Wheel art EvilDindon's default MAME theme w/mamu's icons - Full set anyone?

[damageinc86]

So after using EvilDindon's wheel art with mamu's icons in my setup for a while, I really ended up liking it. The clean, crisp, simple aspect of it, along with the Artwork4 highlight trick, just works superbly. Well I enjoyed the couple hundred pack so much that I really wanted the rest of my MAME games to benefit from it. So I decided to start making wheels for the entire setup. Since he is using Corel, I couldn't open anything in photoshop and therefore spent hours and hours dissecting one of the png's with an icon, to eventually get a bare wheel that I could go off of. I attempted to get the gradient and drop shadows as close as I could as well. I added .10 of an inch to the right side of the canvas so that less of the red wheel got cut off, just personal taste on that one. Also edited the background rails to go along with that, and smoothed them out with a small blur because I noticed some digital noise looking stuff that somehow got in there. I did all this just for my personal set up because I knew that Evildindon wouldn't keep going forever, and would stop at a certain number.

In the span of a little over 2 weeks now, I've almost made it through the letter C. As Evildindon stated in his initial posting, this is pretty much an all manual process. The only thing I have automated is the save as action in photoshop. So that you just have to click the action to save each wheel as a .png, after you have saved them as a psd file. Photoshop saves as a copy when using the action, so when I'm done with a letter I just run antrenamer and delete the last 5 characters off the end of the file name, and that leaves it as the romname.png  Perhaps there are some of you out there who might feel like taking a few letters and seeing how much of a dent you can put in this?

 

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WOW! I had no idea it has been over an entire frickin' year since this first post!  holy crap.  Anyways, several burnouts, curse sessions, arcade interlaced font flying by my crossed and blurred eyes, thousands of batch saves and 75% squish macros for the widescreen wheels, double checks, and romnames invading my everyday life -- this project, with the help of zorg2000k taking up a good portion of the last part of the wheel for me, is now COMPLETE!  YES! Just made the last final few wheels that slipped through the cracks tonight, and ran it all through the rommanager tool and everything matched 100%. The only thing to take note of, is that I did take a few personal liberties with my mame database to take out a bunch of trivia, weird japanese games that I'd never play, othellos, mahjongs, casino, downright horrible games/clones, etc., that were still in the database from the filtered xml that i got back when jumpstile used to do builds.  

 

 

 

Theme, settings file, and wheel set will be uploaded within the next day or two. ----> See thread:  http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/14407-hypermamu-version-1-full-mame-wheelsettheme-download/

[THK]

Since he is using Corel, I couldn't open anything in photoshop and therefore spent hours and hours dissecting one of the png's with an icon, to eventually get a bare wheel that I could go off of.

Why didn't you just ask him to save the individual layers it's build on as separate .png's for you?

[EvilDindon]

Hey good luck damage !

As you Said I will stop making wheels as soon as I have completed my list of essential games. (Did 300, still 100 to do), and I'm glad that someone liked my idea to the point of wanting to create a full set. That's courageous !

But that wasn't my goal, I will stop at the end of my 400 or so games list, and then provide to people my .pspimage template.

For this reason, I think I won't change my template by adding 10 px to the right, this edge cutted wheel doesn't bother me too much.

Again, what's taking the most time is cleaning or redrawing title logos, not creating wheels.

I saw your video ; You should record a script for transforming artwork 4 in wheel image. That's what I did ; it's much faster, in one click it's done !

[damageinc86]

Why didn't you just ask him to save the individual layers it's build on as separate .png's for you?

I did ask for a template of some kind, but it just took to long to sort out, he's a busy guy, and I completely understood that so I just started on my own the hard way lol. no worries.

Evil: what do you mean about transforming the artwork4 automatically?

[snstay]

I for one want to thank you for picking up the ball and running with it. I know it will take a while but be well worth it in the end! And thats an awesome username, i get it.

[damageinc86]

Awesome, what a track to end a masterpiece with. Yup it's a lot of work, but just doing one letter at a time, it will eventually get done.

[EvilDindon]

Damage, the blank wheels png are uploaded on the ftp in your directory since long time ! ( )

What I mean by transformin artwork4 in wheel is all the process you are doing to make wheel images .png, I mean applying saturation and brightness settings to the metal border and icon, etc.

[damageinc86]

Just got done with the letter C this morning. Holy crap! lol. Moving on to D!

[snstay]

Sweet! Excellent job

[damageinc86]

Done with the letter D!

[damageinc86]

E was a short letter, so done with E! on to F. Anyone feel like hammering a few letters out?

[bartmarley]

Hey man you know you can automate this on one go with photoshop?

if you have ALL icons files (well named) + ALL wheels files (well named) so it's no big deal

[damageinc86]

If you have a way that makes it faster to line up the icons, apply shadow, and then do that for the gray wheel too let me know. But I'm pretty sure that the text still needs manual adjustment because sometimes you need to mess with font sizes, tracking, etc. to make a certain title fit. But pm if you have a good photoshop action tip. Thanks!

[EvilDindon]

damage, you are crazy, I feel a bit guilty to make you work so hard on this !

It's not a human work, making by hand a complete mame wheel set, that's sick.

For me, I'm almost done for now, I've almost made all the horizontal games I want. (350 games for the moment ...)

Anyways, I really appreciate that, thanks a lot for this silly work.

[damageinc86]

It is a little crazy, and I still wouldn't mind if a few people jumped on board to do a few letters lol. I don't think it's silly! I love this damn theme! Being lazy for thanksgiving weekend, but i'll get back into it after that.

[AshuraX]

Does someone have demon 's world title logo for a theme?

[damageinc86]

I'm just doing the wheels ahsurax, so I have nothing to do with logos or anything else. Almost through letter G.

[damageinc86]

Just made it through the letter J.

[snstay]

Awesome glad to hear you are still working on it!!!

[goofers]

Great job mate keep going will be worth the hard work man

[relic]

this is impressive work your mad to do this but i appreciate all your efforts on makeing a full list

[damageinc86]

Just made it through K. Starting on L. Sometimes I have to take like a 4 day break between letters haha. You just can't see straight after a while.

[ninja2bceen]

Keep going dude, looks great

[damageinc86]

Ugh.  Still working on Letter M.  It's a long ass letter! lol.  Can anyone help on this? even if for just one letter. 

[damageinc86]

Bogged down. Real life stuff.  Multiple car projects.  Having fun actually playing the video games.  Loosing motivation to keep up on this lol.  Could really use at least one other person to help jump start this by doing a letter for me.  Have the photoshop files ready to go.