Old TV Theme Idea

mattrixk

@Capeman Fair enough.

Indent Theme Sneak Peek:

The logo, boxart and cartridge are a single image using the <marquee> tag while the screenshot in the middle is using the <image> tag. If you leave it on a single game for longer than 1 second, the screenshot disappears and the video preview starts playing in its place. That is something built into the Video Preview mod so users can scroll through lists of games without setting off every video in the list as they quickly scroll through.

Each system has a different colour based on some colour of the system iteself (eg: the SNES theme is purple because of the purple buttons on top of the console).

Still lots of work to do, as I have to draw each system, and need to keep testing the UXS Scrape and MIX Profiles.

I'll be asking for help testing once it's closer to done.

lilbud

@mattrixk Slowly raises hand

HurricaneFan

@Capeman I'm all for seeing what cool things you come up with. I like your first screenshot. :)

mattrixk

@lilbud I also have something special for anyone using @Zigurana's Carousel Mod:

Indent Theme Carousel Mod

Carousel Mod is still a WIP, but I can't wait until it becomes part of Core.

HurricaneFan

@mattrixk Oh that is cool!

lilbud

@mattrixk Has @Zigurana announced anything on that recently? Other than that it's a thing that exists.

mattrixk

@lilbud Not that I'm aware of. I think this thread was the one where he last mentioned it.

tronkyfran

That layout with the carousel down is pretty cool!!

Zigurana

Heya guys, I'm back from the dead! The carousel is still wip, but I made some progress last night, and will be doing some more work on it tonight.

Capeman

This is the first im hearing about this carousel mod, is it completely customizable and movable? This is a neat idea, do you have any other examples of this mod in action? Are they considering adding it to the main distro?

dannybuoy

Best looking theme I've seen so far, I'd love to use this.

alt text

HurricaneFan

@Capeman Let me know once you are ready for testers. I have almost all of my systems set up for video previews and would love to see your theme idea in action.

Capeman

It may take me a bit to make it... i have LOTS of responsibilities that keep me from leisure, hahaha. I'll keep this post updated with my progress.

Capeman

@mattrixk You make lots of themes, when layering objects, im guessing you order your code elements so the first tag renders on the bottom, second tag would render in the middle and last tag would render as the topmost layer?

Also am i to assume that logo and gamelist tags will always render in front of everything else regardless of tag order in the xml?

mattrixk

@Capeman that's pretty much how it works. You can set set the order of any "extra" elements by their placement in the code (the same way CSS works).

The metadata has its own ordering though, so it doesn't matter what order they are in the code. Md_image will always cover the gamelist. As for the others, I'm unsure of their exact order, and I'm not near my computer to test.

dannybuoy

@mattrixk said in Old TV Theme Idea:

@Capeman That looks really good. Would you use a different TV for each system, to kind of fit in with the years they were around? So Playstation would have a newer TV than NES, etc.

Edit:
Another option might be to put the wheel art/game logo in place of the system logo, then have the system logo on theTV somewhere, or above the gamelist.

+1 to these. System logo above the game list and game logo above the TV. For arcade, the game logo could go in the marquee.

@Capeman, have you started work on themifying this yet?

Kamakiri

Can I have the background image at least?

Capeman

@dannybuoy said in Old TV Theme Idea:

@Capeman, have you started work on themifying this yet?

Yes, i have! I have an alpha version done, but i need to test it on a fresh install of retropie (i don't want to mess up my good install). Probably just a couple more days before i post a dropbox link for people to test.

mattrixk

@Capeman Have you tried using one of the windows builds that are floating around? @fieldofcows has one on his GitHub.

Capeman

@mattrixk said in Old TV Theme Idea:

@Capeman Have you tried using one of the windows builds that are floating around? @fieldofcows has one on his GitHub.

Can't, on a Mac. I have a windows tower, but really don't feel like lugging it out.