[New Theme] Cygnus, with support for video and carousel features

ExarKunIv

Very clean.
Nice work :)

TMNTturtlguy

@ChoccyHobNob I absolutely love your system select screens! Those are super clean and unique!

cafarellidigital

@ChoccyHobNob do you have screenshots of the 3 color schemes and 4 display variations?

shamrock

@ChoccyHobNob It looks great. Dumb question. How did you get rid of the white scroll on the system selection? I didn't think it was themeable.

ChoccyHobNob

@cafarellidigital not yet :)

ChoccyHobNob

@shamrock it's themeable in the latest version of emulationstation. I didn't get rid of it, it's the logo in the bottom middle of the system screen

A Former User

I like it!

shamrock

@ChoccyHobNob Thanks. Is there anyway you can share that snippet of code. I am a beginner working on a theme to the best of my (in)ability.

ChoccyHobNob

@shamrock I got it from @mattrixk's toolkit here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9047/emulationstation-toolkit-theme-making-helper

HurricaneFan

This is awesome!

mattrixk

@shamrock: The BaseVid theme in the ES Toolkit has examples of how to theme the Carousel.

@ChoccyHobNob: Looks really good. One small thing I noticed is the the "xx games available" looks a little out of place. You could put it in line with the Help text, and maybe even make it the same size/colour so it sort of flows a bit more.

cafarellidigital

@ChoccyHobNob I agree with @mattrixk about the "xx games available" section. My neurotic design-mind wants it perfectly aligned and sized with the help bar. I think I'll do the same with my next theme; great idea!

ChoccyHobNob

@mattrixk I've never tried changing the font of the help text, should be interesting. I used your example and tweaked btw, so your basevid theme doesn't match the help text either ;)

mattrixk

@ChoccyHobNob Hmm... the BaseVid theme is based on another one that I'm currently working on, but with a lot of the custom image stuff ripped out. I thought I had the Help stuff set up, but I guess not.

ChoccyHobNob

@mattrixk Mine has matching fonts, colours, sizes and positions now :) coming along but the final set of art is the hardest bit

mattrixk

@ChoccyHobNob said in Here are a few screens of my new theme, Cygnus:

coming along but the final set of art is the hardest bit

I know what you mean. I've been working on the Indent theme for months. The art just takes so long. I just had 2 weeks off work, I had intended to get the theme finished, but I haven't touched it. I did get to play some actual games though, which was awesome.

Wulf

This looks nice, can't wait to see it complete!

SutterKane

Looks veeeeeeery cool !

Can't wait to test it on my Pi !

Go ahead !

regards,

SK

ChoccyHobNob

Just the readme and some last minute testing to do now. Then I can put this online.

@herb_fargus how do I get this added to the theme picker/gallery in retropie? Is there any specific way I need to prepare it? I was just going to upload to github for each of the 4 styles (full, nometa, simpleart, nometa-simpleart) is that the best way?

herb_fargus

@ChoccyHobNob you need to name your repo es-theme-yourtheme and then submit a pull request like this one:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/1964/files

You can either have multiple themes for each style or one theme with multiple xmls that's users can manually switch out depending on how different your theme versions are.