Pixel Theme

[SgtJimmyRustles]

@ruckage said in Pixel Theme:

@Rookervik Yeah, that's not really practical to do just for me. If there were a lot more people, different story. Ah well.

Did you try the suggestion I gave you the other day regarding forcing the pi to output a 4:3 resolution such as 1024x768? Your monitor should be able to display that and will probably have options to either stretch the images or add black bars. 5:4 isn't at all common these days so I think that would be your best option.
What is the make and model of your monitor?

Actually @ruckage I did, and while the HannsG says it supports the 4:3 resolution, it wouldn't even turn on when I had it set after modifying the boot.cfg file. I had to FTP into it and change back the boot.cfg to get it working again. And I followed instructions there to the letter with hdmi group and such. I honestly thought I had responded back to you saying that it hadn't worked. My apologies.

The one thing about the Pixel Theme is that if I don't really use the metadata, it's fine.

[Rookervik]

@sgtjimmyrustles It's possible to make some changes to a single file in the theme and get a change that covers all systems. You'd just need to replace the pixel.xml file. I'll look into what would be required to fix that problem.

Oh, one thing... what resolution is native for your monitor?

[SgtJimmyRustles]

@rookervik pretty sure it's 1280 x 1024

Let me know what I'd have to change, and I don't mind tinkering. I'm just terrible with drawing.

[sergioad]

@rookervik check the Luminous one, all done and file uploaded

[Rookervik]

@sgtjimmyrustles I've re-installed Windows since I got an SSD drive and having trouble getting ES to load right now. Not sure if it's a gamelist issue or what. The portable install that I had set up worked on USB drives... so maybe I'm missing a driver or package of some sort. I'll try to get it working in a few minutes.

Update: Found one of the ES's that would run. Setting ES to run in 1280x1024 renders just fine. I am not sure what you are finding that doesn't work?

Update 2: Ugh, I also don't have any game lists with meta data -_-

[SgtJimmyRustles]

@rookervik
I'll have to upload a screenshot in a bit. Give me a few minutes.

See that there? How would I modify the stuff below? If it's something I can do, then I'll try it on my own. I appreciate you going through the effort to assist. To be fair, it's probably more of an annoyance. I could just go and try to cover that all up with grey.

[ruckage]

@sgtjimmyrustles
Are you talking about the help information at the bottom?
You can either disable it by going to the UI settings and setting 'on screen help' to off.

Or you can alter the font size in the pixel.xml file. There are a few places you will need to do this.

Find sections that look like this (there should be 3 of them):

		<helpsystem name="help">
			<pos>0.012 0.960</pos>
			<textColor>ffffff</textColor>
			<iconColor>ffffff</iconColor>
			<fontPath>./art/font.ttf</fontPath>
			<fontSize>0.033</fontSize>
		</helpsystem>

And find the line in those sections that says:

<fontSize>0.033</fontSize>

And change it to:

<fontSize>0.025</fontSize>

[ruckage]

@sgtjimmyrustles
Also the number of players is overlapping at this aspect ratio. To fix it find this section:

<text name="md_players">
	<pos>0.845 0.477</pos>
</text>

And change it to:

<text name="md_players">
	<pos>0.875 0.477</pos>
</text>

[SgtJimmyRustles]

@ruckage

Much appreciated. I'll test this in a bit.

[SgtJimmyRustles]

@ruckage tick

Oh man that is so much better.

[Rookervik]

Ahh nicely done. Yeah this is a change just for your aspect ratio. That's one of the downfalls of how ES positions things on the screen. Using percentages works fine so long as text is also changed. But ES doesn't squish the fonts the same as it squishes images. So the more portrait your aspect is, the more text will overlap.

[SgtJimmyRustles]

@rookervik

Yeah, I had thought originally that your theme had the text like @ruckage where his was actually all pixels and it would have to be redone to fit.

[Rookervik]

Hmm, I guess Pixel needs to be re-designed to take advantage of the carousel theming...

[Rookervik]

Pixel2 looks way better. LOL. Perhaps some changes to color. Just ganked the FBA theme and copied it over Favorites.

[SuperFromND]

@rookervik

This looks incredible!

[Rookervik]

One day I'll finish. Hopefully soon. Off to watch a little anime before bed.

[Hyruleslink]

@rookervik which anime?

[Rookervik]

@hyruleslink Finishing up "Hajimete no Gal" and watching "Mahou Tsukai no Yome" from this season.

[Rookervik]

Here's a pretty big question: Are there any people using Pixel theme that have not updated at least to the version of ES that has video previews and layering?

I need to know this as I am thinking about adding video previews in along with these collections and also moving the carousel down so you can see the pixel art on the system selection screens.

I feel that the ES improvements have been in long enough that it's safe to go ahead and add these features to the main branch of Pixel.

Please note: adding these changes and using the pixel theme on an old version of ES will not work.

[ruckage]

@rookervik I'd just move forward and make the changes. Even if people are reluctant to update retropie then ES itself can always be updated separately, and if they really don't want to update ES then they can just stick with the version of Pixel they're currently using.
There are so many nice improvements to ES it's a shame not to take advantage of them.