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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: patrickl on October 21, 2003, 09:30:33 pm
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I'd like to vectorize a Galaga control panel, but the pictures I can find are all too low quality to trace well enough. Maybe someone here has a Galaga machine and is willing to take some close up's?
I'm looking mainly for a closeup of the lead ship (on the front side of the panel) and of the 3 pictures in the "instruction area".
I traced a scan from a cocktail cabinet CP, but that picture was really bad (so I basically wasted my time on that). It was Hi res, but someone made that artwork of a scaled down ship clip art and forgot to scale the linewidth with size. The lines are way to thick. The text and icons for the buttons I already have from that though.
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First, take a look at this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=12580
I do have a file at home now that has just the ship in Adobe Illustrator format. Is that what you need, or do you want the red, white and blue background as well?
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Yes I saw that other thread and the vector file for the side art and marquee. It's pretty good (allthough I think it could use some cleaning up)
However, I'm looking for the Control Panel. When I looked at the side art images I realized how much detail there is in the ships on the control panel. The scans I have lack all this detail. Right now I'm even unsure about the color of the blue background :P
So far I have this:
(http://arcade.laweb.nl/BYOAC/Galaga_Figure.png)
I traced this from a hi res scan of a cocktail cabinet, but as you can see the original is incorrect (the lines are too thick)
(http://arcade.laweb.nl/BYOAC/GalagaControlPanel.jpg)
This one is a bitmap I constructed from several images I found (I have a better picture, but I though I'd better needed to compress it a bit to show it here) I also see now that I made the ships "crosseyed" (I mirrored half of the ship so I need to mirror the right eye back) Well I can fix that, but really I need a better file than this to trace it properly. Now I'm just messing around with bitmaps and it just wont work in large prints.
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hope this helps
http://edeveaud.free.fr/Galaga/Galaga_cock_instructions.jpg (http://edeveaud.free.fr/Galaga/Galaga_cock_instructions.jpg)
http://edeveaud.free.fr/Galaga/Galaga_cock_instructions2.jpg (http://edeveaud.free.fr/Galaga/Galaga_cock_instructions2.jpg)
you can also check the http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/instruction_cards (http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/instruction_cards) for some stuff
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Thanks for the help, unfortunately those aren't what I'm looking for either. Allthough you remind me that I was planning to use that japanese picture for cleaning up of the instruction image for the ship being captured on the "upright" control panel.
I'm looking for a picture of the control panel of an upright galaga cabinet (or cloes-ups of bits of it). Thing is I have looked everywhere already and found gazillions of pictures, but all are unusable. So, I'm hoping that someone has a Galaga cabinet somewhere and that they can take a few pictures for me.
The best picture I found so far is the one on http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/ (this is a cocktail control panel and it has the picture I traced with thick black lines) I used this image to clean up another picture of the "galaga upright control panel" (mostly the texts and icons) Since this picture lacks the ship and a detailed view of the the green and red ribbon along the sides, I hope someone can take a picture of those two items (ship and ribbon) so I can recreate the whole control panel as vector art.
And while the're at it maybe also a picture of the bezel ;)