New NotSoEpicNoir-Chiculeo Hybrid Theme
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@bmoxey Wow that looks amazing!
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@bmoxey It has one last bug I think, the box art images change size when you move over them as your browse. That hasn't been fixed.
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I have made more progress with my theme, including centering text on left, using the console image and console logo and changing some of the system logos. I probably should simplify the PC Engine one (or call it TurboGrafx 16).
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@bmoxey you can create a github and we can enjoy it while you are doing some change xD. im in love of your mod.
pd,would be possible to add video preview in the background ? like after 1s or 2s after scroll the platforms display a blurry video in background with same effects backgrounds does.backgrounds image + ..waiting 1s and platform video autoplay.
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Update:
I have completed the majority of the game list screens. A choice of three....
Screen with one up and down arrows:
Screen with two up and down arrows:
Screen with no up and down arrows:
All three are in each system folder. There are 3 theme.xml files named theme1.xml, theme2.xml and theme3.xml. You pick the screen you want and rename the filename to theme.xml.
With the screen with no arrows I would like to have the system logo centralised if possible. I've tried a few different ways on the script to achieve this without success. Any pointers would be appreciated.
The back images are a mix from Tronkyfran theme and @hoover900 's images. @hoover900 kindly let me have a copy his image to work with and guide me on who to use them and credit should go to him for it.
I will now start digging around the net for the missing console images.
Comments good or bad always welcome....
Kind Regards
CCFox
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@CCFox Thank you. I really think the theme looks better without the arrows.
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Thanks, man. I really appreciate it.
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Final update this evening:
On the non arrows screen I have managed to centralise the logo. I even got a ruler out!!
Screen shots:
Nintendo NES - This is the widest looking logo I have:
Vectrex - This is the deepest looking logo I have:
Bout done and ready to share is anybody wishes to.
Kind Regards
CCFox
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Looking forward to it.
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A few more tweaks now done. I do have a slight problem though. When the theme first starts it for a split second on the game list the marquee art appears then disappears. Then it never comes back until you restart the theme. I am guessing it shows it before it loads the game list screen background. Not a major but I would like to stop it. Anybody have any ideas on how to do it?
I will be culling some of the older systems that I can't find artwork for.
KR
CCFox
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I have made some progress on the Game List view. Still tweaking and moving things about. I have created a github and will upload when I am happy with the look.
Updated system view.
I am using skraper to create a large image file with the wheel, 3dbox art , mask and image art. Is there a better way to do this?
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Looks lovely matey. Might combine your game list with my front screen...lol
As for skraper I used that as well to scrape my games. I registered so i was able to get 20k scrapes per 24 hours. Took about a week for mine. I scraped 3d box art, game image with game logo and box art combined and marquee.
Rgds
CCFox
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correction...I scraped images, marquee and videos.
I would have to re scrape my games for this to work for me....oh hum no great shakes there.
Thankfully I still have my old 3d scraped images somewhere.
Rgds
CCFox
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@CCFox Do you combine the images in the theme file or in skraper? I don't like that I am creating a very large graphic file for each game in skraper. I would prefer to just create a separate file for the screenshot, wheel and 3dbox art and combine them in the theme file. But I dont know how to add images, 3dbox art and wheels in the theme file. I only know you can add a md_image and md_video.
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@CCFox Just to clarify. I have created my own xml file for skraper to use to combine the images as I want into one png file.
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When I scraped I chose the screen shot with the game image, box art and wheel combined as one image. each image is a .png file and averages around 100-300k per file depending on the system. Atari image's are smaller than megadrive for instance (whether is something to do with the amount of colours I don't know)
I don't know how big the 3 separate files added together would be but I don't think the difference would be that much.
Also I am struggling to understand about the 3 images at once on the screen. It looks like you have. Or is that what you mean when you say about the xml file in your second post.
Hope I'm making sense..
Rgds
CCFox
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Also....I am a complete novice at this....
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@CCFox I have created my own custom user provided mix file to skraper. This puts the objects I want in the exact location I want. I think this is probably the best way to do this. The files are only a bit larger that your files. However it does eliminate the possibility of having video, but I think I already decided I dont want video in my theme.
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Right....Didn't know you could do that with skraper.
Bit of a shame about not having videos but looking at the theme I can see why.
Rgds
CCFox
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