Flat Theme

HurricaneFan

@FlyingTomahawk Last official release was just 4.1 which was released in November. The Video theme stuff happened in December. So you would have to upgrade your official release to get the feature.

Nismo

@HurricaneFan He fixed yet, was an error on gamelist.

@lilbud said in Flat Theme:

Got it working, it turns out there still was a image tag in the gamelist.

greekmanx

I made a quick video to show it working and there is sound I cut it out to spare you of my wife and her friend playing Cards against humanity they are loud.

Nismo

@greekmanx don't forget to to this:

You need to replace this on Flat.xml:

<default>~/assets/default.mp4</default>

with a dot:

<default>./assets/default.mp4</default>

And place a default.mp4 video inside assets folder, it will play a default video for games without videos.

greekmanx

now just fix the marques and do the same for dark version and I am set. and if I am being a pain or sounding demanding or needy I do not mean to I appreciate you doing all you do and making this awesome theme.

greekmanx

@Nismo what does that do nismo? edit I just read that again ignore me it gives me default when videos don't play thanks

Nismo

@greekmanx Plays a default.mp4 video for games without video.

The video must be named "default.mp4" and must be inside assets folder.

greekmanx

@Nismo this is so I dont get the fuzz when no video is available right? I wish it would fall back to a screenshot if video wasn't available but thanks for the info and I will do that once I find a good video I want.

Nismo

@greekmanx Yes, it's because of that.

Then you need to change this:

<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>

with this:

<showSnapshotNoVideo>true</showSnapshotNoVideo>

To get images when no video.

lilbud

Video support is offically added to the theme, Video support will be added to dark theme sometime tomorrow

greekmanx

@lilbud thank you lilbud for adding video support and thanks nismo for the help I look forward to tomorrow to download dark theme

lilbud

@greekmanx I'll probably get it done in study hall tommorrow

Nismo

@lilbud I'm glad to help. You know you can ask me whaterver you want.

Regards.

greekmanx

@lilbud sweet

greekmanx

@Nismo I did this and still no image I am suppose to edit the flat.xml right? edit nvm I assume it has to do with motionblue gameslists because it doesn't save my scrapes either so all good.

Nismo

@lilbud I think you need to raise the delay of video a bit for a rpi.

This is what I'll use in my next version of my theme:

<video name="md_video">
   <delay>0.5</delay>

I hope this helps.

@greekmanx I'll take a look at that when I have time.

lilbud

@Nismo Where do you think the marquee would work best? Other than where it is now.

Kischa

@lilbud I vote for it to be straight on top over the roms names.

Great Theme Lilbud! 👌

Nismo

@lilbud I think it's ok where marquees are, top right, but centered inside the white zone.

The problem is some systems with large names like "Nintendo entertainment system" .

Another option it's to move down a bit metada info, and place marquees inside the metadata box, on top of "rating". There's free space in bottom side of metadata box, just put that free space on top and marquee there. (I think this could be the best).

Or maybe just place the marquees out of the screen , that way you avoid to show the marquees art on your theme even if it exist.

greekmanx

so after using this theme more I vote keep it where it is. and my only issue so far is on Sega Genesis the top left logo says nintendo and my TG16 is broke but that might be my gamelist. and then the dark theme and I am set. This is deff my new daily drive theme.

so I switched my tg16 back to pcengine and my genesis back to megadrive and they work now except pcengine is blue in carasoule like sega but says nintendo in top left logo so confused there.