Author Topic: Helicopter - CoryBee game wizardy - Bezel art is in & looks good - 06/04/13 (Read 26001 times)

DaOld Man · « **Reply #82 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:37:57 pm »

Looks good Louis.
I like the angle aluminum. It might match the helicopter theme more than regular T-Molding would.
But you can get chrome colored t-molding which would have (probably) looked good too.

BadMouth · « **Reply #83 on:** April 16, 2013, 09:57:00 pm »

Never thought I'd say this, but......I think it would be cool with a green monochrome monitor.

Louis Tully · « **Reply #84 on:** April 18, 2013, 06:46:37 am »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #85 on:** April 18, 2013, 07:15:02 am »

CoryBee · « **Reply #86 on:** April 18, 2013, 07:23:32 am »

I haven't looked at the resources for the circle yet but I will now.

I am not a fan of those stripes either.....

Louis Tully · « **Reply #87 on:** April 18, 2013, 07:26:01 am »

CoryBee · « **Reply #88 on:** April 18, 2013, 07:36:38 am »

Quote from: Louis Tully on April 18, 2013, 07:26:01 am

With the quickness.

Could also just remove it??

Louis Tully · « **Reply #89 on:** April 18, 2013, 07:50:09 am »

CoryBee · « **Reply #90 on:** April 18, 2013, 08:14:05 am »

Doesn't look like i can change the color. Well I changed it to green and it only did it to a few frames of the animation. The rest is a morph shape and can't edit it in resources.

jmike · « **Reply #91 on:** April 18, 2013, 08:16:47 am »

Quote from: Louis Tully on April 18, 2013, 07:50:09 am

Cool. Whatever is easier for you.

Now what to do with the stripes? Leave 'em but change the color or ask him to change it? The stripes look ok to me, but that pink isn't meshing.

How about making the lines yellow? Since you have the yellow circle on the side art.
Just a thought

Great work on this fellas

JDFan · « **Reply #92 on:** April 18, 2013, 10:45:15 am »

Perhaps try the stripes with the Blue from the helicopter blades instead of the pink. Or swap out the letter color to the blue and do the stripes in the same white of the copter body. Or the lettering in the Blue and the stripes in the same green as the rest of the green portions.

CoryBee · « **Reply #93 on:** April 19, 2013, 06:10:57 pm »

So I have been looking through the FLA file for the past couple of days when I had the chance. I don't see anything pertaining to "morphshape 86 & 89". Seems I need the original files to change this up. If anyone has any skills to do this please chime in.

Louis Tully · « **Reply #94 on:** April 20, 2013, 09:40:24 am »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #95 on:** April 20, 2013, 02:13:08 pm »

Termin8tor · « **Reply #96 on:** April 20, 2013, 02:37:27 pm »

Quote from: Louis Tully on April 20, 2013, 02:13:08 pm

I know I'm late to the party but Instant Sheller is cool as ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I followed your directions and it worked up to the point of altering regedit. I had to point sheller at a different .exe because I don't actually have gameex. Anyway, I pointed it at MAME just because I had it on here. I searched for mame, found it (I think) changed it to the .swf file but no luck. So, I just made a script with AHK that simply ran the .swf which was associated with GOM. Compiled that script to Helo.exe and set sheller to that and it works.

Sheller is limited to an image that's 640x480 16bit so I've got come up with an image for the 'boot screen' Right now, it's a full screen image of the game in black and white just for the hell of it.

Someone mentioned on Friday that having some music would be cool and I agree. Something simple that has a good driving groove to it. Probably find something from an old arcade rom or NES, lots of good stuff there. I noticed that GOM can be set to "always on top" so I should be able to add mp3 line to the script and have it set to loop with WMP.

Once all this helicopter stuff is finished, I've got to add instant sheller to all my arcade cabs.

Thanks, man.

