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Title: First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: GSXRMovistar on June 12, 2003, 07:40:06 pm
This is my first attempt at a skin for Dragon King. It
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: liquid8 on June 12, 2003, 08:24:17 pm
that's pretty nice! :P

LiQuiD8
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: CM on June 12, 2003, 10:09:36 pm
Loaded it up .. very nice!    I like it a lot.

btw .. to hide the white border requires an overlay since the white is actually on the snaps themselves.  I've noticed you have to crop images a bit given the mix of vertical and horizontal images to make it look right.

If you aren't sure about the overlay let me know I will form one for your skin.  I am cranking all sorts of weird effect skins with overlays and scrolling backgrounds but I have yet to do a serious clean skin yet .. go figure.
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: CM on June 12, 2003, 10:41:39 pm
Loaded it up .. very nice!    I like it a lot.

btw .. to hide the white border requires an overlay since the white is actually on the snaps themselves.  I've noticed you have to crop images a bit given the mix of vertical and horizontal images to make it look right.

If you aren't sure about the overlay let me know I will form one for your skin.  I am cranking all sorts of weird effect skins with overlays and scrolling backgrounds but I have yet to do a serious clean skin yet .. go figure.

actually strike that .. I played with an overlay and there is no pretty way to crop out both the horizontal and vertical edges.  I played with alpha settings as well, but too many images have white as a main image color to make that look good either.  

To be honest I never even noticed that white border until now .. thanks a lot >:(       ;)
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: Howard_Casto on June 13, 2003, 01:13:53 am
I just popped in to see waht everyone was up too.  I'm very busy at the moment, so not much time left for mame and fun stuff.  :)  The skin looks great!  

About the border question.... quit getting snaps from mame32q&a and start getting them from crashtest.  He doesn't put borders on his snaps.  :)
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: GSXRMovistar on June 13, 2003, 05:10:33 am
Howard, glad you like. I know your a busy guy at the moment, but could you (or anyone) else tell me how the units for your skinner relate to pixel width. Ie, if I'm working on a skin thats 1024x768 and an element is 2000 units wide, what would be the pixel width of this.

The reason I'm asking is i've still got a slight bit of stretching on my snaps and can't manage to get them to display at the correct aspect, only a very snag, but its buggin me  :)
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: Howard_Casto on June 13, 2003, 11:12:52 pm
The units are in twips, which is a more accurate representation of a pixel.  Technically they vary from monitor to monitor but as a rule of thumb take the pixel values and multiply by 12 and that is the measurement in twips.  So for pixel values divide by twelve.  
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: Yarb on June 25, 2003, 12:36:55 pm
Boy GSXRMovistar that is a SWEET skin, so sweet I have finally got some inspiration on a front end for my Cab. It looks like Dragon King time for me. I had one question. Is there any way to skin the info screen? It would be very cool to be able to make a screen with the cab, marquee and other stuff not shown on a skin and to display the history.dat there.

Yarb
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: Aceldamor on June 25, 2003, 01:41:03 pm
That's bloody fantastic!!!   :o   ;D.  

I haven't played with the skinner, mainly because I don't have a theme for my cab yet....just out of curiosity what are your opinions on ease of use?

Fantastic work GSXR on your skin, and Thanks for the fantastic FE Howard!!
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: AlanS17 on June 25, 2003, 04:00:15 pm
I really like it. That's about all I have to say about that.
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: GSXRMovistar on June 27, 2003, 01:56:02 pm
I haven't played with the skinner, mainly because I don't have a theme for my cab yet....just out of curiosity what are your opinions on ease of use?

Its a good little app, a few little bugs/issues I found whilst using it, but it does the job and thats what counts!

Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: bdp on June 28, 2003, 10:15:55 pm
I LOVE THIS SKIN!

Please keep us posted when you make revisions.

I can't seem to get the snaps to display yet, but it looks amazing.  I am going to work on  making myself more custom logos for the different emus and adding my own instructions.

LOVE THIS!  Thank you for sharing it with us!

BDP
Title: Re:First attempt at a DragonKing skin
Post by: GSXRMovistar on June 29, 2003, 03:02:22 pm
Just an quick note to say my website has had a bit of an update and the link to this skin has now moved to

http://www.runriot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/arcade/downloads/GameNotOverDKskin.zip (http://www.runriot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/arcade/downloads/GameNotOverDKskin.zip)

GSXR  :)