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35" is WAY to low for a CP right?
crashwg:
In case you didn't know, I've been looking into depicting the Trogdor cabinet (from homestarrunner.com) as faithfully as posible and I've run into a little something that I think may be a problem.
Mahuti was awesome enough to convert the cab from swf to .ai. From there I exported it to autocad and scaled it to aproximatly 70" (69.9963). After that I started measuring... that's when I found out, that when scaled properly, the control panel on the cab would be at a height of aproximatly 35"! The only cab I have to compare to at the moment is Defender and it's CP is 40"... It doesn't seem like it's too much of a height difference but I thought I'd get some opinions.
As you can see in the picture everything looks pretty proportional. I don't think I'd want to close up the monitor's space anymore than what it is now... Let me know what you think.
Bgnome:
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=22700
looks like the consensus is 38"
maybe it wouldnt hurt too much to scale it up 10%? those homestar characters arent particularly proportionate anyhow. you could also rig up some sort of sensor that get the machine to say "trogdor" when you kick it ;)
RayB:
I think you should change the art to suit what a normal cabinet should be like. Cartoon are inherently full of exageration. I don't know if you should copy those artistic liberties.
crashwg:
--- Quote from: Bgnome on October 20, 2004, 12:30:33 pm ---maybe it wouldnt hurt too much to scale it up 10%?
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Are you saying scale the whole cab up 10%? That would make the height 77" or 6'5"! Are there any cabs that are even that tall? I'm not trying to critisize your suggestion, just going through the pros and cons... ;)
RayB:
I'm just saying make the base taller, and leave everything else proportional.