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XanderChaos · 07/06/2008 01:40 AM

Bring your XMB to life! Heartbeat is the only theme to this date that features background that changes color depending on the menu you are in. Click here to see a small preview.

I must say, this theme has a hell of a story behind it. A good month ago I came up with the idea of having a background that changes colors. I knew multiple ways of pulling this off, but needed a theme to put this effect in. I started off with a dock. Well it didn't look very nice. I can't make docks for my life. Then I tried another dock...memory problems galore. Well then this guy, simulacrum, made a concept image of a theme that looked strikingly similar to my latest revision of heartbeat (at the time I called Colors of Life). He couldn't actually make themes, so I told him I'd make the theme for him. Well I couldn't make it pixel for pixel, but it is mostly the same. Every hour or so I'd run into memory problems. So every hour I had to change the ENTIRE theme. Then the alignment of every single damn icon almost made my pull out my hair. I'm not too happy about some of the things I had to change (like subicon size to half), but I pulled it off.

For XMB creators, I'll have a tutorial on how to recreate the background color effect within a day. You should be able to find the link in my signature when its done.

The theme comes in a color and no color version (meaning the background doesn't change). If you are using the color version, it doesn't work as well with vivid wallpapers. Dull colored wallpapers and grayscales work great.

Thanks to:
-simulacrum [concept I based much of this off of]
-ibawanzingee (sn00chi3) [tester]
-ZiNgA BuRgA [RCO Editor]
-Ac_K [Custom XMB Editor v0.4]
-blessedhands [vshmaineditor v2.0]
-And everyone who found the offsets I used

Download [CTF/Flash0]
Download [3.95 GEN Final]

gsmoke · 07/06/2008 01:52 AM

Interesting concept must i say.
Gonna try the theme soon, and yeah the memory problem
is getting crazy every theme maker...

boogschd · 07/06/2008 02:23 AM

XanderChaos Wrote:Bring your XMB to life! Heartbeat is the only theme to this date that features background that changes color depending on the menu you are in.

interesting...
* boogschd must try * Gongxi

feinicks · 07/06/2008 04:09 AM

interesting... downloading..

Question: How does it work? I don't see any changing colors

Method · 07/06/2008 04:17 AM

Really really cool!!!!! Great looking theme!!!

feinicks · 07/06/2008 04:20 AM

yeah... its nice.. but I don't know how to get it to work! directions anyone?

ahh.. its quite subtle! nice!

SchmilK · 07/06/2008 06:05 AM

ahhhh i guessed correctly that you used the main icon shadows :)
Very well played!
I had played with that for schmediaschenter but it didnt look so good...glad you made good use of it

feinicks · 07/06/2008 06:09 AM

well schmilk, are wee to expect something of this sort (no doubt with your touch) in a coming theme?

XanderChaos · 07/06/2008 06:44 AM

gsmoke Wrote:Interesting concept must i say.
Gonna try the theme soon, and yeah the memory problem
is getting crazy every theme maker...

Can't make a good theme without good problem solving skills...and determination. Blind determination.

SchmilK Wrote:ahhhh i guessed correctly that you used the main icon shadows :)
Very well played!
I had played with that for schmediaschenter but it didnt look so good...glad you made good use of it

Why does nobody use the shadows or focus? Focus spice it up and shadows are just a bit trickey. I'm sure the shadows have more possibilities than this, though. I'm thinking of using the shadows (sdwn and sdwf) to make a 3D rotation effect. You should see how it turns out in the coming weeks.

feinicks Wrote:well schmilk, are wee to expect something of this sort (no doubt with your touch) in a coming theme?

It can very easily be added to almost any theme. Like I said, I'll post a tutorial, but I think I'll wait a couple more days and get the 3.95 offsets too (since shadows are controlled in prxs not rcos).

SnakeH · 07/06/2008 10:02 AM

Thanks for the theme. Best effect ever seen.

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