runcommand launching images for Carbon theme

meleu

UPDATE

I've made a script to generate launching images for ANY theme. Posted about it here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7193/runcommand-launching-images-for-any-theme

As @Rookervik said that he don't plan to make a launching images pack for Carbon theme (it would be very very painful) I was thinking in a way to automate the process using the ImageMagick tools. Then @daeks came and shared their sorcery knowledge and I could write a script that let the users create the launching images on their own raspi.

If you don't know what a "launching image" is, take a look at these links:

Requirements:

RetroPie 4.0.3+
the carbon theme installed (it's the default theme on RetroPie)
the imagemagick package installed

1st step: install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Installing imagemagick (and the packages that it brings together) will occupy 26.1 MB of your SD card space.

2nd step: download the script

The script I made creates launching images only for the systems you have installed on your raspi. Obviously, it will create the image only if there's an image for the respective system on the Carbon theme.

cd ~
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/share/master/carbon-launching-images.sh

3rd step: execute the script

bash carbon-launching-images.sh

There are some limitations because some systems names from configs dir and carbon theme dir don't match, but the most common systems will work fine.

Examples of resulting images

NES

FBA

MegaDrive

MasterSystem

NeoGeo

Acknowledgements

RetroPie team, for making something so cool (and implementing the "launching images" on runcommand).
@Rookervik , for the Carbon theme images.
@daeks , for sharing his ImageMagick knowledge

Let me know if you guys find any problem.

meleu

Also @daeks made a pack with these images. You can get it here: https://github.com/daeks/retropie-system-splashscreens-carbon/releases

Sevik

Thank you. Super easy to install and looks perfect!

mediamogul

@meleu

These are fantastic! Thanks.

meleu

I've made a script to generate launching images for ANY theme. Posted about it here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7193/runcommand-launching-images-for-any-theme

lilbud

@meleu Is there a way to choose color of background per system?

mediamogul

@meleu said in runcommand launching images for Carbon theme:

a script to generate launching images for ANY theme.

Very cool! I love this idea.

cralx2k

Oi Meleu, show d+ seus scripts... muito obrigado [],ao Carlos