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Themes / Re: Hyperspin Theme Mode [Release v2.0]

« on: April 24, 2020, 06:47:12 AM »

I am attaching to this message the layout file with an option to turn off the wheel fadeout effect.
Download it and replace the current layout.nut file you have in the Hyperspin Theme Mode folder.

Then run attractmode, go into the theme options and set 'Enable Wheel Fadeout' to 'No'.
Test and see result.

If there is no change, go into the theme options and turn 'Set perspective' to 4:3.
Test and see result.

If there is no change, in theme options turn 'Enable screen bezel' to 'No'
Test and see result.

If there is no change, turn 'Enable hyperspin extra animations' to 'No'
Test and see result.

Also, what version of attractmode are you using?
Tell me what happened.

Sorry for the late reply !  I tried all your suggestions but the lag was still here.

BUT I managed to make the lag go away by using the custom attract mode package made for the OGST debian image. This custom package use the v2.4 of Attract mode but for some reason it has much better performance than the version I installed myself. I also discovered that all softwares on OGST image are custom package made by the creator of this image so he had to make some "magical" optimizations to make anything run smoothly or something like that....

However since I now use a earlier version of attract, the theme had some bugs but I managed to fix them. I put them here in case someone encounters these problems as well:

• Video didn't appear at first..
   Remove any reference of surface_snap (Don't forget to also remove it on the FadeArt method)
   By doing this, it display the video but its size can be messed up.   
   Since I only need one size, I used the layout size => snap = FadeArt("themes", 0, 0, flw, flh);
• The .swf animations weren't working so I converted them to .gif.  the press start and next game can be find attached to this post

With theses fixes, your theme finally runs perfectly on my setup !  Next step is now to implement the main menu theme you made.

Thanks again for your help !

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Themes / Re: Hyperspin Theme Mode [Release v2.0]

« on: April 15, 2020, 09:20:12 AM »

Thanks for the fast reply !

I tried to remove only the themes like you said but the lag still seems here. I made a new video that show how it behave. As you can see, even attract menu has some lag when I turn the monitor static effect off.. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aj6usYsTg8lxz1BXiP2w8zBN0b8GXw8g/view

Also the press start and next game image are upside down 

For the video format, I also read that attract mode is not very fan of MPEG 4 format so rencoding the videos can be a solution. I will looking more into it.

But I really don't get why your theme is slow on my Odroid because other than that, videos run smoothly on VLC and I don't have any lag problem with the games...

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Themes / Re: Hyperspin Theme Mode [Release v2.0]

« on: April 14, 2020, 02:25:27 AM »

Hi,

First of all, thank you for your amazing work !

Sadly the theme is very laggy on my setup. Here's a video that demonstrates how laggy it is on my Naomi cabinet:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iHlzfv5ubBos9aflnOBU96B4-jGfKurH/view

I tried to remove all the animations (including the wheel) and modules on your layout and while it's reduce the lag, it's still not perfect.

I also tried to reduce quality and fps of the video but it doesn't seems to change much.

For my setup, I use Odroid XU4 with the OGST image (Debian Jessie) connected to a Naomi cabinet (4:3). As for the videos, I use the HQ version from emumovies

Do you have any ideas/tips to remove this lag ?