Game Cart Generator 2.0.0

16 hours ago, Saieno said:

Heya @zugswang! I promise you can make your own templates as needed. For example, here's a quick PS4 one I made.

 

 

Heya @DrNilsson86! This won't generate logos or titles for you, however you can use the same template method for anything really. Here's a box front example:

                  

I have finally got it working, (making my own template) thought how I don't know.

I used the same method I started with days ago and hey presto it worked.

7 hours ago, zugswang said:

I have finally got it working, (making my own template) thought how I don't know.

I used the same method I started with days ago and hey presto it worked.

Depending on how you're making the template, it has to be VERY clean with where the green is and the pink is (if going that route). Sometimes opening a template, cutting the image out, making a new image, and saving it in that new file cleans it up enough to where it'll work correctly. Thats not really a fault of the application but a combination of how some art applications do transparency and how Windows interprets that encoding. Would love to see what you made with it tho!

Edited Friday at 09:07 PM by Saieno

Thanks

4 minutes ago, zugswang said:

Any idea how I can reduce the size of a template without this happening (line around the logo from the magenta showing) ?

Thanks

 

Resize using nearest-neighbor instead of bi-linear. That happens due to anti-aliasing when you're resizing something.

5 minutes ago, zugswang said:

? What resizer are you using ?

I have fotosizer and can't see those options.

GIMP is a powerful free application and also has a mod version called PhotoGIMP to make it more like Photoshop. To resize an image in GIMP using nearest neighbor interpolation, go to Image > Scale Image, enter your desired dimensions, and choose Nearest Neighbor from the Interpolation dropdown menu. This method preserves sharp edges, making it suitable for pixel art and images with distinct lines and without introducing anti-aliasing.

You are meant to make templates or use whatever you find, but if you're wanting to do custom things then that really falls on you to solve and not me. I don't mind helping explain how things work, but asking to make templates or help you make templates isn't something I have the time to do. I am curious why you wouldn't just change the output size instead of resizing the entire template, but whatever works for you; you can use the tool however you like.

Some of the results even impress myself lol

5 minutes ago, zugswang said:

I am finding that using cart generator with 1920x1080 images as backgrounds they are stretched, so I have tried cropping images to 1000x1000 then using them and they look great.

Only problem was when I tried to convert your templates the fine line was showing around the logo after I re-sized it.

Is there a way to stop stretch that I am not seeing ?

I did make the video demonstration for a reason. But try these:


Make the left and right negatives, Advanced Mode for larger range. (Please do try to read through the README or watch the video for basic functionality)

7 minutes ago, zugswang said:

I did that and watched the video.

If you think it's an inconvenience answering questions about your app don't bother answering.

Also, there is nothing about discs on your video and these act totally different from a rectangular image, hence why I am asking.

Oh I have no problems answering questions about the app, especially if they haven't been addressed yet or are an issue someone is having.

However, if you watched the video, you may want to check again. And to state that there's nothing about discs in the video, when two sections are devoted to it, makes me believe you either didn't watch it or are confusing it with the original video that was released with the initial version of the application.
This is a new video that was made for the latest release of the application, I've provided a link to the specific timestamp where I go over discs, etc.
 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Saieno

11 minutes ago, zugswang said:

There is no way this app takes a 1920x1080 image and doesn't stretch it, no matter what you do with it.

Setting stretch left and right to -500 each shouldn't have any stretching. You can also stretch in all directions to 'zoom' in, or move to different sections of the background image if you don't want the absolute center of the image as the focus. There's lots of options, not that you have to use them or anything since your solution with resizing your images before hand or resizing the template (whichever is getting the effect you want) seems to work well enough. But I did try to make the application simple to use but robust enough to make whatever carts/disc people could want to make templates for. Things like 3D boxes or logos and such were never part of this particular project and are out of scope for what this is intended to be.

But I'm glad you're getting use out of the tool and I hope its easy to use and getting you results you enjoy!

Apologies, I didn't see the advanced mode and you were right, it can be reduced to avoid stretching, I was just seeing -50 left and right, the advanced option goes to -500 and does the job perfectly.

No need to crop images or reduce template sizes now, so saves a lot of time.

 

5 minutes ago, zugswang said:

Apologies, I didn't see the advanced mode and you were right, it can be reduced to avoid stretching, I was just seeing -50 left and right, the advanced option goes to -500 and does the job perfectly. No need to crop images or reduce template sizes now, so saves a lot of time.

No problem @zugswang! Glad you were able to find the option, but for anyone else who might not be sure what we're discussing, here's a 1920x1080 background being used:



If loading that as a background image for a disc, the normal stretch maximums still leave some distortion on the original image:


If I don't want the image distorted, I enable Advanced Mode and set the range to -500 and -500 for left and right.
You can see in this image how it looks in the application, with the proper stretch settings, overlaid on the wallpaper.


Hope that helps explain it for anyone else!