angryherbalist Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I’m wondering what elegant solutions people have come up with to display the controls for games (what button does what action)... i’m thinking of using the marquee as the place to put a custom image. i have a pedastal setup, so instead of a wide marquee above i could put it in the center of the pedastal by the player start/coin buttons. does such a set exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas3120 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Have you checked out HyperMarquee app? (not mine) I'd like to do something similar...just need to find the time...and waiting (hopefully) there will be some marquee size monitors coming out that aren;t $$$$. I believe HyperPause does something like display controls, but could be wrong, never really tried it out. Someone else may know more... t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artman999999 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Marquee-sized monitors are still way too expensive for mainstream ($500-$800). But forgetting about using an oddball screen size monitor and focusing on the mechanics of displaying the controls, there are really only 2 options that work in real time - CP Wizard or CP WizBiz. I consider myself a real nerd and I BATTLED trying to get these programs to do exactly what I wanted. But in the end, I ended up creating my CP in Photoshop (basically already had it from doing the artwork), created layers for every button and every text, then manually created images that display at launch until the user presses a button (via a user library routine in RocketLauncher). Then artwork, custom fonts, pretty graphics, etc, were no longer an issue. This worked fine for a library of 300 games, working on 10-20 of these a night while building the cab, but I realize this is totally impractical for a cab with thousands of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffin518 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Could you share your RL user routine? I'd be very interested in playing around with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angryherbalist Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 i wanted to revisit this. My plan was to create an image of one of the 4 controllers w different layers and then edit the file for each game. just wondering if anyone has made this happen yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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