Pixel Theme

[Rookervik]

[Nismo]

i like the new look, thanks, and merry christmas.

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik Your new console logos look fantastic! You mentioned changing the license; what were you planning on changing it to?

[Rookervik]

@mattrixk I'm planning on changing it so you can use the old logos and I use the new ones. :P

[ebtalk]

I've been toying around with the theme just to see if I can teach myself it. I'm having a hell of a time getting the videos to appear in the upper right hand box and the game box art to show up in the lower right hand side. I figured doing it would be much easier, I was wrong.

[Rookervik]

@ebtalk I believe when a video is found, the box art is ignored. But I can't be sure until I play around with it more, myself.

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik said in Pixel Theme:

I'm planning on changing it so you can use the old logos and I use the new ones. :P

That's what I was thinking of. You've put so much effort into the new logos, it doesn't feel right to update MetaPixel to use them too.

[Rookervik]

Game & Watch had quite a small logo. Fixed that up...

[Rookervik]

Finally finished the logos. Took days. Some were completely re-drawn.

Added Mac Plus system. Now just checking to see if I can do something with those tetris blocks that won't make CrazySpence cry like a 2 year old.

Oh, and add video previews.

[ebtalk]

@Rookervik awesome. Can't wait to see the finished product!

[Rookervik]

Got video previews working. I don't think I want to add marquees. Trying to decide if I want to combine the metadata version and the regular version, or keep them separate. They shouldn't be hard to just keep as they are. Adding video previews makes the XML a heck of a lot larger... but it still seems to run just as fast. So that's good.

Toying with removing the oldschool "3d" effect of the backgrounds. Might make it look a little better. I don't know. Cast your vote.

[ebtalk]

@Rookervik Do you have an example of what it'd look like without it?

[Rookervik]

@ebtalk That screenshot shows the background without the highlight effect "old school 3d". Instead of the 3D effect, it just has black lines between each square.

[dankcushions]

@Rookervik i think i prefer the 3d effect. one thing that might be cool is making those background colour/shade variations as tetris blocks :)

[Rookervik]

@dankcushions Hahaha, tetris is what I was trying to avoid. The entire theme is a big tetris game :D

[ebtalk]

@Rookervik I kind of agree. It's very tetris-y

[mattrixk]

@Rookervik I like the 2D backgrounds. It makes the new 3Dish logos really stand out. I'm curious what the Detailed View background would look like though.

[Rookervik]

Turns out that ES's scaling kind of makes single-pixel lines look like poop. So I wont' be changing the background to this:

I do have this for a replacement for the tetris crap. Don't mind the metadata... it's not set up in this hacked version of Pixel. But it does show the background, and the colored lines in the background that are different per system.

[Nismo]

@Rookervik I prefer the latest one "genesis" screen than tetris effect, seems more clean, but it's just my opinion, like we say in my country, for tastes... colors... that means that if something likes to me, not necessary likes to other.

But i doesn't like that blue semi-circles at sides of gamelist, for me, everything else is perfect.

Your new version of the pixel theme still have video support?

[Rookervik]

@Nismo I might just update the logos, and ship it with the logos and video support and call it good enough. I like these new screens, but I'd probably need to release it as Pixel2 instead of changing the current pixel to this.

Video support is already in the pixel update I am working on. Took me a while to find the forum post saying you need to set background as a default object and not an extra. How video was implemented is kind of crazy, and not really documented very well, yet.

And I haven't updated ES on my pi yet. I'm really scared to update since I have my system set up the way I want. Any time I update something, something else breaks. So I'd like to get another SD card and put the newer ES on that and test out the theme there.