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Artwork & Layouts => Share your theme => Topic started by: dougan78 on January 02, 2017, 08:09:27 PM
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Video: https://youtu.be/VMw9F-YTMIk
Download: http://retrofe.nl/download/download-themes/
Thanks for checking it out.
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Nice. Keep it up and keep them going :P
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Nice take on my wip, glad someone found it useful.
I was gonna do static but it means the video being in the same place for each theme which I didn't want so I used full screen video files instead.
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Nice take on my wip, glad someone found it useful.
I was gonna do static but it means the video being in the same place for each theme which I didn't want so I used full screen video files instead.
Yeah, I didnt want as much moving around stuff. Just the boxes and carts will slide off and on. So thanks for the good base. I used the fading wheel on system layouts as I liked that too.
Cheers!
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Nice work. :) Looking forward to the end result.
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Just out of curiosity: the videos looks a bit choppy here and there. Is that just the recording or does RetroFE really run like that for you?
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Just out of curiosity: the videos looks a bit choppy here and there. Is that just the recording or does RetroFE really run like that for you?
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I was dumping a 2gb psd to png files and recording. I will up a new vid soon as that export is done.
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Here is an updated video: https://youtu.be/huHFX-dB5xI
Added Box/cart sliding animations.
Added Text bar (Game Name, Game Year, Manufacturer)
Coming along. I need to add my other layouts in however I am happy over all.
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Here is another sampler I have it close to where I want it:
https://youtu.be/1wyl_cRuYnc
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Ok I have it mostly where I want it. I say mostly because if I keep going it will be forever and a week before I am done. I should be mostly good. I would call it version .5 at this point.
Layouts included:
Amstrad CPC
Arcade Classics
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Atari ST
Bally Astrocade
Casio PV-1000
ColecoVision
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga
Commodore Amiga CD32
Commodore CDTV
Emerson Arcadia 2001
Entex Adventure Vision
Fairchild Channel F
Fujitsu FM Towns
GCE Vectrex
Magnavox Odyssey 2
Mattel Intellivision
Microsoft MS-DOS
NEC PC Engine
NEC PC Engine-CD
NEC PC-FX
NEC SuperGrafx
NEC TurboGrafx-16
NEC TurboGrafx-CD
Nintendo 64
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Famicom
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo Virtual Boy
OpenBOR
Panasonic 3DO
Philips CD-i
Philips VG 5000
RCA Studio II
Sega 32x
Sega CD
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis
Sega Master System
Sega Saturn
Sega SG-1000
Sharp X68000
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
SNK Neo Geo CD
SNK Neo Geo Pocket
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sony Playstation
Sony PlayStation 2
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
VTech CreatiVision
Watara Supervision
WoW Action Max
I was happy to combine all my arcade related wheels this go around to my new Arcade Classics Layout. No more people asking me what is Model 2, Daphne, etc...
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Updated Subject. Updated post 1 with screenshots of all the layouts. Updated system layouts to have the wheel behind the box art. Updated Atari ST to fix Border. Shrunk the controller on Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Fixed issue with main video border on Casio PV-1000. Changed the Atari Lynx Main characters. Reused the mainconsole image for Arcadia 2001 for the systemconsole image as the systemconsole image was too low resolution. Updated download here:
<see post 1>
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Updated Subject. Updated post 1 with screenshots of all the layouts.
Looks like the forum is cutting off half of the screenshot. It would probably be a better idea to have them in an imgur album and post a link to that so the images aren't cutoff and the page takes forever to load trying to load all those images.
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Well I just zoomed my browser out to see the whole thing :)
I updated it to be in 1 album instead and put a link to the album on imgur. Seemed like the forum section was periodically not loading possibly becasue I had 128 images in 1 post that were 1920x1080. Woops. Yeah yeah, I am not good with video so screenshots will do check post 1!
Cheers!
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Great theme/layout! It's very polished and looks great.
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Great job man. Thanks
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Looking great. :) Let me know when it's complete so I can test it, and place it on the themes download page?
