Nevermind... Figured out i can do negative zIndexs on the images to put them below everything else.

@__Scannigan__ I think marquee sits at the top of the pile, but I'm not 100% sure if there isn't something else above it.

Has there been any progress on this? I'm also interested in having video in the system view.

@duiz I would suspect the latest build of the main branch would support it. If not, I believe @jdrassa had some Windows builds he was sharing - I'd search for EmulationStation Windows builds in the forums.

My latest code would be here:

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/tree/ES-OMX-Master-Merged-Stable

If anyone wants to compile it, though the only new things it has is screensaver support and filtering. The OMX Player changes are not relevant to Windows. In fact, I can't promise it'll compile for Windows as I never attempted it, though I tried to keep things tidy so that it would.

Amazing theme, @SuperSirLink . I'm looking forward for it!

Do you mind if I give a few sugestions?
1- puting the carrousel on the bottom or on the top of the screen, so the console image is not covered.
2- make the Arcade systems (FBA, MAME) with an arcade machine theme on the Game Selection screen.

Anyway, great theme! I can't wait for it!

@kbronctjr If the carousel view is not being themed, you should update the retropie update scripts, then in the package manager, update emulationstation from source, not binaries. After that the carousel should be properly themed.

@matchaman I have some holidays coming up over Easter, so I should hopefully be able to find some time to update the Create Your Own Theme tutorial to include video previews (among other things like the Carousel mod, folders and the <include> tag).

@j.e.f.f Yup, or change to european date format dd/mm/yy and maybe show only the year of release.

@jwcbronski Thanks.

It was effectively a very ad hoc trial and error approach to coming up with something that would be similar, as they use drastically different volume ranges and settings.

I hope this one works best. Feel free to keep using this version of ES for the time being, and whenever this gets merged to the stable branch you can use it.

Thanks!

@FlavioBello11

The size depends in how many quality / filesize you want. Emulationstation will scale the image to fit screen so you can use any resolution you like.

If you want to make a theme for 16:9 screen then do your bacground at a 16:9 resolution, and if you want to make your theme for 4:3 screens then use a 4:3 resolution.

List of common resolutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

I recommend to you 1920x1080 or 1280x720 for 16:9 and 1024x768 or 800x600 for 4:3.

Regards.

@straughton if everything is up to date and you also updated the carbon theme, something in your game list does not match. Is the M in .mp4 real capitalized in your file type? I am not at my computer or pi, but I believe .mp4 is usually all lower case. Check to be sure the file path and name match perfectly including capitals. I also believe that in mine, my path is simply ./downloads/crazy taxi.mp4
The game list should pull from location the .XML is located, so if your game list is in the same folder as your download folder, you don't need the full path.

@NastyButtler322 not quite. To the best of my recollection from reading through that code for quite a while a few months ago, what's implemented in ES is a setting that sets a threshold of memory.

When that threshold is crossed, it will explicitly unload textures from memory in order to load new ones. I'm not sure it's as much VRAM in the normal sense of the word as it is a ES texture memory manager, though I can't say for sure as I didn't implement it.

That's why I have a suspicion that keeping it to high is as bad as having it too low, though I haven't been able to get anyone to test that. Too low means it won't have enough memory reserved to render all it needs to. Too high (I believe) will result in white screens if your Pi runs out of memory before the threshold is hit, as it won't unload textures to load new ones.

Edit: see VRAM mention here:

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/blob/master/es-core/src/resources/TextureDataManager.cpp

The method to unload VRAM just deletes the texture from the GL texture manager. The method to remove from RAM deletes the actual texture data from memory.

https://github.com/pjft/EmulationStation/blob/master/es-core/src/resources/TextureData.cpp

Currently on retropie, yes as far as I know those are all.

Discovered this theme a few weeks ago...amazing!! I am having one small issue, I cannot get the controllers for Atari Games (800, 2600, 5200, 7800) to appear. I've ensured the images are in the etc.../..art folder for the appropriate platform and set the controller extra flag to true. It's working for all my other platforms.

Any ideas?
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Yeah bro, is what I did, thanks

I believe it is on his GitHub page.
Edit: I found Space 2.0, but not the first one. The link at the top is invalid (as of September 2017).
Here is where you can download it.
@robertybob I suggest you update this on the post at the top if you can.

@udb23 Thanks!

Looks cool I'll have to check it out, the real feat would be to do this for every system based on the most popular game ;)

Your patience with me goes a long way - sometimes people don't have the time to explain in simple terms to someone a little technically challenged like myself.