Change color!

xZyCFx

Hi, I'm creating a theme for emulationstation, and there's only one thing missing, I can not find it in any way in an xml, svg or similar file ... The rating stars!
Does anyone know how to change their color?! 0_1525263269121_Esboço.png

lilbud

You'd have to open the svg file in a program like illustrator or inkscape and change the stars color that way. AFAIK there is no way to change the color of an svg in xml

EctoOne

Can't you just add the <color> tag to the ratings node? Although that would only work if your svg is completely white.

lilbud

@ectoone I've never been able to color an svg through the theme.xml. Only able to change color by editing the svg.

EctoOne

@lilbud I'm pretty sure I did that all the time when I was using the white sytem logos svgs from @mattrixk io theme in my personal theme. But like I said, it only works with images that are completely white for me, maybe that option was removed somehow though.

mattrixk

@xZyCFx: You don't need an image editing program to change the colour of an SVG. Because they are just code, you can open the file with any text editor (eg: notepad on windows or textedit on mac), look for the hex code (eg: #FFFFFF = white, #000000 = black), change it to the colour you want and save.

I've been out of the theme-making game for a while, so I don't remember if you can just use the <color> tag, or if that's a new thing.

Edit: This is the method I used to change all the colours of the logos in my IO theme (they were originally from Carbon, I just made them bichrome).

jdrassa

@EctoOne said in Change color!:

Can't you just add the <color> tag to the ratings node? Although that would only work if your svg is completely white.

This is correct. I added this sometime last year. I see the theme docs was not updated though. I will fix that shortly.

mitu

@BaksBani Please don't necro-post by replying to years old topics. Start a new topic instead.