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Title: Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 10, 2004, 12:30:43 am
Well my Illustrator Trial is just about to run out.   :(  I think I might have gotten a little carried away with it, but here are the CP overlay and Side Art that I came up with. Comments are welcome.

First the CP.

Those little white holes on the top row of the overlay are for a spinner, 2 4-way joysticks, 1 converted flight stick. On the bottom row there are 2 8-way joysticks. The large white hole in the middle of the bottom row is a trackball.

This used to be a TMNT 4 player cabinet, although when I got it had been converted to an early version of Golden Tee Golf. That is why the control panel is so large.
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 10, 2004, 12:31:38 am
And now the side art.
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: cyberphox on April 10, 2004, 09:31:09 pm
Badass!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: walls83 on April 10, 2004, 10:07:26 pm
very nice but...

Im not to keen on the characters on the side art.. but thats just me
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 10, 2004, 10:48:47 pm
very nice but...

Im not to keen on the characters on the side art.. but thats just me
That was a big questions for me. I have them all on a single layer and can easily 'turn them off'. It looks very clean without them...I thought perhaps too clean. I appreciate the comments.
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: DarkKobold on April 11, 2004, 10:06:48 am
What if, instead of characters, you used vectorized versions of the in game ghosts? It would give that authenticity feel.
Otherwise, I love it!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: SuperRabbit0 on April 11, 2004, 03:00:08 pm
What if, instead of characters, you used vectorized versions of the in game ghosts? It would give that authenticity feel.
Otherwise, I love it!

I was going to suggest the exact same thing.  I think that would look excellent, and really give it that retro/classic feel....
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: Nannuu on April 12, 2004, 03:53:20 pm
That looks great!  I would also say to use the originall game ghosts.  Are you going to have the bezel continue the blue and pink lines around the monitor?
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 13, 2004, 12:37:55 am
I hadn't really thought about a bezel yet. The cabinet has a 25" monitor with one of those plastic bezels that fits against the tube. When I got it it didn't have a bezel infront of the plastic bezel. It is a good idea however. I will have to take some measurements and see how much room I have. I should have more than enough to continue the stripes.

I am going to start tracing some ghosts to see how they look. There were some good hints in another thread on how to do this.
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 14, 2004, 02:38:31 am
Here is an updated version of the sideart incorporating some of your changes. Thanks for the great suggestions.   :)
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: SuperRabbit0 on April 14, 2004, 08:38:08 am
I gotta say, I like that *much* better.  Looks very cool!  Great work!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: BobbyG66 on April 14, 2004, 12:06:18 pm
That sideart is perfect, don't change a thing!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on April 14, 2004, 06:05:30 pm
The only thing I think you should do is add the actual pacman fruits and what not up to the keys. Maybe show 2 or 3 keys at the bottom. Otherwise it looks VERY cool. I like the fade from 1 to the other.

J_K_M_A_N
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: walls83 on April 14, 2004, 06:22:51 pm
Good stuff man.  that looks so much better.

PRINT IT!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 14, 2004, 11:15:10 pm
The only thing I think you should do is add the actual pacman fruits and what not up to the keys. Maybe show 2 or 3 keys at the bottom. Otherwise it looks VERY cool. I like the fade from 1 to the other.

J_K_M_A_N
You wouldn't happen to have a screen shot that shows the actual fruit up to the key would you? I have looked around and I can't find one and I sure can't get that far in PacMan!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: Witchboard on April 15, 2004, 09:39:41 am
I found this on google, but I don't think it's the original.  I remember the keys going horizontal, not vertical, but it's been a long time.  For some reason, I rembmer the keys being gold also.  Hope this helps regardless.

http://www.cis.rit.edu/~sdlpci/Software/turacoCL/examples/sprites.png
http://roger.trideja.com/arcade/images/pacman-fruit.gif
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on April 15, 2004, 05:00:51 pm
Just use the cheat and you can start on any level up to the 2nd key. I think you should use all symbols though the keys. If you are on the second key, it only shows back like 8 things. I think you should use from cherries to keys and paste them all together. If you can understand what the hell I just said.  I attached a file below to show what I mean. Just cut off however many keys you want to make it fit correctly.

J_K_M_A_N
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on April 15, 2004, 05:05:00 pm
And what it might look like. :)

J_K_M_A_N
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 15, 2004, 09:25:38 pm
Cool! Thanks for the information. I hadn't looked at cheats before.
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: FractalWalk on April 16, 2004, 06:41:17 pm
Wow. That is so cool, I'm going to have to steal it!
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: Minwah on April 18, 2004, 05:19:06 pm
Awesome work :)

If I may add my 2 pence, the only thing I'm not keen on is the little characters on the CPO, that is probably just me tho.  Aside from that I really like the CPO :)
Title: Re:Side Art & CP Overlay Sample
Post by: froggerman on April 18, 2004, 05:35:49 pm
Yes, I am afraid that the little guys are being banished from the CP as well.