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| Cue-Ball:
I think i'm finally just about done creating the graphic for my control panel overlay. I'm trying to make my machine have the feel of a Discs of Tron machine so my custom marquee and CP are both designed in a similar style to DoT (though my cabinet looks nothing like the real machine). I'm about to get this bad boy printed up and mounted on my control panel and thought i'd ask for input beforehand. I'm fairly happy with the results, but am always looking to improve the design. I tried to get the feeling of Tron without cluttering up the CP too much (hard to do considering everything that's on there...). The layout of the buttons/sticks is final and can NOT be changed (i already cut my wood and am happy with this layout). I'm looking for input on the graphics themselves. The colored circles represent buttons and joysticks. The big blue circle in the center is my lighted blue trackball. The black circles are joysticks (except the "A B C" and "credit" ones). The large white circle is a spinner. The larger blue circle in the upper right is a blue Raider Pro for Tron. The red circles are mouse buttons and double as P1 buttons 1 & 2 in Mame. If the pic above isn't working go to the following address and scroll to the bottom: http://grantsgamegrid.freeservers.com/photo.html |
| AceTKK:
Looks great, I wouldn't change a thing. -Ace- |
| CthulhuLuke:
Looks pretty good, definitely discs of tron look to it. You'll want to make sure its on something glossy, else its gonna look SUPER flat, but it looks good. I'd say Make Sure!!! the 6 button layout is perfect, cause they look like they're too far apart vertically, and your fingers will thank you for putting the buttons as close together as you can. Plus I'm sure your game of Marvel vs Capcom will go much smoother when you're button mashing all the punch buttons for Ryu's hadoken. -Luke |
| Frostillicus:
yeah looks pretty good! I just had my overlays printed a few weeks ago at kinko's - I had them print on regular matte and laminate. The laminate protects from UV AND looks much much better than glossy paper. And it's cheaper. Then I put it under lexan. the whole thing looks awesome. That's my printing recommendation. |
| Cue-Ball:
Thanks for the comments, guys. I thought it looked pretty good, but wanted to get some other opinions. I actually tried to get a "glow effect" on the artwork, but couldn't come up with anything i was happy with. I was planning to print on 20lb bond and then cover the artwork with matte laminate (which would then be covered by a clear lexan-type material). I've already got the lexan cut to go over the artwork (it's not really lexan, but is similar enough). The laminate should keep the artwork from fading and the matte finish should prevent the "wet look" that some people have gotten when putting arwork under lexan. The artwork itself will still look glossy though, since it will be covered with high gloss lexan. I actually tried to print the thing once already but the local Kinko's are a bunch of idiots. I went down to the closest Kinko's on Easter Sunday and the people there didn't know how to use the laminator (clueless weekend crew, i guess). They sent me over to the next closest Kinko's and they don't offer matte laminate. Which was surprising since it was about twice the size of the first store and open 24 hours. They told me that the only local Kinko's that has matte laminate was the store i went to in the first place!. Arrrrrghhhhh! I figured that fate wanted me to postpone my printing for a few days for some reason. Figured i might as well take that time to get some input. :) Cthulhuluke: The buttons are actually closer than they appear here. My overlay doesn't actually have those colored circles on it. I just quickly drew in some buttons so that people could tell what goes where. They're not positioned exactly perfectly or to scale. I was in a hurry. :) |
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