Carbon Theme Suggestions

battlecat

@Rookervik Okay that is like WOW! Love it. OMG. Much WOW. LOL

Nice work.

--BC

meleu

The guys from the RetroPie project should be on those "People are Awesome" compilations. :D

UDb23

@Rookervik thanks for implementing it. Concerning the logos there's no need to recreate them, all possibile variations of Mame version logos ( specifically tested for Carbon) are already available in svg format in the logo pack I mentioned in my previous post.
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Rookervik

@UDb23 Very nice work. I made some of my own so don't worry. Made sure they fit properly, and are visible on both light and dark backgrounds.

Keep in mind that these added themes will only work if you edit your es_systems.cfg. I can probably set up a download for the es_system.cfg and people can just replace it.

KillerQ

@Rookervik said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:

@mattrixk

Correct. Once an image is loaded into VRAM, that's all it will take. The images in the background on Pixel are what, 480x270? They get stretched to full screen.

You can find the same thing on the Simple theme. The wallpapers are 720p. If you reduce them in size, by a power of 2, you can actually avoid the white screen of no-ramminess. But you see the pixels since the image is stretched. In Pixel's case, that's perfect. :D

Rook,

Thanks so much for our hard work. I'm going to utilize your carbon centered theme in my portrait mode cabinet in order to allow the text to flow better.

I'll have to test after I scrape with screenshots and metadata to see if and how it shows in your theme.

Thanks again!

KillerQ

@Rookervik said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:

@lilbud

Well, RetroPie isn't a job. No one gets paid for working on the project. I do this art because I enjoy it. =^_^=

Are there some cases in which lowering the font size won't take affect? The joystix font won't seem to scale down for me with the carbon centered theme.

Also, I have successfully scaled the image size down, in hopes of buying more real estate and having the text list area increase to allow more games to populate on screen. The top limit of the game list didn't raise when the image shrunk - just a blank buffer exists now where the Larger image edges used to reside. Is that list able to be raised so that more can be listed?

I ask because, when used in portrait mode, the long list of games is nice.

Thanks again for everything.

Rookervik

@KillerQ Check both your carbon.xml and your individual theme.xmls. Theme.xmls will overwrite carbon.xml.

KillerQ

@Rookervik said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:

@KillerQ Check both your carbon.xml and your individual theme.xmls. Theme.xmls will overwrite carbon.xml.

thanks.

I'm completing my image that's dedicated to vertical/portrait MAME only. I plan I using tie carbon centered theme or your pixel theme. I just have to see if I can figure out how to manipulate your pixel theme so that it is centered with a medium-ish photo bear the top, and then a list of games beneath. Similar to your cArbon centered - just with pixels!

I'll keep you posted.

Rookervik

@KillerQ You should check this link, KillerQ. Mattrixk made a great tutorial on how to theme. Also be sure to check any graphical assets to see if you are allowed to use them in your own work.

KillerQ

@Rookervik said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:

@KillerQ You should check this link, KillerQ. Mattrixk made a great tutorial on how to theme. Also be sure to check any graphical assets to see if you are allowed to use them in your own work.

will do, thanks!!

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme

mattrixk

I saw the tutorial linked in a Lifehacker article yesterday. Feels good.

KillerQ

@mattrixk

Awesome, and great tutorial. Very concise step-by-step.

mattrixk

@KillerQ Cheers. I'm glad people can make use of it. It took me weeks to put that thing together (basically lunch times at work, and late at night when everyone else was asleep were the only times I had to work on it).

KillerQ

@mattrixk said in Carbon Theme Suggestions:

@KillerQ Cheers. I'm glad people can make use of it. It took me weeks to put that thing together (basically lunch times at work, and late at night when everyone else was asleep were the only times I had to work on it).

I'm in the same boat!! Much appreciated.

Peace!

backstander

I would love to see a PC-FX theme for Carbon!
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/PC-FX

I don't know who did the controller graphics and top banner logo for all the systems on the Wiki but it would also be nice to have them made for the PC-FX entry. I suck at graphic design!

Rookervik

@backstander Nice catch Backstander. I'll work on creating the PC-FX logo and controller in SVG tomorrow. Too sleepy tonight.

Rookervik

Finished PC-FX. Had to add a white box around the logo since the logo text is flat-black. Looks good. Controller is beautiful. PC-FX has such a sexy controller. It's Street Fighter-ready! :D

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Sending a pull request to Herb (if I can figure out how to do it) so it can be added to the repo. Want to let him know before I go slap him with a pull request. So give it a little bit to be updated in the Repository.

(PS: I use SNES and Genesis as my default testing systems. I just change the theme to whichever system I'm theming so it shows the logo and controller)

Rookervik

Ok, I don't know how to work Github so I can't push a request in. So you'll just have to wait til tomorrow when I can get some help for it. :P

Moerin

Hi guys.

Sorry to necro-bump this thread, but what is the status of the PC-FX theme adding to Carbon?
I didn't find something an entry in the repository.

It is planned to add it?

raven1280

I'd love to have Commodore CDTV added. I made my own Amiga CD32 controller but would love to add CDTV and PC-FX.