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Antropus:
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--- Quote ---Hmmm, I don't know but I find those HS and AtomicFE themes EXTREMELY busy and not pleasant to the eyes. So many colors and everything moving at same time! I don't know if I should look at the background, movies, title, flying logos etc. I worked as a graphic designer for a long time before I got to the film industry and I can say that those templates are really hard to 'read' most of the time.
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In fact it really depend of what you want do. AtomicFe can do exact (if not extremely close) same layout than Maximus too. And if you don't like animated layout you can do statics one. AtomicFe is extremely flexible. (Don't know for HyperSpin , anyway its target is cleary animation)
Maximus is nice , well done, but you pay for it and you don't get support. Where you can have other 'as good' Fe for Free and have a really dynamic and helpfull support. Mala, Mamewah, AtomicFE , GameEX (you have to pay too here, but at least you have a real support).
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Can AtomicFE create an horizontal animated menu for different system selection, lets say, swf animated elements like in Maximus? Exactly what you have in the video you posted. If so, I'll surely give it a try! I would like to reproduce the exact theme I have running on Maximus right now. My problem with maximus is the bug when generating/refreshing game lists. CPS3 games for example I'll cause a Director Player error (that happens with other systems as well - like Kawaks - and yeah, I know CPS3 games will play fine on mame...) and even after complaints from other users, the director player problem was never fixed. "install a fresh version of Maximus" didn't solve the problem either. So, if I can get the same options for theme creation, easy to use and fast, then I'll switch FEs for sure. Also, out of all main FEs, Maximus seems to be the least supported by the author. I hope I'm wrong.
-Kris
edit: I just found this one. Great looking theme and showing it's probably possible:
youki:
--- Quote ---Can AtomicFE create an horizontal animated menu for different system selection, lets say, swf animated elements like in Maximus?
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Yes, of course it can. If you try to do the tutorial , you will see the default layout for "Selector screen" use this kind of effect.
But Atomic does not use SWF .
The only thing , i think , that maximus does and not Atomic yet is the transistion effect between screens.
However may be the creation of this kind of layout ask more work that on maximus (not sure, i never tried Maximus).
AtomicFE is extremely Flexible , but sometime the flexibility can have a price in "complexity".
But at least for AtomicFE you have a very active support! ;)
SophT:
--- Quote ---I think if the HyperSpin team had some sort of auto theme download then it would be much more attractive. But then you have the problems of who pays for the bandwidth but I guess they could have some sort of subscription service for it.
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Rumor has it this is on the way.
Ummon:
--- Quote from: Antropus on October 19, 2009, 08:49:09 pm ---Hmmm, I don't know but I find those HS and AtomicFE themes EXTREMELY busy and not pleasant to the eyes. So many colors and everything moving at same time! I don't know if I should look at the background, movies, title, flying logos etc. I worked as a graphic designer for a long time before I got to the film industry and I can say that those templates are really hard to 'read' most of the time.
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You just have to see contrapuntally, dude. Heh. Though I agree there is a certain elegance to the overall scheme of MA.
brian_hoffman:
--- Quote from: SophT on October 25, 2009, 04:41:30 am ---
--- Quote ---I think if the HyperSpin team had some sort of auto theme download then it would be much more attractive. But then you have the problems of who pays for the bandwidth but I guess they could have some sort of subscription service for it.
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Rumor has it this is on the way.
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Ya, about that. Its not going to be happening(at this point in time). We know it would be super convenient but do not want to give users the impression they have to "pay" for themes. They are currently free to download individually and some users create packs on the FTP for donating members. FTP contains the same content as the HS contains and some WIP stuff from our user base.
Looking ahead a subscription service is of course a great way to generate reoccuring revenue, the question in what kind of content or service we can provide that would be worth it to the end users? While the themes downloading may be seen as worth it for those that have the money and not the time to set up HS itself, it takes away from the fact that HS and its themes are free. As always donations are welcome and as a bonus FTP access is granted to those that can donate.
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