4K Vertical Overlay Community Contributions

Fantastic work as always @Thoggo! That is the story for me as well, work has been busier lately and with the pandemic easing and warm weather here I’ve been out and about more :slight_smile:

I do plan to get back to producing some more overlays soon though (starting to get that itch again), and have a number of marquees and other art to restore and contribute back to the community still sitting in a pile here.

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A.B. COP (1990 - SEGA)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12WnhLKjanE4BwxI1yQLx6RxPY4zMLTJR/view?usp=sharing

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Amazing work. Some links are off like TMNT etc. Thanks

Atomic Boy (1985) (Memetron)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/119vCeY1Qs-ycI0q8PcHZ9BzYCdqzEDMj/view?usp=sharing

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Thanks, But no access rights to download :smiley:

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My tribute to the gods of 4K vertical overlays. This is a rather rushed artwork and I’m still finalizing. It needs a lot of improvement. Thanks for the inspiration and love all the overlay masterpieces. Hope you guys will give us more cpo updates or new overlays. More power!

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Nice one, Care to share it with a link?

Another one that still needs more fixing. I will share this as soon as I’ve completed it.

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Not 4K https://www.mediafire.com/file/bc7tjlvx8etlyvg

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These look amazing! Do you by chance have a repository of all of your custom marquees?

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What do you guys think? Is this okay?

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WOW Someones on a roll :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :+1: :smile: :smile:

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https://www.mediafire.com/file/wrvx5yyn5dax4c4

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Do I still need to do some improvements on these? Any advice please

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Welcome @bradbradbrad, the closest thing to a single repository is the website I maintain, which is verticalarcade.com – it’s still missing a lot of the more recent overlays here, I hope to get it up to date soon.

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Hey @jackowacko, thanks for your contributions! I think your stuff looks nice, a couple of things I would suggest would be the same things we learned as we continued developing these over time, among which are to consider darkening the bezels and control panels somewhat to simulate a darker arcade (the screen and marquee should ideally be the brightest things you see, but our own work varies and there is no “right” amount of brightness), and to continue to evolve your techniques for simulating backlit marquees.

@ArsInvictus has some great marquee techniques, but even things like adding a highly feathered/blurred white oval over the marquee art and setting it to Overlay at a relatively low opacity, and then making the art pretty dark underneath, can help you get a more lit effect without resorting to adding blur/glow to the art (so it’s pretty sharp, but still looks backlit). What you have is not bad, some are already pretty close I would say. Your control panels look great!

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