Chicuelo Theme

Keigan

@stephensmattlee said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan really digging your custom loading screens, go hand in hand so well with chicuelos theme :)

I don't suppose you could add the FDS, SegaCD and 32X to your collection? Unfortunately I don't have photoshop nor am I very good at photo/picture editing.

Thanks

I added them to the Google Drive link. Let me know if they work for you!

movisman

@chicuelo

I completely agree about the FBA logo - funnily enough I already started looking at this late last night because I thought it looked a bit odd and I wasn't happy with it either. It is the official logo but I think it needs to be more descriptive. So actually I have the above image already open on the machine - I just didn't get chance to look at it further. Unfortunately it seems to be a PNG though rather than SVG, but can still reduce the size of the F and apply a white overlay to replace the colour.

Regarding the logo sizes, I reduced the max height in theme.xml for the carousel image, and this seems to stop them appearing huge (the video i sent is with my revised theme.xml). So hopefully this is ok?

stephensmattlee

@keigan thats awesome, many thanks. I had a go at doing some colour versions and did Sega cd, 32x, fds and n64 as well. would it be okay to send them to you to see if you approve or would like to rework any of them? thanks again

Keigan

@stephensmattlee

Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

movisman

@chicuelo

This is what I had already started putting together, I just finished it off now. What do you think? Smaller logo and bigger text. This is an exported PNG filled over with grey for demo purposes so you can actually see it. Will give it a try later inside ES after applying a white fill on the SVG and then can see how it looks.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ng5GyhVXrGSBPDVxyylvgsjMtzs-3nvr

Cheers!

stephensmattlee

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

@stephensmattlee

Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

Thats cool. heres what I came up with for a few extra ones https://mega.nz/#F!uV0HgbTR!phoju0Drj7sUGYbHsWf9ZQ

for better or worse I ended up taking the colours from the official artwork/game cover to get colours that suited the systems

be good to get your thoughts.
many thanks

Keigan

@stephensmattlee said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

@stephensmattlee

Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

Thats cool. heres what I came up with for a few extra ones https://mega.nz/#F!uV0HgbTR!phoju0Drj7sUGYbHsWf9ZQ

for better or worse I ended up taking the colours from the official artwork/game cover to get colours that suited the systems

be good to get your thoughts.
many thanks

They look great!

Exactly what I would have done, taken a colour that associates with the logo, or box, and you nailed it.

stephensmattlee

@keigan thats awesome, Im glad you approve, feel free to combine them with your originals if you're happy to :)

movisman

@chicuelo

How about this for the FBA logo?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1umFxVJ_uJy-WEknmT10-VOfxzB3m-L9c

Much more happy with this.

chicuelo

@movisman

Great! I was thinking about something like this for fba: (I have the svg file)

Whit the height limit I see some logos that are a bit bolder due the square aspect ratio, like genesis 32x but its not big deal

movisman

@chicuelo

Nice! That looks great too, better than mine (which is just a rework of that other PNG we both had). Maybe you could put 'alpha' on a separate line to make the logo more square so it fits better within the theme?

chicuelo

@movisman
I thought about it, but the word alpha will become HUGE and I think the logo will become bold as fuck :P

movisman

@chicuelo

Hmmm, i'm not too sure what you mean? So just placing the word Alpha underneath, on the same SVG, same size as it is now? Not sure on position though, either the word "alpha" in the centre or right justified underneath. Unless i'm confused it should look ok? Are you suggesting the logo would become too large because it's square?

This is where a maximum height in theme.xml comes in, which is what i've adjusted on my local copy (which is also on that video preview I sent). It reduces the size of square logos like Master System which look a bit too big at the moment, but keeps the width of the wider ones.

However, all that being said, all on one line is still likely to display fine (and looks better in general), as a lot of other systems are a similar width and they look ok. Have you got the SVG handy and I can install it?

Cheers!

chicuelo

@movisman said in Chicuelo Theme:

ither the word "alpha" in the centre or right justified underneath. Unless i'm confused it should look ok? Are you suggesting the logo would become too large because it's square?
This is where a maximum height in theme.xml comes in, which is what i've adjusted on my local copy (which is also on that video preview I sent). It reduces the size of square logos like Master System which look a bit too big at the moment, but keeps the width of the wider ones.
However, all that being said, all on one line is still likely to

What I want to mean is that the Alpha word would be super big under the final burn text, so the logo will be a little bit heavy as a logo. If you prefer I can send you the SVG file and you make the proportions you want

movisman

@chicuelo

Ah ok, so what I meant is the same as the image you posted but with the 'alpha' the same size as 'final burn'. With my modified theme.xml it should not appear too large but would need to try it.

I am happy with whatever logo you choose for FBA - it's your theme of course and you are much better at design than I am!! :) the original one on a single line will look fine i'm sure. I am just happy to contribute where I can to help complete some of the other systems and tidy up the XML where possible.

How would you like me to provide all the logos I created? Do you want me to email them to you or post up a download? Or raise a PR on github? I also have a slightly modified theme.xml which makes my 'no-margin' logos appear nicely.

Thanks!

chicuelo

@movisman
We can make a PR via GitHub. If you want, get the latest version and then apply your changes so I can pull them again.
You will find the new FBA logo if you update your branch

cosmo0

@chicuelo @movisman
I love these new logos :) I was planning to make a pull request to add the MAME and FBA logos, I'm glad people with better design skill than me got to it :)

On a very personal note, I would also love to have different images for the various arcade emulators :)
On a pi, I have heard FBA is best for most shmups and fighting games, whereas MAME is better to emulate 80's arcade.
So, I would put Ryu as the FBA character, and Donkey Kong as the MAME character.

Ryu : here with many more here.
DK : here, here or here

I would do them myself, but I clearly don't have the skill to integrate the characters as well as you do with the background, and the other images.

chicuelo

@cosmo0
For mame what do you think about sunset riders, Cadillacs and dinosaurs or ghouls and ghosts? I thinks they are going to fit better with the theme due the background posibilities.

cosmo0

Ghouls and Ghosts would be nice :)
SR and C&D are more FBA-type games I think.

movisman

@cosmo0

I loved Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - great game and a definite vote from me for FBA :)

@chicuelo

I will raise a PR for my changes, just trying to learn some basic github command line stuff, will create a branch, put all my changes in and raise the PR for you to inspect.

Cheers!