Theme Template

Things to know before creating a theme

You may want to have a look at an existing theme , to see how it works and how pictures are used ;)

the theme folder contains all the pictures , and the theme.ini is used to define their names and places.

You can open the theme.ini with any text editor , but we recommand notepad++

All the pictures must be .png

width/height to specify width and height of the button

 x/y to specify positions of the button

 (x = amount of pixels from the left)

 (y = amount of pixels from the top)

 Example:

 width=80

 height=80

 x=10

 y=20

 effect_x/y is where the button comes from.

 So if you have effect_x=-100, the button comes from 100 pixels away on the left.

 and if you have effect_y=50 , the button comes from 50 pixels away on the bottom.

 effect_scale_x/y is how big the button is when it's invisible.

 effect_scale_x=0 means the button will grow from a size of 0 to the size you've set.

 effect_scale_x=1 means the button doesn't grow/shrink.

 effect_scale_x=2 means the button is twice bigger when it's invisible

 A negative value gives a nice effect too.

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 Colors have the following format :

 #RRGGBBAA

 AA being the alpha channel (transparency)

 So it's like html colors, simply add FF at the end.

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 You can add pictures (icons & backgrounds for example)

 Simply add [MENU_NAME/USER#], where # is a number between 1 and 4.

 Note: There are 3 menus where the userlabels have special attributes.

They are [MAIN] , [GAME] and [GAMEINFO]

[MAIN/USER1] and [MAIN/USER2] will be hidden according to [MAIN/ZONES]buttons_*

[MAIN/USER3] and [MAIN/USER4] will be hidden according to [MAIN/ZONES]buttons2_*

[MAIN/USER5] and [MAIN/USER6] will be hidden according to [MAIN/ZONES]buttons3_*

[GAME/USER2] , [GAME/USER3] and [GAME/USER4] will be hidden according to [GAME/ZONES]buttons_*

[GAMEINFO/USER2] , [GAMEINFO/USER4] and [GAMEINFO/USER5] will be displayed ABOVE the text.

(user 1 and user2 are displayed on the game details page on the [GAMEINFO] menu)

(user3 , user4 and user5 are displayed on the synopsis page on the [GAMEINFO] menu)

(user4 and user5 are usually used to mask text on top and bottom in the synopsis)

 Example :

 [MAIN/USER1]

 background_texture=my_pic

 effect_scale_x=1

 effect_scale_y=-1

 effect_x=0

 effect_y=0

 height=80

 width=80

 x=20

 y=20

Different things you should meet in the theme.ini :

[xxxxx/BG] = is used to define the background of a menu.

[xxxxx/TITLE] = is used to define the title of a menu.

[xxxxx/DOWNLOAD] = is an example of what we call ,a label , it is plain text.

[xxxxx/DOWNLOAD_BTN] = is the matching button for the label.