runcommand launching images for ANY theme

[dankcushions]

@Rookervik @meleu
maybe i'm missing the something but all the script does is automatically creates launch images for any given theme, right? it doesn't take art from one theme and create another theme under a new name or whatever, it just expands a given theme. it seems like all it does is save themers time and effort :)

IMO clever scripts like this need to seamlessly work across the board so they can ultimately be an automatic thing that's just a feature of ES/retropie. it makes launching games really slick for ALL themes, hiding the 'DOS'-looking stuff that seems to bother some people.

eventually i dream that even the retropie-setup menu could be automatically themed based on the current ES theme...

but yeah, it's up to the themers is they like the idea or not. don't mind me :)

[FlyingTomahawk]

@meleu
Have you tried it with the Famicom-mini theme by ruckage?
I enter

bash -x  ./generate-launching-images.sh -t famicom-mini

and it I can see the command prompt code running down like a matrix code. Then he tells me that he's done but failed to create for Amstrad since there is no theme folder.
I click OK and go check /opt/retroarch/configs/nes/ and there is no launching.png file.

Doing this currently on my Pi Zero.

[meleu]

@FlyingTomahawk I would like to see the nes/theme.xml for famicon-mini theme, but I'm behind a proxy that blocks access to mega.nz.

Can you post this file to ghostbin.com or something similar?

The -x option enables the matrix mode to a bash script. Just kidding! :) It's a kind of "debugging mode" way to execute bash scripts.

I don't know why you are executing the script with bash -x but coincidentally this is the way I'm going to ask you to launch the script again.

Please, execute the following command:

bash -x  ./generate-launching-images.sh -t famicom-mini 2> debug.txt

It will generate the debug.txt file. And then paste the content of debug.txt in ghostbin.com or something.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@meleu said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

The -x option enables the matrix mode to a bash script. Just kidding! :)

Not sure why I used bash -x I guess I just saw that here in this topic and used it and it did work always with other themes like my Futura theme or Simplebigart or Metapixel.
This time I am trying to setup the Famicom-mini theme and it doesn't work.
Here the requested data:

Famicom-mini NES file

Debug file

[meleu]

@FlyingTomahawk Well, I'll need to take a look in other .xml files. Will try to sort this out tonight.

Also, I'm not sure if you are using the right version of the script. If you installed via RetroPie-Setup, the script is at /opt/retropie/supplementary/launchingimages (it's not the reason of your issue, that's just for you to be aware of).

I had to create a dedicated repository for this tool in order to make it work along with RetroPie scriptmodule. This is the repository: https://github.com/meleu/generate-launching-images

I've edited the OP accordingly.

[FlyingTomahawk]

No hurry here. When ever you find time to look into it is fine with me.
I haven't update anything on the Pi Zero. With only 1 USB port my possibilities are limited.
I downloaded the image file from the RetroPie website, installed everything and I am using your script before it was merged into RetroPie.
I ordered a Pi Zero W and also a Zero4U so I will have more possibilities then.
Thanks.

[FlyingTomahawk]

@meleu
I am running this Famicom-mini theme with only 4 systems (NES,SNES,Megadrive,GBA) so it is not a big deal for me to create the launching.png images in Photoshop and upload them to my Pi Zero.
Here a sample.

[meleu]

@FlyingTomahawk hey! It looks great! But I want to debug the script anyway. :)

Thanks for the feedback.

[HurricaneFan]

@meleu I'm running retropie version 4.1.18 and am encountering issues making launching images from Carbon theme.

Settings:

Errors:

[meleu]

@HurricaneFan try this solution here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/59747

And please let me know if it solves your issue.

It seems that your original installation was before 4.1. Am I right?

[HurricaneFan]

@meleu I started with the default 4.1 build that was released in November. Then I upgraded all packages before I installed this through retropie setup.

[meleu]

@HurricaneFan did that solution work for you?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/59747

[HurricaneFan]

@meleu Your suggestion worked!

[meleu]

@FlyingTomahawk I've fixed the script and now it's able to generate images for the @ruckage 's Famicom-mini theme. You can update the script inside RetroPie-Setup, choosing "Update from binary" option.

Here's the megadrive launching.png as an example (I think your "hand-made" image looks better, anyway):

./generate-launching-images.sh -t famicom-mini --loading-text-color red --press-button-text-color white --system megadrive

Thanks again for reporting this issue. ;-)

[fnkngrv]

So how can we go about being able to figure out a way to generate for systems that are not in a theme that we choose? Example is I am going off the Tronky (sp?) theme. It doesn't generate for PCEngineCD, TG16, and TG16CD. Thanks!

[meleu]

@fnkngrv said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

So how can we go about being able to figure out a way to generate for systems that are not in a theme that we choose?

With some knowledge of how to use GIMP, Photoshop, etc. :)

[lilbud]

@meleu Is the logo supposed to be blurry?

[meleu]

@lilbud the script doesn't apply any blurry effect to the logo. Can you show me some example?

[lilbud]

@meleu The Megadrive logo itself It has a faint, but noticable blur to it.

[meleu]

@lilbud oh yeah, I noticed it too. Not sure, but maybe the logo file isn't in svg format.