New Comic Book Theme!

TMNTturtlguy · 21 Jul 2017, 23:30

16:9 Launching screens are completed! 4:3 basic launching screens are also complete. Just started the 4:3 comic rip launching screens and they look pretty nice as well!

ortsac · 21 Jul 2017, 23:34

@tmntturtlguy Nice!!!!! Will the Comic Theme be installed as a complete package that includes this and the Splashcreen? Or do we have to install them individually?

TMNTturtlguy · 21 Jul 2017, 23:44

@ortsac the are all individual. The theme is loaded through the es_themes menu through the retropie menu. The splash screen is a download through mega as there are 4 different videos to choose from so the file size is rather large (16:9 at 1080 and 720 and 2 4:3 video options). These will be on github with a repo and hopefully @meleu will be able to add them to the art installer deal that he maintains. @meleu aslo has links to the theme and splashscreen on his nice useful topic index. I will ask that he adds a link to these launching screens as soon as i have them completed and posted.

meleu · 22 Jul 2017, 01:05

@tmntturtlguy put them on a github repo and I'll make them installable via rpie-art. ;-)

TMNTturtlguy · 22 Jul 2017, 04:12

The ComicBook Launch images have been released! I have completed all images for both the 16:9 and 4:3 versions. see the official post here

Download the launching images from the github repo here

hansolo77 · 24 Jul 2017, 01:38

[REQUEST]
Can you throw together a quick set for "Achievements"? With progress being made on the collections aspect of ES, a future endeavor of mine is to build a custom collection to hold all the games that have achievements in them. I can't remember if you supplied the fonts/etc used for the system svg or not. Just figured I'd ask if you could make one. No hurries!

meleu · 24 Jul 2017, 01:42

@hansolo77 said in New Comic Book Theme!:

build a custom collection to hold all the games that have achievements in them.

haha! that's a great idea! :) How didn't I think it before?! I'll do it too!

TMNTturtlguy · 24 Jul 2017, 02:49

@meleu @hansolo77 I will look into that in the future. I just updated all versions of the theme to include the new "Default" system. You can go ahead and create your Achievements collection and create it as if there was a theme folder for it. ES will now assign this to a default comic background and use the ComicBook Font to create the system name. It won't be the cool colors, but it will be the correct font. It should work well for you as a place holder. Once i get a chance to update the theme with your request, ES will automatically switch out the "Default" for the new folder when it exists. Pretty neat feature implemented by @jdrassa. Update the ComicBook theme from es_themes and the default system should work.

hansolo77 · 24 Jul 2017, 03:00

@meleu Yeah I thought you might like that idea. You're one of the devs I know that actually participate in all that too. Hopefully some future version of ES will be able to pull the game lists from RetroAchievements automatically. Maybe even display them? :) That'd be cool, if RetroArch devs can't be bothered with creating a system to display the icon art, maybe ES can.

@TMNTturtlguy I wasn't aware things were already progressing to that point. It was meant to be a future project idea anyway (with some kinda rip art, etc). In fact, even now, I'm not even sure if custom collections is a thing yet. I just know it's "in the works".

TMNTturtlguy · 24 Jul 2017, 03:07

@hansolo77 I have added it to the list of future things to work on! for now though you can update the theme and test it out when you have a chance. As for the custom collections, @pjft released the testing version today Please Test Creating Custom Collections

hansolo77 · 24 Jul 2017, 03:24

^_^ Cool, something to play with when I get home from work tomorrow!

pjft · 24 Jul 2017, 08:04

@TMNTturtlguy Hi! Just updated the theme, and noticed that the custom-collectionsfolder is named custom-collection in the theme, that's why I wasn't finding it.

Thought I'd give you a heads up, as it's missing a "s" :)

Hope you're doing well!

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 14:28

All versions of the theme have been updated to per @pjft to modify the folder name for custom-collections to match his new features in ES. The update is available through es_themes on the retropie menu.

meleu · 25 Jul 2017, 14:46

@hansolo77 maybe filtering games with cheevos instead of creating a new "ES system" (or collection) would be neater.
Let's see what ES hackers have to say about what I posted here.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:22

Excellent looking theme. I have experienced one issue though that I can't seem to fix.

I'm using the most recent version of this theme and have experienced freezing at random points when scrolling through game lists. RetroPie will either completely freeze and force me to hard reset the Raspberry Pi device, or semi freeze preventing me from continuing to scroll through the game list. Scraped video previews will continue to play until i manually restart the device.

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 device overclocked to (1350) with more than adequate cooling, and have not experienced this problem with other themes.

TMNTturtlguy · 25 Jul 2017, 21:27

@beastmode when did you last update ES? I have not experienced this myself related to the theme and have not yet seen others with the same issue. One thought might be that your image, video and marquee file sizes that you have scraped might be a larger file size, and since this theme places all of those images in each view, ES is having a hard time loading the images as you scroll to each game, thus freezing up your system as you scroll.

Another question is what you are using to play your video? Are you using the OMX player? I know you are not having issues with the video itself, but if you are not using OMX, try that as it uses less resources to run the videos.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:36

@tmntturtlguy I last updated RetroPie and ES about a week ago. I'm using the OMX player as well. I used Sselph’s scraper to scrape all of the image and video files. I was messing around with the ES VRAM settings though, perhaps that has something to do with it?

pjft · 25 Jul 2017, 21:39

@beastmode set VRAM to 80. Restart ES.

If the permanent freezes/crashes happen again do report back.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:41

@pjft Will do. Thanks.

beastmode · 25 Jul 2017, 21:48

@pjft VRAM set to 80mb but I'm still experiencing freezing. I'm unable to scroll but I am able to ssh into the Pi and reboot the device.

I tried with the 4:3 theme and it seems to crash with this reason:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'char const*'
Abort