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Test away and add to downloads at your will captain!
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Let me know when you consider it finished so I can test it, and perhaps put it on the theme download page. :)
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Let me know when you consider it finished so I can test it, and perhaps put it on the theme download page. :)
I consider it finished. Test and add on the download page please. Thanks you!
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Will do. 😀
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I made a small change in the menu setup by adding a menu for each index (0-2); your current setup didn't work for all collections, and added it to the theme download page.
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I made a small change in the menu setup by adding a menu for each index (0-2); your current setup didn't work for all collections, and added it to the theme download page.
Thank you very much. I will check it out. This was my first time making layouts for retrofe so getting use to all the options.
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Is there a page up down animation? I would like to have the box images move off the screen and back on with paging up and down which gets used alot along with letter down up. If that is not currently possible that would be a nice feature to add thanks.
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Is there a page up down animation? I would like to have the box images move off the screen and back on with paging up and down which gets used alot along with letter down up. If that is not currently possible that would be a nice feature to add thanks.
Not a separate animation at the moment; it just activates onHighlightExit/Enter.
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Is there a page up down animation? I would like to have the box images move off the screen and back on with paging up and down which gets used alot along with letter down up. If that is not currently possible that would be a nice feature to add thanks.
Not a separate animation at the moment; it just activates onHighlightExit/Enter.
Oh well then I guess I will make those a slide on and off thing. Thanks
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Here is my system box section:
<reloadableImage type="artwork_front" x="1578" y="687" alpha="0" xOrigin="center" yOrigin="center" layer="14">
<onEnter>
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="alpha" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onEnter>
<onExit>
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="xOffset" from="0" to="600" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onExit>
<onMenuEnter menuIndex="0">
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="alpha" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onMenuEnter>
<onMenuExit menuIndex="0">
<set duration=".25" menuIndex="0">
<animate type="xOffset" from="0" to="600" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onMenuExit>
<onHighlightEnter menuIndex="0">
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="xOffset" from="600" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onHighlightEnter>
<onHighlightExit menuIndex="0">
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="xOffset" from="0" to="600" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onHighlightExit>
<onMenuScroll menuIndex="0">
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="xOffset" from="0" to="600" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onMenuScroll>
</reloadableImage>
Is there a way to make the box not slide off if you hold down the page up or page down? Like keep the box off the screen until you stop in the next menu item. As in it repeats the animation over and over if you hold the button for page up or down. If you tap the button it works great.
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Not at the moment. Since page up/down is currently a single action rather than a scroll, it immediately starts (and finishes) the onHighlightEnter animation. The menu scroll waits for the scrolling animation to complete first. I'd have to give some serious thought on how to best implement a page up/down scroll without starting an animation.
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Not at the moment. Since page up/down is currently a single action rather than a scroll, it immediately starts (and finishes) the onHighlightEnter animation. The menu scroll waits for the scrolling animation to complete first. I'd have to give some serious thought on how to best implement a page up/down scroll without starting an animation.
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Add it to your list then. ;) Thanks much for looking!
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Not at the moment. Since page up/down is currently a single action rather than a scroll, it immediately starts (and finishes) the onHighlightEnter animation. The menu scroll waits for the scrolling animation to complete first. I'd have to give some serious thought on how to best implement a page up/down scroll without starting an animation.
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What if you change the onHighlightEnter value ? instead of from 0 to 600 => from 600 to 600 ...
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Not at the moment. Since page up/down is currently a single action rather than a scroll, it immediately starts (and finishes) the onHighlightEnter animation. The menu scroll waits for the scrolling animation to complete first. I'd have to give some serious thought on how to best implement a page up/down scroll without starting an animation.
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What if you change the onHighlightEnter value ? instead of from 0 to 600 => from 600 to 600 ...
Why would that help?
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Because it moves the box off the screen. It is interesting and I will probably stick with that it's better than the same box sliding off and on repeatedly. You tend to hold page down or letter jump alot due to there not being a search function yet.
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Why would that help?
