Autumn

Overview:
Autumn is a warm theme, depicting lazily falling leaves in a light breeze in early evening light.

This particular theme uses a simple 2D animation engine to paint the falling leaves.

This theme is built up from the 2.1 Curve2 theme, with several features added for flexibility.

The goal is to provide a single very flexible, usable and feature-rich theme.  A theme that is usable right out of the box - no need to even build a custom banner, it dynamically builds one for you.

This theme is, in part, a demo.  Theme designers should feel free to borrow code & ideas.  It is very straightforward to copy these features over to any theme.

Features:

• Background animations.  A simple framework is provided for animations.
• Easy-to-use 2D shape animation.
• Simplified yet flexible color palette.  The forum's entire palette of colors may be updated on the Current Theme admin screen.
• Even the colors for checkboxes and radio buttons are under user control.  Including their backgrounds...  No more blinding white squares on dark themes...
• Real-time color updates.
• SVG graphics can use style elements from the theme.  E.g., the hamburger icon is dynamically colored to match your palette.
• Dynamically built SVG forum banners, guaranteed to match your forum color scheme.
• Color palette is automatically propagated down into the sceditor as well.

Requirements:

• The Color Changer mod must be installed.  Or bad things happen.
• Javascript must be enabled for any of the js to work, including some admin functions as well as the animations.
• 2.1 only.

Limitations:

• Some browsers handle the animations much better than others...  Modern browsers will be fine.  This was tested with Firefox, Pale Moon, Chrome, Edge and Safari (iPhone only).

Releases:
 - v1.0 Initial release
 - v1.1 2.1.4 updates
 - v1.2 Improve contrast, consistency, user control

Autumn.zip 371.20 KB v1.0 2.1.2

Autumn.zip 372.27 KB v1.1 2.1.4

Autumn.zip 372.25 KB v1.2 2.1.4