stigzler

Longest running thread with the fewest posts award? wtg with the persistence, troy.

Many happy returns.

Now that's a nice tag, Null. Great use of the overlays.

You tried over in byoac. Lots of hardware stuff there

Weeeee.... how good is this!!!! All me system grafx on...hmmm - what next..

EDIT: Aha! I'm in - 1.0.5 d/ling from OP. Hmmm... what am I doing wrong? Dl'd from OP - installed - showing as 1.0.4 in Plugin Manager. Run it. GameTagger.log: theme.xml:

Nope still Version 1.0.4 from the OP. Just wondering whether the version number on the zip filename or a small readme in the plugin folder itself with the version number could be helpful? Versioning = nightmare! Update: just tried via Plugin Downloader too - lists 1.0.5 as the version, but still at 1.0.4 following install.

Cheers - that'll be helpful. heh @ "teach a man to fish".... and he'll stop bothering you for bloody fish. Is the right version linked in the OP? Saying 1.0.5 on there, but unless I'm doing something wrong, the one Io download and instal is 1.0.4? Probably my mistake.

Ah! Derp! Thanks I was thinking the Emulator variable matched the actual emulator you were using - e.g. Project64 or PCSX2!! But it matches the system name!? To make sure name my layers correctly, precisely which field does the [emulator] variable match? Is it the first or second column in my emulator setup: (btw - on an aside - this has produced a new problem - how come some of my emus don't have anything in the "System" column? - Can't find anywhere in the emulator setup menus to set this!) Sorry to keep pestering, but enthusiastic for your plugin and want to use it to its full potential!

Ah, OK. So just trying to get my head around it... is there anyway to have a dynamic graphic based on the "System:" text of the card? For e.g. "System: Atari 7800" and having an overlay display a pic of the 7800 console as in example above? That Genesis image is sharp, btw

Ahhhhh!!! Perfect! Cheers Adultery! Yer a star. How do you make the best, better?!! This is fantastic. Is it possible to have a "System" wildcard too? I see it gets put on your card, so guess you can get it from GE? So, left with a task of pulling together a bank of pngs for systems, emulators, developers and catagories. This feels like a bit of a mammoth task and wonder if it's a job for the wonderful GE community? I wonder whether someone would help pitch in? My idea would be this. Have a centrally stored area for these pics - on the GE FTP server - then everyone can access, add and edit. I'm not sure if there's any copyright issues to this + how Tom would feel about it. If too much of a prob, could knock something together on google docs or dropbox. Proposed file structure something like this: >System >Large pics (full size versions) >Size 1 (dunno - like 200px width or something?) >Size 2 (etc etc) > User submitted variations >Stigzler >Adultery >Developer etc etc Guess would have to pull together list of all possible systems, developers and emulators too. Should be easy to do from the DATA folder in GE I also guess this may be useful for other things too. Anywhooos - cheers Adultery - yer a star as ever, and all my real-world plans to be productive today have just gone out the window!! Bring out the GIMP

Oooo - developer/manufacturer logos too! I'd be interested to know what variables you can get from GE... Here's what I'm picturing (with the text over the console, of course)...

No worries - just an idea. Thanks for all your hard work on this plugin! It's fab.

So... I think the template may be a little out. I had to make some adjustments + produced an amended template if useful to anyone. Attached. Set my mind whirring.. Adultery, I don't know if this is possible. Is there any way to make the overlay graphics dynamic? An example would be this in the xml: <bgl4img>Avengers\[system].png</bgl4img> then your plugin would insert the name of the system passed by GE, which would produce something like: <bgl4img>Avengers\playstation2.png</bgl4img> You get where I'm going with this, right? tag_template.xcf

Heh. Followi9jng on from a theme (great idea, Daz) Made this 'widescreen tag): Don't think I'll stick with it though - small monitors chop it up! Really proof of concept - and the overlay function works brill, Adultery (glass letters over the game info) I Wonder what's next?

The card looks great, Draco. Who's next?

So do tell me we can access other GE grpahics apart from the "Snap" for the other layers?

Dammit Adultery - will you give us chance to keep up!? It took me all day to think about what I'd do with ONE overlay, nemmind 6 at different levels!! Love it. The art of genuine, true praise is not dead.

Yerp - works a treat, thanks, Draco. Cheers Adultery too for the template Nothing like the macabre to inspire chaps of our ilk

How good is that! The devil, as ever, is in the detail.. wtg

Okies - cool - will work with that thanks chaps.

Android devices can play Dreamcast games!?

That's great Daz, thanks. Just need the text limits now - is that possible, Adultery? That is a box showing where the four extreme corners of the text can reach - or even pixel co-ordinates?

Thanks Dazzle. Is this "to the pixel" do you know? I'm not being pedantic - well, I am.. but more prediction of my being pedantic with myself later on if you know what I mean Err.. I know what I mean...I think... :s