Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Nemesis on April 16, 2013, 07:30:55 pm
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I have seen a few tasteful multicade examples of marquee collaged artwork on location and wanted to know if anyone had a file or know what I am talking about? I want to print out that art for my multicade at home. Thank you!
** EDIT ** scroll down for the link of the final product :D :applaud:
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Have you checked arcadeartlibrary.com ?? Do you have a bad picture of one you like? Looking at most of the multicade Marquees I found in an image search you should be able to produce your own fairly easily. All the vector art is available readily. A copy of Inkscape & Gimp, a bit of a learning curve and off you go.
Although if you mean an image made up of lots of official Marquees that could be a bit harder to do. Ideally put up a pic of what you have in mind.
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Here are some examples. The one I have seen is like the marquees are exploded in a confetti manner. Ill see if I can stop by the arcade today and take a pic. Maybe someone can offer some tips on how to mimic the art.
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OK Quick and dirty, I used a program called Andrea Mosaic and Fotoresizer. First I took all the Marquees I had and converted them to JPG, I then went through and removed all the really odd sized ones. I used Fotoresizer to resize everything to 300x168@100 DPI and then created the below image. Originally its about 10k Pixels wide so I scaled it down somewhat in Gimp. May help you a little bit.
You could create a plain white image of say 4800 Wide by 2700 High Set the size of the tiles to the correct width for your images, play around a bit with borders and the like and it should automatically fill everything in. I may edit post in a few minutes with an attachment. (Done :laugh2:)
The issue you will probably run into is the quality of the original images you are dealing with. My original set is all 72DPI & 500PX x ???
you could go through and find all the best quality images and those that resize nicely and get a much better finish.
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geez it appears I forgot to click submit on my last reply, here is the look I am shooting for. Kind of like a confetti / marquee's all over explosion kinda feel. I can grab all of the different marquee files for all the games in the 60 in 1, and now all I need is a batch function perhaps in Photoshop to randomly scatter them all? How do you accomplish that?
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nevermind, think I found it...
sharing:
http://speedscraps.blogspot.nl/p/free-scripts.html (http://speedscraps.blogspot.nl/p/free-scripts.html)
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Voila!
http://www.mediafire.com/?47ajr8ajvgvu315 (http://www.mediafire.com/?47ajr8ajvgvu315)
.psd file so you can make it whatever you want!
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Thanx! My brother inlaw has a jamma 60-1 that this would be a great marquee and control panel.
Sent from my Atari 2600
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Thanx! My brother inlaw has a jamma 60-1 that this would be a great marquee and control panel.
Sent from my Atari 2600
I am stoked someone else is getting to use this! :D feel free to modify the layers and re-arrange them in any fashion you like. I think it has a decent mixture... I didnt include button labels because positioning may be different for everyone.
:cheers: