[download v1.0] FLAT BLUE theme released

[robertofresca]

Pretty much finished:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el1JiLDEr9o

[ReSe2k]

when can we expect this to be released? 

[ReSe2k]

is this still being worked on?

[verion]

Yes. I'm 4-5 hours of work away from releasing it - but I've had tight packed schedule last week and I couldn't possibly squeeze it.
I'm hoping this week will be a little less dense.

[bionictoothpick]

I hoping too!

[massale]

Hello verion, is there any version available ? (even a beta one)

This theme seems amazing !

[mgerety]

Longest 4 hours of my life!

[verion]

FLAT BLUE theme v 1.0 released

Finally it is ready to download.
Get it here:
www.ONYXarcade.com/flat_blue


SPECIAL THANKS
to Chris Van Graas (chrisvg) for coding this theme. Without his work and great coding skills this wouldn't be possible.


BUGS
If something is not working - please report it in this thread.
We didn't test it on RPi - please report if this theme works on RPi. To get maximum performance on RPi - do not enable CRT shader effect and do not enable video icons in sidebar (see the options description below)


SCREENSHOTS







VIDEO
You can see the video of a FLAT BLUE theme working on Blast City arcade cab - HERE



MAIN FEATURES:

• clean modern design
• "responsive" layout that auto-adapts to screen aspect
• works for normal (landscape) and rotated (portrait/tate) screens
• looks good on hi-res screens and TVs
• special (auto) settings to look good on low-res CRTs

LAYOUT OPTIONS

Layout rotation
options="None, Right, Flip, Left"
default="None"

description:
Set the rotation of the layout to suit your monitor.
You don't have to use this function if you have rotated monitor AND your graphic card set to ROTATE (i.e. your desktop/console displays normally on rotated display, not sideways). Theme layout will auto-adapt to resolution like 1080x1920.
But this function is useful if you graphic drivers doesn't have rotate function - you can set this to rotate and this will force to display layout in portrait mode regardless of desktop not being rotated. And this is very useful if you are usually using your monitor in landscape mode and only rotating it occasionally to play vertical games.
 

   
Menu artwork
options="Snap, Flyer, Icon"
defaulf="Snap"

description:
Set menu panel artwork type (round icon).
Snap is a static game screenshot - you can have video icons instead (see the menu settings below).
"Icon" is reserved for future use - Later I'll create separate thread for this - you can see it in screenshot here




Menu videos
options="Enabled, Disabled"
default=|"Disabled"

description:
Toggle video playback for menu artwork.
If you switch your icon to Snap, you can enable video here.
CAUTION! It's very resource hungry - especially on not-so-fast hardware and with mp4 videos.




Wheel logo
options="Enabled, Disabled"
default="Enabled"

description:
Toggle display of game wheel logos in top-right corner.



Game info 1
options="Year, ROM Name"
default="Year"

description:
Set game information to display in dark blue info panel (top line)



Game info 2
options="Manufacturer, Played Count"
default="Played Count"

description:
Set game information to display in dark blue info panel (bottom line)



Panel shadows
options="Strongest, Strong, Medium, Weak, Weakest, Disabled"
default="Medium"

description:
Left menu sidebar and info panel cast shadows for eye-candy effect. You can adjust effect strength here - because if looks different for different types of screen.



CRT Shader
options="Enabled, Disabled"
default="Disabled"

description:
Enables CRT Shader for snaps. It doesn't add curvature, only graphics effect simulating CRT pixels/phosphor effect.
It helps if your snaps or videos are low-res and displayed on hi-res screen.
CAUTION! It's very resource hungry - especially on not-so-fast hardware and on slow integrated graphic cards.
Disabled for resolutions under 1024x768 - as it is not needed for low res screens and CRTs
You can disable it if your videos/snaps are high-res (like for PC games)



Scanline overlay
options="Strongest, Strong, Medium, Weak, Weakest, Disabled"
default="Weakest"

description:
Set scanline overlay effect strength. Only used if CRT Shader is disabled.
It's a good replacements for CRT shader effect if you don't have enough oomph to run the shader.

[keilmillerjr]

Wow! I just saw the video. It looks so good!

[asylvia22]

Thank you, I've been looking forward to this theme. Appreciate the hard work.

[verion]

Thanks. I should have release it long time ago. Just couldn't find that last chunk of a free time to make it ready for public.

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Please report if anything needs fixing.
And if it is working without any problems - let me know too.

[clewis]

Just tried it on Raspberry Pi.  It doesn't work.  Just shows the video background and the games list as a generic font.

Hope you get it working on Pi because it looks awesome.  Let me know if you would like me to test anything.

[Mettekr]

I got it to work on my pi 3 by leaving it zipped, but it was super laggy. I might poke around the nut file to see what I can remove without losing the look and feel.

[verion]

re: RPI - that's bad news, but I'm not shocked. It was little laggy on pentium G860 3Ghz with GeForce240, and perfectly ok on i5 1.3Ghz with integrated GPU.
But maybe we can pinpoint what's causing the problem and work out the solution.

@Mettekr - can you temporarily remove your videos from snap folder (leaving only snaps - game screenshots)? And test if it makes it less laggy using only static snaps.
What's your version of AM?

[Mettekr]

Going with images vs videos made in functional, but not smooth/fast.. Also makes it more boring 

I'm surprised if just having video would be the cause though, as I've used full screen snaps before. Do you know which script is doing the heaviest load?

I really love the look of this, so hopefully we can figure something out. I've removed things like the fade module from some other layouts to make them a little smoother on the pi