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Calling Ms Pac/Galaga owners *3 simple measurements needed pls*
patrickl:
--- Quote from: spacies on March 19, 2008, 05:37:50 pm ---Patrickl, funnily enough I just resized and cropped that very same pic in Illustrator.
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I did more than crop and resize though. I also tried to remove the perspective and the lens distortion so that the back is straight (the blue arrow line is now bent)
A picture of an MsPac would be much easier to straighten than a Galaga one. The horizontal and vertical lines give some clues about what whould be square.
spacies:
Dam,
A dead-on side view is what is needed to get this right.
I think the photo needs to be taken from as close of the cab to centre as possible.
Then adjusted, like you said, from there.
patrickl:
Well it's largely a square. Just the CP area and top are curved.
The difficulty is that the picture should be as undistorted as possible (ie don't use a wide angle lens), but usually there isn't enough space next to the cab to get far enough a way to use a longer lens.
Anyway, if there is a high res picture it should be possible to correct it. But yeah it would be best if it was dead on and the camera was level.
rotheblog:
You might want to try the thread that was hot and heavy about Joymonkey and his Ms. Pac stencils. He has photos, drawings, and all sorts of measurements of Ms. Pac-man cabinets.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=50429.0
The attached photo in this thread may or may not match up with these, and I would trust Joymonkey based on the steps and work he went through for those stencils.
coltchillin:
--- Quote from: spacies on March 19, 2008, 04:21:37 pm ---...Seeing there is no correct plans on the interweb....
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glad i came across this...
so the jakobud plans are like useless??? i was going to use these :dizzy:
what is the problem with these exactly?