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Slim Shmups candy cab (working on art)
emphatic:
Looking very nice, but I think that the font looks like it has been squashed horizontally. Is it a condensed font, or did you resize it like that?
Here's a 1P Astro CPO if you haven't found one to use as a template: http://triplemoonstar.brinkster.net/mcs/default.asp?stockid=2278
Though I'd personally go with something more like the New Versus City for the cpo design:
(this is someone else's re-imagining of it though)
Also, did you think about using square speaker covers or some kind of tilted squares like on a New Astro City?
BurgerKingDiamond:
--- Quote from: emphatic on November 22, 2010, 06:32:12 am ---Looking very nice, but I think that the font looks like it has been squashed horizontally. Is it a condensed font, or did you resize it like that?
Here's a 1P Astro CPO if you haven't found one to use as a template: http://triplemoonstar.brinkster.net/mcs/default.asp?stockid=2278
Though I'd personally go with something more like the New Versus City for the cpo design:
(this is someone else's re-imagining of it though)
Also, did you think about using square speaker covers or some kind of tilted squares like on a New Astro City?
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I was also going to suggest using square speaker grills. I think they will go better with the rest of the hard lines of the cab. Looks very nice.
ccmathome:
--- Quote from: emphatic on November 22, 2010, 06:32:12 am ---Looking very nice, but I think that the font looks like it has been squashed horizontally. Is it a condensed font, or did you resize it like that?
Also, did you think about using square speaker covers or some kind of tilted squares like on a New Astro City?
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I think the font looks like that from resizing the texture in sketchup. As for the square speaker covers they work much better then the round ones.
--- Quote from: SpaceHedgehog on November 22, 2010, 04:52:19 am ---Nice design :applaud: Just one suggestion - it might look better with a separate CP rather than an integrated one. It would add a bit more interest to the profile and allow your sideart to work better.
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Not really sure how I would get that to work.
ChurchOfSolipsism:
Nice to see some shmup love on here. I, too, specifically designed my bartop to be a shmup machine, but in a way so that I could rotate the monitor to hori. Couldn't agree more with Emphatic, it's worth it just for the old school stuff and for Progear. Plus, there's Akai Katana coming up in a year or two... just a couple more thoughts:
- If you're not entirely sure there's no way anything else but shmups will be played on your machine, just use a 6-button-layout. Might be you want to play a game of Street Fighter/ BlazBlue/ whatever some time, and it's not really that much more effort to install 6 buttons instead of 4. Besides, you will be able to play around with button configuration and will be more flexible.
- A 2 player panel doesn't make that much sense if you rarely play two player games; even more important, if you mainly play alone, you will sit slightly to the left or right of the centre of the screen which will give you a stiff neck after more than an hour playtime. Simply add a usb plug under the cp so if you really want to play with a buddy he/ she can plug in a USB joystick. Hell, add 3 usb plugs and you will be able to play sidescrolling beat em ups with three other dudes.
- Consider getting a true 4:3 screen; not only do 4:3 games look a tad ---smurfy--- on 16:9 screens, but for vertical shmups, movement of your ship will be slightly screwed up (up- and downward movements will be quicker than left right movements). Remember that precision is incredibly important in shmups. You should be able to still get a good 20" LCD screen for an ok price (got mine for around 100 EUros on Ebay; it was used, but in great condition. Hasn't failed me yet.)
BurgerKingDiamond:
--- Quote from: ChurchOfSolipsism on November 23, 2010, 05:02:41 pm ---Nice to see some shmup love on here. I, too, specifically designed my bartop to be a shmup machine, but in a way so that I could rotate the monitor to hori. Couldn't agree more with Emphatic, it's worth it just for the old school stuff and for Progear. Plus, there's Akai Katana coming up in a year or two... just a couple more thoughts:
- If you're not entirely sure there's no way anything else but shmups will be played on your machine, just use a 6-button-layout. Might be you want to play a game of Street Fighter/ BlazBlue/ whatever some time, and it's not really that much more effort to install 6 buttons instead of 4. Besides, you will be able to play around with button configuration and will be more flexible.
- A 2 player panel doesn't make that much sense if you rarely play two player games; even more important, if you mainly play alone, you will sit slightly to the left or right of the centre of the screen which will give you a stiff neck after more than an hour playtime. Simply add a usb plug under the cp so if you really want to play with a buddy he/ she can plug in a USB joystick. Hell, add 3 usb plugs and you will be able to play sidescrolling beat em ups with three other dudes.
- Consider getting a true 4:3 screen; not only do 4:3 games look a tad ---smurfy--- on 16:9 screens, but for vertical shmups, movement of your ship will be slightly screwed up (up- and downward movements will be quicker than left right movements). Remember that precision is incredibly important in shmups. You should be able to still get a good 20" LCD screen for an ok price (got mine for around 100 EUros on Ebay; it was used, but in great condition. Hasn't failed me yet.)
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good points, but who's gonna get to play akai katana outside of an arcade in Japan? I saw on the shmups forum some guy selling it for well over 2 grand USD. Oh wait, are you anticipating a 360 port? That would be sweet.