Carbon Light

Rookervik

Yeah, looks like your display is digital. Mine is composite. So the chip scaled the image and made it a lot more readable than that. But I'd still rather have a digital display. Much more crisp.

We already know Meta-data has to go. There's no way you can read it on a small display, and there's no room for it.

You're right, the light background seems much more readable with dark text over it. Still, the text needs to be bigger.

Maybe keep the light theme, increase the gamelist width to fill more than half the screen and increase the font size , then squeeze the box art on the other side.

I can also hide the help text at the bottom. It's really really small on all the displays. Should also be able to make it a larger font if it's needed.

Pixel could work if the font was changed and increased in size. That's as easy as dropping a new font in the /art folder and editing the pixel.xml to use 0.3 or 0.32 or so font size on the game list.

Flavor

@Rookervik I actually have both a digital and a composite. I'm working with the digital one now, as I think it'll ultimately be better. I do like the "just works" aspect of the composite screen, though. :)

I do agree that Pixel has a nice layout and that its main downfall (for this) is the text font/color/size. I tried editing the XML, but it didn't seem to help. Maybe I did something wrong. I think the fontSize was set to 0.033 before I messed with it. If you have a pixel.xml for me to try, that'd be cool.

Is there a way to show the currently selected game in a way other than highlighting the whole line and changing the colors? I have yet to see any of the themes show the selected game in a very readable way. The most high contrast way to show the list would be white bkg with black text. Then, instead of recoloring the selected game, could it just draw a box around it, put an arrow in front of it, bold it, double its font size, etc?

Rookervik

@Flavor Go ahead and post more Low Resolution suggestions over in the thread for Low Resolution...
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2700/low-resolution-theme

Rookervik

Hmm, wondering if I can try something? What would happen if I removed the Meta Data names? Such as: "Released:, Developer:, Genre:," ? Would that be too confusing? So instead of this:

Released: 01/15/1997
Genre: Role Playing
Developer: Nintendo

It would look like this:

01/15/1997
Role Playing
Nintendo

This would make adjusting the elements WAY easier. And also anyone without meta data would see nothing, rather than a bunch of meta data names and no information.

Flavor

@Rookervik said in Carbon Light:

01/15/1997
Role Playing
Nintendo

This would make adjusting the elements WAY easier. And also anyone without meta data would see nothing, rather than a bunch of meta data names and no information.

I like that idea a lot, actually. I don't think it would be confusing. What else would those things mean? In some cases, I could see the developer being slightly confusing.

01/15/1997
Role Playing
RARE

"I know plenty of people that own that game. It's not rare. It's pretty common." :P

Rookervik

@Flavor I'm working on it right now. Positioning the meta data is so hard. Each element is formatted a little differently, so you can't just line them all up and give them the same Y and X positioning. You have to tweak each one. -_- Also, you can't give them justification... such as: right, center, left... like you can in some of the other tags. This is another reason meta data sucks a-hole.

Rookervik

I HATE META DATA! Hahahaha! It's really hard to make it look good.

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Rookervik

Ok, I think this theme is pretty much finished. If anyone could check the RetroPie menu for me, that would be great. I've got Pipplware installed at the moment, which has RetroPie installed but tweaked a little, so I'm missing the RetroPie menu. >_< On the plus side, the theme works on Pipplware. Haha.

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Download Luminous v001

Belowstupid

This looks really nice, will the text for unscraped lists be as big on a small screen as carbon is?

Rookervik

@Belowstupid At the moment, yes. Detailed and Basic screens should have the same font size. What are your concerns?

Belowstupid

@Rookervik I use Carbon Centered for my adafruit 2.8" tft screen because it's the only theme with text big enough to comfortably read. I'd prefer to use a brighter theme like this if the text were big enough.

Rookervik

@Belowstupid Check this thread out. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2700/low-resolution-theme

hooperre

@Rookervik Curious if this theme will be getting video support. Still my go to theme as it supports all the platforms I use. Thanks for your work! :)

Rookervik

@hooperre Did I even finish a carbon light theme? LOL. It's basically Luminous. I didn't know even a single person used it. Haha.

hooperre

@Rookervik Oh. I thought it was Luminous under a different name. Haha. My bad.

h2805270

@rookervik
Have you got a GitHub page for it?