The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: jasonbar on April 17, 2009, 04:06:19 pm
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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. :P
Thanks,
-Jason
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Oh yah...darn forum isn't allowing downloading of attachments these days...I can e-mail the layout to anybody interested.
Thanks,
-J
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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.
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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.
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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. :cheers:
-Jason
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I think it's the beveling in your boxes that makes the images (title, snap, video) appear to be off center.
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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. :cheers:
-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.
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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
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They look cool. Love the loading screen ;D
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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
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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 : )
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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