Futura Theme

FlyingTomahawk

UPDATE

Futura video themes (v1.3.6) now available at github.
(Links inside the first post of this thread.)

chubsta

Great work - best theme by far!

chrisdodgen

Hey there Tomahawk,

Sorry it took me so long, but I got a wonderful flu that put me down for about a week and a half.

I'm double checking the files real quick and will post within the hour.

chrisdodgen

Here's the package:

10px and 20px versions included, plus source images.

Amstrad CPC
Apple II
Tandy Color Computer (CoCo)
Vectrex
Z-machine
ZX Spectrum

Download Link:
Additional Futura Panels

PS: I discovered some mistakes I'd made in the previous XML files. These new ones should be all correct.

Thanks!

dsstrainer

Great theme. I've been using it on my latest build but just switched to a 16:10 monitor and it doesn't scale right. Anyway to get this working for 16:10?

FlyingTomahawk

@dsstrainer

Thanks.

Without re-creating the frames, screenshots, reposition the text, so basically redo everything from scratch again, no.

There are 8 different Futura repositories on github to maintain/update and at the moment I don't have the time to recreate everything from scratch.

dsstrainer

@FlyingTomahawk So.. just make time :) 9 versions of futura .... a good round number

FlyingTomahawk

@dsstrainer

lol, hehehe...
Yeah, 9 sounds good doesn't it.
Maybe I can remove some of the current versions and add 4:3 and 16:10 instead?
Another problem would be to simulate 16:10 since I don't own such a screen format device.

I would need to start a poll and see which Futura versions are most used.

FlyingTomahawk

UPDATE!

Change log

v1.3.7 - 2017-05-31

Added Amstrad CPC system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Apple II system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added CoCo system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Intellivision system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Vectrex system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Zmachine system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added ZX Spectrum system (All credits to chrisdodgen)

All credits and special thanks for these new systems go to @chrisdodgen.

-- IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! --

These were the last systems that I added to the Futura theme, at least for the time being.
The support for the non-video Futura themes stops today. I will only update and improve the video Futura versions since those seem to be the way forward. The non-video themes will be still available on github.
It was brought to my attention that there are some issues with the alignment of the system or system_year text and the system logos. That issue will be addressed asap.
I will try to create a 4:3 and 16:10 versions of the Futura video themes
~~Futura video themes will be added to the RetroPie repository for direct download through the RetroPie menu. Unless someone tells me that there are issues with the video versions.~~

Thanks

FlyingTomahawk

Great news, pull request has been accepted!
All 4 Futura video themes are now available via RetroPie menu.

Enjoy!

FlyingTomahawk

@herb_fargus

4 new Futura themes have been added to the RetroPie repository and the 2 old ones have been removed.
They have new names and video support.
The docs could use an update with new screenshots.

Thanks

chrisdodgen

@FlyingTomahawk said in Futura Theme:

Added Amstrad CPC system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Apple II system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added CoCo system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Intellivision system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Vectrex system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added Zmachine system (All credits to chrisdodgen)
Added ZX Spectrum system (All credits to chrisdodgen)

Thanks, man. Glad I could contribute.

msheehan79

@FlyingTomahawk

Great looking theme!

Can I make a very small suggestion to add a "tg16" system folder with the appropriate logo?

When I followed the instructions on RetroPie docs and created a "platform.cfg" file with the lines below in order to configure ES to have pcengine look for the TurboGrafx-16 logo, it comes up as an unthemed system as this particular folder is not currently in the theme.

pcengine_theme="tg16"
pcengine_platform="tg16"

It was easy enough for me to manually add the tg16 folder and copy the theme elements from pcengine to the new folder, but just thinking it would make sense to have this folder available in the main theme repository so any other users who want to display the TG16 instead of PC Engine logo don't have to mess with the filesystem (other than making the platform.cfg file, that is...)

FlyingTomahawk

@msheehan79

Thanks.

Roger that. I'll separate those two and while I'm add it I might aswell do the same for pcengine cd and tg-cd.

A2ra3L

Can somebody help me to make the boxart bigger in the Future Dark VL theme please. I have no intention of getting videos for my games but the rest of the theme is exactly what I want. The problem is with no videos the boxart takes up only a small portion of the space available leaving alot of empty space. Is there a way to switch the boxart area with the video area or just make it larger so ot fills the space? I have no idea about making themes but if someone can point me at the line(s) of code to be looking for I should be able to muddle through with the guide on the site.

Thankyou

FlyingTomahawk

@A2ra3L

Open the futura.xml file with an editor software, for example Notepad++
Then look for this code around line 237

<!-- BOF DETAILED VIEW //-->	
	<view name="detailed">
	
		<image name="md_image">
			<origin>0.5 0.5</origin>
			<pos>0.77 0.44</pos>
			<maxSize>0.20 0.35</maxSize>
		</image>
		
	</view>
<!-- EOF DETAILED VIEW //-->

Play around with then numbers within the maxSize tags until you get the desired result.

<maxSize>0.20 0.35</maxSize>

You might have to also adjust the position

<pos>0.77 0.44</pos>

Good luck.
If anything is just ask.

A2ra3L

Thankyou so much. I'll play with it tomorrow. I like the larger boxart of some other themes but the rest of your theme fits what I need exactly. :P This will make a kind of best of both worlds for me

A2ra3L

SO I got it perfect (for me at least).
0_1497167054948_19179530_10155787718111111_2061995588_o.jpg

I enabled SSH and set a root password with the instructions here:https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/SSH

Then I downloaded WinSCP and navigated to: /etc/.emulationstation/themes/ and opened the xml file and edited the line you said above. I doubled the values (0.40 0.70) and they fit the area so much better. The only problems I have now are the pictures the built in scraper grabbed are too large, so my PSX and some of my 2600 and Amiga pictures so outside of the vertical area. I might play around with the numbers to make them fit, But I think it might be easier to resize the images instead.

Thankyou again

FlyingTomahawk

@A2ra3L

Looking very good.

You can also access your Pi via PC network.
Somewhere in this topic (first couple posts) is a small tutorial as to setup and access the themes folder via PC network.

Keep up the good work and enjoy the theme.

FlyingTomahawk

Version 1.4 released.
Now available at github or RetroPie.

Change log

v1.4 - 2017-06-25

slight change in layout
code cleaning
Added Tubrografx-16 system
Added Tubrografx-CD system
Added PSP Minis stystem

Notice
I have removed all not supported Futura versions from github.
Thanks for your understanding.