Futura Theme

lilbud

I'll test if you need someone to test. You can create a README file with screenshots and info on the theme. Just a reminder, name the repository with the naming convention.

es-theme-futura

FlyingTomahawk

I somewhat managed to upload the theme to github. YEAH!
I have no idea how to proceed from here but I guess I'll soon find out.

mattrixk

@FlyingTomahawk Congratulations. It feels good to get your first theme up there for people to take a bite of.

FlyingTomahawk

@mattrixk said in Futura Theme:

...to get your first theme up there...

first? that is my first and last theme. :-D

The work behind it is very tedious and time consuming and mine is rather a simple theme.
I can only imagine the work behind a theme like Pixel where all the console icons and system names are self made.
All the people that have released themes thus far have my out most respect since I now know how much hard work is put into it.

backstander

@FlyingTomahawk
Awesome looking theme! I can see all the attention to detail!

lilbud

@FlyingTomahawk Will you be doing the alternate color schemes shown here? http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/newgen-theme/#post-118636

FlyingTomahawk

@lilbud

That could certainly be done.
Is there a particular one you like?

Or I could create a couple backgrounds and frames and let the user decide which combo he likes.

FlyingTomahawk

@backstander

Thank you. :-)

lilbud

@FlyingTomahawk Just create the backgrounds. If the frame is white, we can color it with color codes

Ex: setting the frame to ff0000, would make it red

FlyingTomahawk

@lilbud

Roger that. I'll see what I can do.

FlyingTomahawk

@lilbud said in Futura Theme:

@FlyingTomahawk If the frame is white, we can color it with color codes

Ex: setting the frame to ff0000, would make it red

THAT is very cool! I just gave it a try and I could change the frame colors very easy using the hex codes. It also works for the current background, but colors are not that clear. I got an idea now that I'm currently working on.

FlyingTomahawk

I did some testing and the idea I had works pretty good.
Here is what I thought. Thanks to lilbud I learned that if something is white, like a frame or background or even a gradient, the color can be changed by using hex color codes.
The current background is just a simple 960x540 with a 3 step gradient.

Now what if we would have a total of 4 backgrounds?

main background
gradient left & right
gradient top & bottom
gradient only in the middle

All of them are white and can then be changed inside the futura.xml file to any color you like.
Any thoughts on this? good? bad?
Some might need to be deactivated inside the code with  to not interfere with each other.

here some sample images.

Top & Bottom
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Left & Right
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Center
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Left & Right & Center
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trixta

this theme is so good looking, I love it. Any chance of adding cp1, cps2 and cps3 using UDb23 logos found in this thread ?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3226/es-custom-logo-pack-includes-specific-mame-logos

blackshadow

awesome release mate my friends quite happy with this theme on the retropie setup i did for him took a few pics via raspi2png aswell my friend wanted a darker theme so did some alterations along with adding a ports menu :D

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removed the right hand info to fit the mix setup i use for XML scraper (which double added street racer for some reason)

all in all loving this theme good work and thank you

Keigan

You should adjust all the spacing so it's nice and even. I'm an overly picky person about spacing in design. Here is the lay out with even space and same width angles, it looks cleaner especially around the edges where the space on the bottom is 1/2 the size of the space on the right side of the screen which is bigger than the space on the left.

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I like the layout, I think that the glow should be toned back a fair bit though, I think the way this theme would look the best would be like a futuristic interface. Dark blue background with lighter glowing blue borders.

FlyingTomahawk

@trixta

This is something I want to do for my own RetroPie setup so yes I will add CPS 1-3 in the next few days.

FlyingTomahawk

@blackshadow

Well done. Did you just change the color code in the futura.xml file to get it darker?

Can you share your xml files for the basic and detailed view for Ports?

FlyingTomahawk

@Keigan said in Futura Theme:

I like the layout, I think that the glow should be toned back a fair bit though, I think the way this theme would look the best would be like a futuristic interface. Dark blue background with lighter glowing blue borders.

No objections regarding the colors.
I'll be happy to fix the layout if you can provide information as to how you set the space so nicely even and give me color codes for borders and background so that I can recreate and include it with the next update.

blackshadow

@FlyingTomahawk

at the time of editing i wasnt aware you could use colour codes to edit the background so simply did a quick hue/saturation edit in photoshop of the background it was a pretty quick and dirty edit to get the look my friend wanted to be honest im not quite familiar with emulationstations theming system but its easy enough to grab hold of

heres the ports xml file for you included the screenshots aswell incase you wanted them its the one that matches your original layout aswell and not the view i modded above i can grab the xml for that layout aswell when i next see my friend if you wish as i modded that view onsite though it only works for wide images a 4/3 image doesnt look very good

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B73sIM-uQ2NcR0xtd0xPMzNvS2s

on a side note i had to add a <pos> tag for system year in the xml as it went of the rightside of the border so had to manually center it a bit more

i think ill play around with hex colours for my own setup see what results i can get sicne im gonna use this as the main theme for my piconsole

FlyingTomahawk

@blackshadow

Thanks for sharing, I downloaded the package. :-)
Depends on the system year text you have to adjust its position manually, as you already did. There is a default value inside the futura.xml file but I had to adjust the position for several systems so I added that modified value in each systems theme.xml file.