[Recalbox 9] Theme Next Pixel

[Michael Lajoie]

Bonjour, la version 1.3 sera t'elle dispo dans la journée ? Je suis pressé d'essayer les "customs scrap..."

[vivingerald]

@myst ya I agreed your sentence.

[mYSt]

Last teasing before release...

[luc1anocruz]

@myst I want!

[flaker38]

Trop top !
Je suppose qu'il faut scrapper toutes les images individuellement pour avoir ce rendu (boxart, logo...).
Peux-tu nous dire ce qu'il faut récupérer ?

[mYSt]

@flaker38 il faudra rescraper les jeux en utilisant un outil externe style Skraper, pour ceux qu'il ne le connaissent essayer de vous familiariser avec, l'esssayer c'est l'adopter.

[ViRuS-MaN]

On pourra utiliser aussi arrm pour ton thème ???

[mYSt]

@virus-man Aucune idée, jamais tester Arrm mais s'il accepte les mix custom ça doit pas poser de soucis

[Michael Lajoie]

@myst Bonjour, quand pense tu le mettre à dispo?

[Michael Lajoie]

@myst Pour Arrm il me semble que la structure du fichier différe légèrement (j'utilise les 2, mais j'ai une préférence pour Skraper).

[ViRuS-MaN]

il prends les custom mix et s il faut on verras avec @nexusone13 pour qu il voit ce qu il peux faire

[Scavy]

@myst Vivement ta prochaine release t'assures man ^^

[mYSt]

Pour Arrm il faut demander @nexusone13, de ce que j'ai vu de sa video tutorial je n'ai pas l'impression qu'il soit possible d'utiliser des mix custom mais je peux me tromper.

[bloodshine]

@mYSt vraiment un superbe travail une date concernant la release ? hate de mettre à jour

[flaker38]

@myst Justement, j'utilise Skraper (qui est un super outil au passage) et je me demandais s'il fallait faire un mix custom dans Skraper ou bien skraper tous les types d'images pour que ton thème fasse son propre mix custom.

[Scavy]

@myst Faudra que tu nous fasses un mini tuto quand tu releases pour simplifier les choses pour tous ^^

[mYSt]

@scavy c'est déjà fait ;), voici un extrait de la doc pour que ça soit clair pour tout le monde. Pour les non anglophone un google translate doit faire le taf

Installation

To scrap images using Next pixel custom mix you need to use a tool such as Skraper. I won't explain much about Skraper as there is already all the info needed around and you may get help from Skraper thread from Recalbox forum or from Discord. Once you are familiar with Skraper let's have a look on how to scrap using Next Pixel mix.

First you need to make sure Next Pixel theme is installed since custom mix files are install along with Next Pixel theme.

• Launch Skraper and select MEDIA tab.
• If any media exists remove them all using minus or scissors buttons on the left, then click plus buton to add a media.

• Select USER PROVIDED MIX from list box under your media and then browse to your Next Pixel theme installation folder and select data/mix/next_pixel.xml.

• Mix name should match your Next Pixel package, if you installed 1080p package mix name should be NEXT PIXEL MIX 1080, for 720p > NEXT PIXEL MIX 720, etc...

Warning this means that if you switch package later on you should scrap your games again, since each packages use an optimized mix for its resolution.
For Raspberry Pi users with low memory (2go or less) using 720p package, if you have memory issues you may reduce scrap image resolution. To do so resize images as following:

Don't forget to check Keep image ratio

• If you doesn't want to add videos you're done, just launch your scrap.
• If you want to add videos click plus buton to add a media and Select VIDEO from list box under your media.

[Scavy]

Au top notre @myst ^^

[flaker38]

@myst Thanks !

[mYSt]

v1.3 release

So here it is, new Next Pixel theme release, short changelog but lots of work here :). Here are the 2 new features from this release:

• Next Pixel theme now includes a custom Recalbox starting script to randomly select a game theme for each systems (if system has multiple game themes of course). Sometime it may be difficult to make a choice between all game themes available for a system, so using this script may be a good alternative as you will see a different image each time you start Recalbox. Please read documentation to get more info.
• Was teased for a long time now, Next Pixel theme now includes its own scraping mix to enhance your game screenshots and/or videos. Using this new mix is not mandatory but theme assumes you will use it and adjust its layout for it, so if you don't want to use Next Pixel mix you will have to disable this option from theme settings. Please read documentation to get more info and sorry, yes!, you have to scrap again ;).

Check updated original post for documentation and download links.

Enjoy!