New comic theme and SVG problems

[lipebello]

@EctoOne - Thanks for the tutorial - i think that i will not be able to save my vectors in SVG format is that i have some rasterized forms on in. I will try to modify them and remove these parts.

@mattrixk - Thanks, i'm using the shaka pow font.
And thanks for these infos, i am comparing the files i'm saving with the ones on the simple theme.
nes_art_blur.jpg - 1280 x 720 96 DPI - 40KB
BG.jpg - 1280 x 720 96 DPI - 172KB
When i saved the image on svg, i got around 300KB for the same image.
As for the logos, each one saved in PNG is 80KB and the logos in SVG on simple theme is 8KB, so i will try to save them on SVG.

@Rion, @InsecureSpike - Thanks!

[lipebello]

I've managed to save a SVG file on inkscape, but it can't have any raster image ou opacity effects, but now i have a logo.ong with 60kb and a logo.svg with 500KB.

[UDb23]

@lipebello ES does not support SVG transparency levels or blurring as far as I know.
It does support gradients. Looking at your screenshots there should be no reason to have raster parts in your System logos; they can be made with vectors; I see no particular complexity that justifies so big svg files as you're mentioning.
Can you post just the png of one of your logos ?

[lipebello]

@UDb23 - Sure. The first is the old logo, with shadows and a rasterized halftone on it. Second is the new version with no raster at all, but the halftone pattern is in color burn opacity.

[UDb23]

@lipebello Are the vector haltone dots a single "entity" ? If you can combine them in Inkscape you could apply a vertical gradient from dot color (top) to the letters internal color (bottom). In that way it should give similar result as opacity levels .

[FlyingTomahawk]

Funny idea for a theme, love it.
Looking forward too see the rest of it.

[Rookervik]

@FlyingTomahawk Only problem with SVGs is that they're going to push the Pi beyond it's memory limit. There is a fix coming for EmulationStation soon that will load wallpapers dynamically, remedying this problem, but it's not here yet.

So don't be afraid of PNG. You don't have to have a single SVG in your entire theme for it to run just fine.

[lilbud]

@Rookervik What would dynamic wallpapers bring to the table?

[mattrixk]

@lilbud no more White Screen of Death.

[lilbud]

Could you explain it a bit more?

[mattrixk]

@lilbud https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2389/solution-for-white-screen-of-death/132

I think it basically comes down to being able to use large images for many systems without the theme breaking. It think it required a major change to how ES displays each system.

[herb_fargus]

@Rookervik but rookervik! What about the rpi8 that outputs 5K TV?! How will they scale then!

[Rookervik]

@herb_fargus Good lord I hope to not still be using ES when 8k TVs come out. LOL

[lipebello]

@Rookervik - Thanks a lot, i will just continue as it is.

[A Former User]

Amazing, hope to see it soon on my retropie :D

[lipebello]

Update on the detailed menu.

[mattrixk]

@lipebello I like it a lot. The lines behind the box art look great.

I think I like the font you used for the Logo on the System View more than this one though.

[lipebello]

@mattrixk Thanks, this logo is just a test. i'm thinking in remake the logos to match booth system and menus

[Rion]

@lipebello Have you implemented video support for this theme?

[screech]

I'm comming a little after the war ^^ but 80Ko for a png logo is "huge"...

Did you try some "compressor" ?

I recommand you optipng or pngquant... your png logo will be near the same size as svg ;)

(Your Theme is great ^^ do you think of create a MIX template with UXS ? maybe you can give a comics style to the media you show in the detail vue with some more media (like you did on the system view, some cut between the cover and a screenshot for exemple... If you want I can give it a try ;) )