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tonesmalone

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GLaDOS
« on: December 27, 2016, 05:51:09 PM »
Introducing GLaDOS.

The idea behind this theme is to provide a unified look across the entire setup, which lights up when media is available but is completely usable when it isn't. The theme shows a system image, manufacturer logo, year and system type on the main menu, and box art, cart art, rating and genre on the sub menu. It uses a logo based wheel, which simply shows text when no logo is available.

GLaDOS was originally adapted from the Flatio theme, and contains some art assets from that theme.

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SCREENSHOTS
- Main Menu


- System Menu


VIDEO
https://youtu.be/DBoL_jQcshI

SETUP / DOWNLOADS

- Github
https://github.com/nicktones/GLaDOS-16x9

- Latest Release (v2.0)
https://github.com/nicktones/GLaDOS-16x9/archive/v2.0.zip

- Collection Info Files
This is a set of over 180 collection info.conf files, each with the system type, manufacturer and year included.  Simply drop them into the collection folder and the theme will pick up the info from there.  Thanks to dougan78 for creating these.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44d0lVcmUwc0JfNUE

- Manufacturer Logos
This is an updated set of manufacturer logos, from those included with the RetroFE release.  This is not yet complete, and logos aren't as high a quality as they could be - please post if you have better versions of these logos.  Add these to retrofe\collections\_common\medium_artwork\manufacturer\

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44VEN5SzVCaHVrVjA

- Score Logos
This is an updated set of score logos, from those included with the RetroFE release. These images are not mine, but fit the theme nicely.  Add these to retrofe\collections\_common\medium_artwork\score\

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44UzdKUEdWZkpFTkk

- System Stories & Device Images
This is collection of system device images, along with a story file for each system.  The device image and the story text files are all in system sub folders and are named device.png and story.txt for drop in use with RetroFE.  Mostly speaking the story files are the first couple of paragraphs from wikipedia, other sources were also used.
So far there are 120 story files completed, and the rest are being worked on.  System images aren't complete, again please post if you have better examples or missing images.

I personally have these in my Media folder - Media\System Images\<system_name>\ - you will need to update the collection settings.conf option, media.system_artwork.  It seems RetroFE looks in this place for system images and system story files - provided they are named story.txt and device.png. The batch file and replace tool linked below is useful for mass editing collection options.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44cnU4NTBhbzJFR2s

Batch File and Replace Tool
This batch find and replace tool is useful for setting paths in multiple collections in one go - https://findandreplace.codeplex.com

CHANGELOG
v2.0 (17/04/2017)
- Refreshed visuals

v1.3 (19/03/2017)
- Fixed game meta data text centre align

v1.2 (19/03/2017)
- Cart image size and position tweaks
- Number of players and score icon added to game screen

v1.1 (29/01/2017)
- loadFontSize added to text fields.  Text is now much smoother.  (Thanks to ryuuji)

v1.0 (21/01/2017)
- Initial release
« Last Edit: April 17, 2017, 04:13:33 PM by tonesmalone »

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Re: GLaDOS - Flatio Mod
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2016, 08:38:26 PM »
I like it.  Nice work! 

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Re: GLaDOS - Flatio Mod
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2016, 08:50:25 PM »
Same here. Hope to see it finished soon. 😀

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Re: GLaDOS - Flatio Mod
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2017, 11:57:55 PM »
Pretty much got this sorted now. Last thing I want to add is some scrolling text on the main menu. Can anyone point me to how I can do this?

Ideally I'd like to have this text come from story files in my base media folder - Media\Stories\MAME\story.txt - for example.


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Re: GLaDOS - Flatio Mod
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2017, 12:05:19 AM »
Here is the story code I used in my 8bit theme

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<!-- Scrolling text containing the vertical story -->
    <reloadableScrollingText type="story" alpha="0" x="70" y="665" width="1240" height="170"   fontSize="50" loadFontSize="50" fontColor="FAFAFA" direction="vertical" scrollingSpeed="15" startPosition="0" alignment="justified" startTime="5" endTime="1" alpha="1" layer="4">
        <onExit>
            <set duration=".00001">
                <animate type="alpha" to="0"/>
            </set>
        </onExit>
        <onMenuEnter menuIndex="1">
            <set duration=".25">
                <animate type="alpha" to="1" />
            </set>
        </onMenuEnter>
        <onMenuExit menuIndex="1">
            <set duration=".00001">
                <animate type="alpha" to="0"/>
            </set>
        </onMenuExit>
        <onHighlightEnter menuIndex="1">
            <set duration=".25">
                <animate type="alpha" to="1" />
            </set>
        </onHighlightEnter>
        <onHighlightExit menuIndex="1">
            <set duration=".0000000001">
                <animate type="alpha" to="0" />
            </set>
        </onHighlightExit>
    </reloadableScrollingText>

Just edit the appropriate coordinates values and you should be good to go ;)

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Re: GLaDOS - Flatio Mod
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2017, 08:49:53 AM »
Do you want a horizontal or vertical scrolling text? Examples of both can be found in Aeon Nox, and info in the manual.

For the Main menu, it will normally check the following files:
collections/Main/medium_artwork/story/MAME.txt
collections/MAME/system_artwork/story.txt

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2017, 06:12:52 PM »
Finally got round to getting this to version 1.0.  Updated the first post with more info and download links etc.

Any advice on making this better would be gratefully received!

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2017, 01:36:04 PM »
180 collections! Wow!

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2017, 11:08:00 PM »
All links now added to the first post - google drive is still populating, shouldn't take too long.

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2017, 04:22:16 AM »
Good job. Thanks  :)

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2017, 08:41:22 AM »
I'll give it a try, and let you know. :) Let me know when it's ready for release so I can add it to the download page as well.

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2017, 03:14:07 PM »
I'll give it a try, and let you know. :) Let me know when it's ready for release so I can add it to the download page as well.

Awesome.  Cheers Pieter.

I'm pretty happy with it, so far.  So once people have a chance to test, etc. then it would be good to add to download page.

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2017, 10:56:09 AM »
Anyone had a chance to test this yet?


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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2017, 11:31:57 AM »
Anyone had a chance to test this yet?

Not yet, sorry. Been busy getting 0.7.20b4 ready. It's in the planning though. :)

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Re: GLaDOS
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2017, 07:17:52 PM »
It works very well, fast and uses a few requirements to show everything.


Where did you get the info.conf files?



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