The Great Themes Collection for Attract-Mode Plus [Beta]

[Mark Norville]

I would wait and see what Yaron says, he might like the idea, he might not.

I just gave my point of view, but as it is not my theme, it has nothing to do with me, it is down to the theme creator.

It was good of you to ask first, rather than setting up a GH and not asking. So just see what Yaron says when he is on next.

Regards

Mark

[Yaron2019]

I try your beta 2 and Im having a problem and the theme are not showing up on the display screen
here video I made to show you that none the display is showing up on attrack mode plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsZ7PWukaac

when you run it with attract-console.exe, what do you see in the console?

[tsaylor]

Usually when the theme won't show up like that, there's a script error to be found in the log file (or console). From your video I see the important part, the script error:

"the index 'ReadTextFile' does not exist"

I'm not familiar with the specific issue, but I think ReadTextFile is part of the "file" module, which I think would normally be located in modules/file.nut. Maybe there is a problem with that module, or it isn't where it is expected to be.

[JonahUK]

Here another video from start to finish with the attract mode consoles open and I am not expert on reading the error code of AM + so I made a video to show you the command line showing on the left side and  AM+ Screen on the right side while I was setting up the theme for the mame emulator.

Here the video to show what is truly happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ks86WSc6w


   Im a noob when come to figure thing out for AM+ but some how just wont display the theme anymore. I don't know how all this stuff work for AM+ reading logs

That video doesn't show an attractmode install?
Even for attractmode+, you still need the base install of attractmode as attractmode+ is just two exe files (main and console) and nothing else.

[Yaron2019]

Here another video from start to finish with the attract mode consoles open and I am not expert on reading the error code of AM + so I made a video to show you the command line showing on the left side and  AM+ Screen on the right side while I was setting up the theme for the mame emulator.

Here the video to show what is truly happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ks86WSc6w


   Im a noob when come to figure thing out for AM+ but some how just wont display the theme anymore. I don't know how all this stuff work for AM+ reading logs

You need to install the full AM/AM+ package and copy ontop of it the collection.
You can't use the collection as a standalone.

[tom75000]

Hello everybody,

just a question : I tried this theme with AM+ and that don"t work. I tried with AM and for the moment it's work fine.
Can I use it with AM without problem?

[Yaron2019]

Hello everybody,

just a question : I tried this theme with AM+ and that don"t work. I tried with AM and for the moment it's work fine.
Can I use it with AM without problem?

Here you are saying it is working...
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3289.msg29854#msg29854

[jedione]

I think his head is just spinning a bit is all.. Lol

[tom75000]

Hi,

In fact the version beta works perfectly on my pc with AM but not AM+.

[tom75000]

But I just have a question. In the favorite display I jaded fews Snes and gameboy games. The snes logo is displayed under the snap but not for the game boy game. Do you know how fix it?
Thank you

[Beto72]

Hi
The layouts are not working for me.
On the console shows a script error.

[Yaron2019]

You need to add the AM+ exe files to an existing AM installation.
This error means you do not have all the modules that come built-in AM. It has nothing to do with the collection.

[tom75000]

During my test I haded too some Sega CD games. So all the system's logo are displayed expect the game boy. Do you know what?

[Yaron2019]

During my test I haded too some Sega CD games. So all the system's logo are displayed expect the game boy. Do you know what?

If it's not a naming issue on your side I have no idea.
Check that all the names of the gameboy platform are the same as the gameboy logo png

[spilinek]

I built attractplus with the latest code on Ubuntu. When I launch attractplus I see font warnings in the console like:

Code: [Select]

! NOTE: Relative path to BigSquareDots not provided. Font found in a subfolder. This may be slower.
Ran below commands from the ~/.attract directory:
find . -type f -name "*.otf"
find . -type f -name "*.ttf"

The theme has 109 *.oft and 70 *.ttf files. Looks like there's a lot of repeats too. I think it would be more efficient to create ~/.attract/fonts directory and place all of the font files there. Then update the layout.nut files with the relative path. For example I updated layouts/At-The-Arcade/layout.nut:

fe.layout.font = "fonts/BigSquareDots"

I moved the BigSquareDots.ttf from the layout directory into the new fonts directory and I no longer see the warnings.

BTW the warnings come from this submission: https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/commit/ed109597696a72cc375ac5755543eeca96ec366b