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Laythe:
Have you ever tried low-res pixel art?
Do you like doing DMD artwork?
... Okay, did you ever play with a Lite-Brite?

Would you be interested in contributing to Shapeshifter, and leaving a little bit of your own touch on it for all posterity?

Then have I got an offer for you!

One of the things I thought would be cool to do with this machine is to make the front-end show a 'Shapeshifter' logo on the DMD while you pick games, above the scrolling instructions... so it does that. But it's a Shapeshifter, right - so, every time you start it or come back into the front end after finishing a game, that logo changes. It randomizes it, out of a big pool of possibilities.

I've got a bunch of possibilities already in that pool - but it occurred to me this would be a fun thing to open up to the BYOAC crowd in honor of the machine being done.

If you make me a Shapeshifter logo, and if I like it, I'll add it to the pool of possibilities on the machine and henceforth it will occasionally randomly show up while I or others are playing on Shapeshifter and remind me of you. I'll PM you a photo of your art running on the machine. If I think one or more are really cool, then photos of those on the machine will get posted to the main thread, too.

The rules are, you get a 121x17 area for the logo, and you're only allowed on and off - no shading whatsoever. (Not even 4 levels. Sorry.)

You PM me a black-and-white-only 121x17 .PNG file, like this:

They're pretty easy to make, you can even use windows paint.

That image will render onto the emulated DMD screen at one-light-per-white-pixel, like this:

I don't know if this will get any takers, but I've found drawing and tinkering on them to be pretty fun - maybe I'm not the only one who will think so. Figured I'd offer, anyway!

Meanwhile, progress continues - I have the Transformers sound and others working now, and a perspective-transitioning grid animation on the playfield screen, both synced to it turning.

All of this demands a video to get the effect across, and I haven't shot that yet. But if I may quote Yotsuya:

SOON

Zebidee:
I have some ideas, but won't promise anything as I expect I won't find the time.

First (and only) time I've ever seen a Lite-Brite was on Stranger Things S4. But somehow I knew exactly what you were talking about! A must-have for interdimensional communications.

Laythe:
Vertexguy made me a logo! Here it is on the actual machine.

Here's some (not all) of the logos the machine may currently use, with vertexguy's contribution included.

Meanwhile, I've finished up the software, I think. Here's the final set of visual and sound effects that accompany a transformation, including the DMD animation, and a perspective grid on the playfield screen that rotates counter to the physical motion of the display.

The sound effects are randomized; it might make the servo noises of the wounded T800 at the end of Terminator, or a few others, but this - per MikeA's suggestion - is the best one.

So, there it is. It's done, it's polished, it's finished, and here's an animated GIF of it being a couple different pinball tables while Mimic is being a couple different arcade cabinets.

zeorangr:
Very awesome man. I love the 'grid' animation on the playfield when it transforms too, that looks sick.

:applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

DrAlves:
FANtastic!!! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

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