Carbon Theme Suggestions
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@qrayg That, sir, is very pretty! Sounds like you have your hands full in the other communities. :D
I've also been thinking about the icons for the retropie menu. I'll probably try a set of "modern" icons and submit them to the devs. See if they like em. Just have to find a way to get them seen on both light and dark backgrounds, and not conflict with other themes' designs too much.
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@Rookervik Here's an example of simple clean icons (can be exported to vector too) that work on both light and dark backgrounds.
I just whipped this up in a matter of seconds. If we really spent some time on it we could make some high quality flat-ish icons that would work nice for any color scheme. This example uses transparency so it blends in with whatever color scheme is active.
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Yeah those look nice. Transparency works fine in ES. Don't necessarily need the shadows. Seem like badges. Yeah I can make a series of those. Or something similar. They'll end up looking similar in scope to what Pipplware already has.
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"I just whipped this up in a matter of [dozens of minutes]." Like, 4 dozen minutes. LOL. So many ways to go. Dunno to go with outline, no outline, dark accents, light accents. They all look about the same. I've never been a fan of the mac-style icons. But they do seem quite popular these days. "Less is more." Even Windows 8/10 has gone the modern route.
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@Rookervik said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:
That's looking pretty slick! I hope the extra graphics on the system select don't end up going over the 128MB vram barrier. Still looks very neat!
Thanks @Rookervik. I don't really know how the VRAM works, but so far the whole theme weighs in at 175KB (including all images), but I've only done MegaDrive and SNES so far. I won't be doing all the available systems, just the ones that I use, but it shouldn't be too hard for others to add their own.
PS. Love those box art/screenshot combos!
I got them from @ruckage on the old PetRockBlog forum here. They are fantastic but It's unfortunate he only has them for SNES, MegaDrive, arcade and PC Engine. I've been meaning to try reaching out to him to see if he has any others.
I've done a bit more on the theme. It's just about ready for me to start putting in the other systems. Now I just need a good name.
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@mattrixk
Good work, i really like, Pixel Theme is my all time favorite theme but ithis one your making is really sweet. -
Thanks @Aliendon.
Once it's ready I'll be giving it its own post, and people can download it. Lots of testing to do first though. It may take a while as I don't have much free time.
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@Rookervik said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:
I've never been a fan of the mac-style icons. But they do seem quite popular these days. "Less is more." Even Windows 8/10 has gone the modern route.
These look nice. My suggestion was just a simple example, I was really thinking that the icons go down more of a Material road.
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@qrayg I have a set of those. I use them for my theme.
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@qrayg Holy crap that's some complicated stuff. I like it tho! :D Been working on the icons and little here and there. Wish there was an easier way to paste screenshots than posting to imgur. So I won't bother at the moment. Once I get them all done. Now, off to make dinner for the family! <3
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@qrayg Holy crap that's some complicated stuff. I like it tho! :D Been working on the icons and little here and there. Wish there was an easier way to paste screenshots than posting to imgur. So I won't bother at the moment. Once I get them all done. Now, off to make dinner for the family! <3
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Hokay. Didn't follow the rules of the google link, but they did give me some ideas. I'll have to read up on that and see about putting it to practice. I can see the EmulationStation logo is designed by those rules.
Anyway, this is what I have so far. Can't stand massive, 2 color icons, so I added a couple little accents so I still liked them. Now I need to test them out and see how they look. Only logo I didn't recreate by hand was the Raspberry Pi Foundation logo. I stole that SVG and killed the colors. Hope they don't mind. Oh, that last one was my idea of the Run Command. Exobuzz's rocket launch was a WAY better idea. LOL.
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Eh, this stuff looks crappy. I need to replace the old icon frame that the original Carbon had. And SVG loading is SLOOOOW on Pi. Poor little thing. A SVG version of one of these icons weighs in at 97kb and takes a full 1 second to load. A PNG version of the icon weighs in at 20kb and loads instantly.
Makes me wonder if I should just replace all of the SVGs in the theme with PNGs and see if that speeds up the theme. I know Pixel uses no SVGs at all, and it's the fastest theme I've ever used. Luminous and Carbon have almost exclusively SVG and they're quite slow. Hmmm....
Update: Yeah, adding the frame again helps. File was already in there. Must have been removed when I changed all of the meta data position.
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Maybe some love for the non-scraped basic view? SVGs may cause memory issues with this. I'd have to test it.
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I'd really like to upgrade to the newest carbon theme, a lot of the screenshots here look way better than the one on my pi. However...
Would you be able to add more custom logos for other systems? TG16, Supergrafx, Genesis hacks, Snes hacks?
When is it ready? Love the colour changes.
Also... I just updated and not sure if it's the latest version you mention here? But the "Released:" and "Genre:" and "Developer:" etc are left aligned which looks a bit odd. It would look better right aligned so that the colons are aligned
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Turbo Grafix 16 is already included. You change to it the same way you get Mega Drive to switch to Genesis.
As for other logos, once they are added to the official RetroPie distribution, I make logos for them.
You're the only person to ever ask for hack categories. If there are large amounts of people needing additional sections like that, we can think about adding them.
Right aligning the categories will greatly reduce the amount of room available for actual meta data.
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I'm talking about right aligning "Released:" and "Genre:" etc in their own box, and then the date and the genre next to that. Not much space is needed for a small date and the name of a genre? You have the description underneath
And sorry, I meant Super Grafx and TG16 CD
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@sc0tt88 Jump in a graphics editor and show me what you're talking about. I got them all squished in as much as possible to leave room for Description. You also need room for Kid-Friendly icons. Those don't show up without Kid-Friendly ES installed.
Supergrafx, I've not heard of it. TG16-CD is really popular so I might go ahead and make a theme for it. It won't be added to official RetroPie distribution, but at least it can have a theme and people can create a category for it.
Ah, Supergrafx, 7 game were created for it. Doesn't sound like it needs a theme. Even 32x had more games than that :P It did play older PC Engine games as well. So it was more like Genesis 2 than a console of its own. (But the same can be said of 32x... but at least it had some 30+ games)
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http://i68.tinypic.com/vv1p2.jpg
I just chopped it around in photoshop, couldn't explain it any other way
Yeah I suppose I could cope without those 7 games... Just a suggestion!
I found the colour change thing by the way haha
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