Feature Request: Layout-wide place-holder artwork

[randombyt]

Right now an artwork named after romlist acts as a place holder, this requires to create additional files even if the artwork being used is same in every case, e,g. simple snap saying missing artwork.

It would be great if we can create layout-wide place-holders. Romlist specific place-holders can over-ride layout specific place-holders keeping everything intact.

[oomek]

It's been already implemented in my wip branch which I'm about to push. The details explained in the following issue
#499 (comment)

[randombyt]

In case of romlist placeholders we can make an image in each artwork folder (snap, title, video etc). How would that work in "Missing Image Placeholders"? Will there be a single image applicable to all artwork classes or one image for each artwork class?

[oomek]

The main idea behind it is that you have a default image placeholder embedded in exe that applies to any type of static image, magic token or artwork that is missing. It's not layout wide but application wide. By default it's off. You enable it for the time you are gathering your artwork collection and during construction of a layout, to make sure you don't have any elements with empty filename not hidden and floating around. It additionally fixes the null references in the shaders when you use set_texture_param()

[mickelson]

you can already do this by pitting an image file with the same name as the artwork label in the lauout’s directory. so ‘layouts/<Layout Name>/marquee.png’ to have a default marquee image. see the attracman layout which does this for marquees as an example

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[oomek]

So to fix the null references in shaders I just make a 1x1 transparent snap.png and stick it into the layout folder?

[randombyt]

Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for. I didn't knew AM already has the layout-wide placeholders in place. I just checked and 'layout/layout-name/artwork.png works as expected.

closing the issue.