Easy SteamGrid

A Millennium plugin that adds quick and easy SteamGridDB integration to Steam.

Features

• Replace or reset grid images for all apps in a collection with ones from SteamGridDB
• Switch the Background image (hero), Logo, Cover image (grid), Wide Cover image (wide grid) or Icon of an app with ones from SteamGridDB via a window opened by double-clicking the header
  • Or automatically switch all images of an app using the SG button
• Set custom height for the Background image (hero)
  • Good ones are e.g. 530px or 1240px

Notices

• The plugin needs an API key to work, set it in the Configuration
• Setting icons can be enabled in the Configuration
  • Feature might or might not work
• Several new fixes have been implemented to make sure the plugin actually works

Configuration

• Configuration options are available through the Millennium Library Manager

Prerequisites

• Millennium
• SteamGridDB API key

Known issues:

• Be patient, every change can take a couple seconds
• The whole page might not update when clicking "Purge Cache", until you change pages and change back
• Setting icons might or might not work
• Auto Replace Images sometimes fails setting the Wide Grid image
• If the plugin doesn't work, or randomly stops working, check Troubleshooting
• Trying to set WebP files might crash Steam on Linux
  • MIME types are overridable in the Configuration

Contributors

Made with contrib.rocks.

HowTo/Screenshots

First run

• Get your SteamGridDB API key
• Open the Millennium Library Manager
• Click on Easy SteamGrid
• Paste your API key into the textbox

Using Grid images from SteamGridDB for entire Collections - from Home

• In the Steam Library, search for the SGDB button
• The button should look like the one here (on the default skin):

• Click the button and select a Collection to work on - example list:

• The progress will be displayed while working - example:

Using Grid images from SteamGridDB for entire Collections - from a Collection

• Select a collection (using the Collections page or the left pane)
• Search for the SGDB button, it should look like this (on the default skin):

• Click the SGDB button and select your course of action: replace or reset all Grid images in the collection
• The progress will be displayed while working

Using all images from SteamGridDB

• Double-click the header of an app
  • ...or click the SG button near the Show game details button, and select Open window from the menu
• A window should appear with the settings
• In the left pane, secect the type of image you want to replace
• In the right page, click the image you want to use
• The following extra controls are shown:
  • Reset button: Resets the image back to the default one
  • Purge Cache button: Purges all cached links for the given app, forcing a new search and new downloads
    • This is a good first try when something stops working
  • Open Webpage button: Opens the app's SGDB webpage in your browser

Using all images from SteamGridDB (but automatically)

• Click the SG button near the Show game details button
• Select Auto replace images from the menu

Troubleshooting

If the plugin doesn't find any art for an app, click the Open Webpage button to check if the plugin is broken, or there really isn't any art to see

When someting stops working, a good first step is to try pruging the cache of the given app:

• Double-click the header of the app
• Click Purge Cache, this will purge cached links and files, hopefully fixing the problem