Input needed: ES theming improvements
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Probably a dumb question, but is it possible to have a transparent carousel?
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@robertybob it is. The color field works like other color fields where the first 6 digits are the color and the last 2 are the transparency. Just set the last 2 digits to 00.
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@jdrassa Thank you! This is great news, I'll definitely implement this in a future theme :)
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Anyone have a screenshot or demo of what this looks like?
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Isn't this how emulationstation looks now?
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@masteryoer
Look at the bottom of the screen he moved the games available text. -
images from the [ES Toolkit] (https://github.com/mattrixk/es-toolkit/blob/master/emulationstation/themes/basevid/).
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Wow extremely helpful. Awesome on the new features
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@dankcushions What in the name of the spirit of open-source SW development are you talking about?
First of all, the version I am working from still has a "share, edit and attribute" - type licence. If @Rookervik has changed it recently, that cannot retroactively affect all earlier versions.
Second, this is hardly the redistribution of of a complete theme that I now claim as my own. It is a single xml file, with specific additions to showcase the use of a new feature. I could have pasted the same thing as a code-block here in the forum, but I thought to make it easier for folks to go and test it out.
Finally, talking about unfair, I believe that creating original content for open-source projects gives you some right of ownership, for the images @Rookervik certainly has the copyright. But he does not completely own the handling of the xmls describing the system behaviour, not at least because these specific view elements were not there yet. So what right is there to claim for this file?Now to be clear, I understand that licence violations are a sore point atm, but I kind of feel like I'm being put in the same corner as the scumbags that try to make money by selling Retropie SDs. That hurts.
TLDR: I do not think I did anything wrong.
If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.
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@Zigurana the design and layout of a theme is still the theme. there's a non modifying clause on pixel and you modified it, and distributed the file. in the spirit of collaboration i would have asked first.
i'm not the theme police. do what you want. just raising the point.
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I cannot speak for Rookervik but from what I understood was, he cares the most about his self-created graphical stuff (logos, system names, backgrounds) and not the code itself inside the xml file.
As far I know all themes have the same or similar code base otherwise they would not run, right?
As long @Zigurana doesn't add any logos or background files from Pixel he should be good. He also did not intend to sell or spread with bad intention, just used it as a sample code.For future reference, @Zigurana if you need any file to play around or even graphical stuff do not hesitate to use my Futura theme. I do not mind at all if it is used to improve coding or ES in general so please go ahead and help yourself out. :-)
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@FlyingTomahawk said in Input needed: ES theming improvements:
For future reference, @Zigurana if you need any file to play around or even graphical stuff do not hesitate to use my Futura theme. I do not mind at all if it is used to improve coding or ES in general so please go ahead and help yourself out.
Same goes for any of mine, present or future (except maybe MetaPixel, just in case :P ).
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@Zigurana My theme is your theme, you can use it for whatever you want.
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@Zigurana You are quite right. I don't mind anyone using my positions in the XML. That's all I changed in the XML... positions. The graphics are what I would rather not others take and use as their own. There are not many themes (are there any?) that people drew all their own logos and consoles. So please, modify the xml and use it as much as you'd like.
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@Rookervik I am currently creating a theme and would like to possibly use the controller art from your Carbon theme as a small part of the system page. I have seen it in other themes such as piterial, but would like your approval for use prior to sharing my theme with others. I completely understand if you prefer i do not use the controller art, i will come up with another solution. Thank you
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@Rookervik I'm working on one that has custom console art... it's taking fooooooreeeeeeeeveeeeeeer
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@TMNTturtlguy Carbon was created by me, for the RetroPie project, to deal with the VRAM issues that EmulationStation had. It did take several weeks to create all the vector controllers and probably 1/2 of the logos. (About 1/4 were already in the Simple theme and another 1/4 were found online.)
So I can't really tell you if you can use the controllers or not. I don't really consider that my theme even though I made it. I took direction from Herb and Jools on how it would look. It's had it's art stolen many times already without permission. So I guess you can do with it what you want.
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