Switch Theme 3.0 (UPDATED 08/12/18)

[cyperghost]

@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?

[lilbud]

@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.

[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.

:(

[lilbud]

@cyperghost Working on that now.

[PittStone]

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

[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'.

[lilbud]

@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.

[cyperghost]

@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 ;)

[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.

[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

[hooperre]

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[lilbud]

@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.

[cyperghost]

@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

[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!

[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.

[EctoOne]

@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.

[lilbud]

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.

[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.

[cyperghost]

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

[lilbud]

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

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

Already got some new ones. Done by @SuperCatFooz

PC-88, PC-98, and PC-FX