[Theme] gameOS for Pegasus
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@PlayingKarrde
I've updated pegasus and some themes today and looks like gameOS v0.5 works with the latest dev release but of course it still doesn't pick up my images as previews. -
@5schatten Yep didn't expect it would. I'll download UXS now and try and see what is going on.
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So I've taken a look into it but I can't seem to find any reason it isn't working other than what has already been stated above. UXS has limited items it can download it seems and you can change what those are. My theme uses the Pegasus metadata as standard. As I said above it uses the logo first, then uses text if it can't find it. The background for the thumbnails uses the screenshot and will play the video if it exists and is highlighted. I can't really add specific fallback options for metadata coming from UXS since I use Pegasus for getting the metadata and am already using all the possible fallbacks there.
I really think the issue is using UXS since it won't allow you to use all the metadata required for this theme (you can download them but you will have to replace something else that is also required). @fluffypillow mentioned it in this post.
Ultimately, this theme requires more metadata to work than the other themes for Pegasus. It's unfortunate that other scrapers don't use more information as standard but it is what it is. So unfortunately I think if you want to use this theme you'll need to follow the steps I outline in the Metadata section in the original post. Sorry about that.
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@5schatten said in [Theme] gameOS for Pegasus:
Your theme runs fine too beside the fact that it only shows text as the name of the game and shows no preview image although it plays the video in the backgroud once you've selected it and also shows the screeshot in the details page. Just the "grid view" is an empty field on dark boxes with game names ;-)
Just before I totally give up on this, would you be able to post some screen shots? The logos missing is likely due to what I said in my last post but the screenshots missing in the grid view when they show in the details view is most bizarre.
Also if you could post your lastrun.log that would also be helpful.
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UXS is relatively fine for downloading things, just that the files themselves might need some renaming or moving around to fit for a particular frontend -- in this case renaming wheel/marquee/etc. to logo if one wants to use them as logos.
@PlayingKarrde I think this is where you select the logo to display, right? You can add
assets.marqueeas an additional fallback if you wish, though I'm not sure how that would look.marqueeis not the clear logo after all. -
@PlayingKarrde
Have a look at these pictures https://imgur.com/a/Q7fc8TnIn the first you can see how ES & theme Carbon handles the fanart. It shows a video preview (ignore the swapped red/blue colors that's because a somewhat faulty RPi MMAL patch for VLC ) & the marquee on top. The second picture shows the standard Pegasus theme Grid and this shows the image art as preview. In your theme the preview image so either marquee or "image" is missing but once you hover over a game the preview video is still shown. If you select a certain game the image preview is shown too.
So basically all your theme has to do is pick up the marquee or image if no clear logo is available and show it in the grid view as Pegasus Grid does. :-)
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@5schatten ah ok thanks for the photos. That cleared it up. Your mix art is set as boxart which is why it shows up where it does in gameOS. It appears your have your boxart marked as marquee in this scenario and you have no screenshots or game logo. That would account for it all.
I attempted to include marquee as a fallback but it seems to break things so I need to look into why before being able to push that change. I'm not convinced it will still look good though as the grid items aren't designed to fit box art (and by default marquees aren't boxart so for most other people it might look very bad). Still, I'll do some tests and see if I can get it going.
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@PlayingKarrde
I've checked the marquees and basically all of them have 547(or 544)x400 pixels so somewhat a 4:3 ratio. I guess you use "Wheel" as logo so the Zelda logo for example? https://www.screenscraper.fr/gameinfos.php?gameid=2138&action=onglet&zone=gameinfosmedias So your wheel files are mostly 2:1 if it comes to ratio? Anyway I don't care if the fallback means the logos are a bit smaller / zoomed out to fit your box if some art is shown at all ;-) -
@5schatten I think there's still some confusion over what a marquee is by default. If you look here https://www.screenscraper.fr/gameinfos.php?plateforme=8&gameid=37424 this is what is considered a marquee. In your setup you have boxart set to marquee since UXS lets you change the type of art for each designation but this causes issues since I can't account for every possible combination.
What I think you are asking for is to have boxart be the art for the grid. You are correct that the boxart for SNES is close to 4:3 but it's actually rare for this to be the case. Most boxart is vertical (including japanese SNES) and there would be a lot of cropping going on here.
Anyway I'll try it and see if I can get it working first. Default marquees may actually not look too bad (but will only show for arcade I think) and would cover your case also.
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@PlayingKarrde
If you can push some stuff to a test branch I would pull & report how it fit's for my actual usecase. Anyway from my understanding Pegaus should be able to resize the boxes in your grid depending of the actual image size? Or does it resize the images so they fit within the grid box borders? -
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@PlayingKarrde
Well I thinkered a bit and added https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper to my builds but still there is no wheel included. It downloads them and you can use them to merge wheels to a preview but the standard artwork output still lacks wheel file. So is it possible that https://www.skraper.net/ downloads and provides a quite non-standard set? -
@PlayingKarrde
would you have gameOS v0.4 to download? because v0.5 does not work in pegasus 10 and I can't open the newer version of pegasus, it says that it is missing the dll libssl-1_1 and libcrypto-1_1. -
@demetriosp that's a bug on my side, will try to fix it tomorrow!
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Update: Build fixed!
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@fluffypillow I tested the new version and the gameOS is working, but now it is not reading the metadata file, I tested it with version 10 and it normally reads the file, what could be the problem?
I will make available in this link to download the file that I am using.
And thanks for the great work you've been doing, good luck.
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@demetriosp Yes, there have been several breaking changes since Alpha 10. I'm working on an update guide, but in the meanwhile you can see a summary here.
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@PlayingKarrde
I've tested your recent changes & just wanted to let you know it works fine now with a media scraped for ES. Good job! :-) -
Hi guys,
recently, I have made couple of commits to the GitHub/gameOS theme project for Pegasus front-end, most of them about keyboard & mouse navigation (for those who use PC, or have physical/bluetooth keyboard attached to your RaspberryPI).
Btw., excelent work fluffypillow and playingKarrde!I would like to know what you think about the latest proposal (it's been tested, though not yet merged), which is about quick search tool by holding Alt-key and typing a text. I know there already is an api.jumpToLetter feature, therefore it's alright if my proposal is declined. But before any judgement, let's review its functionality:
By holding Alt-key and typing a text, the tool at first searches for game titles starting-with typed text. If there is no match, it continues searching for any text combination. The functionality includes jump-to-letter navigation of course. When the Alt-key is relased, another search is possible. What is still missing is displaying a typed text overlay somewhere in the middle (or the top) of the screen. By releasing the Alt-key the overlay would be dismissed.
Note that the tool is not a filtering! It's just a quick search navigation tool, where the list of games stays intact. Let me know what you think.
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