[New Theme] Cygnus, with support for video and carousel features
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@ChoccyHobNob I absolutely love your system select screens! Those are super clean and unique!
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@ChoccyHobNob do you have screenshots of the 3 color schemes and 4 display variations?
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@ChoccyHobNob It looks great. Dumb question. How did you get rid of the white scroll on the system selection? I didn't think it was themeable.
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@cafarellidigital not yet :)
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@shamrock it's themeable in the latest version of emulationstation. I didn't get rid of it, it's the logo in the bottom middle of the system screen
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I like it!
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@ChoccyHobNob Thanks. Is there anyway you can share that snippet of code. I am a beginner working on a theme to the best of my (in)ability.
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@shamrock I got it from @mattrixk's toolkit here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9047/emulationstation-toolkit-theme-making-helper
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This is awesome!
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@shamrock: The BaseVid theme in the ES Toolkit has examples of how to theme the Carousel.
@ChoccyHobNob: Looks really good. One small thing I noticed is the the "xx games available" looks a little out of place. You could put it in line with the Help text, and maybe even make it the same size/colour so it sort of flows a bit more.
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@ChoccyHobNob I agree with @mattrixk about the "xx games available" section. My neurotic design-mind wants it perfectly aligned and sized with the help bar. I think I'll do the same with my next theme; great idea!
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@mattrixk I've never tried changing the font of the help text, should be interesting. I used your example and tweaked btw, so your basevid theme doesn't match the help text either ;)
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@ChoccyHobNob Hmm... the BaseVid theme is based on another one that I'm currently working on, but with a lot of the custom image stuff ripped out. I thought I had the Help stuff set up, but I guess not.
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@mattrixk Mine has matching fonts, colours, sizes and positions now :) coming along but the final set of art is the hardest bit
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@ChoccyHobNob said in Here are a few screens of my new theme, Cygnus:
coming along but the final set of art is the hardest bit
I know what you mean. I've been working on the Indent theme for months. The art just takes so long. I just had 2 weeks off work, I had intended to get the theme finished, but I haven't touched it. I did get to play some actual games though, which was awesome.
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This looks nice, can't wait to see it complete!
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Looks veeeeeeery cool !
Can't wait to test it on my Pi !
Go ahead !
regards,
SK
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Just the readme and some last minute testing to do now. Then I can put this online.
@herb_fargus how do I get this added to the theme picker/gallery in retropie? Is there any specific way I need to prepare it? I was just going to upload to github for each of the 4 styles (full, nometa, simpleart, nometa-simpleart) is that the best way?
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@ChoccyHobNob you need to name your repo
es-theme-yourthemeand then submit a pull request like this one:https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/1964/files
You can either have multiple themes for each style or one theme with multiple xmls that's users can manually switch out depending on how different your theme versions are.
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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one theme with multiple xmls that's users can manually switch out
You can have a look at the Io theme for an example of this.
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