The Red Menace wrote:
Here are my submissions for a certain Virtual Boy horror game… I made a few variations… … I could probably keep nitpicking and working on them, but I’m satisfied enough now to avoid going on forever with it. Feel free to let me know if there are any problems though.
I’m posting only two of your images here with the outlined text because it again shows that text looks best with an outline. I like both the white and black versions.
I checked your gray levels and they’re not the correct values. That’s why the scene has lost a gray level. Update them and I’ll rerun. I’d recommend your versions with text outlined by the opposite gray shade. Once you fix the gray levels these should look pretty good. You can see the last attachment where I adjusted the thresholds specifically for your image.
I think moving forward I’ll only test images that are in the correct format. Otherwise I have to rerun images.
Here’s the Greenleaf one. I had to tweak the thresholding though so you need to adjust your gray levels. With some work this label could work.
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This is not the new design for the cover and it has a smaller opening, but this gives you a feel for what things look like with a cover on.
I love the red contrast… maybe they should be red PCBs instead of black. Hmmm….
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OK, here are the current entry images on an actual eInk display. Overall, nice job to everyone.
Few comments for feedback.
1. The ones that emphasize white and black seem to show much cleaner.
2. Ianel, I couldn’t convert yours as its png and not bmp.
3. Some of the images display much better after I stretch the contrast, such as the tydyedsyko image. I don’t want to modify peoples images so make sure you have true blacks and whites.
4. The resolution of some of the images is low and causing them to look blurry.
5. VNES, if you update your gray levels your image will improve significantly. See my follow up post below when I had the incorrect gray level thresholds.
I updated the original post. VirtuousRage caught an error that was causing gray levels to note be displayed correctly. It’s been fixed. Thanks!
I should also note that they look slightly better on the actual eInk display than the close up images I’ve attached. That’s primarily because on the real display its not quite so zoomed in.
Nice work!
Loukey wrote:
I am unsure if I got this in 24bit format. Would you let me know if its a good format for you before I try some more?Thanks!!
Cool. I’ll try it tonight.
You may want to stretch your contrast out. Lots of grays and black, but no white in your image. It will look better if you use all 4 shades.
And the small text may not show well.
Cross posting here. I posted this on Discord yesterday.
And for anyone following, I post pretty regularly to the Discord channel. The most recent updates and progress of the work on HyperFlash can be found there.
Here are some eInk test labels. Images definitely need to be optimized for the display. So users adding their own images will be doable but don’t expect great results unless you tweak them for the display. As time goes on I’ll try to add more labels for existing games but also hope the VB community will do their own.
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A black chopped fiber regular case.
