DC Independant Software Graphics

**VampiricS** · October 26th, 2004, 06:09

[quote author=Darksaviour69 link=board=art;num=1096803412;start=45#58 date=10/26/04 at 04:42:18]souLLy: u dug up an old one there, ah memories....

i'm not sure, i like souLLy's because is nice a simple, and a can be easly add to the huge amount of covers we have....but i also like the dc shell one... but it would be harder to update old covers to use it...... hard one

btw whats amplitude DC?[/quote]

Well Amplitude is what could be a cool game if someone could port Marfitude a cool SDL game that i modded the graphics to look a little more like the PS2 Amplitude musical game.

**curt_grymala** · October 26th, 2004, 08:57

[quote author=Darksaviour69 link=board=art;num=1096803412;start=45#58 date=10/26/04 at 04:42:18]i'm not sure, i like souLLy's because is nice a simple, and a can be easly add to the huge amount of covers we have....but i also like the dc shell one... but it would be harder to update old covers to use it...... hard one[/quote]

Actually - it should be really easy to add the one that VampiricS made up. You simply create the DCShell thing with the center being made up of a transparency, then paste it as a new layer over top of the old cover images. Voila - it's ready to go.

Let me see if I can play with something to give you an example.

***Darksaviour69*** · October 26th, 2004, 09:08

but a lot of the title name would be the whole width of the cover , not in the center

**curt_grymala** · October 26th, 2004, 09:24

Well - here is a quick and dirty example without messing with the original cover at all. You are correct - the title name gets cut off slightly, but it shouldn't be a tremendous amount of work to correct that.

In order to use the other template, you have to modify things anyway. On all of the DCEvo covers, you would have to cut out the half-moon thing on the left side of the cover in order to make it look right with the template.

Either way - old covers would have to be slightly modified.

**Mental2k** · November 3rd, 2004, 10:29

That was my main reason for preferin your's too curt.

**toastman** · December 9th, 2004, 21:56

Poking around in the DCGP2004 board I stumbled across this post and thought, "Wow, now that's just what I was thinking of for the cover when I suggested the color change."
I was wondering if you could change the "Homebrew" to "Independent" and remove the DIRB logo altogether, it would be perfect for a template.
So if you could do that, I would be entirely grateful.

[quote author=VampiricS link=board=DCGP2004;num=1096668276;start=0#12 date=10/03/04 at 02:49:58]Well i was reading this thread today and i thought maybe people would want to see how a completely different cover could be, so i did a quick template:

here's the template:

Here's an exemple using the neogeocd emu for that purpose:

Oh i added the DIRB thingy but i don't know if it was serious or not about it, so i just added it to see how it could look.[/quote]

**MetaFox** · January 28th, 2005, 06:10

I've done my best to make one without the original template.

**WHurricane16** · January 28th, 2005, 11:32

/me takes a look at thread born date, thread length, time between Metafox & Mental2k's posts and thinks....

Where the hell have I been? I never saw this before.

**ShoShoKid** · June 6th, 2006, 05:01

Curts idea with the whole top being transparent and then the game image being inside of it, is pretty awesome. I also think making a cover for the scene is a great idea, as it makes it look more professional.

**Christuserloeser** · June 25th, 2006, 21:55

Well, Curt and souLLy's idea has been evolved and they became the standard templates for DCEvolution releases...

Here's what it currently looks like:
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelop...CEvo/Front.png
http://www.dcevolution.net/dsdevelop...DCEvo/Back.png

I am pretty sure we'll make them available to the public soon, but we haven't discussed any details with the staff yet.