Annoucement: RADIONE texture looking for UI mod

[SkyBaron]

Originally Posted by gap

In the next days I will look for better pictures of a similar device, if not of the exact same model as in the picture above, preferably of German make and dating back to late 30s early 40s. In any case, I am thinking about switching to a top view, especially if we can do a vinyl recording to spin while the music is played, and an animated tone-arm to work as on/off switch. What do you think?

The gramophone and radio .py scripts are basically empty, which means that their functionalities are hard-coded, i.e. hard to change, but I think the idea of an arm as the on/off button is doable. In any case send me the textures if you ever find good ones!

I think the top view would be a better idea since the controls are located there according to those pictures.

[gap]

Originally Posted by SkyBaron

The gramophone and radio .py scripts are basically empty, which means that their functionalities are hard-coded, i.e. hard to change, but I think the idea of an arm as the on/off button is doable.

If cycling between different images is easier (as done for the stock radar-style spinning loading icon), I could include different frames of a spinning vinyl in the texture.

Originally Posted by SkyBaron

In any case send me the textures if you ever find good ones!

I think the top view would be a better idea since the controls are located there according to those pictures.

I think something like this would be perfect:



I am not sure that we can use it though, due to copyright infringements.

[SkyBaron]

Originally Posted by gap

I am not sure that we can use it though, due to copyright infringements.

Looks good! it looks like a pic of a textured 3D model. You seem to know how to work with 3D models right? Are there any free 3D gramophone models available? Just an idea

[gap]

Originally Posted by SkyBaron

Looks good! it looks like a pic of a textured 3D model. You seem to know how to work with 3D models right? Are there any free 3D gramophone models available? Just an idea

There probably are, or I can model one myself. It shouldnt be too complicated, but what do you have in mind? Can we really put an interactive gramophone 3D object in game? Are there object controllers for that?

[SkyBaron]

Originally Posted by gap

There probably are, or I can model one myself. It shouldnt be too complicated, but what do you have in mind?

I meant that with a 3D model you can get clean and high-res pictures of the gramophone parts with the right lighting and at any angle you want, so you wouldn't have to look for and edit real pictures.

It's just an idea, maybe real pics are easier to find, I don't know which one would be more practical.

[gap]

Originally Posted by SkyBaron

I meant that with a 3D model you can get clean and high-res pictures of the gramophone parts with the right lighting and at any angle you want, so you wouldn't have to look for and edit real pictures.

It's just an idea, maybe real pics are easier to find, I don't know which one would be more practical.

I will see what is better, but creating a good model, assigning the right materials to it, and making a good render of it could take longer than assembling various pictures in PhotoShop. Another alternative could be using the texture from the RetroPlayer software I have posted yesterday, with some touchups by me. I have been looking where are pointing to, and it apparently was developped by a Japanese software studio whose website is almost entirely in Japanese...

http://www.studio-kura.com

I couldn't even find an e-mail adress that I could write to for permission asking. Do you think we can dare using their artwork without prior consent?

[gap]

Found this other image (click to enlarge):




As you can imagine from the watermarks, this isn't a public domain image either. What I think I will do, is creating our texture by assembling many pictures. The original pictures will be hardly recognizable. This way I hope we won't infringe any copyright... or we will infringe many at once

Possible options for the spinnig vinyl (if possible):