"Welcome to the party pal"

Louis Tully · « **Reply #97 on:** April 21, 2013, 09:09:57 pm »

Drnick · « **Reply #98 on:** April 22, 2013, 08:11:07 am »

I would use the Airwolf Theme Tune personally. But then again I have fond memories of that particular tune.

DaOld Man · « **Reply #99 on:** April 22, 2013, 08:37:43 am »

Instead of the button, why not use a joystick with only up/down motions?
Also, is there any need to fire with this game? Maybe shoot at enemy planes or copters?
(Good work as usual LT)

Edit: Added a quick and sloppy drawing to illustrate how easy it would be to add a build your own joystick.
(I really do need to learn how to use sketchup.)

harveybirdman · « **Reply #100 on:** April 22, 2013, 01:16:35 pm »

If you are keen on NES music, what about Jackal or Batman?

Termin8tor · « **Reply #101 on:** April 22, 2013, 03:14:58 pm »

I was thinking you should go with a big oversized button but I prefer DaOld Mans idea of a joystick maybe fashioned like a real helicopter flight stick.

Generic Eric · « **Reply #102 on:** April 22, 2013, 05:11:04 pm »

I think this button would look appropriate. From suzohapp or on ebay.

Termin8tor · « **Reply #103 on:** April 22, 2013, 05:21:13 pm »

Quote from: Generic Eric on April 22, 2013, 05:11:04 pm

I think this button would look appropriate. From suzohapp or on ebay.

That's the type of button I was thinking of, they sell them at Gremlin Solutions over here in the UK.

Louis Tully · « **Reply #104 on:** April 22, 2013, 05:41:44 pm »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #105 on:** April 22, 2013, 05:57:17 pm »

Gamester · « **Reply #106 on:** April 22, 2013, 06:30:16 pm »

Quote from: Louis Tully on April 18, 2013, 07:15:02 am

Here's what my friend came up with for the bezel art.

I was pretty set on using tinted plexi but after seeing this... Do you think this would show well behind tinted?

Late reply, but wanted to say that you could always sandwich the artwork between two pieces of plexi...clear in the front and tinted behind the artwork. Best of both worlds...

Maximus · « **Reply #107 on:** April 22, 2013, 06:58:11 pm »

Quote from: Drnick on April 22, 2013, 08:11:07 am

I would use the Airwolf Theme Tune personally. But then again I have fond memories of that particular tune.

Absolute Badass!!!

Louis Tully · « **Reply #108 on:** April 22, 2013, 08:39:10 pm »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #109 on:** April 22, 2013, 08:57:22 pm »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #110 on:** April 23, 2013, 01:01:00 pm »

CoryBee · « **Reply #111 on:** April 23, 2013, 01:35:46 pm »

jmike · « **Reply #112 on:** April 23, 2013, 01:52:37 pm »

LT love the way this turned out, the back looks flawless.

CoryBee that Helicopter plate looks great. And btw what is that I see?

To you both

CoryBee · « **Reply #113 on:** April 23, 2013, 04:39:00 pm »

Oh yea I meant to say that too. Loving the way this looks, the aluminum siding is beautiful. The size makes my head hurt, the whole time I thought it was pretty big but it is barely the size of a truck tire.

You better pretty up that back panel or find a spot under the control panel to place the serial plate

Cheers boss!

Jigenjuke · « **Reply #114 on:** April 23, 2013, 07:58:03 pm »

This cabinet is strangely appealing. The game itself is extreamly addictive.

Great work.

Jigenjuke

Louis Tully · « **Reply #115 on:** April 24, 2013, 06:29:44 am »

harveybirdman · « **Reply #116 on:** April 26, 2013, 01:39:52 pm »

Had another thought about music, Cobra Command from the NES?

Louis Tully · « **Reply #117 on:** April 27, 2013, 11:43:44 am »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #118 on:** April 29, 2013, 03:46:35 pm »

Louis Tully · « **Reply #119 on:** May 02, 2013, 06:13:48 pm »


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