[Theme] Art Book Next

SP

@alphatoanant Is there a way to remove the darkening filter on the screenshot when using the list (no metadata) variant?

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SP

Nevermind. I figured it out.

Remote

@alphatoanant Looks amazing! I'm new to retropie and doing some research on images. Does your theme work with all images?

alphatoanant

@Remote welcome! are you asking about scraped image support for any given game?

Remote

@alphatoanant Thanks for your quick reply!

Let me clarify a bit…

So I was talking to a friend who recommended to download an image with preconfigured games. He mentioned that doing this would be faster and easier than tinkering yourself.

Therefore, I was looking around for these so called images and found a couple. Here’s one that stood out: “Rick Dangerous’ Final Retropie Image”.

Now these images with preconfigured games sound helpful. But, looking around I still gravitate more to the theme you made. Just something about its simplicity makes it look awesome.

So my question then is, if I were to download and install an image such as “Rick Dangerous’ Final Retropie Image”, will I then still be able to use your theme?

Renetrox

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alphatoanant

@Remote thank you for clarifying =). I haven't worked with preconfigured images so I don't know directly but if the image uses retropie as its base then the theme in this post "should" work with it.

pjft

@alphatoanant wow. I had seen this theme in some videos but had no idea it was yours, nor that it was a follow up to ArtBook - which is still the theme I use on my RetroPie instances.

This looks gorgeous. I'll have to take a look at it. I remember having a lot of custom systems already created in the main ArtBook theme, I'll see how hard it might be to create those themes.

Congratulations - it's great to see you around and doing great work!

alphatoanant

@pjft! wow awesome to see and hear from you too =).

If you get to try it out, I am here to talk through things you find or have an interest in seeing being added. I have a template built out for the color theming and a template for the system view artwork so can help there for sure. Rock and roll my friend.

pjft

@alphatoanant Thanks. I'll see when I have some time and look into it.

stephensmattlee

@alphatoanant I just wanted to say this theme looks amazing. Incredible work and really love the clean and sleek look with the way everything is presented.

I was wondering if I could get some help with regards to the scraping and the way you have the previews presented in the way you do in the preview image with Sonic? When I try scraping - was using the Skraper application - and select the screenshot, marquee and box art 2D options when scraping, as a default all it would show is the screenshot of the game without the logo and box art over the image. Was wondering how and what options you’d choose when scraping, or after the games have been scraped, to get them to present in the same way you have in the preview image? I know there’s the mix v1 and mix v2 options in Skraper too, but they seem to look quite different when compared to your preview image. I hope that makes sense.

alphatoanant

hi @stephensmattlee, its been some time since i used skraper so I am not sure yet how to config things to get the same visual set up (I mostly use ES-DE and JELOS these days which have built in support for screenscraper). I'll try to get a fresh build off retropie set up in the next week or so to see if I can help figure it out.

rvirmoors

@alphatoanant said in [Theme] Art Book Next:

https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-retropie

hi! i don't suppose there's a way to automate the aspect ratio detection? i sometimes plug in my Pi into a 4:3 monitor, other times into 16:9. It would be great to be able to autodetect the aspect ratio

alphatoanant

@rvirmoors sadly I am not aware of a way to do that on retropie

laserbones

@alphatoanant Thank you so much for the amazing theme! How can I scrape to get the no metadata video previews with the logo overlayed in the center? I use Skraper and can't figure out how to achieve your layout. What scraper do you use for retropie? I'd love to have the same layout you have and don't mind switching scrapers. I'm just lost at where to start.

aphyx

Hi @alphatoanant, I'm using the Art Book Next theme with Jelos on my new RGB30 in its 1:1 ratio and really enjoying it. I'm having one small problem, though. I have some custom system logos I like to use (using LaserDisc instead of Daphne, for instance), and I followed the instructions on the Jelos wiki to add them to the theme-customizations folder. It works perfectly on the "Centered Artwork (Custom)" variant, with the custom logos showing correctly. When I switch to the "Multi Artwork (Custom)" variant, though, the original logos show, and no matter how much I try rebooting and refreshing, my custom logos won't show. Any ideas why they won't show on the Multi Artwork variation? I like the Multi variant as well and would like to see it working with my custom logos. Thanks in advance.

alphatoanant

Hi @laserbones I don't currently have a retropie build set up and have been meaning to do so but just haven't had the time. As soon as I am able to i'll try to document options for scraping that would work for retropie (the instructions in my original post look like they may not apply any longer and I am not sure why)

alphatoanant

@aphyx thank you for helping me find a bug =)

I had missed adding the logic needed to switch out to custom logos for the "Multi Artwork (Custom)" variant. So I just made that fix and pushed the latest to github. It will be updated in the next release of JELOS.

Here is a test with a custom NES logo:
IMG_2156 2.jpg

If you want to test it ahead of time though you can download the theme directly here: https://github.com/anthonycaccese/art-book-next-jelos

And then upload it following the instructions here: https://jelos.org/configure/themes/#adding-additional-themes (e.g. make sure to upload it in its own folder / don't replace the system-theme files)

aphyx

@alphatoanant That's awesome, thanks!

aphyx

@alphatoanant I've found another minor issue with the Art Book Next theme on my RGB30. I've added some of the pre-defined genre auto collections (pinball, strategy, etc.) and created some custom pixel artwork for them, and although the logos for those collections show on the game list screens and the "Centered Artwork (Custom)" variant, they refuse to show for me on the "Multi Artwork (Custom)" variant. The custom artwork I've created displays fine, but not the logos. Any idea why they're not showing on the Multi Artwork variant? Thanks in advance.