2011-12-24, 10:25
st graveyard Wrote:Anyway, I have some more questions regarding screenshots. If you use the 4 small screenshots in the main view, I was wondering how you can add 4 in game screenshots there? I know you can configure the info view and the main view, that is not the problem. What I don't understand, when looking in this thread I see people who have 4 ingame shots in the main view, when going to the info screen, we have the box, cart, add ...It is possible but you need some handwork and tweaking of config.xml to achieve this.
I know that in RCB you can add an screenshot, a title shot, an action shot ... But what if you want 4 screenshots? How do you do this. Does this mean you have to link you screenshots to other fields for example in game shot to action, another to box, another to title, another to cart? And than add these to the main view? But what if you have a cart and box shot, you are not able to add this anymore? You understand my question?
1. Create subfolders for your additional screenshots (e.g. screen1, screen2, ...) and put your screenshots in there.
2. Add new FileType elements in config.xml FileTypes like this:
Code:
<FileTypes>
...
<FileType id="15" name="screen1">
<type>image</type>
<parent>game</parent>
</FileType>
<FileType id="16" name="screen2">
<type>image</type>
<parent>game</parent>
</FileType>
...
</FileTypes>
4. Add the pathes to your new FileTypes via Edit Rom Collection Dialog or just add them via config.xml.
A complete example of such a modified config.xml could look like this: link (not tested, just edited it like I think it should work).
st graveyard Wrote:Also, if you have scraped all your game info, can you re-scrape for screenshots and other pictures without overwriting the existing nfo files?Nfo files won't be overwritten once they exist. Also the info in database may not be updated if you set the update flag to false: Allow update.
st graveyard Wrote:Is there a way to scrape for more than one screenshot in XBMC? If not, where do you get your shots? I use emumovies, but they also only have screenshot and title? Anybody any tips?No, atm this is not possible. I want to update this in future but this is not yet done. Sorry, no idea where to get them. Maybe somebody else can help.
st graveyard Wrote:Is it possible to configure the screenplacements of the shots per system? I don't think so?Yes, the image placing options can be set per Rom Collection. You could also add more ImagePlacing configurations (e.g. one per Rom Collection) if you like.
Note: I know this image placing thing is not the way XBMC usually handles display of your artwork. But I think once you understood how to use it, it is a good way to let RCB show your artwork the way you like it. Without editing any skin files and (more important) this configuration will stay in your userdata folder and remains valid when you update your skin or RCB.
st graveyard Wrote:Sorry for all the questions, I'm just a NOOB and want to fully understand and do the work right for the first time :-)Again, no problem. I like it much more if users come here and ask questions or give critique than that they just vanish and say RCB is so hard to use or does not work for them.
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