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Because if you set the animation to a fixed position (600) when that resets it won't animate basically :P but he can try to change it to 0 also on both values... I will try also and see
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the best I could do is this
<onHighlightEnter menuIndex="0">
<set duration=".25">
<animate type="xOffset" from="0" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onHighlightEnter>
it removes the slide in animation but it won't slide out anymore when using pageup/pagedown ... still visible still sliding out when scrolling :)
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Sounds like this could use its own animation or otherwise a better capture of holding the key, where the menu gets updated, but the animation doesn't start unless the key is released. I'll give it some thought.
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Have you thought about compressing the PNGs ? I tried 1 png from your layout on http://compresspng.com/ and here is the result (auto compress, no manual settings)
(http://i.imgur.com/SDvjrDV.jpg)
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Have you thought about compressing the PNGs ? I tried 1 png from your layout on http://compresspng.com/ and here is the result (auto compress, no manual settings)
(http://i.imgur.com/SDvjrDV.jpg)
No, because everyone that sees the setup says wow. Look at the quality of the images when they are browsing. I could test though as I did adjust all the layouts for the page down and added amstrad gx4000. So compression may help load times, thoughy it's fast compared to nox as is.
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Ofc I did not mean that you ll have to compromise quality :P I prefer quality also it's just some images can have the same picture quality at a lower file size :)
was just a thought
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I am running the all the images through PNGGauntlet Default Settings right now to test. That program you can just drag the whole layout folder and it will compress them all and overwrite the original files. It is not getting the 400k to 150k. But it got some space shaved off.
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Cool :)
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Saved 10% overall. Looks good still.
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Thanks for theme 8)
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I modified a little the default theme for personal use
(http://i68.tinypic.com/2yzbtr8.png)
do you know how to fade the pointer
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I modified a little the default theme for personal use
(http://i68.tinypic.com/2yzbtr8.png)
do you know how to fade the pointer
You would want to change the pointer image code to this:
<image src="images/SystemPointer.png" alpha="1" x="0" y="0" width="stretch" height="stretch" layer="11">
<onIdle>
<set duration="4">
<animate type="alpha" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
</onIdle>
</image>
That will have the pointer fade out in sync with the wheel. Play with the duration if you want to have it fade out at a different rate.
Cheers!
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Thanks for your help is working very nice 8)
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I made a pointer for this theme (removed the blue one for main menu)
(http://i68.tinypic.com/xnb3u9.png)
If someone want the pointer here is the link https://mega.nz/#!IMkjhJba!WWH6ArLcnrOfYbj3bt2KWezyJ3k-yR6heS8UU6rt8A0
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Nice! Will probably include that in the 1.1 update as well, never liked the blue one.
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So i have some problem with main menu theme, the trasition from theme to theme is up to 3 sec can someone help with some advice
Thanks
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On my setup it is about 1 second between switching menu items on the main menu and i would say around .5 on a system theme.
Computer:
500gb SSD
i5 3rd Gen 3.4Ghz
8gb memory
Nvidia Quadro K2000 Video Card.
No virus scan.
Test disabling virus scan? What are your specs? I will be posting an updated theme soon that features a few updates. One of the updates is the images have been compressed to reduce size some. For instance the Arcade classics theme is about 5 megs now is the updated one is 3.95megs instead. Thanks for checking it out.
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A major factor here is SSD/HDD speed vs file size. Just look at your directories to see how many MBs need to be loaded, and then factor in your storage speed. Scrolling on my external HDD is much much slower than on my internal SSD. My MAME set on Aeon Nox also scrolled a lot faster after I reduced the flyers to about 500x500 pixels.
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My pc
CPU AMD 3.2GHZ
8GB Ram
AMD Radeon R9 200 series video card
Antivirus don't scan retrofe folder and retrofe is add as a game so no scan when working
The size of HDD is 3TB with 2TB empty
For systems is working ok and i use box (500x680) and cart (512x512) and i have no problem
I will try to reduce size of the artwork and add some animation
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Version 1.1 Update:
Ran all images through pngquant and reduced entire layout size from ~200 megs to ~92 megs. May help with loading on slower systems.
