runcommand launching images for ANY theme

Uskompuf

@meleu Ok so I've just double-checked and retropie says it's updated. What I did was run the script for "arcade", the preview image still showed 16:9 and I checked by booting an actual game that it was 16:9.

Here is the output from those commands:

cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size

1280,1024

fbset -s

mode "1280x1024"
    geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 32
    timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    accel true
    rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode

All I can think is that there is an error in the script as the resolutions listed above are correct or there is an issue updating?

Let me know what I can do to help debug.

Thanks

meleu

@Uskompuf thanks for you info, it made me realize that I needed to make a better calculation to detect the aspect ratio.

Can you try to update and generate the images again? They'll hopefully be 4:3 this time.

Uskompuf

@meleu I tried updating but it said I already had latest version, then image was still 16:9.

Could it be because I'm on pi 4?

meleu

@Uskompuf said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

Could it be because I'm on pi 4?

nop. It's totally unrelated.

my suggestion: remove the launching image package and then reinstall it.

Uskompuf

@meleu said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

my suggestion: remove the launching image package and then reinstall it.

Ok I will give that a try and report back

Uskompuf

@meleu I've reinstalled the package but still behaviour generating 16:9 images, how can we debug?

Uskompuf

@Uskompuf This might help, My resolution is 1280x1024, the generated image is 1024x576 not sure if rotation or something is wrong?

Thanks

meleu

@Uskompuf said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

how can we debug?

please, copy and paste the command below on your raspi (it'll create a launching image for --system nes):

bash -x /opt/retropie/supplementary/launchingimages/generate-launching-images.sh -t carbon --system nes --no-ask 2> ~/launchingimage.log

# assuming you have netcat installed
nc termbin.com 9999 < ~/launchingimage.log

After the last command you'll probably have a termbin link. Post that link here so I can check what's going wrong.

Uskompuf

@meleu said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

nc termbin.com 9999 < ~/launchingimage.log

Here's the link:

https://termbin.com/scjc

meleu

@Uskompuf said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

@meleu said in runcommand launching images for ANY theme:

nc termbin.com 9999 < ~/launchingimage.log

Here's the link:

https://termbin.com/scjc

thanks, I think I've fixed now.
Can you update and try again?
(or remove-reinstall)

Uskompuf

@meleu Ok some progress with this update, the image now seems to be 768x576 which is a closer expect ratio but there are top and bottom black bars still.

Here is the output of that debug command again: https://termbin.com/uppt

Thanks

meleu

@Uskompuf alright, now I'm being very faithful to the current aspect ratio of the screen.

can you update and try again?

Uskompuf

@meleu Working perfectly now!

Thanks for your amazing work on this project.

steeeb

Great work on this.

Any idea of when you might be able to support themes with variables and includes? (I assume you'd "process" the theme and spit out XML and use that or something?).

jpmontevideo

Buenas que tal? Consulta ya que observe que mucha información sobre imagenes al cargar los juegos.
Tengo configurado para que me aparezca las caratulas pero solamente en mame. Los pasos que realicé fueron retropie setup, configuration
tools, runcomands y en Launch menu art modifico a enable.
Cual es la razon de porque solo me aparecen las caratulas de mame al cargar los juegos? Solamente quiero las mismas caratulas que me aparecen en el emulation station . Un Splash Screen de las cratulas al cargar el juego. Muchas gracias

Rager170

Hello,

I know this thread is older now but wanted to mention that recently I tried out these launching images (awesome!) but for some reason the Tronkyfran theme gives me black bars on the top and bottom. I assume this is an aspect ratio issue? Would love to have this full screen. The launching images for other themes does not give me this issue.

Thanks.

tronkyfran

@rager170 What are those images resolution? I made some controller renders for this runcommand launch images a long time ago...

VanZan

never mind

luckyluca

@meleu

I noticed an issue when generating images, this happens on all systems I tried so far:

Launching images generation for "supersweet" theme completed!
Failed to create image for the following systems:
amiga: failed to prepare the background image.

It seems that carbon and tronkyfran work, all other themes don't. Anything that might be causing it?
One of the themes not working is supersweet, which would be perfect because quite comprehensive.

My installation is Retropie 4.7.15 (although I have not updated any of the main/core packages since Nov).

wtstreetglow1

Hello all,

@meleu

I am on retropie 4.8 and a pi 4.

Can I get some guidance on getting the subject working?

The package is talked about here on the retropie docs:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/

"Manage packages" >> "Manage experimental packages" >> "launchingimages" >> "Install from binary"

For whatever reason, the images created from this package are not filling up the whole screen even though the retropie menus and all game emulators do. It's like the package is not creating the proper size images and I really don't have a good idea how to fix it. Below is an example of what my run command screen looks like. Thank you all for any guidance you can give on fixing this.