Help with animated GBC overlay

RetroArch Additions Overlays
#1

So I was testing this animated overlay and I like it too much but it has 14 colours and I only like a few. Also the default colour when launching the overlay is one I don’t want at all especially when you need to manually changing the colours with the mouse when I tend to sit and play with a controller. I tried deleting the .png and editing the .cfg to only make RA read the colours I want but no luck the overlay gets bugged and no overlay at all.

I pm’ed the author but never replied. Finally any ideas o tips? I leave the overlay I’m talking about below:

#2

you would need to open the overlay’s cfg, delete the groups ones you don’t want and then rename the various overlayX_desc etc. lines to match the new ordering

#3

I did that but the overlay gets bugged. What do you mean with overlayx_desc?

#4

So, when you open up the overlay cfg file, at the top of the file, you’ll see a line that says how many different layouts are in the overlay, and a section for each one setting up some rules, like this:

overlays = 3

overlay0_full_screen = true
overlay0_normalized = true
overlay0_aspect_ratio = 1.77777778
overlay0_name = "landscape"

Then, there should be a bunch of lines that look like this:

overlay0_descs = 29

overlay0_desc0 = "left,0.07188,0.77778,radial,0.04479,0.06852"
overlay0_desc0_overlay = ../flat/png/dpad-left.png
overlay0_desc1 = "right,0.17813,0.77778,radial,0.04479,0.06852"
overlay0_desc1_overlay = ../flat/png/dpad-right.png
overlay0_desc2 = "up,0.12500,0.68333,radial,0.03854,0.07963"
overlay0_desc2_overlay = ../flat/png/dpad-up.png

The layouts start counting from 0, so overlay0 is the default one, and then there will be a button (a “desc”) in there somewhere that leads to the next one via an entry for “overlay_next_target” pointing to the name of the next layout.

So, to keep it functioning, you need to delete the one/s you don’t want and make sure no other layouts are linking to it/them. Then, you need to rename the remaining layouts so they’re in order from 0 (i.e., you can’t start with overlay3, and you can’t skip any numbers as you go), and the number of layouts matches the number called out at the top.

#5

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This is the best I could get lol. The logo where you are supposed to change colours is gone and doesn’t work changing colours either.

An example of what I did:

Original: overlays = 14

###################################################

overlay0_name = “bezel_semi_purple” overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_normalized = true overlay0_alpha_mod = 0.000100 overlay0_aspect_ratio = 1.7777778 overlay0_descs = 14 overlay0_desc0 = “BEZEL,0.5,0.5,rect,0.5,0.5” overlay0_desc0_overlay = bezel_semi_purple.png overlay0_desc0_alpha_mod = 1

overlay0_desc1 = “b,0.86062,0.48631,rect,0.0318,0.057” overlay0_desc1_overlay = B_button.png

overlay0_desc2 = “a,0.959,0.4295,rect,0.0318,0.057” overlay0_desc2_overlay = A_button.png

overlay0_desc3 = “select,0.8702,0.1778,rect,0.0282,0.024” overlay0_desc3_overlay = system_button.png

overlay0_desc4 = “start,0.9505,0.1778,rect,0.0282,0.024” overlay0_desc4_overlay = system_button.png

overlay0_desc5 = “up,0.09272,0.37675,rect,0.02275,0.03896” overlay0_desc5_overlay = dpad_up.png

overlay0_desc6 = “down,0.09272,0.53601,rect,0.02275,0.03896” overlay0_desc6_overlay = dpad_down.png

overlay0_desc7 = “left,0.04707,0.45689,rect,0.02171,0.04099” overlay0_desc7_overlay = dpad_left.png

overlay0_desc8 = “right,0.13837,0.45689,rect,0.02171,0.04099” overlay0_desc8_overlay = dpad_right.png

overlay0_desc9 = “left|up,0.048,0.38,rect,0.014,0.028” overlay0_desc10 = “right|up,0.13431,0.38,rect,0.014,0.028” overlay0_desc11 = “left|down,0.048,0.535,rect,0.014,0.028” overlay0_desc12 = “right|down,0.13431,0.535,rect,0.014,0.028”

overlay0_desc13 = “overlay_next,0.496,0.879,rect,0.1795,0.0374” overlay0_desc13_overlay = toggle.png

###################################################

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My modification for that first colour:

overlays = 4

###################################################

overlay0_name = “bezel_a solid_red” overlay0_full_screen = true overlay0_normalized = true overlay0_alpha_mod = 0.000100 overlay0_aspect_ratio = 1.7777778 overlay0_descs = 14 overlay0_desc0 = “BEZEL,0.5,0.5,rect,0.5,0.5” overlay0_desc0_overlay = bezel_a solid_red.png overlay0_desc0_alpha_mod = 1

overlay0_desc1 = “b,0.86062,0.48631,rect,0.0318,0.057” overlay0_desc1_overlay = B_button.png

overlay0_desc2 = “a,0.959,0.4295,rect,0.0318,0.057” overlay0_desc2_overlay = A_button.png

overlay0_desc3 = “select,0.8702,0.1778,rect,0.0282,0.024” overlay0_desc3_overlay = system_button.png

overlay0_desc4 = “start,0.9505,0.1778,rect,0.0282,0.024” overlay0_desc4_overlay = system_button.png

overlay0_desc5 = “up,0.09272,0.37675,rect,0.02275,0.03896” overlay0_desc5_overlay = dpad_up.png

overlay0_desc6 = “down,0.09272,0.53601,rect,0.02275,0.03896” overlay0_desc6_overlay = dpad_down.png

overlay0_desc7 = “left,0.04707,0.45689,rect,0.02171,0.04099” overlay0_desc7_overlay = dpad_left.png

overlay0_desc8 = “right,0.13837,0.45689,rect,0.02171,0.04099” overlay0_desc8_overlay = dpad_right.png

overlay0_desc9 = “left|up,0.048,0.38,rect,0.014,0.028” overlay0_desc10 = “right|up,0.13431,0.38,rect,0.014,0.028” overlay0_desc11 = “left|down,0.048,0.535,rect,0.014,0.028” overlay0_desc12 = “right|down,0.13431,0.535,rect,0.014,0.028”

overlay0_desc13 = “overlay_next,0.496,0.879,rect,0.1795,0.0374” overlay0_desc13_overlay = toggle.png

###################################################

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I even renamed the png to appear in the order I want that’s why red is the first one with “a”.

#6

Use editor: https://valent-in.github.io/retropad-editor/

Just import cfg file and click “delete overlay” on all colors you do not want. This should work even without images.

#7

Thank you it works! Does that software come as a software to download? Would like to have it on my PC. Another question. Is there a way to make the colours I want in order? Like first red, second yellow, etc? And one last, is there a way to “transfer” the option to change the colours from the screen only to also my controller?