Added additional wheel menu indexes to support an additional submenu layer.
Removed blue pointer from main menu and system themes in favor of Retrofe Pointer
added Gun Games theme
fixed letter jumping cart and box images jumping
Will need Pieter to test and update downloads section but link above should work for the time being.
See post 1 for download location.
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I've updated the version in the Download section. Thanks for the update. :)
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Thank you for updating the download. I cleaned up the thread of all download links. I posted a new video in post 1 or you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/VMw9F-YTMIk
I also cleaned up all download links in the thread so the only place to download this layout is from the themes section of the site. Thanks much for hosting!
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This is really nice. Would you be willing to add a spot for number of players? I could always do the modification myself, but I figured I would ask anyway.
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This is really nice. Would you be willing to add a spot for number of players? I could always do the modification myself, but I figured I would ask anyway.
Where ya thinking?
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It's your theme, so if you do decide to add it, I'm sure you'll pick the best possible place. Anywhere is good for me
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So I am testing my theme on linux/rpi and running into issues.
I get main menu videos fine. But I am not getting videos per game/per system. At first I thought it was a basemediapath thing but that wasnt it. Maybe someone can help me.
retrofe install location: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retrofe/
the layout.xml uses this line for the videos:
<!-- System Video -->
<reloadableVideo imageType="screenshot" alpha="1" x="584" y="223" height="602" width="778" layer="6"/>
The settings.conf for the system has this for video:
media.video = %BASE_MEDIA_PATH%\%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%\medium_artwork\video
I am testing atari 7800 and the videos are there in this path:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retrofe/collections/Atari 7800/medium_artwork/video
The videos match the game names (cAseSenSITive) and all too. Not sure what my deal is. If anyone has an ideal I appreciate it
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Most likely this is a pi3 video codec issue. To test that theory, simply (temporarily) use one of the non-working videos as system video, and see if it works. If it does not, it's a codec issue.
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Most likely this is a pi3 video codec issue. To test that theory, simply (temporarily) use one of the non-working videos as system video, and see if it works. If it does not, it's a codec issue.
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Or vice versa, good idea
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Most likely this is a pi3 video codec issue. To test that theory, simply (temporarily) use one of the non-working videos as system video, and see if it works. If it does not, it's a codec issue.
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Or vice versa, good idea
So the same video on the main menu that plays fine does not play renamed as the rom name for the system. Not sure what my deal is. Any ideas?
Edit: I tested with the default 16x9 and AeonNox themes/layouts as well and no videos on the system menu as well. So maybe it is something related to the pi image I am using/test.
I dont see in the log where it(retrofe) loads the video, is there some where to find that?
I double checked the codecs of the vids too, the main menu and system ones use the same codec: avc1 mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC
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So the same video on the main menu that plays fine does not play renamed as the rom name for the system. Not sure what my deal is. Any ideas?
I'll need to check the code. I noticed the following line in the log.txt:
[2017-09-06 01:18:36] [INFO] [Configuration] Dump: "collections.Atari 7800.media.video" = "%BASE_MEDIA_PATH%\Atari 7800\medium_artwork\video"
As you can see, the %ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME% was expanded, but the %BASE_MEDIA_PATH% is not. I'll need to check if that gets expanded later in the code or not.
I also notice that \ is used in stead of / for path separation; I'm not sure if that could cause a problem on the pi.
