VERTIPIE - The Mini Vertical Handheld Bartop Project

[YaYa]

Hello fellow members,

i've been a bit off the forum because of intensive work on many projects and i thought it was time to make some show off and teasing to enlighten what i was busy on, well at least some stuff i was busy on

The project is called Vertipie and was first initiated by WillbakesPi thanks to his programming skills.
He is preparing an image to run many vertical games with a Raspberry Pi 3 based hardware. It's based on attract mode and is running in tate mode (vertical mode). I am not going to develop the software side as WillbakesPi would do it better than me
You can check his instagram to learn more and see the image in action https://www.instagram.com/invader_meh/

The prints 3D prints of the cabs are made by Dryja123, you can check his instagram to show the (beautiful) result with his awesome precise Prusa Mk3 printer. I must confess that the 6+ months waiting was worth https://www.instagram.com/coreydryja/

As for me, i'm sticking to my speciality : graphics you can follow my work on instagram https://www.instagram.com/design.yaya.sudomod/

So i've designed from scratch some decals to wrap the cabs to give them a cool look

Here are the results :

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The process was a bit complex.
I had first to dismantle the 3D model so i can have flat surfaces

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Then i retrieved the outlines of the controller (an 8bitdo NES 30) from the 8bitdo pdf manual

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I put all the vectors in illustrator and started messing them around (obviously they were not exactly the good size) by superposing them on a controller picture taken from internet so i was able to align correctly the outlines with a "real" controller

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Then when the outlines were set, i've started the design process in photoshop and illustrator by using vector dynamic objects and i've double checked that the outlines were the same as the 3d model.

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Then finally, i have worked on the 3D model to make placeholders for the image exported with transparency so i can hot swap the decals as i want

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Then it was some 3D skills to work on materials to make everything more real, work on vray rendering engine to give a stunning picture quality.
Like the screen that is emissive to create a real tv effect

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Early stage renderer to show how things have evolved

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[YaYa]

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[YaYa]

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[marciodsousa]

Incredible stuff Yaya. Very professional, and very very nice graphics!

Are you building this as a product? Or just to have a few for personal usage?

[YaYa]

I am actually building a factory in China to mass produce them...

Nooooo, just kidding

It’s already available for commission everything is handcrafting so this will be a FIFO stack

[moosepr]

this needs an NSFW tag!!!

[YaYa]

Errr what is NSFW tag lol, sorry you know i’m not perfect, i’m french

[mattfl]

Quick question, what kind of controller is using the stick on the dpad?

[YaYa]

Quick question, what kind of controller is using the stick on the dpad?

It’s an 8bitdo nes30 under the hood . The stick is a 3D dpad to replace original DPad

[ThatOtherPerson1]

Errr what is NSFW tag lol, sorry you know i’m not perfect, i’m french

NSFW means "Not Safe For Work," so moosepr means that these cabinets and graphics to too sexy for looking at on the job!

I would have to agree!