Futura Theme

chubsta · 29 Mar 2017, 12:11

@chubsta

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you like it.

I could add Daphne but I won't be able to do it this week. I'm very busy at work and am really exhausted when coming home. On top of that I'll have to work straight through the whole week, including weekend.

If you want you can start creating it and I could take a look later and adjust if necessary. If you want to wait is OK too, whatever is good to you.

Be careful when using the Futura video version.
That is still under development and needs still code adjustments.

Thats great news - well, not the bit about being really exhausted, that sucks, but about the Daphne! i know it is cheeky and lazy but i guess it would be better for me to wait for you to do it, i have no eye for this sort of thing and am working night-shifts myself, work always seems to get in the way of the good stuff!

I havent actually tried the furore with video yet, having gone around in circles over the years trying beta stuff i tend to wait for 'proper' releases these days, saves a lot of heartache!

cheers for your efforts, really appreciated

bkart · 30 Mar 2017, 01:07

Love this theme and wanted to give some feedback on the beta. I tried the video beta and have issues with my other artwork interfering with the video. I have snaps, wheel art, and box art on my pi. When I scroll to a game for a second or two I see the wheel art over the box art. The box art then fades and is replaced by the video which plays. However the wheel art stays onscreen the whole time and covers the middle of the video. Thanks for your work on this theme.

FlyingTomahawk · 30 Mar 2017, 03:07

@bkart

Thanks for your feedback.
Yeah, the whole marquee, image, video stuff is a pain to setup. It depends on what you use as image and what you use as marquee the results can be totally different.
In that first Futura video package I used a screenshot as image and for marquee I used boxart, wheel combo. As it was used in @mattrixk ES toolkit sample.

I personally use a screenshot as image and the game wheel as marquee. I need to figure out a way to make it compatible with multiple setups or maybe one futura.xml file for each different situation?
Next week I'll have more time to dig in a bit more.
Meanwhile, you can adjust the numbers for the marquee position in the futura.xml file.

mattrixk · 30 Mar 2017, 07:31

@FlyingTomahawk the new Toolkit is being set up to use logos on the marquee instead of the mix image. Herb and I are working on an upgrade and it should hopefully be ready soon.

FlyingTomahawk · 30 Mar 2017, 13:45

Futura v1.3.4 now available!

Change log

v1.3.4 - 2017-03-30
Added Daphne system

@chubsta

The Daphne logo is not my best work, sorry.
Feel free to use any other Daphne logo from any other theme. Just make sure it is in svg file format and rename it to system.svg.
Enjoy!

chubsta · 31 Mar 2017, 20:29

Thanks very much - i wont be doing anything to change it as i think it all looks great, really appreciate you adding it.

chubsta · 3 Apr 2017, 15:54

@FlyingTomahawk

Sorry to be a pain, but need a little help!

I have added Vectrex and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, neither of which is currently supported in the theme - no problem, i thought, i will just add them!

The adding went fine and i have robbed a couple of system.svg from another theme to save me making my own but i am getting stuck when it comes to making the 3 images that go at the top of the screen for each system. I have the images i want, and i have the template files you provide in the theme but i cannot for the life of me work out a workflow in photoshop that will enable me to basically 'cut' my images to shape! I know i am not very bright, particularly when it comes to this stuff, but any chance you could quickly explain the relevant action in PS to get the right shape images, it would be much appreciated!

FlyingTomahawk · 3 Apr 2017, 16:58

No problem. Here is what I do. Lets take the center screenshot as example.
Open the center screenshot layout psd file in photoshop.
Then open the image you want to use as center screenshot in photoshop and make sure it is set as RGB mode.
Then drag the image over to the screenshot layout.
Adjust it by to fit the layout area.
Then select on the right the screenshot layout layer and use the magic tool. Once the area is selected right click on it and choose "select inverse".
Now select the image layer and hit the delete button on the keyboard.
Then choose "save for web", save it as png24 file and name it screenshot_center.png

Done!

Do the same for the left and right screenshot.

chubsta · 3 Apr 2017, 17:30

@FlyingTomahawk
thanks for the fast reply - like so many things in life it is simple when you know how, not sure i would have got there on my own though!

cheers

FlyingTomahawk · 4 Apr 2017, 15:34

Futura v1.3.5 now available!

Change log

v1.3.5 - 2017-04-04
Added Game & Watch system

FlyingTomahawk · 4 Apr 2017, 15:43

lol
There was a typo in the change log.
It should say Game & Watch not Daphne.
Fixed it.

FlyingTomahawk · 8 Apr 2017, 12:58

UPDATE

New Futura video themes available. (beta versions)
See first post for download links and screenshots.
Please report any bugs here.

Enjoy!

Arcanjohack · 16 Apr 2017, 15:45

I have saw that if you enter a system and press select to go straight to a letter, after leaving and continue navigating between systems, the theme collapses, no longer displaying the logos of the systems, nor the videos.

Pi 3, retropie 4.2 - theme future big video

herb_fargus · 16 Apr 2017, 16:22

@Arcanjohack check if it happens with other themes too. Could possibly be a bug with es if it happens with others.

Arcanjohack · 16 Apr 2017, 16:56

@herb_fargus I just tested with a theme without video, and the theme that also uses vice. "Crt-theme". no problem

jfick13 · 16 Apr 2017, 19:15

it's working great looks amazing. thanks for all of your hard work

FlyingTomahawk · 16 Apr 2017, 22:16

@Arcanjohack

I just tested this on my RPi3 with all Futura theme versions (video and non-video) and I am not able to recreate that error.
I can see on your last picture this error message?

glGetError 0x505

I am no coder and I have no idea what that error exactly means. Video memory issue?
How many systems do you run?
How many roms do you use?
Not sure if this has anything to do with it but what is your vram setting in ES?

@jfick13

Thank you. :)

Arcanjohack · 17 Apr 2017, 00:20

@FlyingTomahawk said in Futura Theme:

I am no coder and I have no idea what that error exactly means. Video memory issue?
How many systems do you run?
How many roms do you use?
Not sure if this has anything to do with it but what is your vram setting in ES?
@jfick13
Thank you. :)

I am no coder and I have no idea what that error exactly means. Video memory issue?
I hope not
How many systems do you run?
15
How many roms do you use?

- 2000
  Not sure if this has anything to do with it but what is your vram setting in ES?
  I set to 300mb

This theme is the most beautiful I have ever seen, I hope to find the cause.

FlyingTomahawk · 17 Apr 2017, 00:45

@Arcanjohack

I google searched that error message and looks like to be a gpu memory issue.
The Futura theme using 1920x1080 images is heavy on the resources.
Read here

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=60024

cylum · 17 Apr 2017, 02:09

You need to increase the VRAM, the option is available in one of the menus. I had the same issues when using the default value, I increased it to around 800-1000 and haven't had any issues since. You can probably use a lower value, just have to mess around with it to see what works.