Beta Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi
(2019-07-19, 10:54)Mysticalp Wrote:
(2019-07-18, 15:25)chrisism Wrote:
(2019-07-18, 14:56)Mysticalp Wrote: I think that's a good change!

On a related note to art changes... I am doing some work with skins lately and I was trying to show game boxes. Do you know if there's any way to know if the game boxes for the screen I'm in are horizontal (like SNES), square (like PSX) or vertical (like most others)?

It's not a very important thing tbh, but I think it would make the skin use space a bit better. Thanks!
If you find a good solution let us know Wink
This is an special issue we have been playing around with. @Rufoo has some solutions for this with his skin Lyrebird .
I did some support and mods for this in Titan MediaBrowser MOD. What I did was using the platform of the launcher to determine what the default view type would be (snes box, normal poster etc.) and made it so that users could override this default view through settings.

Check these code pieces:
https://github.com/chrisism/skin.titan.m...ns.xml#L45
https://github.com/chrisism/skin.titan.m....xml#L1545
https://github.com/chrisism/skin.titan.m...x.xml#L395 
Thanks @chrisism ! That's brilliant. I never thought of anything remotely as good as that.
I am going to play around with that code and do something similar.

What I am working on is to mod the Aura skin as I wanted to have a view with the game boxes and some info on the same screen. I'll modify it so that it uses the shapes in the way you have them there.

We have been thinking a lot about the artwork aspect ratio and I believe the proper solution is for Kodi core to give the aspect ration using infolabels. True, for most cases you can guess the aspect ratio of assets if you know the platform (for example, all megadrive boxes are rectangular portrait) but it is not always the case (arcade artwork aspect ratio is totally random). For Movies, TV Shows and Music the aspect ratio was not important: more or less all movies have rectangular AR, all CDs have same AR, all Blue Rays boxes have the same AR, etc. However, for games the assets are VERY heterogeneous which means the skin must adapt to the aspect ratio in order to display artwork correctly.

When I had time I will file a feature request to the core developers and see if they support the aspect ratio of images in Matrix.
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