CMOSS Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) @Retrofrogg The good news is that we can scrape the textures of the box and then create a set of actions in photoshop to generate our box out of it. Probably not all of them are useful, as some maybe squeezed, but for those who are ok the process will be really fast. Take a look at the .zip (around 200 box textures scrapped) Box - Texture.zip Edited April 27, 2020 by CMOSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Thanks @CMOSS. From your zip, it looks like those are mainly disk boxes? Are you working on boxes for those rather than tapes? I am still looking for good Photoshop templates for both double cassette and disk boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMOSS Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 4 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said: Thanks @CMOSS. From your zip, it looks like those are mainly disk boxes? Are you working on boxes for those rather than tapes? I am still looking for good Photoshop templates for both double cassette and disk boxes. Those are the ones that I have been able to scrape so far (from screenscraper) before reaching the daily limit of connections I will continue tomorrow to get as many as I can. The boxes that I am manually generating are only for the normal cassette (the media comes from cpcrulez). Those games without cassette covers but with either disk or double cassettes I am marking them in the excel but not working on them (waiting for the templates). I will PM you my progress so far. In any case, we can always use this artwork for those games for which we cannot find any decent cassette cover. And then automate the creation of the disk boxes once you find the good template. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayrox Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Any chance of the templates you are all using, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djronz Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Is this project still ongoing, I'd be interested in helping out if it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 @Djronz - I resumed work on this project a few weeks ago. The project expanded into a complete Launchbox Amstrad CPC setup with extended metadata, game videos, game title & gameplay screenshots, manuals, tape/disc scans and of course front, expanded and 3D box art. It is based on the latest Gamebase CPC collection which has been imported into Launchbox with the help of @JoeViking245, which is around 3300 games. The box art is a combination of single cassette cases, double cassette cases, disk cases and cardboard boxes ("big box" art). Everything has been done; I've just got the 3D boxes to finish working through. @CMOSS, don't know if you were still interested in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMOSS Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Retrofrogg said: @Djronz - I resumed work on this project a few weeks ago. The project expanded into a complete Launchbox Amstrad CPC setup with extended metadata, game videos, game title & gameplay screenshots, manuals, tape/disc scans and of course front, expanded and 3D box art. It is based on the latest Gamebase CPC collection which has been imported into Launchbox with the help of @JoeViking245, which is around 3300 games. The box art is a combination of single cassette cases, double cassette cases, disk cases and cardboard boxes ("big box" art). Everything has been done; I've just got the 3D boxes to finish working through. @CMOSS, don't know if you were still interested in this. I can help out a little, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 First pack released in the downloads section 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted September 11, 2021 Author Share Posted September 11, 2021 Packs #, A and B are now available in the downloads section. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djronz Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 @Retrofrogg hi, these look fantastic but now my C64 and spectrum boxes look poor in comparison, any chance you could share the template so I could make them the same or are there any plans to do these systems too? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted September 13, 2021 Author Share Posted September 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Djronz said: @Retrofrogg hi, these look fantastic but now my C64 and spectrum boxes look poor in comparison, any chance you could share the template so I could make them the same or are there any plans to do these systems too? Lol…yes that is a potential side effect. Happy to share my templates. I wasn’t planning to do those other systems as getting it right is so time consuming. I’m using single cassette, double cassette, disk and cardboard box templates as appropriate. I’m going to look into Photoshop automation but it will still require a lot of filtering things first. I’ll PM them to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djronz Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Retrofrogg said: Lol…yes that is a potential side effect. Happy to share my templates. I wasn’t planning to do those other systems as getting it right is so time consuming. I’m using single cassette, double cassette, disk and cardboard box templates as appropriate. I’m going to look into Photoshop automation but it will still require a lot of filtering things first. I’ll PM them to you. Thanks, it would be great to eventually get all cassette based systems up to this standard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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