Call for Content: Themes

standard_owl · August 18, 2019, 3:34pm

Another one: Espresso

nokipaike · August 19, 2019, 12:36pm

Crystalline

crystalline.xml (42,3 KB)

nokipaike · August 20, 2019, 6:18pm

Gandalf The Gray

gandalf_the_gray.xml (42,3 KB)

Gandalf the Pink
gandalf_the_Pink.xml (42,3 KB)

Gandalf the Blues
gandalf_the_Blues.xml (42,3 KB)

ThinkingPolygons · August 20, 2019, 6:23pm

Bungo · August 22, 2019, 10:35pm

Hey this looks really cool. Could you provide the xml file?

nokipaike · September 1, 2019, 5:59pm

XSI Winter Pro

I created this theme giving me a series of goals to reach:

1 I tried to draw inspiration from a series of blender 2.8 themes already created by other authors and that in my opinion are among the most beautiful and functional.
2 I needed to create a dark theme, but at the same time didn’t have the 3D view too dark.
3 coming from very far back in the days when I used Softimage XSI, there were some positive features, at the workflow level I wanted to recreate, and it was the clear distinction between the vertex colors (blue) the edges (yellow) and the faces (red) so I tried to recreate this situation, with some changes second me a little more harmonious, with a desaturation of some colors.
4 try to harmonize all the colors together.
5 work with this theme for about a week, trying to figure out if there were better adaptation changes to be made or small corrections to be made.

this is the result. I hope it’s appreciated.
xsi_winter_pro.xml (42,3 KB) (xml updated, same little defect correction )
(new version, dark mesh in edit mode)

edit:
after an intense work of many hours working on a mesh, I decided to darken the mesh in edit mode, consequently: the elements are seen with more contrast and more ease to see and the eyes get less tired.

edit: 13 09 2019

improved wirframe mesh colors in edit mode after this change:
Fix T67637: Selected edges hard to see with wireframe

improved wireframe mesh colors in object mode

edit: 21 9 2019 better colors visible for line of polygons and curves

Paul · September 5, 2019, 2:16pm

Better theme support, please

Dear blender,

There are still quite some UI elements un-themeable in blender 2.8x. Posts about this were made here and in the Blender UI Papercut section, but it doesn’t seem to get much attention. I’m sure we all here want to create a perfect theme, so is there any way we can help to get un-themeable elements exposed in the theme editor?

Bataghast · September 13, 2019, 12:11am

This is great! May I download it?

nokipaike · September 18, 2019, 12:22am

Xsi Winter Dark , a more darker variant of Xsi Winter pro
xsi_winter_dark.xml (42,3 KB)

edit: 21 9 2019 better colors visible for line of polygons and curves

nokipaike · September 18, 2019, 3:22pm

Smeraldine
smeraldine.xml (42,3 KB)

HooglyBoogly · September 20, 2019, 7:53pm

Hi Paul. I keep hearing this suggestion in lots of different places, but I’ve never seen a list of un-theme-able elements along with it. For someone who wants to help fix the situation, it’s hard without a comprehensive list of the problem areas.

Have you seen a list anywhere, or do you have any interest in helping to compile one yourself?

ThinkingPolygons · September 20, 2019, 9:44pm

On top of my head.

Dopesheet in grease pencil mode. Can’t find those dark gray bars colors

NLA editor. Can’t find those blue/green bars colors.

Graph editor. Those “rgb” colors are nowhere to be found.

The playhead text can’t be changed.

Image editor. If you click on a image, a black bar with numbers appear at the bottom, we can’t change any of it.

The origin indicator, I’m pretty sure we can’t change those colors.

I’m pretty sure there’s more.

nokipaike · September 21, 2019, 8:52am

@Harleya I know you like to repair small things, is it a complex job for you to repair these non-themable colors?

Paul · September 21, 2019, 8:56am

Hi HooglyBoogly, That’s great to hear you want to help! I haven’t found a comprehensive list yet, and I would love to help compile and maintain one. What’s the minimal info you need to identify for an un-theme-able element? I’m thinking about [detail-screenshot, logic-name, description].

Paul · September 21, 2019, 9:04am

Thanks ThinkingPolygons! I’m going to put these on ‘the list’. The green text in 3D View could be the 3D View / Object Keyframe color.

nokipaike · September 21, 2019, 9:06am

guys, let’s do a papercut thread for the themes errors, so we list everything that looks badly managed or is un-themable.
so some dev who want to repair these little mistakes have an easy life.

Paul · September 21, 2019, 10:56am

Hi nokipaike, I’ve set up a topic for the un-theme-able elements. Theme Development Lets post there, I’ll start listing items later today.

timkrief · October 4, 2019, 11:13am

Hi everyone,
I made a true black theme for blender, using a modern and flat design with vivid colors, it can be accessed here: Tim Krief / Blender True Black Theme · GitLab

It’s a first draft, it might be rough around the edges. So, if you encounter any issue, please open a ticket or even better, correct it and contribute to the repo.

I used a green / lime accent color, (if you edit the theme to change the accent color, tell me so that I can add it as an option if it’s pretty ).

Here’s a screenshot:

jonlampel · October 4, 2019, 4:28pm

Minimal Dark update for 2.81, including improvements to the Dope Sheet, NLA Editor, Outliner, Preferences, and File Browser.

minimal_dark.xml (42.4 KB)

nokipaike · October 9, 2019, 10:47pm

Xsi Midnight

This theme is a very accurate version, it is the result of the experience I gained by going deep with theming settings.
This is the base that will lead to other variations, I think I have fixed all the colors, but in the case I will reload some corrections in the future.