I would definitely like to see this option come to EmulationStation, since I have several items I would want to move out of ports into their own separate items on the carousel.

Theme is coming along nicely now. I intend to do a series (I got another 4 weeks minimum of furlough) of themes, based on hit SyFy channel TV programmes, starting with Warehouse 13.
I am doing 1 system at a time and testing it, having different characters and artifacts for the system screen, and basic screen, with a warehouse type tag for each.
So each one will look a bit like this;

SYSTEM Screen
system screen.jpg

BASIC Screen
basic screen.jpg

However, I am having issues with the Detailed/Video Screen. I have this so far;

Detailed screen.jpg

But what I want, is just to incorporate a screen shot of the scraped game, then a video snap of the game, but I want it so that it is in the "screen" of the following image. I am happy where the gameslist is, as I wanted it in the lid of the farnsworth (fans will know what I mean)also with the positioning of the other Meta data and the console. This is the image.
farnsworthjpg.jpg

Is there anyway of manipulating the scraped image so they appear in the round window. I have tried most things, but don't know how to display only screenshots and videos, and discount the marquees and the boxart. With the one I have I was able to make it fit by making the screen square.

As always, any help very much appreciated.

@hhromic thanks!

So, you can't have transitions if you want to see the number of games instantly...

I didn't realize that!

@jdrassa Thank you for the clarification! Merry Christmas!

@mitu Thanks for that tip. That was eventually what was bugging me. So... The theme is already on it way to being made :P.

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@mitu Thanks for the tip. I don't need the missing function to start into a custom collection myself, but maybe its helpful for @Maddocks.

It asked me to create a new thread but rather than that I think it's better to include the original to show how long we have been patiently waiting for this beautiful feature that will make retropie so much sexier. I believe it is possible considering batocera uses a version of emulationstation and some themes utilize the wheel in gamelist. I personally love the customization of retropie more though so always come back but please can someone figure out how they did it and merge this coolness into retropie. Thank you all so much.

@battaglia01

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation

@a12c4 Ok I'll try this. Thank You!

@matchaman if you have your theme up on GitHub or have codeblocks/screenshots showing examples of what you're trying it might be easier for others to help troubleshoot

We could improve on this:
Press UP to go to the Quit menu.
You know, wrapped-around menus?!?

@frgn It currently is not possible.

Was the color/transparency selection for the selected/unselected elements of the carousel implemented in the end?

Regards

@lilbud said in Is a text carousel possible?:

@jdrassa I'm not sure if this was you or not, but someone on this forum had the idea to allow the changing of the carousels origin. So the selected logo could be in the center, or to the left of the screen.

Do you know who had the idea?

It wasn't my idea, but I am working on it.

@lilbud said in Is a text carousel possible?:

@meleu I think those are images of text, which is sadly not what I'm after. I'm looking to make something along the lines of this. Where the carousel is all text, no images, and it is a different font for the selected one as compared to the non-selected systems

@meleu is correct. The "favorites" and "last played" all rendered as text in carbon. They are not images. You can now set the font and color that the text is rendered, but you can not specify a different font for the selected one.

@jdrassa Sweet. I'm in the middle of custom creating my PSP and PSX gamelists and mix images (scraping them has been unsatisfactory, so I'm getting images and data from half a dozen different sources and putting them together). It's time consuming, but once I'm done I'll be able to get back into RetroPie stuff.