Raspberry Pi Focused - SimplePi Theme

[grippie]

I wanted to leverage all of the nice videos that i acquired when i built my bartop so i switched from ES to AM. The problem that I found was that the performance was pretty sluggish on most of the nicer themes, even on a Pi 3. I wanted to make my own that removed all of the heavy lifting of the transitions and heavy code.

I did find that I had to downgrade all of my videos to 30fps to get them to run properly on the Pi. I paid for a subscriptions to emumovies to get the 480p movies, however they are 60fps. Most old games ran at 30fps anyways so no biggie they still look really good.

I am working on a dynamic positioning of the boxart (as you can see with the super nintendo, i need to reposition and shrink it a bit). I haven't found anything that works just yet with detecting the boxart size and calculating the top left corner based on the width/height of the differing systems boxart sizes. something like dividing the height of the screen in half for Y and subtracting half of the artwork height but it doesn't seem to work this way.
boxart.y = flh/2 - boxart.texture_height/2;

[ptiwee]

Hi grippie,

Have you noticed the note in the documentation ?
Each call to texture_height should be placed in a callback function since the picture is not loaded before (texture_height is equal to 0).
Also if you resized your picture it seems that you have to compute the ratio yourself.

I hope it helps

[grippie]

Hi grippie,

Have you noticed the note in the documentation ?
Each call to texture_height should be placed in a callback function since the picture is not loaded before (texture_height is equal to 0).
Also if you resized your picture it seems that you have to compute the ratio yourself.

I hope it helps

Thanks yea i did see that and assumed that was my issue since im using maintain aspect ratio and the true size ( not scaled). Was hoping there would be a way to dynamically place based on size since someone else might have different size boxarts. 

I thought about just doing an

If (fe.game_info(Info.System) == "Super Nintendo")
// set x and y coords

[ptiwee]

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve.
Maybe you can simply use fixed width and fixed height, and use preserve_aspect_ratio to keep the flyer inside a centered box? Or you want the SNES flyers to be wider than then other ones ?

[grippie]

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve.
Maybe you can simply use fixed width and fixed height, and use preserve_aspect_ratio to keep the flyer inside a centered box? Or you want the SNES flyers to be wider than then other ones ?

Ahh genius. I didn't realize that setting a static width + height as a "bounding box" with aspect_ratio = true would give me what I want. Thanks!

[scout43]

Hey grippie!

 do you have a working copy of this theme? I have been looking for something just like this for my RPI. Thanks!

[Freakadude]

Looks nice and clean.

[clewis]

Looks amazing!

[nyislanders91]

Is this theme available? ? Looks fantastic.  Great work.