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Dainamikade-Fully dynamic artwork Bartop (prototype stage)
Typefighter01:
--- Quote from: markc74 on March 12, 2015, 08:33:07 pm ---LOVE the idea behind this! I don't envy the amount of work it will be though!
The thankless task of assimilating hi res marquees awaits ;). Give me a shout if you need what I've accumulated.
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Wow, that is a generous offer, I am sure Yvan and I will hit you up when we get a little farther along. If I could get 50 good art packages together (including all my favorite games), then I would be happy.
So, here is the fruits of a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- load of money and a whole slew of cables, adapters, LCDs and power supplies.
First time all four screens were fired up, the mouse cursor did a little dance around the screen and there was some noticeable lag, but after a restart, all seems fine now.
Initial impressions: Marquee LCD and side LCDs look fantastic...main LCD has horrible light bleed, but I can only notice it during start-up BIOs screen (all black) and looks good every other way (viewing angle, colour, etc...).
I will play around with it the rest of the weekend and see if I can get some images on side LCDs and a marquee or two.
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: markc74 on March 12, 2015, 08:33:07 pm ---LOVE the idea behind this! I don't envy the amount of work it will be though!
The thankless task of assimilating hi res marquees awaits ;). Give me a shout if you need what I've accumulated.
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Got a list? ;D
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: Typefighter01 on March 12, 2015, 06:25:44 pm ---Not a whole lot was accomplished this week as I am getting over a cold and Yvan has his CNC up and running (so he has been busy cutting and coding).
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I do hope you're feeling better for the week-end, it's been a rough week. As for my CNC, I guess I really need to update my thread about it but there's still a few things I want to modify on it. Too many hand-made parts on it still and it looks like crap.
--- Quote from: Typefighter01 on March 12, 2015, 06:25:44 pm ---Wife did manage to snag me two more adapters, so tomorrow I will grab some HDMI/DVI cables so I can do some testing this weekend.
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I don't even want to calculate the number of pixels involved in our setup. :lol
Typefighter01:
--- Quote from: Yvan256 on March 14, 2015, 10:19:58 am ---I don't even want to calculate the number of pixels involved in our setup. :lol
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3,320,832 :dunno
:notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: mad props to bulbousbeard...BigBlue just works. Setting up multi monitor could not be easier. Ignore the images as I am just testing, but each display was recoginized by his FE, so I just browsed the "snaps" folder and randomly grabbed some images and associated them to each screen. This is the images I set for the "1 on 1 fighters", and it will be nice to have default game list art, including game specific art. I could not be happier with how this is turning out.
Next step is running MAME and testing bezel art. I will try to get one complete game running with art on all four monitors and then hopefully post a small video.
bulbousbeard:
Do your drivers let you change the rotation of your side art monitors? If you change them to portrait mode, Big Blue will automatically display your side art images at the correct aspect ratio.
Let me know if your drivers don't let you rotate the side monitors. If that's the case, I may need to do the rotation in software. Right now, Big Blue is only allowing you to change the rotation of the main window.
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