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    • RookervikR
      Rookervik Global Moderator @Zigurana
      last edited by

      @Zigurana said in Carbon Light:

      Bwhahahahahaa, hahaha, ha ha , hee

      ow man, pull the other one, it's got bells on...

      You laugh, but look at this crap I've got going. Hahahaha.
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      I have no idea what to do on the game list pages. All the text looks bad floating around. But it also looks bad when I put them in a box. >_< I don't know what to do. LOL

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      • lilbudL
        lilbud @Rookervik
        last edited by

        @Rookervik How about this for the ports logo?

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        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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        • RookervikR
          Rookervik Global Moderator @lilbud
          last edited by

          @lilbud Looks fine. What is the font from?

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          • lilbudL
            lilbud
            last edited by

            Your Carbon splashscreen from the old fourm

            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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            • RookervikR
              Rookervik Global Moderator @lilbud
              last edited by

              @lilbud Haha. I keep thinking... what would be a good image to say "ports?" The current Ports logo is a re-tooling of the DOOM font. The font you have here is fine. Just needs something. Well, maybe it doesn't. Maybe I'm just over-thinking things?

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              • lilbudL
                lilbud
                last edited by

                Well the only connections these games share are guns, the 90's, and they were all on PC.

                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                • RookervikR
                  Rookervik Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Ports aren't all games tho. Kodi is there. But I guess the rest are games. Just hard to think of a creative Ports logo. Myabe just a simple font like that one you posted. Just make it white with a grey border (so it doesn't disppear)

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                  • InsecureSpikeI
                    InsecureSpike
                    last edited by

                    how would the game info items look on/against a of white solid background/box

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                    • RookervikR
                      Rookervik Global Moderator
                      last edited by

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                      So far they haven't looked good against white boxes. Really, any attempt to break up the hexagon background has ended poorly. Might be because of all of the diagonals in the background, while the boxes are just squares. I don't really know. But I know it's looked bad. LOL.

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                      • InsecureSpikeI
                        InsecureSpike
                        last edited by

                        ok, what if the box color was the same as the back hexagonal background, as if it blended in to it?
                        the font should then stand out from the hexagon lines

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                        • RookervikR
                          Rookervik Global Moderator @InsecureSpike
                          last edited by

                          @InsecureSpike
                          Yeah, it looks a little hacky. I'm not happy with it. Probably just leave the text to float.
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                          Changing the text white didn't help either.

                          It would probably look good if I made the boxes follow the shape of the hexagons, but that would introduce another image texture and I'd have a really hard time lining them up. And they wouldn't line up between screen resolutions.

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                          • InsecureSpikeI
                            InsecureSpike
                            last edited by InsecureSpike

                            yup, i see what you mean, but the other idea would be better.......
                            but as you said the positioning would be the challenge, unless you created a "sub-menu" background with the areas added to it
                            thats what I've done in the past, and since your images are so small, it should be ok to use a "main-menu" and a "sub-menu"

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                            RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                            both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                            • lilbudL
                              lilbud @Rookervik
                              last edited by

                              @Rookervik Make a full game list background, with the darker area.

                              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                              • RookervikR
                                Rookervik Global Moderator @lilbud
                                last edited by

                                @lilbud What is a "full-gamelist background?"

                                @InsecureSpike What is a 'sub-menu' in relation to an ES theme?

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                                Using a shaded hexagon background for the border is nice... but I still don't like it. It would need a shadow. And still be impossible to position over the background hexagon. They'd have to line up perfectly no matter the resolution the user is in. Also, this background would take 2 images... a grey square, and then a tile image of hexagons that I would have to line up in 4 directions, perfectly. I don't really get paid enough to mess with that. :D

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                                • RookervikR
                                  Rookervik Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  I like this, bit I know a lot of people don't like the vertical lines separating stuff.
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                                  • lilbudL
                                    lilbud
                                    last edited by

                                    @Rookervik Like This, Use 1 image for the gamelist instead of 4

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                                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                    • RookervikR
                                      Rookervik Global Moderator @lilbud
                                      last edited by

                                      @lilbud Ah yeah, I have a screenshot of that above. Looks like it was just thrown on top of the background without any thought. Kinda clashes a little with the hexagons.

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                                      • lilbudL
                                        lilbud
                                        last edited by

                                        @Rookervik Sometimes, you have to put other peoples likes in front of your own.

                                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                        • RookervikR
                                          Rookervik Global Moderator @lilbud
                                          last edited by

                                          @lilbud Yeah, when it's the default theme. But when I do a theme of my own, I can kinda do what I want. :D Feedback is wonderful, though.

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                                          • Z
                                            Zigurana
                                            last edited by

                                            @Rookervik
                                            Regarding hovering boxes, did you know you can set the opacity by using a four-element Hex? So 808080 would translate to 50% grey (at full opacity, which is the default), but 80808080 would translate to 50% grey at only 50% the opacity (source).
                                            This works for all theme elements that have a color of some kind assigned:

                                            • image
                                            • text
                                            • textlist
                                            • datetime
                                            • helpsystem

                                            (source)

                                            I have not tried this, but I assume you would be able to stretch a 1x1 pixel png into any dimension you want, and then set the color to whatever opacity you please. Maybe something to make the boxes less abrupt?

                                            If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.

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