My Idea for a theme :)

lomax2k

Hi everyone,

i have been working on a theme for a quite while now. And i would love to hear some thoughts of you.

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high5

herb_fargus

@lomax2k surely these are mock-ups yes? Or have you coded a whole new frontend?

Looks great though. Especially the grid launch

Rookervik

Yeah, it would be wonderful to have a front-end with grid launching and full screen wallpapers. It's a shame Emulation Station can't handle this. It's possible to make something similar with Attract Mode. But you'd have to learn how to code. Attract Mode themes get complicated, fast.

Jeck11

Those are awesome. I would apply that theme in a heartbeat.

lomax2k

@herb_fargus hi! no these are just mockups :) i am not a coder. but i just wanted to show them. maybe there's someone here that can help :)

Redstoner

@lomax2k This is amazing!
Someone has to help you with this! (not me, im not a great coder!)

zpaolo11x

I know this thread is a bit old now, but I've been working on a theme trying to implement some of these ideas in Attract Mode... basically there are two "versions" of this theme: one is more traditional with a vertically scrolling grid and inline "coin op" preview.

The other one has an horizontally scrolling list with a separate history/preview screen before launching the game. It's still in development and not released yet.

I can't upload images right now but some screenshots are in this album:

google photos album

juju6725

Maybe a bit older, but it would be very cool if anyone could do this ;)

paffley

Hi, seen a pr on git by havocbcn - https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/623

Does this mean it would be separate individual elements (image,marquee,video) tags within the grid view?

Example:

<view name="grid">

<image name="md_image">
...
</image>

<video name="md_video">
...
</video>

<image name="md_marquee">
...
</image>

<text name="md_name">
...
</text>

<imagegrid name="gamegrid">
...
</imagegrid>

<gridtile name="default">
...
</gridtile>

<gridtile name="selected">
...
</gridtile>

</view>

...or is it actually going to be inside the grid like <imageSource> ...like @jdrassa has already incorporated but with the video tag as an option?

I'm curious...

Sorry, I did not know where to post this as the user havocbcn referenced this post.

asahendrix

@lomax2k How were you able to get that faded blur effect? Does anyone know? It is truly a thing of beauty

zpaolo11x

@juju6725 said in My Idea for a theme :):

Maybe a bit older, but it would be very cool if anyone could do this ;)

Well a lot of time has passed, and in all these years my Arcadeflow theme for Attract Mode, which was also inspired by this mockups, has grown a lot. You can see how it looks in these screenshots and an history page is here:

http://www.mixandmatch.it/AF

and the main thread on Attract Mode forum is here

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2068.0