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    • HurricaneFanH
      HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
      last edited by

      @alphatoanant duiz brings up a good point on the gamelist width. If you don't have any metadata for a system, the gamelist width seems kinda small when games have longer names. I noticed it with some computer roms I'm testing in zspectrum. Their names are super long and the gamelist scrolls for every single game, even though the list could use so much more width of the screen.

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      • alphatoanantA
        alphatoanant @greekmanx
        last edited by

        @greekmanx, @HurricaneFan and @duiz while working on the 4x3 version I noticed I had missed updating the width of the gamelist on basic view so I just fixed that for the 16x9 version too.

        For detail/video view the width is intentional to give the image and metadata more room to display. I'll see what's possible to increase it a bit more.

        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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        • HurricaneFanH
          HurricaneFan @alphatoanant
          last edited by

          @alphatoanant Thank you! I'll update my pi today. Thanks for all of your hard work.

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            fynflood
            last edited by

            Love the look of these theme, thanks for all the work!

            When I install it (from esthemes or manually from git), mine looks weird... Rather than dark grey system logos, I have a grey bar across the screen with white system logos. Is that something you've seen before? HOpefully I explained it well enough.

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              gaavoid @fynflood
              last edited by

              @fynflood I think it's that way if you have it set to fade. Switch it to instant or slide.

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                Sashby
                last edited by Sashby

                @fynflood You need to update emulationstation.
                In emulationstation, go to Retropie > RetroPie Setup
                Once in, select Update RetroPie-Setup script and select yes to update it. Once that's done, you'll be back at the RetroPie Setup menu.
                Now select Manage packages, followed by Manage core packages, select emulationstation and finally Update from binary. Once that's done, either go back to the main menu and select Perform reboot or exit the setup script and press start > Reboot System from emulationstation.
                You can also choose to update emulationstation from source instead of binary but building from source takes longer and can sometimes come with issues that haven't been worked out yet. Binary install is usually the safe bet.

                https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie

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                  fynflood @Sashby
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                  @sashby said in [Theme] Art Book:

                  @fynflood You need to update emulationstation.
                  In emulationstation, go to Retropie > RetroPie Setup
                  Once in, select Update RetroPie-Setup script and select yes to update it. Once that's done, you'll be back at the RetroPie Setup menu.
                  Now select Manage packages, followed by Manage core packages, select emulationstation and finally Update from binary. Once that's done, either go back to the main menu and select Perform reboot or exit the setup script and press start > Reboot System from emulationstation.
                  You can also choose to update emulationstation from source instead of binary but building from source takes longer and can sometimes come with issues that haven't been worked out yet. Binary install is usually the safe bet.

                  https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie

                  There we go.. working great - and the videos are showing now as well. Thanks!

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                  • alphatoanantA
                    alphatoanant
                    last edited by

                    Thank you for the assist @Sashby and thank you for trying out the theme @fynflood!

                    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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                      Sashby
                      last edited by

                      So sorry guys. Selph Scraper doesn't work with .pbp files for PSX. Thats why it cut short in my screenshot. @alphatoanant your scraping command lines work perfectly otherwise. Sorry for wasting your time.

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                        Jaxel
                        last edited by

                        Is it possible to make it so that if a game doesn't find a related VIDEO to it, it instead shows a SCREENSHOT?

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                        • HurricaneFanH
                          HurricaneFan @Jaxel
                          last edited by

                          @jaxel I believe if you put an image in the video tag, you can do that in your gamelist.xml file. This will load instead of the static video.

                          example:
                          <video>./images/myimage.png</video>

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                          • alphatoanantA
                            alphatoanant @HurricaneFan
                            last edited by

                            @hurricanefan is spot on - that will work

                            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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                              Jaxel
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                              I like this theme! I think there are a few specific things that can be fixed though... I am using the 1920x1080 layout.

                              1 - The meta data area seems truncated for some reason. If a game has multiple "genres", it gets cut off with an ellipsis, even though there is plenty of space to show more text.

                              2 - Three to four lines of text for the game description seems a bit small. It will scroll on every game. Maybe some of the elements can be shifted around to give more space for the description? Move the "launch" and "favorite" text to the bottom middle of the screen? (and move the "random" text down to be in line with them). The "ratings" stars could probably be moved too.

                              3 - The panel on the right with the list of games is very thin. Pretty much every game title is going to get truncated.

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                                Jaxel
                                last edited by

                                Okay, here is a screenshot of the slight changes I made:

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                                You'll notice I make more use of the "negative space" in the theme... without making it seem cluttered.

                                • Moved the console logo up 0.10

                                • Moved the random button down 0.10

                                • Increased the height of the game list 0.20

                                • Moved the "launch" and "favorite" buttons to the same level as the "random" button, and centered them in the grey area.

                                • Doubled the length of the meta-data fields (it used to say "Shoot`em Up / Li...")

                                • Slightly decreased the font of the meta-data description, and greatly increased the height of the field.

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                                • greekmanxG
                                  greekmanx @Jaxel
                                  last edited by greekmanx

                                  @jaxel i really like those changes looks good just make gamelist wider and I am happy

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                                  • GraphicsgodG
                                    Graphicsgod @alphatoanant
                                    last edited by

                                    @alphatoanant

                                    Wow I was just thinking of doing a layout like this!!

                                    If you need help with the artwork and ideas, hit me up bro!!

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                                    • GraphicsgodG
                                      Graphicsgod @Graphicsgod
                                      last edited by Graphicsgod

                                      I'll try to whip up some concept images tonight after I get off work. And if you like it, maybe we can work together on this..

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                                        msheehan79 @HurricaneFan
                                        last edited by msheehan79

                                        @hurricanefan @alphatoanant

                                        "I believe if you put an image in the video tag, you can do that in your gamelist.xml file. This will load instead of the static video.

                                        example:
                                        <video>./images/myimage.png</video>"

                                        Did you guys successfully get this method to work? I tried putting an image in the video tag and it didn't render for me.

                                        My ideal scenario is a theme that can display the wheel/logo, boxart and instead of a video just a screenshot image but could never get it to work and was under the impression ES doesn't support this. It would be awesome if it does work and I just missed something.

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                                          Jaxel
                                          last edited by

                                          I've made some more changes...

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                                          In addition to the changes I mentioned in my post above... I made the right panel bigger, with smaller text.

                                          Then I went for some uniformity in the default and landscape layouts. As well, to fill up the extra space in the default layout, I added marquees below the meta data.

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                                          • GraphicsgodG
                                            Graphicsgod @Graphicsgod
                                            last edited by

                                            @graphicsgod

                                            Ok Heres something I came up with that explains the idea I had in mind..

                                            System List
                                            0_1505467889477_Coffee-Table-Book-Theme_System-List_v1.jpg

                                            Game List
                                            0_1505467906207_Coffee-Table-Book-Theme_Game-List_v1.jpg

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