[Theme] CRT

[alphatoanant]

Updates 4/30/2017:

• Fixed box art scaling issue on video view
• Added 4x3 layout option
• Added display of genre and release date metadata
• Increased the logo size a small amount
• Added backward compatibility check for older versions of retropie without video support

Preview:

4x3 Layout

Video View

Detailed View

Notes:

4x3 Layout

• thanks to help from @mattrixk and his IO theme a 4x3 layout option is available now
• To use it you will need to edit the root theme.xml and change

<include>./_inc/templates/16x9.xml</include>

to

<include>./_inc/templates/4x3.xml</include>

Box Art Scaling Bug

• The latest version of ES video tag supports maxSize for sizing the video
• The introduction of this caused a bug in the theme as I was using an old static sizing approach and it conflicted with the maxSize values I was using for the box art
• This new version fixes that issue by updating the theme to use maxSize for the video tag
• make sure you are on the latest version of ES (4.2 or above)

Display of Genre and Release Date metadata

• I had been thinking of ways to add in genre and release date metadata based on comments in the thread and I think I found a way to display them while keeping the same clean layout
• Please let me know what you think

Up Next?

• Will try to test z-index support from @jdrassa in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9785/z-index-support-for-themes (thinking this will help me add an image that sits underneath the video to fill the CRT frame for videos that don't fill the frame completely)
• Start playing with marquee placement
• Grid View possibly?

Download latest:
https://github.com/anthonycaccese/es-theme-crt/archive/master.zip

Please let me know what you think, thank you!

[alphatoanant]

CRT and CRT Centered can be installed directly from the ES Themes menu within retropie now (just make sure you are on the latest version of the setup script)

[KillerQ]

@alphatoanant said in [New Theme] 'CRT' with support for Video Preview:

CRT and CRT Centered can be installed directly from the ES Themes menu within retropie now (just make sure you are on the latest version of the setup script)

Oh, fancy! Congrats!

[alphatoanant]

Updates 5/3/2017:

• Updated CRT Bezel images from PNG to SVG to help with clean scaling on different resolutions
• Added future support for z-index layering being discussed in this thread - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9785/z-index-support-for-themes

Up Next?

• Work on marquee placement
• Carousel Theming
• Grid View possibly?

[A Former User]

Carousel theming!

[alphatoanant]

Updates 5/14/2017:

• Added display of marquee
• Cleaned up layout of metadata
• Added basic styling of carousel

[lolo]

Hi great theme.
Can you make the crt-bezel.svg file in tate (vertical) mode.
I exported the file in png with Inkscape program to rotate it but I can't do it properly with the svg format.

[alphatoanant]

@lolo totally

I just pushed an update to github with svgs for the bezel (crt-bezel-tate.svg) and the screen (crt-screen-tate.svg)

You can find them both in the /_inc/images directory now

Hope that helps!

[lolo]

@alphatoanant Great, many thanks!

[alphatoanant]

Updates 5/21/2017:

• Finishing up UXS profiles to streamline metadata scraping
• Starting to experiment with grid view layouts. Here is a preview...

With Metadata

No Metadata

What do you think?

[Dominus]

@alphatoanant Wow that looks awesome too. Can Wheel art be used instead of boxes?

[alphatoanant]

Experimenting with Grid Layouts a bit more

Using Screenshots instead of Boxart

No Meta Version

@Dominus thinking something like this?

I think it would be possible as long as the image scraped for each game is the wheel art (vs say the screenshot or boxart)

Main thing I am running into now is getting a version of grid view ES set up on windows to test with. Hoping to sort that out soon.

[darknior]

Woaw really cool idea if it is possible to have this new view :)

[numotiv]

I was really set on using the nes mini theme on my snes classic build. This theme is just too good though.... especially now that I sourced out a crt tv to play on. Really good job on it!

[Dominus]

@alphatoanant Yeah like that. I am also wondering about Videos? Can you use videos, and the one that is highlighted will have the sound on that video?

[alphatoanant]

@Dominus I don't believe so. From what I understand gridview does not support the playback of video.

[hoodle]

Hi there, wondering if anyone can help? I have a gamelist set up for all consoles, and know it works as the OldRoom theme shows video previews correctly, but within the CRT theme, the audio from the video snap plays, but there is no video being displayed? Any ideas? Thanks.

[pjft]

@hoodle you might want to start a separate topic, but yesterday there was a similar report.

It might be video encoding, resolution, or you may need to update EmulationStation. I believe the last one solved it in that case.

[alphatoanant]

thank you @pjft

@hoodle here is the thread with the details on what to try (possibly a need to update emulationstation)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11445/video-preview-sound-but-no-image

If that doesn't work out just let me know and i'll try to help further no worries

[hoodle]

@alphatoanant @pjft That worked perfectly (the ES update). Cheers for the help!