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    Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

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    • lilbudL
      lilbud @cyperghost
      last edited by

      @cyperghost I'll change the names and fix everything later. Kinda busy painting right now.

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

      Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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      • cyperghostC
        cyperghost
        last edited by

        @lilbud Thank you

        Annother thing, the contrast in dark screen between selected and unselected item is kinda bad. From white to a greenish selection is not the best one. Do you think you can get a better composition of this?

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        • lilbudL
          lilbud @cyperghost
          last edited by

          @cyperghost said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

          Btw: Can you change the auto generated system names, too?
          Because system all games would better look with caps All Games

          I can't unfortunately. They are auto generated and only generate in lower or upper case. Not even creating folders for them would work.

          Edit:
          I'm missing the "On Screen Help" in main menu.
          In system menu it's working

          That also can't be done. I can enable it and it shows up. But it gets in the way and I can't have it only appear when the menu is open.

          Edit2:
          Symbols.svg (PSX) view are working, but not the XBOX one.

          What do you mean? The Xbox buttons are working fine for me.

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

          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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          • cyperghostC
            cyperghost @lilbud
            last edited by cyperghost

            @lilbud

            What do you mean? The Xbox buttons are working fine for me.

            I changed from letters.xml to symbol.xml in dark.xml theme and voila the PSX buttons appeared but not the XBOX ones :(

            I think it would be better to remove spaces in filenames. Maybe that will fix it.

            Caps in systemnames

            I can't unfortunately. They are auto generated and only generate in lower or upper case. Not even creating folders for them would work.

            :(

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            • lilbudL
              lilbud @cyperghost
              last edited by

              @cyperghost Working on that now.

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

              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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              • PittStoneP
                PittStone
                last edited by PittStone

                Nice Update! I prefer "md_image" instead of "md_marquee" after
                <view name="video">
                to see my Covers from the Games.

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                • lilbudL
                  lilbud @PittStone
                  last edited by lilbud

                  @pittstone said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

                  Nice Update! I prefer "md_image" instead of "md_marquee" after
                  <view name="video">
                  to see my Covers from the Games.

                  Having both marquee and image won't work all too well.

                  You could, however, change your gamelist so wherever it says '-marquee' or '-logo' you change that to '-image'.

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

                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                  • lilbudL
                    lilbud
                    last edited by

                    @cyperghost I updated the theme pretty extensively. Including changing the dark color to be more readable and removing the spaces in the filenames for the button prompts.

                    Update the theme and try now.

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

                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                    • cyperghostC
                      cyperghost @lilbud
                      last edited by

                      @lilbud I like this theme very much, because it's lightweight and very easy to modify.
                      Can you please tell in first posting how you compused the artwork (Dimensions, resolution, effects, overlays...) so other can contribute with new systems?

                      Only if you want of course ;)

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                        DarishZone Banned
                        last edited by DarishZone

                        Will try update theme soon and provide feedbacks.
                        Set Vram to 100MB lead to instability and memory errors on terminal, so it is better to stick to 80 MB.

                        EDIT: Dunno what's goin on, the updated theme not working for me, i can't see any system.

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                        • lilbudL
                          lilbud @cyperghost
                          last edited by lilbud

                          @cyperghost Sure.

                          Icons:

                          Created at 1080p, 3 layers. Background layer, which is usually a game screenshot. The color layer on top is set at 70% opacity. Logo colored white and put on top of everything.

                          I then exported the image at 600x600

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

                          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                            hooperre
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                            • lilbudL
                              lilbud
                              last edited by

                              @cyperghost I made a more extensive guide and am adding it to the OP.

                              Link: https://github.com/lilbud/es-theme-switch/wiki/How-to-make-new-icons.

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

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                              • cyperghostC
                                cyperghost @DarishZone
                                last edited by

                                @lilbud
                                Having the same issue as @darishzone, the updated theme is not working. I can't see any system. So I switched back to your old release :(

                                About the HowTo: I think that's very usefull ;) Thx

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                                • SuperFromNDS
                                  SuperFromND
                                  last edited by SuperFromND

                                  Hrm, I'm getting an error Unknown property type: "origin" (for element of type helpsystem). I'm assuming that's the same error that Darish and Cyperghost are getting?

                                  Addendum: One install of emulationstation-dev and a reboot later, the theme works now!

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator
                                    last edited by mitu

                                    Maybe you need to be running the emulationstation-dev package instead of the regular emulationstation that's installed by default ? @lilbud will clear that out I guess.

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                                      EctoOne @mitu
                                      last edited by

                                      @mitu said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

                                      Maybe you need to be running the emulationstation-dev package instead of the regular emulationstation that's installed by default ? @lilbud will clear that out I guess.

                                      Yes, origin was just recently added for the helpsystem and it is probably not yet merged into the stable branch.

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                                      • lilbudL
                                        lilbud @EctoOne
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm not really sure why origin was listed for helpsystem. I think maybe it was when I was trying to see if I could enable it for @cyperghost who requested it. I removed the origin tag from the theme.xml and updated.

                                        Update on your ends.

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

                                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                        • lilbudL
                                          lilbud @cyperghost
                                          last edited by lilbud

                                          @cyperghost said in Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18):

                                          About the HowTo: I think that's very usefull ;) Thx

                                          Thanks.

                                          I felt like making this guide because when I had the original icons. I had someone submit a PR with some truly awful icons. Super low quality.

                                          So I like to hope that people will see the guide and will send in higher quality ones.

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

                                          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                          • cyperghostC
                                            cyperghost @lilbud
                                            last edited by

                                            @lilbud Let's vote us for the switch theme as standard theme for retropie 4.5 ;)

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