Epic Noir - Dark Mode Theme

lolkthxbai

@chicuelo said in Epic Noir - Dark Mode Theme:

@peligwe You mean the name of the game? that text is pixel based, directly from the jpg

Hey Chicuelo, great work! Could you elaborate on this text on the top right? What font settings did you use? What is the offset in pixels from the top and right edge for the text and how did you create the line? I'm asking because I'd really like to make an AmigaCD32 system page, its the only one I'm missing and it really bugs me it doesn't look as nice as the rest. I've added a little summary and the controller for the AmigaCD32 and I'd love to upload it once its done for everyone else to use!

Also, what settings did you use for the black to transparent gradient on the background so it blends into the left like the other system backgrounds? Thanks and amazing job!

chicuelo

@lolkthxbai The font used is Acre medium (white - 20 pt. - 60% layer opacity), you can use this image as reference to set the padding from the borders. The line is a regular line with the pen tool. For the fading it depends on the image, I adjust based on the image I will use, the only thing to have in mind is that the left border has to be solid black

darkray007

@chicuelo
good afternoon, sorry the epic noir theme is only for raspberry pi 3b+ or it can also be used for rpb 4. i tried to install it but i get an error or crash message. and sorry for the inconvenience. I really like the theme

chicuelo

@darkray007 it's for Retropie, and if you can run retropie on a raspberry 4 you should be able to run this theme too. Try downloading from the github link and install manually

darkray007

@chicuelo
good evening
In fact, I already installed it manually by downloading it directly from the commands and by the second method of putting it in the folder
I'm going to format and reinstall everything to see if I don't miss anything
Excuse me, are there any extra steps to install it? or do you have to download something extra.

chicuelo

@darkray007 What version of emulation station did you have? I remember on older versions having to install an emulation station add on to properly run modern themes, also tweaking the vram on the pi3b to improve the performance

darkray007

@chicuelo
Good afternoon, I already checked the previous messages that the publication has and I found my problem
It was that it didn't support 4k and I could lower the resolution and that's it. but I have a doubt, a wallpaper appears in which the console can be turned off, I wanted to know how it can be placed because it does not appear.
and thank you very much for the help men I love your design

chicuelo

@darkray007 Yes, there is a script to safely turn off or reboot your pi.

Download this zip, extract and create the folders in the specified directory. Then place the file there and you should be able to turn off from menu. If you already made that but dont see the menu, you will have to manually add the power menu to es_systems.cfg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tdmh4v8qisbxa8n/shutdown script.zip?dl=0

darkray007

@chicuelo
thank you very much for all the help man.
the whole design looks great.
I only have 2 doubts.
I don't know if they can be answered here

The first would be that I can put all the systems that it has or it only supports up to a limit. I think I have more than 20 emulators but some do not detect them, or it is because it is only the default emulators that retropie has.

The second the emulators you don't have can be added as play 2 or not
Thanks @chucuelo you are the best men

darkray007

@AdamBeGood
good afternoon man
Excuse me, I wanted to know how you did to put the double bar to be able to select up to 30 themes

chicuelo

@darkray007 You can use as many emulators as you want, but they all have to be supported by retropie. If you make some searching you will find which platforms you could run.

I have only designed some systems, not all but yet a big list. If you want to display some missing systems you will have to manually add to the theme creating the folder, xml file and background + controller files.

chicuelo

@darkray007 This is a fake indication system. It really works but it only displays an image in each system.
Inside the theme folder there is an indicators folder, you have to name each file matching the order of your systems order.

The image with the first dot must be your first system and so, and if you want 30 systems you will have to edit the images and create 30 images with 30 dots (one for each system).
To understand better this you can go to the themes github page and read the documentation.

Hope it works for you

Diablo Loco

@chicuelo

Sorry to revive such an old topic. I don't know how to code, but I'm more than happy to help you testing your theme if you are willing to share it.

Español (Spanish):

Chicuelo, disculpa por revivir un tema tan viejo pero, aunque no puedo ayudarte en la parte del código, estoy mas que dispuesto a ayudarte con la parte de testeo. (esto es extra), pero siempre he sido fan de tus temas, y aunque tenía un montón de tiempo sin usar Raspberry o EmulationStation, ver esta versión me hace quererlo (saludos :) . Tengo Raspberry Pi 3 Model B y Raspberry Pi 4 para testear (probar). Muchas gracias por tu trabajo. ¡Saludos!

chicuelo

@Diablo-Loco Gracias! Por suerte pude desarrollar el theme y lo tengo funcionando en batocea. Tiene algunas funciones que retropie no soporta asi que migre todo a esta plataforma

Poligon

Hi, I am using EpicNoir on my steam deck and I have 1 system that wont show the poster for some reason. Astrocade (astrocde) is only showing black, any idea ?

I have checked the files again and again to make sure everything point to the right place but I can't find anything that would prevent it to work as intended.

chicuelo

@Poligon Which front end are you using? I am sure astrocade is not present on the theme, so when its selected there is no artwork to show. You could create an image for Astrocade (controlle and poster) and the corresponding theme.xml

Poligon

@chicuelo I use Emulationstation installed through Emudeck. And Astrocade is there in your theme and in Emulationstation. This morning I tried renaming the poster to astrocade instead of astrocde and now the poster show up but not the text elements. So it must have something to do with the system naming in my version of Emulationstation. I'll try playing further with the theme.xml of astrocade later today.

Update: I changed the folder name to astrocade in the themes folder and now everything works!

chicuelo

@Poligon I see. in the files i have astrocade is not present. But in the github directory there is a folder named "astrocde". Maybe my partner who is hosting the theme with his Github created one. I see that the main folder is wrong named and you have to rename. Also the poster astrocade.jpg wich is a version of puzzle categories.
I see also see that the controller for this system is missing.

If you rename the folder and the poster properly you will have the theme running excepting the controller. You will have to place a png file on the controller folder with the exact size of the other controller files

fallenturtle

@chicuelo All those system descriptions are a nice touch. Did you write those all out by hand, or scrap and compile them somehow?