Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: garnerb350 on May 19, 2009, 01:54:06 pm

Title: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: garnerb350 on May 19, 2009, 01:54:06 pm

Has anyone here ever ADDED artwork to their lay file? I made a generic bezel for my vertical games...and i was wanting to add it to the orignal .lay file and zip folder with the rest of the orginal artwork...

Title: Re: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: headkaze on May 19, 2009, 02:15:38 pm

It's pretty straight forward, here is an example of a .lay file generated by CPWizard.

Code: [Select]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mamelayout version="2">
  <element name="CP">
    <image file="1943.png" />
  </element>
  <element name="Bezel">
    <image file="Bezel.png" />
  </element>
  <view name="Hide CP">
    <screen index="0">
      <bounds left="140" top="0" right="500" bottom="480" />
    </screen>
    <bezel element="Bezel">
      <bounds left="0" top="0" right="640" bottom="480" />
    </bezel>
  </view>
  <view name="Show CP">
    <screen index="0">
      <bounds left="140" top="0" right="500" bottom="480" />
    </screen>
    <bezel element="Bezel">
      <bounds left="0" top="0" right="640" bottom="480" />
    </bezel>
    <bezel element="CP">
      <bounds left="0" top="0" right="640" bottom="480" />
    </bezel>
  </view>
</mamelayout>
This will add two menu items, namely "Show CP" and "Hide CP". The Bezel.png is overlayed over the top of the Mame screen while the Bezel is a 640x480 image that has a 140 pixel bezel on each side. So following this you can add or remove elements to overlay on the screen. Then just place everything into a zip file in the artwork folder and name it the same as the ROM.

Title: Re: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: garnerb350 on May 19, 2009, 02:41:28 pm

ok.... :dunno ( me = noob)
say for example...
Here is the generic lay.file...

<!-- bezel.lay -->

<mamelayout version="2">
   <element name="bezel">
      <image file="mame.png" />
   </element>

   <view name="Bezel Artwork">
      <screen index="0">
         <bounds left="140" top="0" right="500" bottom="480" />
      </screen>
      <bezel element="bezel">
         <bounds left="0" top="0" right="640" bottom="480" />
      </bezel>
   </view>
</mamelayout>

Ok...now here is the orginal .lay file for say 1943....

<!-- 1943.lay -->

<mamelayout version="2">
   <element name="bezel">
      <image file="1943.png" />
   </element>
   <view name="Upright_Artwork">
      <screen index="0">
         <bounds x="1017" y="663" width="1950" height="2600" />
      </screen>
      <bezel element="bezel">
         <bounds x="0" y="0" width="4000" height="3969" />
      </bezel>
   </view>
</mamelayout>

What and where does the exact "paste-ing" go? I want to make it where whoever can make the choice of what bezel to use....
I'm sorry for being a dumba%%...I'm not thinking straight today...

Title: Re: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: garnerb350 on May 19, 2009, 03:00:45 pm

Would this be right?

<!-- 1943.lay -->

<mamelayout version="2">
   <element name="bezel">
      <image file="1943.png" />
   </element>
        <element name="bezel">
      <image file="mame.png" />
   </element>
   <view name="Upright_Artwork">
      <screen index="0">
         <bounds x="1017" y="663" width="1950" height="2600" />
      </screen>
      <bezel element="bezel">
         <bounds x="0" y="0" width="4000" height="3969" />
      </bezel>
   </view>
   <view name="Bezel Artwork">
           <screen index="0">
                <bounds left="140" top="0" right="500" bottom="480" />
      </screen>
      <bezel element="bezel">
                <bounds left="0" top="0" right="640" bottom="480" />
      </bezel>
   </view>
</mamelayout>

What i pasted was in bold....? Would that be correct what i did?

Title: Re: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: headkaze on May 19, 2009, 03:03:27 pm

You can't have two elements with the same name.

<mamelayout version="2">
   <element name="bezel1">
      <image file="1943.png" />
   </element>
   <element name="bezel2">
      <image file="mame.png" />
   </element>
     <view name="Upright_Artwork">
      <screen index="0">
         <bounds x="1017" y="663" width="1950" height="2600" />
      </screen>
      <bezel element="bezel1">
         <bounds x="0" y="0" width="4000" height="3969" />
      </bezel>
   </view>
   <view name="Bezel Artwork">
      <screen index="0">
         <bounds left="140" top="0" right="500" bottom="480" />
      </screen>
      <bezel element="bezel2">
         <bounds left="0" top="0" right="640" bottom="480" />
      </bezel>
   </view>
</mamelayout>

Title: Re: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: garnerb350 on May 19, 2009, 03:14:25 pm

 :banghead:

Why didnt I see that?

ok...so the "element name" is what we will see on the video options section when we hit tab on mame...correct? or is it "view name"?...

"image file" is the actual file you have?

I need to home and eat my wheaties...
seeing all this and the repetition of elements/screen/etc...is giving me a headache...

Title: Re: Any experts on .lay files ( artwork)???
Post by: headkaze on May 19, 2009, 03:53:50 pm

Quote from: garnerb350 on May 19, 2009, 03:14:25 pm

ok...so the "element name" is what we will see on the video options section when we hit tab on mame...correct? or is it "view name"?...

"image file" is the actual file you have?

"element name" is just an internal name to link the image to the view
"view name" is what is displayed in the Mame menu
"image file" is the .png file overlayed on Mame's display