KnobMan/SkinMan Examples

[derkollo]

Whoa! Dude that looks astonishing to say the least!

Hey thanks!

In the meanwhile i found some mistakes and "optimization-points".
But no time to fix them, yet.
I tried on the skin for the next device... the melody-based stepsequencer:


But also not finished...And originally inspired by the "303like knobs" from "AZ"... to seen here:

It took days to get the logic running behind these knobs and their "record-behavour"... :/ But damn.... it will make some people smile i guess...

Please don't mind aligns and such things, since its not nearly ready yet....

Btw. did someone find an email address from AZ? Since there is no email on his page and all links to blogs (i guess) are in Japanese (i also guess)...
I'd love to thank him for his knob...! And ask him to make me a pad as nice as the knob

Ok, so thanks again Johan! Updates will follow a.s.a.p.

Greetings

[WOK]

Made some fine-tuning:


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[derkollo]

Made some fine-tuning:


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Looks better, i think. Alltough i prefer the "old" small LEDs, and the old cuts...(in between the "metal")...
But that is subjective.

But: "FilterTrack" in "Control Modes" should be (more) centered... May be 2-3 pixels to the right...
If you havn't seen it allready...

And is there missing a label... In the VCF-Section..? The right switch. On the one position it says BP, and nothing on the other...

Greetz

[WOK]

And is there missing a label... In the VCF-Section..? The right switch. On the one position it says BP, and nothing on the other... Greetz

Well.......

[DaveHoskins]

And is there missing a label... In the VCF-Section..? The right switch. On the one position it says BP, and nothing on the other... Greetz

Well.......

Can I just say my eye was drawn straight to the large 'bumpy' reflection on your big dials. On the real one, they look flat and plastic.
It just appears to be wavy, where as the actual one doesn't have that metallic shine.

Cheers,
Dave.

[WOK]

Can I just say my eye was drawn straight to the large 'bumpy' reflection on your big dials. On the real one, they look flat and plastic.
It just appears to be wavy, where as the actual one doesn't have that metallic shine.
Cheers,
Dave.

It depends on the photo lightning. I tried it "sharp", but it did not look better.

[DaveHoskins]

Hmm, well OK, but you can see on here that it's reflecting the whole room, in a mottled fashion, rather than being lit from a specific direction. I guess it depends on what's in your room at the time! Perhaps turn the contrast down a little and blur it around it a bit?

[derkollo]

And is there missing a label... In the VCF-Section..? The right switch. On the one position it says BP, and nothing on the other... Greetz

Well.......

Oh...ok. Now, i get it!
And your alignment is already better than the original...

[derkollo]

Hmm, well OK, but you can see on here that it's reflecting the whole room, in a mottled fashion, rather than being lit from a specific direction. I guess it depends on what's in your room at the time! Perhaps turn the contrast down a little and blur it around it a bit?

It seems to me that this picture was taken outside, or with multiple soft lights in the room... i'd really say outside or in front of an window...
the only shadow is thrown by the switch, and even there it is very blury...

I'd say about 12°clock on a cloudy day.

But you are right. Here you can see, that they do reflect "mirror" like...


And on this pic you can see that the reflection is not affected by light.
Alltough the "main-light" comes from upper-left, the outer ring (top knobs) is brightest "behind" the knob. At least at the left two knobs.... On the right knobs is no bright reflection on the ring... Hmm, nah, may be its not directly behind... but u know what i mean^^

The shadows go down-right and the lighter part is coming from upper-right...
So it will be more important, like you said, whats in the room, or behind the device at the time...

[derkollo]

May be something like this....?


open.abilityonline.de/emidi/KnobData.rar

[DaveHoskins]

May be something like this....?

open.abilityonline.de/emidi/KnobData.rar

Yeah I think so, it doesn't look too shiny. There does seem to be a single edge going through many of the photos though. I think that photographers set up a dark ground and light sky to get the reflected surfaces looking nice, it's certainly an effect that icon designers love to do - like this highly exaggerated fellow!:-

I was originally thinking about the way the sloping part of the dial looked bumpy rather than shiny in the screen grab: And I see there's the horizon effect already looking great on the red midi channel display.


Dave

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[WOK]

I will try again. These light reflections are really difficult to do in a 2D program.

[derkollo]

Hehe, the little fellow is definitly very shiny!
But he almost looks as plastic as the knobs should.

And you are right, the display highlight is exactly that type of reflection...

It also has a sharp edge. Sharp reflection edges do make things definitly look more smooth and "glassy"...

Greetz

[derkollo]

These light reflections are really difficult to do in a 2D program.

Definitly. :/

May be a mix of my attempt and the display-highlight?

[DaveHoskins]

OK I'm up for the challenge. Put this into your Textures folder inside your C:\Program Files\g200kg\KnobMan\Texture (or where ever) and run it again.
It may need a bit more work (in Xara Designer), but it's just an elliptical graduated fill:




And with just 3 layers and ten minutes just to demo the effect in Knobman.
Using a dark colour for the layer.



It's not too bad, maybe a sharper fade over needed?

Dave.