New Layout: Infernolab

[jasonbar]

Howdy-

I finally prettified my FE.

It used to have a boring black background:
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff97/infernolab/Arcade%20Game/09bezel.jpg


But, after some Photoshop work, it now matches my bezel & Loading Game screen nicely (I learned a lot!).  See attached.

Pics of the whole machine (with old MaLa layout), if you're interested: http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff97/infernolab/Arcade%20Game/?start=all


Attached is the layout (bkg screen, loading screen, 2 sounds).  I also wanted to attach the Photoshop file for the bkg, but it's 2MB, & the forum limits attachments to 1MB.   


Thanks,
-Jason

[jasonbar]

Oh yah...darn forum isn't allowing downloading of attachments these days...I can e-mail the layout to anybody interested.

Thanks,
-J

[Space Fractal]

if the final layout is finished. Just send it to loadman through his homepage, if you not allready have done that. He gladly host it.

[system01]

Hey, that ended up pretty good.  One thing to suggest, take care of that spacing and vertical centering on the right-hand boxes.  My eye was drawn pretty quickly to that.

[jasonbar]

Hey, that ended up pretty good.  One thing to suggest, take care of that spacing and vertical centering on the right-hand boxes.  My eye was drawn pretty quickly to that.

Thanks--please elaborate on your suggestion so I'm sure I know what you're saying (I'm a little slow sometimes...).

I can see that I have no gap between marquee & snap, while I have different-thickness gaps between snap & panel, as well as panel & mfger/date.  That should be all equi-spaced, you recommend?

And I think your comment about vertical centering is that the mfger/date is shifted left from the other 3?  Yah, a handful of the mfger names are reeeeally long, so I extended that box leftward some.  You recommend it be centered w/ the 3 boxes above it?  I can see that.

Thanks for the feedback--I totally missed all that.   

-Jason

[ivwshane]

I think it's the beveling in your boxes that makes the images (title, snap, video) appear to be off center.

[system01]

Thanks--please elaborate on your suggestion so I'm sure I know what you're saying (I'm a little slow sometimes...).

I can see that I have no gap between marquee & snap, while I have different-thickness gaps between snap & panel, as well as panel & mfger/date.  That should be all equi-spaced, you recommend?

And I think your comment about vertical centering is that the mfger/date is shifted left from the other 3?  Yah, a handful of the mfger names are reeeeally long, so I extended that box leftward some.  You recommend it be centered w/ the 3 boxes above it?  I can see that.

Thanks for the feedback--I totally missed all that.   

-Jason

You got it!  Box 1 is smashed into box 2 (from the top), and box 3 has a gap.  And the Data East box, the text is to the left of the image above.

[jasonbar]

Thanks for the feedback.  I've updated my background accordingly, by resizing & respacing the 4 boxes on the right.  I also made them a little more vibrant & added rounded corners to them, just for fun.

If nobody has any criticisms, I'll ask Loadman to update the download on the MaLa website.

Thanks,
-Jason

[zophar707]

They look cool.  Love the loading screen 

[jasonbar]

Thanks!

For the loading screen, I just messed around w/ layer options & type warping & filters & whatnot till I found something I liked.  There were many rejected attempts before I found something I liked: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=87990.msg928511#msg928511

-Jason

[fargo]

Just a comment on layout display... I really prefer to uncheck the: Options -> GUI -> Options -> keep aspect ratio of pictures checkbox so that all the marquees and control panels display as the same size when scrolling through the game list.  Just throwing that out there  : )

[jasonbar]

Interesting--hadn't thought of that.  I'll try it out.

But what about Neo Geo marquees?  They're taller than they are wide, so I'm sure that they look super-funky if stretched to match a "normal" marquee aspect ratio, yah?

Thanks,
-Jason