[Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES

lilbud

@udb23 I really have no need for a vector software, I just have Inkscape because its free and I hate Adobe Illustrator.

Also, @mediamogul,

Hanna-Barbara > Fleischer

UDb23

@capeman Ended up directly buying it :-)
Will start playing with it over the next WE.
thanks again.

mediamogul

@lilbud

Hanna-Barbara > Fleischer

Ha! While I'll always personally prefer Fleischer's more classic character design and Art Deco background style, there's no arguing that Hanna-Barbara was more prolific in the long run. Their complete stable of characters, while lesser known, rivaled that of Warner Bros or even Disney. Cartoon Network's re-imagining of the characters in the early 2000s is one of the gutsiest and most exciting resurrections of aging intellectual properties that I've ever seen. My particular favorite was 'Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law'.

lilbud

@mediamogul said in [Theme Changes] Attention Theme Makers: Upcoming Game Collections in ES:

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law

My favorite Hanna-Barbara cartoon is Tom and Jerry, hands down the funniest of them all.

mediamogul

@lilbud

An excellent choice for classic HB. Unfortunately their various resurrections in more recent years have been hit or miss due to a constant effort to cater to younger, more sensitive modern audiences. Thank God for the originals though.

lilbud

@mediamogul Tom and Jerry could never exist today in it's original form.

Capeman

@lilbud I miss the old days of ultra violent cartoons. I sat around watching looney tunes all the time as a young child and I'm not running around shooting people point blank with double barrel shotguns. Sigh, better times.

pjft

@capeman sure. But I love hearing you ever time you explain away the amount of anvils, TNT and ACME gizmos you store in your garage.

Capeman

@pjft A man's gotta have hobbies.

UDb23

@pjft Here's the finalized Favorites text logo SVG.

Took a while to make "simulating" all those shadows.

Did anybody test if now the size of folder icons and this logo are in line with size of other standard ES icons ?

hansolo77

@pjft Has any further progress been made on the custom-collections bit?

pjft

@udb23 thanks! I'll try it out on Tuesday when I have access to my dev pi.

Looks great :)

Capeman

@udb23 Logo looks great! Did you end up giving Affinity a whirl?

UDb23

@capeman I installed it, watched some tutorials and played around a bit. Quite nice !
Also I could appreciate how well it imports other vector formats. EPS has always been a headache but designer had no issues importing it.
Logo was still finalized in inkspace as I'm used to it; will take a while to switch. Thanks again for the precious tips.

UDb23

@pjft
Here's a new logo for "All Games":

pjft

@UDb23 Thank you, this looks great!

I am sorry for the lack of responses here, I've unfortunately not had a lot of time to dedicate to any of this work recently :(

I hope to be able to pick it up more actively next week. Sorry about that.

I'll get back to you in this regard.

UDb23

@pjft don't worry at all! There's no urgency.
Btw: have the same issue ;-)
Doing stuff when time allows it.

UDb23

I don't remember if I mentioned it already here. For people wanting to customize their ES look & feel or need custom system logos for the themes they create: Custom SVG Logo pack is available.
Just updated it today.

pjft

Thanks all.

Just to let you all know that the ability to create custom collections is now available from within ES.

I'll take a look at these logos today hopefully and report back :)

pjft

@UDb23 These are great - thank you!

I resized the controller icons as they were still larger than the remaining ones (the page size for the other ones is 598px x 350px), but other than that these are perfect.

I submitted a PR for Carbon here, so that these changes are kicked off:

https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-carbon/pull/34

The main reason being that I will have limited access to a Pi and likely even a proper development laptop from mid-next week, and wanted to make sure Carbon was updated as Collections are now officially part of ES.

I encourage you to submit any new changes to Carbon directly, if you're still looking into other icons.

In particular, the only comment I have now is that the "Custom Collections" system can just be called "Collections", as that was the end name we settled on during the development thread with the remaining theme creators, so if that helps, see what would inspire you :)

Thank you very much for enduring this for the last several weeks in your very limited free time!

Best.