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

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

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.

UDb23

@pjft Thank you for putting all this together and providing all of us with Collections in Carbon ! And thanks for the credits on github.

I will create a couple of proposals for the "collections" logo (w/o "custom"), post them here asking for opinions. Based on that I'll submit a pull request on Carbon.

pjft

@udb23 not at all, you really had all the hard work, I just didn't want to give you the burden of having to also update the theme. Still, the basis is there now so you will be able to update only the images with a pull request :)

Thanks for it all!

Hope you're doing well.

UDb23

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

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 :)

Here's the updated "system" logo. (removed "custom" wording and changed color to avoid being too similar to Advmame logo as some people noticed).

More fancier logo proposal coming in the future.

If you like it can you please submit PR request for Carbon to replace the old one with this ?

Edit: link to the SVG file here.