Replacing Constores with Griff Trade outposts@Griff and Doc

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:21 pm

You guys have done a great job!

I love what you have done to yah!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:33 pm

Hi Doc - I'm just a journeyman wannabe - you started the great YAH - Griff created that fantastic station and Ark saw the big picture and brought it all together - but I've enjoyed it all the same!

I'm working on a new constore ad (Holdlily I think is a little bit too vague) since we're only up to set E in the new YAH and we've got a full compliment for set G in the old YAH.

Stay tuned....

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:41 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
since we're only up to set E in the new YAH and we've got a full compliment for set G in the old YAH.

Errr... nope.I have finished all the 6 sets. Did you download the last beta?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:42 pm

Erm, yes - I just haven't had time to install it...

Still working a potential new constore type though!

Pangloss · Post by **Pangloss** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:17 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
Erm, yes - I just haven't had time to install it...

Still working a potential new constore type though!

Have fun with the Ad Board (took me ages to get different ad designs going!!).

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:19 pm

New Constore. Will produce a design suitable for Constore billboard and YAH momentarily (providing you like it of course!! - I think it will be recognisable euro-wide as the store it's based on started life in Germany I believe.)

ZygoUgo · Post by **ZygoUgo** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:50 pm

These are great, thanks everyone

@Ark, found another sainsboory's last night and it worked fine, no idea what caused the crash first time, I would have replied sooner but just didn't come across one.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:00 pm

Slightly updated template for the glow ad billboards, it's not too different from the original template, so you can use either - this one matches the model a bit better - the other template had some ads slightly too big

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:11 am

Concerning the recent revelations about the missing glowads Griff did his best to make all the corrections from the model. Despite his good will this is not possible because some of the glowad pngs were wrong from the beginning. So eventually some of the pngs will be corrected.

So we have to determine what is right and wrong in the model itself and the only thing that we have as a basis for that is the original Griff’s artwork. So we are going to have as a basis the mall-wart constore in set C that hosts that artwork. If a specific ad in the Mall-Wart constore is ok but the same ad in another constore is upside down then it is not the model that must be corrected but the png itself. I also want to clarify from the beginning that this is not much work only some minor adjustments in one or 2 glowad sets. Finally we should consider this more as an opportunity than a setback. Constores now look far prettier with all the additional artwork that previously was nowhere to be seen.

Corrections in the model:
First I think that Griff should leave that ad it as it is, upside down because it is not a problem with the model. This ad is wrong in the png.Griff in your effort to correct it you have damage your original glowad artwork from the trade outpost now hosted in the Mall-Wart constore in set C and the same ad in other sets.The sunooco ad is upside down becouse Pangloss have it in the opposite difection in the png. So is from the png that must be corrected. Same as the MECHA bingo ad in disempodies's glow ad set

The second thing that I can detect is the glow ad with the drinking spaceman. The letters are mirrored

An finally if you look closer you will see that behind the upper 1x2 billboard there is a hidden glowad

Griff take your time, No pressure here. When you are ready send me the model.dat. Remember to have as a point of reference your original artwork so use your original trade outpost or even better the Mall-wart in set C.Then and only then we will fix the rest of the glowad set .My initial estimation is that there must be some minor adjustments in only 2 sets. The one that is in the Sainsboory’s constore and the last one posted from disembodied. I want to clarify from the beginning that this is not Pangloss’s or disempodies’s fault for the simple reason that those ads were not there to be tested. Finally I want to thanks everybody involved in this project and the fact that we have discover that handicap (I am taking the full responsibility for discover it that late) of the original griff trade outpost will make the new version of youradhere even more fabulous since the constores will be prettier
We are close very close to finish it

Post by **Disembodied** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:21 pm

Hi Ark. I've rotated the Mecha Bingo ad 180°. The updated PNG is below, with a transparent background. I still need Griff to do his glow magic on it, though!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:46 pm

as a quick update, i'm busy fixing the mirrored textures on the glow ads model file, I'm also going back through all of pangloss's submitted texture and flipping any problem ads so they work with the new layout (there's just 1 or 2 in each set, where the original image i uploaded as a guide just had some random squiggles on so it was impossible to tell which way the new ads were supposed to be on that billboard) - i'll repost all these a bit later as well as another example billboard layout image which shows which way around the draw the ads so they fit the new billboard object

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:32 pm

Done!
Updated model file:
http://www.box.net/shared/mv4q09rfjg

Template:

Example:

Sorry about that ad on the right that goes in a different direction to all the other ads (in the example above it says 'Security' and has some blue stripes & a shield on it)

re-posting all of Pangloss & Diesmbodieds glow ads:
Pangloss set1

Pangloss set2

Pangloss set3

Pangloss set4

Disembidied set 1

I've checked all these work with the new glow-ads model and flipped any ads that needed to go in a different direction.

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:37 pm

>adds Griff to Will<

Post by **Kaks** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:41 pm

I'm really, really sorry, but even though I haven't got a clue what it says, I think the green Japanese writing in Pangloss set 1 is rotated 180 degrees to what it should be...

Btw, what Disembodied said!

Tivva · Post by **Tivva** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:33 pm

Kaks wrote:
I think the green Japanese writing in Pangloss set 1 is rotated 180 degrees ...

Probably more like rotate 90 degrees anti-clockwise