Mute Sims 7 ~ OUT NOW!

[Duplica]

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I can 99% most of these. really fun stuff!

[Fluvs]

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It nice!

[Arntonach]

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Since you're not an ITG player, I can see why this would seem ridiculous to you. Believe me, I wish I had time to make full difficulties for all my files. In fact, I really do want to flesh out full singles difficulties for all of my files someday. But hey, there are only so many hours in a day. And even if I made full singles difficulties, I'm sure some people would still feel left out because there were no double charts. I learned a long time ago that trying to please everyone is a fool's game. My "target market," if you can call it that, is generally the AIJ/r21freak crowd that also plays expert single. I make expert single pad files primarily for myself; the fact that anyone else in the ITG community enjoys them is a bonus. I present them as they are, which is a bunch of single expert charts that I made to my own personal liking. Simple as that.

Understandable. I mean, it is just a game, I just take things too seriously.

This is the only part of your post that made you come off as being a bit ridiculous. Apparently I'm not as big of a Sonic fan as you, ha ha. I just picked the most decent-looking pic I could find of Sonic on a highway, man. Pretty sure nobody but you will notice or care that it's technically the wrong level.

Now the song itself was a simfile request from a random r21freak poster that I decided to pick up and do. The irony is that I *did* actually try to find the correct title and artist for the song. I found it listed at least two or three different ways on several different sites selling the OST, so I was more or less forced to guess. And furthermore, I even sought out a higher quality song file than the one the requester had provided.

I wouldn't expect you to know this about me, but anybody in the ITG community would assure you that if anyone gives a shit about properly labeling songs and having high-quality audio, it's me. I actually rant about this stuff on r21freak all the time. (Just the other day, I lectured on the proper labeling of a restep I did.) If you have a better song file, hell, I'll take it and re-upload the pack with that and the properly labelled song title/artist name.

Oh that's just generic sonic fan wank with a dash of overseriousness right there. If you're serious though, I'll hit you up later.

Though I have no formal expertise in graphic design, I have a strong background in photography and photomanipulation and would say that I have a decent sense of design/typography/composition. I make no bones about the fact that my graphics are slapping text on a stolen image, but then again, neither do any other ITG simfile authors. Hell, we have an "overused graphics" thread on r21freak poking fun at this fact. I will be the first to acknowledge that some of my graphics are clunkers (I especially hate how Dreaming Snowdrop's gfx turned out). I wouldn't count myself in the absolute top tier of graphics guys in the ITG community, but by and large, I think my graphics get the job done pretty darn well.

This part is certainly subjective so I don't fault you for having your opinion. Aesthetics are aesthetics. I will say though that your statements are pretty vague here. If you'd care to be more specific about how anything is unfitting then I'm all ears.

Personally, so expect others to disagree with me, the gfx should emulate the feel of the song. For example, for you simfile "The Zelda Song" the mood the gfx gives off a clam feeling, something that the song doesn't have. I would have made it look digitally damaged so it would emulate the 8 bit breakbeat feel, although I would still keep it fresh with something else to keep from looking generic.

Thank you for listening & sincere apologies for forcing my ideas on you. I also paraphrased your text since it's just a few posts away.

[mutesauce]

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Oh that's just generic sonic fan wank with a dash of overseriousness right there. If you're serious though, I'll hit you up later.

Definitely serious about that. Either PM me with a link or post it here in the thread.

[Leo137]

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i remember seeing some pack of you in a itg cabinet, i though they were files without audio so i didn't played them xd

[Duplica]

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i remember seeing some pack of you in a itg cabinet, i though they were files without audio so i didn't played them xd

LOL

[NeoMasterPie]

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i remember seeing some pack of you in a itg cabinet, i though they were files without audio so i didn't played them xd

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pat and antronach wanking all over the place

[Wineandbread]

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mfw this thread turned into a gfx discussion thread

[xferrarix]

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Excellent pack for ITG machines/pad

This made me get out my Cobalt Flux from my closet to get into some old pad files. Very well done

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Excellent pack for ITG machines/pad

This made me get out my Cobalt Flux from my closet to get into some old pad files. Very well done

This will be my inspiration for being less terrible on pad after I build one.

[mutesauce]

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maybe some stuff to spark inspiration

I never really considered an approach like that for ITG graphics. If I were designing a website or laying out a print ad, then yeah. Might have to reconsider though.

Here are two that I whipped up just today for WIP simfiles of mine:

[xVaLoRx]

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That dancingbox bg looks nice imo

[Gundam-Dude]

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very neat

who knows, maybe some kinda trend will explode in the pad community unintentionally, lol

[Coolboyrulez0]

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yeah those look nice.
the sr-388 typography irks me a bit (go for a smaller approach methinks) but otherwise pretty good work

ps: going clean (gd-style) something makes your text better than glow + drop shadow.

[Duplica]

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those look pretty baller.


maybe make r21freak stray away from the overly dynamic in your face text taking up the whole space in bg/banners