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[frig]

Hi Guys. 

After rummaging through loads of roms posted on MPU MECCA

I finally found the game I was looking for.... 1980's LUCKY 2's on 10p play.

 

Unfortunately I could only find 1 youtube video of this (Thanks to Chris217 https://youtu.be/9IorbdeS6dk)

and zero photographs anywhere, but being quite similar to my last layout, I was able to save some time. 

After a full day of addictive clicking, I have managed to get the top glass finished, and have finished redrawing my bottom glass.

 

 

Coming soon:)

 lucky 2s.bmp   24.02MB   42 downloads

 

 

 

 

[richy1976]

Looks nice frig.

Wouldnt you think about skewing it into a cabinet?.

[vectra666]

not my era but looks the biz! did you draw all that in yourself from scratch if so you've certainly a knack for it, would you consider doing something a little later as your next, i'd love to see what you can do?

[superbaron]

Thank you it looks fantastic.

[frig]

Looks nice frig.

Wouldnt you think about skewing it into a cabinet?.

I thought about it, but decided to keep it flat. When you play a machine in the wild, you look down on to the reel glass anyway so it would look flat anyway. I also think that some time in the future we may be able to shape the layout to suit, either with a flexible screen, or dual monitor set up?

[frig]

not my era but looks the biz! did you draw all that in yourself from scratch if so you've certainly a knack for it, would you consider doing something a little later as your next, i'd love to see what you can do?

 

Apart from the fruit symbols and the small JPM logo on the top glass, everything is from scratch. Fortunately I was able to reuse about 70% of the bottom glass from my previous layout - which was from scratch also. Unfortunately I am not an artist, so I can only manipulate shapes, text, colour ect, so these old style games are not that difficult for someone with patience.

[barcrest junky]

Wow, played this last month. Fantastic game. Looking forward to the layout very much.

[DAD]

I thought about it, but decided to keep it flat. When you play a machine in the wild, you look down on to the reel glass anyway so it would look flat anyway. I also think that some time in the future we may be able to shape the layout to suit, either with a flexible screen, or dual monitor set up?

 

It would look great in a cab. 

 

I made my own version of Nudge Shuffle from the superb artwork you did using a cab Ploggy made a while back in one of his releases. 

 

Needless to say this won't be released for a long time, if at all.  I'd need permission from quite a few people   Just though i'd show you what it looked like.

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[frig]

 

It would look great in a cab. 

 

I made my own version of Nudge Shuffle from the superb artwork you did using a cab Ploggy made a while back in one of his releases. 

 

Needless to say this won't be released for a long time, if at all.  I'd need permission from quite a few people   Just though i'd show you what it looked like.

It looks really nice indeed. You would definitely have my permission to use any of my artwork. If ploggy lets you use his cabinet, then I think you should release it as a "cabinet version" along with Lucky 2s which is now ready for doing lamp slices.

[frig]

If someone can send me a really high quality image of an SRU cabinet, before I start lamping, then I will stick it in a cabinet. I have looked through my own pics, and I only have half a cabinet picture.

[barcrest junky]

If someone can send me a really high quality image of an SRU cabinet, before I start lamping, then I will stick it in a cabinet. I have looked through my own pics, and I only have half a cabinet picture.

Ask Chris over at the Mecca. It's his machine I was playing and he will take photos for you.

[TommyC]

Looks the dogs do dahs,when you upload your wip image if you upload it as a png,it will show automatically without having to download it and it will be alot smaller in size too.

[frig]

Looks the dogs do dahs,when you upload your wip image if you upload it as a png,it will show automatically without having to download it and it will be alot smaller in size too.

 

Ah.. I wondered why there was no thumbnail.

 

So here is the 99% finished layout (in non Bitmap format) prior to chopping up for lamp therapy, and awaiting any comments on colour, errors or spelling mistakes.

 Lucky 2s - wip_5.jpg   349.81KB   2 downloads

[cashbox1]

it would look even more mint if you skewed the image and stuck it in a decent cab

[DAD]

it would look even more mint if you skewed the image and stuck it in a decent cab

Read up ^^^^^^

[vectra666]

 

Ah.. I wondered why there was no thumbnail.

 

So here is the 99% finished layout (in non Bitmap format) prior to chopping up for lamp therapy, and awaiting any comments on colour, errors or spelling mistakes.

Lucky 2s - wip_5.jpg

shuffle feature you've spelt "After" wrong you have it as "Afer"

[cashbox1]

Read up ^^^^^^

 

 

 

my bad lol

[hitthesix]

Wow!!!!  that looks fantastic mate, well done.

[frig]

So I stuck it in a test cabinet this morning, and although it looked very exciting, there were two problems.

 

A: I lost a lot of the play area due to the angle of the test image I used, and B, I could not rotate the reels in MFME to match the angle created by the skewed bottom glass.

This meant that I needed a specific angle cabinet image, in order to optimize the size of the actual game area, and keep the reels looking straight.

 

Only one thing for it....Try and draw a new cabinet.

Anyway I have just spent the entire day making the top half of a brand new SRU cabinet, and the bottom glass plastic surround...which I am suprisingly pleased with.. Saying that I still have the bendy bit on the sides to worry about tomorrow.

Edited by frig, 27 June 2019 - 12:38 PM.

[TommyC]

Just mask the reel background on your image,with a solid colour,off grey is best,then size your reel symbols over them,right click the reel open the properties,then right click your reel again and select create overlay,the reel will disappear and become the background colour you chose to mask the window with.

 

Go to the properties window and were it says overlay,click overlay then a picture of your overlay will appear in the properties box,right click it select transparency,then select set from centre,it will then show your reel again but it will have an overlay so it looks like they are behind the glass.