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      hoover900
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      @CCFox Awesome work man! I'm really digging what you're doing here, but I'd try to push it a little bit more. Mocked up something up really quick as to where I think you can take this theme.

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      There's a lot of negative space on the left side of the screen. Just moving the text, logo, and console image further to the left gives a better balance. I'd also make the poster image larger. Now looking at I think you could make the logos larger as well. one sec let me mock that up as well.

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      The multiple versions of the consoles, such as the genesis and psx, is a nice touch man. Let me know if you want the template of game list background image. I have a version that I made in Krita, but I think I can save it as a PSD.

      keep up the good work

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        hoover900
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        ahh looking at it again the second mock up doesn't look as good as the first. The logo is too big now, but I think you can still make the logo a little bit bigger. like 1% 2% bigger.

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          CCFox
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          @hoover900

          Thank you for your feedback. It is appreciated. I agree about the logo. I will look at making it little bigger.

          As for the game list template that would be great. Is it partially transparent? Do you get a picture of the console then place the game list template over the top? Am I making sense 'cause when I read it back it sounds odd!

          Again Kind Regards

          CCFox

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            hoover900
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            What's your GitHub user name so I can give you access to the repo the template is in? Gamelist background is pretty much an overlay and I put it on top of the console images from the Tronky Fran theme by HerbFargus. I also used close up images of the consoles I found searching google.

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              bmoxey
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              I had a similar idea to combine 2 of the best themes in my opinion. Here are some screen shot of my console selection (all I have done so far). I decided I wanted to blend from the dark background to the character.

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                CCFox
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                @bmoxey

                Now that is cool....A little beyond my expertise.

                @hoover900

                I don't have a GitHub user name but I will arrange and let you know.

                KR

                CCF

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                  CCFox
                  last edited by

                  Also I am loving the variations of this theme. The possibilities are almost infinite.

                  CCFox

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                    CCFox
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                    @hoover900

                    I am currently working on the theme and I have hit a snag and I was wondering if you could help?

                    I have moved the system logo and made it larger and I think it looks ok. I have also made the console image larger and I think that is ok too. I have also made the long description wider to match the same width as the logo area. Again looks ok.

                    Now for the snag.....

                    The short description (console 8-bit etc.) is a little harder because of the different widths of the texts. Is there a way to create an area and then place the text within it and justify it centrally?

                    Hope you know what I mean....

                    Again kind regards

                    CCFox

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                      CCFox
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                      capture.jpg

                      This how far I have got...

                      KR

                      CCFox

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                        bmoxey
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                        @CCFox Within your text control you can add <alignment>center</alignment> (or left or right) to align the text within the defined text area.

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                          hoover900 @CCFox
                          last edited by hoover900

                          @CCFox There's a couple of things to take into account. I'm going to assume that you're making this for a standard TV which has an aspect ratio 16:9 and your standard TV dimensions are 1920x1080 px.

                          So we want to make the text centered at a certain point on the screen. With Emulation Station you can't just pick a pixel as say it's goes there. it's all percentage based, so we want look at your current layout and determine how big it is and then get the percentage change.

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                          The green area is 630x980 px, so 630 + 100 / 2 (Adding 100px for the 50px margins on each side) gives us a horizontal center of 365.
                          1920 - 365 gives us 1555.
                          Now we need to remember our algebra and get the percent change.

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                          so you want your horizontal text position to be set to 19.0104%

                          <text name="Your Text" extra="true">
                              <alignment>center</alignment>
                              <origin>0.5 0.5</origin>        <!-- Setting the origin to the center of the text node -->
                              <pos>0.1901 "Replace with you vertical value"</pos>
                              <size>0 0</size>
                          

                          I hope this helps you out man

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                            AkiAfroo @hoover900
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                            @bmoxey could you be so kind to share your theme . I love it!

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                              CCFox
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                              @hoover900 & @bmoxey

                              Got it!

                              I copied the size from the long description to the short description and the system info. Worked a treat. Understanding this a tiny bit better with your help. It is appreciated.

                              Just got to change the colour of the text and reduce the gap between the short description and the long description.

                              capture.jpg

                              @bmoxey

                              I am still tweaking at the moment. I still have got the game list screens to do. I will be doing that later. Once I am happy then I will make it available to all if that is allowed. I don't want to tread on anybody's toes.

                              @hoover900

                              I will set up my GitHub in a mo so you can send me the game list template.

                              Again Kind Regards Both

                              CCFox

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                                CCFox
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                                sorry got confused with the request. It wasn't mine that was requested!!!

                                Apologies

                                Rgds

                                CCFox

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                                  CCFox
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                                  @hoover900

                                  I have created a GitHub account.

                                  What do I do now?

                                  Rgds

                                  CCFox

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                                    CCFox
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                                    Think the system screens are finished....!

                                    Example below:

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                                    CCF

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                                      hoover900 @CCFox
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                                      @CCFox what's your github username? I need that to send you an invent to the repo.

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                                        CCFox
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                                        @hoover900

                                        CCFox123 matey

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                                          hoover900 @CCFox
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                                          @CCFox invite sent

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                                            CCFox
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                                            @hoover900

                                            Many thanks for that. As suspected Paint Shop Pro X2 doesn't recognise .kra files.

                                            I have downloaded and installed Krita and had a little play. However I try and cut and paste the template over the top and it doesn't give the same effect as your backgrounds . I've also converted the .jpg to .kra and tried that and no joy. Also converted the .kra file to a .png and tried it in PSP X2. Again no joy.

                                            Krita is quite good tho.

                                            Rgds

                                            CCF

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