Runcommand System Splashscreens!

meleu

Personally I think the run command launch images should have the carbon background instead of just black ;)

But it's already carbon. Maybe are not seeing because you're on mobile?

Those look slick already. And use the carbon fiber. Just need some nice text saying to press X or 'any key' to configure run command.

Could you make an image with the text with a transparent background (just like the controller lines)? You can choose a font that pleases you...

With this I can make the launching images for carbon...

it does seem "X" is the most-correct button to press if you need to get into the run command editor. Any other button seems to be ignored (on a joystick)

Actually runcommand gets input from the 0 and 1, and unfortunately the manufacturers don't have a standardization about these numbers. I have several joysticks here and the <ENTER> button (button 0) differs in all of them.

The "a" on the text should be an indefinite article, not the A button of the joystick. :-)

meleu

@daeks said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

edit: I played a bit with imagemagick on windows: https://github.com/daeks/es_launching_carbon
Each folder contains an autogenerated launching.png. The parameters used are stored in convert.bat

Wow! It's exactly what I would do!! I think I don't need to spend more time with it! LOL :-)

Thanks for sharing!

EDIT: And you used the command line to add the text. Good catch!! :-)

daeks

@meleu glad to hear that you like it :) anyhow it is not final as it still struggles about some issues:

logos which are too big (edit: fixed)
logos which are black or transparent (like game&watch or gamecube) are just shown as black image

herb_fargus

@meleu ah my mistake yes I was on mobile. I see it now.

@daeks there is a pull request for game and watch:https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon/pull/19 I haven't gotten to testing it yet

daeks

@herb_fargus thanks for your hint. As I have seen the PR will merge a new system3.png to the repo. Is there a way to rename it to system.png? Currently there is no further logic in my batch to create the launching.png. It just takes the system.png as @meleu has done it.

meleu

@daeks C'mon dude! Rename it on your end! ;-)

daeks

@meleu I'm lazy :P - Renaming is not really a problem, but in case of any updates, it has to be renamed all the time. Just designed the script to be adoptable easily for other themes as well.

meleu

@daeks said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

Just designed the script to be adoptable easily for other themes as well.

Yeah, I was thinking in doing such thing in bash to let the users execute the script on the rasp, but unfortunately the theme makers don't have a standardization for the file names...

meleu

@herb_fargus said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

there is a pull request for game and watch:https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon/pull/19 I haven't gotten to testing it yet

I've tested right now and it's fine. The red game and watch logo looks fine with a carbon background. I think that renaming system3.svg to system.svg is reasonable too...

daeks

Anyhow, I created new fixed launching images for G&W, GC and Steam. Currently I see no issue anymore. :)

edit: Images are also compressed by default to reduce filesize. Changing the background from carbon_fiber to carbon_black reduces the filesize significantly. It can be changed in the batch file.

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meleu

@daeks WOW!! Really neat!! I'm writing a bash script right now to let the users create it on their rasp. I'll give the credits to all of you guys! :-)

daeks

@meleu I think you can reuse the convert parameters on linux as well. We should only consider if carbon_fiber or just a black color should be used as background. It reduces the filesize by ~50%.

edit: If you want you can also contribute your script to my repo with your credits. Then we have all at one place.

Rookervik

The logos need to be raised a little to balance out the image. It's too heavy on the bottom as they are. Otherwise looks good enough :D

meleu

@daeks can you submit a Pull Request to https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon with your game cube logo with white leters?

daeks

@Rookervik They are only autogenerated. I have moved them a bit. Does it look better now?

@meleu Think that is not possible as my image is just a modified png. The theme requires a svg file, but the png is also attached to my repo.

UDb23

@meleu said in Runcommand System Splashscreens!:

cube logo with white leters?

If you need the Gamecube SVG with white text, it's here.
;-)

UDb23

Once you've defined the "standard template" for the system splashscreens I'll create the same for the additional systems/logos in the Custom SVG Logo Pack.

meleu

@daeks My intention with my script is to let the users create the launching files only for the systems they have installed on their own raspi with no need of any further image manipulation with GIMP, Photoshop or something similar.

The script are ready, but unfortunately the results aren't cool for every system.

Look at the fba one:

EDIT: other not fine result was for sega 32x:

daeks

@meleu yeah you need to resize them. svg will be resized during conversation in my script:

"%ICONVERT%" -background none -resize "x235>" -resize "600x>" "%%G" "%%~dpG%%~nG.png"

check my fba

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meleu

@daeks great! thanks!
There must be some way to detect the dimensions of a file and then resize it to a proper size if it's too big. I'll study more about ImageMagick later. Or if you already know these kind of tricks, please share with us! ;-)