Carbon Light

[Rookervik]

@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.

[lilbud]

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

[Rookervik]

@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.

[Zigurana]

@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?

[Rookervik]

@Zigurana
Yep! I've used the Alpha hex code in all of my themes. For pixel, the alpha is used on the gamelist bar on the un-scraped systems. It does, in fact, work great! Carbon uses it for the bottom bar to make it a little transparent. And you can use a 2px by 2px white box image and stretch it to any size you want. Give it a <color> and make it transparent. Works wonders.

Ah, you meant to try some transparent boxes? They still look doofy, too :( I'm not happy with them.

[Zigurana]

@Rookervik
Ahh well it was worth a try.
Nonetheless, I really like where this theme is going, keep it up!

[Rookervik]

Okay, took a nice long break and made dinner. Working on Game Selection view. Think I got "Basic" view finished. So, getting there. :D

PS, anyone that knows what game the Aegis Shield is from gets bonus points.

[lilbud]

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[lilbud]

@lilbud I hear that some fanatical members of the Cult of Rookervik insist on spelling Rookervik's name with Cs instead of Ks. That just seems silly to me. Roo's Roo. He's still the same villain, no matter how you spell his name.

[Rookervik]

@lilbud LMAO, WTF are you talking about? Hahahaha

[Rookervik]

Theme works fine on 128Mb RAM split. So, yay! :D At least with the 25 systems I have running. Now... why am I getting rainbow power cube the last couple days? I didn't change anything... hmm.

[herb_fargus]

@Rookervik looks real nice

[Rookervik]

@herb_fargus

Just wait til I start throwing blue lines all over the place to chop it up. Hahahahaha. I just haven't made it that far. Wanted to test it on the Pi

[Rookervik]

After a game of Cards Against Humanity and a shower, I got the Gamelist (detailed) section looking like the mock-up. I think it looks good. shrugs

Not sure if I'll put the white hexagon design on the bottom bar like it is in the top bar.

And like the new Carbon, you can change the color of the blue bars to what ever color you like.

Need to try the fancy hexagons like @cyperghost suggested.

[Rookervik]

Awesome idea, but I think I like the less detailed plain hexagons better. Just to make things less complicated-looking.

[nemo93]

Wow this one looks gorgeous too!! You're a machine @Rookervik :) you never sleep. You know I'll always complain regarding the small space for the description but all in all it's fantastic Perhaps you could reduce somehow the box-art size and / or move the developer item below the Players item? I can leave without Publisher even if this item will be missed :)))

[Rookervik]

@nemo93

Well, at least you are here to ask for it before the theme is finalized and added to the distribution :P I do plan to make the screenshot smaller in this one. Right now the gamelist is still 100% CarbonV2. I didn't change any of the placement.

Ooh, and speaking of RetroPie menu... that one needs to have all the meta data removed, completely. Just leave the description. /nods nods/

[cyperghost]

Really looks good :)

[tronkyfran]

Looks really nice, I think you found a good solución for the game selección screen, lets see if you make me change my pixel theme for this one ;)

[Rookervik]

SO! Does anyone feel like testing out this theme and giving some feedback?

Notes: I chose teal as the theme color for me. You can change it to any color you want with a search-and-replace. I can help with that, later.

In particular, check the logos to make sure they don't go past lines, and check the retropie menu. Remind me to make the metadata not All-Caps. I had that suggestion in another thread and it's a great idea.

Decided to call it Luminous since it's so very not Carbon. LOL

Edits:

• I might remove the side vignette so people using "Slide" behavior won't have to see the dark edges as the system screen scrolls. Check, removing it is so much nicer. :D
• Added support for pipplware

Download: https://db.tt/e25LuiPH