Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes

DigitalMonkey

@ruckage There's no real benefit apart from (IMO!) it looks nice having it on the main menu.

Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up. Which, for me, is handy as I spend bit more time using Kodi than playing games.

mediamogul

@DigitalMonkey

Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems in the carousel with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

Syhles

@ruckage
Icon scaling is a pain with the carousel when using icons that have largely different sizes from one another, speaking from making carousels for 3-4 different themes on my personal setup.

ruckage

@mediamogul said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@DigitalMonkey

Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems installed with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

They actually appear in the order they are defined in the es_systems.cfg (which you are correct is ordered alphabetically by default). To have a system appear first you just need to move it to the top in es_systems.cfg.

Still don't really get why Kodi needs it's own section personally - wouldn't a general apps folder be better? (I said this originally regarding steam as well but at least with that you can launch games directly which makes some sense for it to have it's own system.)

ruckage

@Syhles said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage
Icon scaling is a pain with the carousel when using icons that have largely different sizes from one another, speaking from making carousels for 3-4 different themes on my personal setup.

Doesn't it just work like maxsize (I'm fairly sure it does). For example you define what is essentially a bounding box and the image is scaled as much as possible to fit the box without stretching?

lilbud

@ruckage So my theme shares the carousel idea with your theme, (Big square icons instead of logos.) Like this one,
0_1494461558737_upload-88c04e64-4d12-4035-a508-4d7ecd97fd9e

So I would use this code,

<carousel name="systemcarousel">
<type>horizontal</type>
<pos>0 0</pos> 
<size>1 .354 </size> 
<color>00000060</color>
<logoScale>1</logoScale>
<logoSize>0.364 0.354</logoSize>
<maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
</carousel>
But the logo would appear stretched and squashed

mediamogul

@ruckage

They actually appear in the order they are defined in the es_systems.cfg (which you are correct is ordered alphabetically by default). To have a system appear first you just need to move it to the top in es_systems.cfg.

Yeah, I've toyed with the idea of creating my own order a few times, but I always land on it more trouble than it's worth.

Still don't really get why Kodi needs it's own section personally

I do it for the same reason @DigitalMonkey does; just because it looks nice. However, there's no great reason other than that and personally, It wouldn't bother me to keep it in the 'Ports' menu.

Syhles

@lilbud
Are you talking about the black pocket logo? Right now there's three on screen and I'm using a phone.... and the only that seems off is the pocket logo. Are you using svgs or pngs for the logos?

Also that theme looks so clean I'm looking forward to a download.

ruckage

@lilbud said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage So my theme shares the carousel idea with your theme, (Big square icons instead of logos.) Like this one,

So I would use this code,

<carousel name="systemcarousel">
<type>horizontal</type>
<pos>0 0</pos> 
<size>1 .354 </size> 
<color>00000060</color>
<logoScale>1</logoScale>
<logoSize>0.364 0.354</logoSize>
<maxLogoCount>5</maxLogoCount>
</carousel>
But the logo would appear stretched and squashed

First, you only have one value in the <size> tag - that will cause a problem.
Also, you've commented:

That isn't true (unless the windows version is totally different but I believe it's based on the same source as retropie.)

Does the same issue occur on both windows ES and retropie ES?
What resolution / aspect ratio are you using?

DigitalMonkey

@mediamogul said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@DigitalMonkey

Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems in the carousel with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

Strange.

On Mine its the default (first one you see at start up). Didnt do anything special just this - ['Kodi as its own system'] https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/KODI

Have all the console systems installed too.

ruckage

@DigitalMonkey said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@mediamogul said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@DigitalMonkey

Plus adding it to the main menu makes it the first 'system' you see after booting up.

By default, the systems appear alphabetically. Anyone who has any systems before 'K' will still have to scroll to it. I have 39 systems in the carousel with Kodi being one, so it takes me quite a bit to get there.

Strange.

On Mine its the default (first one you see at start up). Didnt do anything special just this - ['Kodi as its own system'] https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/KODI

Have all the console systems installed too.

See my post above. When you added the system to the Es-systems.cfg you must have added it to the top. Systems appear in the same order that they are defined in this file.

lilbud

@ruckage A few things

It is actually x = 1 y =0.354, the formatting looks weird.

This isn't the actual code, just what I remember of it since it didn't save.
16:9 aspect, running on the pi.

@Syhles said

Also that theme looks so clean I'm looking forward to a download

Here's a hint,
This theme is like the flat theme, but i've SWITCHED some things up :)

Syhles

@lilbud
I'd make your <size> field larger than your <logoSize> field personally.

ruckage

@lilbud said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage A few things

<size>1 .354 </size>

It is actually x = 1 y =0.354, the formatting looks weird.

This isn't the actual code, just what I remember of it since it didn't save.
16:9 aspect, running on the pi.

@Syhles said

Also that theme looks so clean I'm looking forward to a download

Here's a hint,
This theme is like the flat theme, but i've SWITCHED some things up :)

Ah, I see - didn't notice the space (for clarity I would put 0.354). Not sure why they would appear stretched. Test the theme on the windows version of ES to rule out any problems with retropie (es_toolkit v1.1 by @mattrixk).

If you don't mind uploading it somewhere, even temporarily, I would be happy to check it and see if I can fix the problem for you.)

lilbud

@ruckage Okay, I fixed the scaling issue, but I've run into a new one.

Is there a way to have a selector scroll on the carousel instead of the logos scroll.

(I guess I can't keep this secret.)

The theme I am making is a Nintendo Switch theme for ES

I want the carousel to move like this:

ruckage

@lilbud said in Cardboard Mini NES + Nes mini and Famicom mini themes:

@ruckage Okay, I fixed the scaling issue, but I've run into a new one.

Is there a way to have a selector scroll on the carousel instead of the logos scroll.

(I guess I can't keep this secret.)

The theme I am making is a Nintendo Switch theme for ES

I want the carousel to move like this:

No, not possible I'm afraid.

bjose2345

@lilbud There is someone doing this in the AM forums,
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1615.0

ruckage

I've finally finished all the icons and made the carousel images - and it works :D (on windows at least - will try the rpi next).

Here's a video of it in action.

Syhles

@ruckage
Everything looked really clean.

herb_fargus

@ruckage even my wife is impressed with this and she isn't much for gaming