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Retrospin Static 16x9 1.2 Released:
- Updated Main Menu layout to use mode commonlayout for images (allows for per item images of batch files)
- Moved Main menu images to their proper locations here: RetroSpin - Static 16x9\collections\_common\medium_artwork\<image type>\<SystemName>.png
- Updated System Layouts to have infobar.png as InfoBar.png matching the image case (linux doesnt like it when the case doesnt match and would show up missing on linux based systems)
https://mega.nz/#!N0cx3Z6T!aYJ5Fg65VwEgL14KJso5Wa6SlREdBFLBq3JuTkxjP9Y
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Retrospin Static 16x9 1.2 Released:
- Updated Main Menu layout to use mode commonlayout for images (allows for per item images of batch files)
- Moved Main menu images to their proper locations here: RetroSpin - Static 16x9\collections\_common\medium_artwork\<image type>\<SystemName>.png
- Updated System Layouts to have infobar.png as InfoBar.png matching the image case (linux doesnt like it when the case doesnt match and would show up missing on linux based systems)
https://mega.nz/#!N0cx3Z6T!aYJ5Fg65VwEgL14KJso5Wa6SlREdBFLBq3JuTkxjP9Y
The link is down. Doug can you share your files ?
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Retrospin Static 16x9 1.2 Released:
- Updated Main Menu layout to use mode commonlayout for images (allows for per item images of batch files)
- Moved Main menu images to their proper locations here: RetroSpin - Static 16x9\collections\_common\medium_artwork\<image type>\<SystemName>.png
- Updated System Layouts to have infobar.png as InfoBar.png matching the image case (linux doesnt like it when the case doesnt match and would show up missing on linux based systems)
https://mega.nz/#!N0cx3Z6T!aYJ5Fg65VwEgL14KJso5Wa6SlREdBFLBq3JuTkxjP9Y
The link is down. Doug can you share your files ?
It will take me a week I am out of town. The one on the download page will get you started until I get a chance to relink. Thanks for checking it out!
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Updated Link:
https://mega.nz/#!4fRhBazZ!UKEi6qti43CQw1guHX1CpPWamlTD8SZJ4XwzKuC7MDg
Thanks for your patience.
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Updated.
- add a couple more systems
- added alternate layout.xml for Main collection to fade wheel and pointer
- added alternate layout.xml for System collection to fade point with wheel.
- added instructions.txt to explain alternate layout.xmls files renaming the main one and copying the system one to all systems that you use if you use it.
https://dougan78.com/retrofe if you want the latest.
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New update looks great, is there a way to add firstLetter functionality to this theme? I wanted to have it on the left hand side by where the console images are on the game wheel.
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Thank Dougan78 for allowing me to mods your Theme :)
I will add more system (lot of work to add all my system), and change somes layout visual for art and cart + add first letter function since i like it too :) I had to modify the system border in 16/9 for my video, but the sub level is still in 4/3 for 4/3 system and 16/9 for 16/9 system.
I will share all the system i add in a google drive for those who want to use it in their RetroFE system.
Here a Xbox sample WIP, i'm not a designer but i'm training myself on these.
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I like it! Would probably remove the tm on Xbox logo
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I’d like to request permission to modify this theme for core as well. It’s almost completed. Have added a lot of features to it. Is this possible?
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Of course. My only request on mods that its not something that is to be sold and remains free. After all my 16x9 version is loosely based of the original RetroSpin by JonahUK(4x3 version with lots of animations), who saved me the trouble of having to make the wheel animation so thank you JonahUK. I will continue to make whatever I decide to do with this version available here as I am partial to what I have and like it the way it is. Although the request for the displaying the letter for where you are at on the wheel is intriguing to me so I may add that in the not too distant future. Plus I enjoy seeing what others come up with. Thanks!
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Hey Dougan, Thank you for your response. I have actually been working very closely with Jonah to get this theme migrated to CORE. I'm really excited to be able to bring these new features along with it. Thanks very much, and of course this would never be used for profit, this is for the gamers!
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Hello, i hope the OP doesn't mind or be offended with this, but i have been re-moding this skin/theme to my liking...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D30PMtsjIk
most of the content was changed, except some console layouts that i founded great to use... i really like this retrospin groove
but as i am relatively new to use retroFE it would be hard to start coding anything from scretch, so i just did use this as a template.
By the way, does anyone knows what arguments should i use to load games on Yabause? or yaba Sanshiro? i managed to run this emulator pretty stable at beautifull fullscreen 1080p and 60fps, most of the games i want, but it doesnt load with retroFE :(
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Very nice. I like what you came up with.