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Comments on first draft of marquee.
Frostillicus:
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Frostillicus - Yes, the poem must stay, but I am also considering putting it in other places on the cabinet. Readability is really what I'm shooting for and since my color printer at home isn't working and I don't have one at work I haven't been able to get an idea what it will look like lighted. I like Chris' idea of doing it white fill with black borders. Also, while the font is cool, it doesn't convey large blocks of text well, I may consider doing a different font. As to how to sharpen the ninja up, I wish I knew how! It is unfortunately a blown up JPEG which I really wanted to avoid. Fortunately the original art is intended to be a watercolorish like fuzzy look anyway, but blowing it up just makes it look a bit too fuzzy. Printed out, in greyscale it doesn't look too pixelated, just undefined. Ideas?
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Yes, like Cue-Ball suggested, read the tutorial on vector graphics. Look for it in the Misc section of the Downloads on this site. I like you are considering putting it other places. Perhaps a monitor bezel? CP corner? How about having it as your boot screen, if it's readable at the monitor resolution you will be using. I like to think of marquees as just a giant word (ASTEROIDS or TEMPEST, for example.)
shmokes:
You really should be flexible. The text is cool, but if it doesn't belong on a marquee it doesn't belong. I think it might work well on a monitor bezel. Look at games like Donkey Kong where there's lots of artwork and text going around the monitor. It might work there.
To put things in perspective I've got a really really cool, antique looking chrome blender. It looks fantastic sitting on my kitchen counter. I'm not going to mount it to the front of my car as a hood ornament, though. If I had plans to mount it to my hood and someone said, dude, that isn't going to work, it doesn't look good can you imagine me saying, "The blender stays, man. It is just so cool it has to stay." There is a place for everything. The place for that poem is not on your marquee. I'd feel fine if you proved me wrong by perhaps turning it into a boarder, but I'd bet that to make it look good you'd have to make the text so small that nobody would ever read it and you obviously don't want that.
marcoval:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 17, 2003, 01:12:16 pm ---You really should be flexible. The text is cool, but if it doesn't belong on a marquee it doesn't belong. I think it might work well on a monitor bezel. Look at games like Donkey Kong where there's lots of artwork and text going around the monitor. It might work there.
To put things in perspective I've got a really really cool, antique looking chrome blender. It looks fantastic sitting on my kitchen counter. I'm not going to mount it to the front of my car as a hood ornament, though. If I had plans to mount it to my hood and someone said, dude, that isn't going to work, it doesn't look good can you imagine me saying, "The blender stays, man. It is just so cool it has to stay." There is a place for everything. The place for that poem is not on your marquee. I'd feel fine if you proved me wrong by perhaps turning it into a boarder, but I'd bet that to make it look good you'd have to make the text so small that nobody would ever read it and you obviously don't want that.
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Yeah exactly. I should rephrase, I am flexible on taking it off the marquee but not off the cabinet in general. It has to be prominent and something that someone notices on the cabinet. The Marquee is just the first thing I've worked on artwork wise. I have CP layouts, but no artwork on it yet. It also may be surrounding the CP, or, if I can work it I'll have the boot screen have something along these lines. Problem is it works best as a slide show and I don't know if I can do that as a boot screen.
wee beastie:
I think you can keep the chinesey font, but try a little variation. Don't do all the text in the same font. Also, try to make some light colors on the pic so there is a contrast between darks and lights. Otherwise, nothing stands out... ;)