Xevious - vevious(RetroBorg 08-15-08)

[RetroBorg]

Xevious

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7486/xevious640x480xd9.jpg

Unfortunately not quite enough artwork layers allowed to make this do exactly what I want, it would be much better if it were flash, I hope to get a copy soon, if not I'll have to borrow billpa's flash skills.

Need some sort of mask for the video frame thingy too.

The logo spins out at the top, the enemy craft grow out from the centre, the Solvalou space ship enters from the left and the fires a laser shooting the rear tank.

As always, open to any suggestions.

[kingb33]

WOW! is all i can say...

my only feedback would be to maybe make the Xevious logo a little bit larger since you have that little bit of space to the left of it. then it wont get lost in all thats happening

[BadBoyBill]

Dang man your just holding out huh?, you have a couple options for the video.
1. You could do a video overlay that looks like the background, but since you have the
video over the wheel that wouldnt be possible.
2. FLV's actually can be made with an alpha so it really is transparent, but this will
takes skills in premiere or after effects i assume, Im still itchin to a video like that.
3. You could leave it as it is, I dont think it looks to bad.
4. Different overlay but with the same design but square.

Besides all that this theme looks awesome. Nice work as usual.

[billpa]

Looks great! I remember you showing me this before and its really nice work. If you can make the logo a tad bigger, that would help although its pretty good where it is right now. The only other thing is to go over your background art and make sure the black levels are black. It looks a bit washed out. Just open it up in Photoshop, go to Adjustments/Selective Color...choose black from the drop down menu and bring the black slider to the right until it looks good.

[RetroBorg]

Looks great! I remember you showing me this before and its really nice work. If you can make the logo a tad bigger, that would help although its pretty good where it is right now. The only other thing is to go over your background art and make sure the black levels are black. It looks a bit washed out. Just open it up in Photoshop, go to Adjustments/Selective Color...choose black from the drop down menu and bring the black slider to the right until it looks good.

Thanks for the photoshop tips, never knew about that, my photoshops skills have come along way since HyperSpin came about!

New and improved Xevious.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8830/xevious640x480an2.jpg

[kingb33]

Thanks for the photoshop tips, never knew about that, my photoshops skills have come along way since HyperSpin came about!

New and improved Xevious.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8830/xevious640x480an2.jpg


awesome just awesome.....great work man. I cant wait to see what else you do!!!

[RetroBorg]

Uploaded.

[thatitalian]

Can't we just make RetroBorgs stuff part of the official releases? They are simply top quality!!!

[RetroBorg]

Can't we just make RetroBorgs stuff part of the official releases? They are simply top quality!!!

Thanks mate for the compliments.

[thatitalian]

Thanks mate for the compliments.

Mate, seriously, I thought my photoshop skills were pretty good, but you got some serious skills my friend!

I actually actively look for your stuff now as I know that it looks crazy good!

[RetroBorg]

My photoshop skills are getting better since Hyperspin came along, I learnt heaps from the tutorials on this site and advice from the other theme makers and especially Badboybill's tips on fixing my faded out colours.

At the end of the day if there isn't any decent artwork for the game their isn't too much you can do, I decided to start with the games I had the best artwork for, my themes will probably begin to suck shortly.

[Thombar]

Beautiful theme - well done (and it's one of my favorite games too).
The download doesn't seem to have the video frame though, am I doing something wrong?

[RetroBorg]

Beautiful theme - well done (and it's one of my favorite games too).
The download doesn't seem to have the video frame though, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks and your right about the video frame, I just downloaded and it isn't there, I used HyperTheme to create the file perhaps there is a bug there, I'm at work now, I'll re upload then, sorry about that.

[Thombar]

I'll look forward to seeing it in it's full glory.

[RetroBorg]

Okay I've re-uploaded it with the video frame, sorry to those who had already downloaded it.

Get it here: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=237

BadBoyBill,

If you make your own video frame outside of HyperTheme is HyperTheme meant to add it to the zip when creating the theme?

Cheers.

Phil

[Thombar]

Looks great! Thankyou.