Haven’t started wire framing loadouts which I think we need to do and explore its possible design some, but I feel the mounting pressure to get to that one especially for those of you on this thread.
And yeah if we are able to continue bringing in new customers and keeping things interesting in the shop, it feels like it can tap into the important part of subscription (regular, recurring revenue from people getting that regular use out of it) without the nasty parts! (Paywalls/gated features etc.)
If you zoom in on that there is a very clear texture, almost like a tight fabric weave. In the picture you shared, the orange version doesn’t seem to have it.
That’s right, you noticed it, it really doesn’t exist. It was, as I understand it, the original concept, but it never reached the final. What I’ve published is what the cover data on the themes look like now.
Thanks for confirming. That’s a bit disappointing - I thought the texture looked great! @phillryu - Any particular reason the texture was dropped, or was it just a creative choice?
Rainfall in Tokyo is really nice. Great work! Similar to the knit themes, these would make excellent wallpapers. Reminds me of 2814’s vapourwave classic Birth Of A New Day (highly recommended!):
Just going back to an earlier post (Shop Megathread - #281 by joeb), if we do end up getting a font with scan lines for Terminal Smith, I think we would also need an appropriate icon. Something like this?
I’m checking out this set again, it’s an interesting one… several feel highly overlapping with existing classic heatmaps (like normal heatmap or shangri-la) but black text instead of white, which does give them a distinct personality. Will take another look when we do another shift back to some heatmap themes.
Yeah, I did have a quick play with mesh warping to try to get that curved CRT screen effect but tbh it just made the check symbol look it had gone wrong Background code would have make it more obvious what was going on. Also, the scan lines would need to be wider as once you scale it down to the regular icon size, they get harder to distinguish. Still, be nice if there was something along these lines (along with a scanline’d font) to round out a Terminal Smith loadout…
I don’t have this Smith icon for you but I think this discussion inspired me to make a “Matrix” day in the shop coming up haha. (Along with the recent leather graphic themes we added.) It’s a little bit of a stretch but it’s fun how we are just accumulating enough collectibles where we can kind of string together enough references on the fly for a theme like this.
Wrapped up this ‘rainfall’ set for the 2.2, here’s some more:
Yeah we’d need to add multi-color stepping support in the heatmap themes spec. But that is in our (longish) list of future theme spec upgrades to consider.
Background code would have make it more obvious what was going on. Also, the scan lines would need to be wider as once you scale it down to the regular icon size, they get harder to distinguish. Still, be nice if there was something along these lines (along with a scanline’d font) to round out a Terminal Smith loadout… 
