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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: papaschtroumpf on February 16, 2004, 11:09:32 pm

Title: Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: papaschtroumpf on February 16, 2004, 11:09:32 pm

I can fight my way around photoshop when it comes to cutting, pasting and mixing pre-made images, but I just can't seem to be able to do a decent job at creating art from scratch.
I'm working on making a picture of my CP for use with Howard Casto's controls viewer and I used the pictures of buttons and joysticks that came with the viewer (I believe made by Frostillicus), however I don't use a "real" arcade trackball, I use a USB translucent trackball pictured here: http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/iball.html (http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/iball.html). It is slightly sunk into the panel  but you still see all of the top.

I would really really appreciate it if one of you wiz out there could generate a "top view" of the trackball in the style of Frosty's other controls.  I only need to be approximate but I can't for the life of me produce something that doesn't look "flat" and lifeless and out of context with the other controls.

The finished dimensions would need to be approx 130x150 at 96dpi.

I attached Frosty's artwork to give you an idea of what the other controls are like (I only use buttons and joysticks). I had to reduce the quality so that it would be attached to this post but you get the idea.

Please let me know if you can help!

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: mahuti on February 17, 2004, 11:15:58 am

something like this?

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: mahuti on February 17, 2004, 11:17:44 am

oh wait.. you said ALL of the top.

oops.

well, I'll get to that soon.

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: papaschtroumpf on February 17, 2004, 01:57:51 pm

yeah, the whole top is showing, but otherwise this is exactly what I'm talking about!
Thanks for helping, I'm on my way to look at photoshop books to find a good one so that I can learn how to do this myself.
I found a variety of tutorial online but they're too pointed, I need a more general book.

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: mahuti on February 17, 2004, 02:04:42 pm

actually I did that in illustrator :)

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: papaschtroumpf on February 17, 2004, 02:44:05 pm

I'm even more useless with illustrator, my only skill with it is that I own a copy of version 8, and it seems a lot of people now generate files in a format that required version 9!.
I did try to go through some of the vectorization tutorial on this board, but I decided to leave it for some other time, like whne my cacb is complete (and the way I keep tinkering with it, it'll never be complete).

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: papaschtroumpf on February 20, 2004, 03:37:25 pm

Anyone took pity on me and worked out the full trackball?

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: mahuti on February 20, 2004, 04:56:56 pm

i started working on it some more, but I've been under strain to finish work for paying clients for the last few days  ;D

If anyone else wants to finish it up, they can have my AI files, otherwise, I may finish this weekend. We'll see.

Title: Re:Need help drawing trackball control!
Post by: papaschtroumpf on February 20, 2004, 05:12:59 pm

Thanks, I figured you'd given up. As you rightly point out, I'm not a paying customer...