[New Theme] - Indent. Supports Video Preview and Custom Carousel

fnkngrv

very nice and can tell you put a lot of time into it. I am just now getting into the theme scene and my biggest curiosity is with the ability to manipulate the carousel, but it has me stumped. Maybe my problem is that I am using the tooolkit and vers 1.5.7 of it doesn't support it?

mattrixk

@fnkngrv If you get the v1.1 release of the Toolkit, the version of ES contained within should work with Custom Carousels without issue. If you have a look at the BaseVid theme, it was created to give an example of Custom Carousels and Video Previews.

fnkngrv

So an older version of the toolkit has newer features to play with and test??

mattrixk

Sorry @fnkngrv, but I'm not really sure I understand what you are asking. If you look in the releases page of the Toolkit, you'll see there are only 2 releases. The original release (v1.0) is just a bunch of fake roms with scraped images and gamelists, and a couple of extra bits, but no ES.

The main release (v1.1) is the full Toolkit that includes a version of ES built by @jdrassa that supports both Video Previews and Custom Carousels.

I don't know what you mean when you mention "vers 1.5.7", as the Toolkit has never had that version number.

AlexMurphy

@mattrixk Just saw this. Thank you very much. It's a very popular system, often overlooked. I appreciate you taking my request on board. Cheers.

mattrixk

@AlexMurphy No worries. If you have anything else you want let me know. I make no promises on time frame, but it's not too hard to do one or two here or there.

fnkngrv

@mattrixk said in [New Theme] - Indent. Supports Video Preview and Custom Carousel:

Sorry @fnkngrv, but I'm not really sure I understand what you are asking. If you look in the releases page of the Toolkit, you'll see there are only 2 releases. The original release (v1.0) is just a bunch of fake roms with scraped images and gamelists, and a couple of extra bits, but no ES.

The main release (v1.1) is the full Toolkit that includes a version of ES built by @jdrassa that supports both Video Previews and Custom Carousels.

I don't know what you mean when you mention "vers 1.5.7", as the Toolkit has never had that version number.

gotcha....I got myself confused with Herb's Portable ES package.

fnkngrv

@mattrixk said in [New Theme] - Indent. Supports Video Preview and Custom Carousel:

@fnkngrv If you get the v1.1 release of the Toolkit, the version of ES contained within should work with Custom Carousels without issue. If you have a look at the BaseVid theme, it was created to give an example of Custom Carousels and Video Previews.

Is there a dedicated thread for the toolkit or no? Not having much luck being able to tell and have a couple questions, but don't want to continue to hi-jack this thread.

mattrixk

@fnkngrv No worries mate, I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

There are two threads for the Toolkit; the original thread and the updated thread that I made after working with Herb Fargus to upgrade the Toolkit. Have a read through both and if you have any questions, you can ask them in the updated thread.

nemo93

hi @mattrixk !! Another fantastic theme. To me it has the perfect balance between metadata, images and presentation. Exactly what I was looking for! I just finished my collection of gamelist.xml files (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10762/complete-gamelist-xml-for-popular-systems-covers-challenge-accepted) hence your theme is the perfect fit. Yet if you don't mind I'd like to share some feedbacks with you?

missing Amiga theme :)
I'd like to have one background color for every system instead of one color per system
to have the logos instead of text for each system like on the Carbon theme would be awesome
any chance to have the description text "justified" in some way?
to have the rating star in another bright color (ie. yellow)
don't take this one personally but I don't like the system image for Scumm, it's just a PC if I'm correct instead of the famous tentacle on Carbon! I miss it :)

Thanks for this fantastic theme once again. I'm wondering why it's not included within Retropie by the way... Thanks for listening!

Omnija

Awesome theme, out of curiosity i was wondering if you take requests?
If you do could you make...

CP System (Capcom)
MSX
Wonderswan/colour

Also Sega32x and NeoGeo Pocket doesn't fit very well.

http://imgur.com/TcATR1Y
http://imgur.com/8dP8pAi

EctoOne

I finally had some time to update my Pi and took a look at your theme. While i do like the overall look, i have to say that i find the systemcarousel sometimes a little unreadable when the background has a darker color. Like PSP is just a pile of grey.
I also noticed the problem with Sega32x, when it's selected in the systemview it doesn't fit in the carousel anymore.
Anyways, i have some requests aswell. I would like to have Amiga and ResidualVM added when you have some time.

mattrixk

@nemo93: Thanks for the support. Feedback always welcome (as long as it's constructive).

It's now on the to-do list.
This can be done by removing lines 9 and 25 from each theme.xml file within the system folders. You can then set a single colour on lines 18 and 277 of indent.xml.
That's on the to-do list for v2.0.
Add <alignment>center</center> to <text name="md_description"> in indent.xml. You may need to play with <pos> or <size> to get it looking right.
That's on the to-do list for v2.0.
I'm a big fan of Purple, so I'll add this to the to-do list.
It's not included in RetroPie because no-one has added it yet. I don't know how, and don't want to mess it up.

@Omnija: I do take requests and those systems have been added to the to-do list. Also, thanks for pointing out the logo sizing issues, I'll have to fix that.

@EctoOne: Amiga and ResidualVM added to the to-do list. I didn't really have the ability to test the colours for every system, so thanks for pointing that out. I tried to match the background colours to the ones found on the console itself, but the PSP is just black, so I went for a grey colour. I'll fix it up.

I'm currently working on some personal stuff (rom, gamelist and media sorting mainly), and I have some major(ish) updates that I need to do to the Toolkit, so I make no guarantees about when any of this gets done, but I'll try to chip away at it when I get the chance.

nemo93

Thanks @mattrixk much appreciated and really helpful. I'm a bit struggling with my schedule these days but I'll intend to play around with the tags you've mentioned. By the way, I didn't pay attention thus far but your theme is supporting PC-Engine and PC Engine CD (aka TGE/TGECD) and I was curious to know how to have a separate entry for PCECD as it's something I'm looking for quite some time now. Did I miss reading a doc or a post somewhere on how to do so? Any hint would be again much appreciated.

Anyway thanks again for the amount of work here.

badhaloninja

Could you please add support for Löve2D?
I also love this theme so far!

mattrixk

Thanks @badhaloninja, I'll add it to the To-Do list. As mentioned above, I'm working on v3 of the Toolkit at the moment, but I'll hopefully be done with that soon.