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Yet another CP for you guys to see
teacup:
Here is the first draft of the control panel overlay for my cab. Its fairly basic, with just two joysticks and associated buttons, no spinners, trackballs etc. The white dots are the button placements but these won't be printed, everything else will be.
I'm going to get this printed, and get a purple paint matched to the purple so that it matches as close as possible. I don't know what pattern to paint the cab tho. Should I paint the entire right hand side purple, left side black. Or do purple and black on each side panel with the lightning strike thingy seperating them?
Suggestions? Comments?
PS, thanks to motorfish for showing his cp design, of which I have drawn some inspiration.
Luxury:
whats the ????? button for?
Frostillicus:
looks good - I would lose the solid purple heavy bar on the left that go through the buttons, and the solid black bar that goes through the buttons on the right. Or at least make them more even as they go through the button area - I like it overall though. I would paint the cab purple on one side and black on the other, and add the lightning bolt theme to the marquee. And you could have opposite colored t-molding - purple on the left side and black on the right - hmmm. that might be too much.
SirPoonga:
Are you sure you want the buttons that low?
teacup:
The ????? is just because I don't know what I want that button to be yet :D I'm thinking of having it as a dedicated shift button but I dunno yet.
I was thinking about having black tmolding on one side and purple on the other. But I think it would be a bit tricky trying to find purple, and if it didn't match up just right it would piss me off.
As for the buttons being low, I've been a bit of play testing and its comfier with the stick higher up, you sort of lean into the machine on your left arm. I'm going to have lots of mdf spare so before its finalised I'm going to do a proper test of the layout with the control panel in the cab just to make sure it feels right.