'll try to play with that next and write back my findings. Just keep in mind that larger filesizes on images (which would occur from using pngs and larger resolution) could start to add lag to the interface. I'll experiment more.
Thank you for checking out the theme!
- finished logo cleanup - for real this time =)
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@alphatoanant Thank you, i really appreciate the effort!
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Any chance you could add Sega Saturn and SNES MSU1 to this theme?
There is a svg of MSU1 here
http://zork.net/~st/msu1-attempt-2.svg
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