Sheddy Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 RastaSlide - RastaConverter Slide Show Maker - version 2.5 Changes in version 2.5 - Optimizer now removes HPOS writes when there is no player data for their range, for small compression gain and reducing false positives of possible artefacts using "#disassemble optimized" - Fixed bugs with false positive detection of possible artefacts excluding real ones - Timing and artefact comments only produced with disassembly tools and not slide add - Fixed problems displaying 3 pictures made with a very early(beta?) RastaConverter: "cliff", "purple_nurple" and "sakuras2b" sheddy_umbrella.xex RastaSlide 2.5.zip 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 @Sheddy that umbrella reminded me of this: On The Beach Chris Rea, album cover 1986 33 colours. drpeter_OnTheBeach.xex 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, drpeter said: @Sheddy that umbrella reminded me of this: On The Beach Chris Rea, album cover 1986 33 colours. drpeter_OnTheBeach.xex 22.19 kB · 3 downloads The clouds came out really well. They still appear "fluffy." I'll put that in my tropical/beach favorites folder. So often in my conversions, though the clouds may look okay or even perfectly fine in a final image, they look far different from the source image, starting with the destination image as usually too few colors/shades are used, even from a palette of 256, and the clouds look flat and lack the depth and shape they had. Then during conversion the palette is halved, and depending on the subject matter and colors, the clouds may end up with only 3-5 shades/colors. But 'On The Beach' clouds look great, even with so few proper shading and highlighting colors. I've had a few that turned out great; for example a Star Wars image that, IIRC, I titled 'Red 5' or maybe it was 'On your Six, Red 5' with a Tie-fighter chasing an X-wing above the clouds. But it is rare to find settings that work well for the clouds without detriment to the usual main subject matter. Edited July 23, 2021 by Gunstar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Garden. 82 colors. Garden.xex 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 I don't have any way to convert images to a format usable on an Atari (M1 mac user). could someone turn this into something viewable? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 3 hours ago, Mr Robot said: I don't have any way to convert images to a format usable on an Atari (M1 mac user). could someone turn this into something viewable? Do you want it made into a Rasta image, or a format loadable on the Atari in a way that can be edited? BTW - you know the Atari can't do red correct? I can get you a nice VBXE version of you like 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I'd like to submit it as a possible PoP title screen. If we can't do red, we can do something closeish, I'm sure it doesn't matter if it's not exact. I mangled the colours quite a lot when I posterized it down to 4 levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Mr Robot said: I'd like to submit it as a possible PoP title screen. If we can't do red, we can do something closeish, I'm sure it doesn't matter if it's not exact. I mangled the colours quite a lot when I posterized it down to 4 levels. Rasta conversion is not going that well. I'll leave it go for a few hours while I am working tonight, but not expecting good results. I think this is a case where a proper pixel artist working in a tool like G2F will do wonders. Stephen_PopTitle.xex 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rensoup Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Stephen said: Rasta conversion is not going that well. I'll leave it go for a few hours while I am working tonight, but not expecting good results. I think this is a case where a proper pixel artist working in a tool like G2F will do wonders. I have to agree that I don't think that RC is the answer for a PoP title picture, although it gives spectacular results sometimes, it just doesn't have that clean look... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I agree too. I tried to get the image down to a low enough number of colours that it might be possible to convert without RC, but I don't have the tools to do this kind of art. I should dig out some atari art programs if I can't use G2F. I think most RC images look like early Amiga NewTek grabs, which is pretty impressive for an 8-bit but not really like a good hand crafted image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIX Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) There is always the option to go for a crisp monochrome title screen.. actually various shades of one color ! If I manage to finish at least 2 of my on-going projects, I might try it. Edited July 29, 2021 by TIX 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenit Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 8 hours ago, rensoup said: I have to agree that I don't think that RC is the answer for a PoP title picture, although it gives spectacular results sometimes, it just doesn't have that clean look... Correct, the converter works the best with photos or paintings, however a converted pixel-art will almost always have visible errors. A skilled graphician armed with Graph2Font will produce much better results. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsCool Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 37 minutes ago, TIX said: There is always the option to go for a crisp monochrome title screen.. actually various shades of one color ! If I manage to finish at least 2 of my on-going projects, I might try it. This looks so clean and pleasant to the eyes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARIO130XE Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 14 hours ago, rensoup said: I have to agree that I don't think that RC is the answer for a PoP title picture, although it gives spectacular results sometimes, it just doesn't have that clean look... I would say it depends on what clean kind of source file you put in the RC. POP_RC_outputs.zip POP_title_RC.asm POP_title_RC.g2f POP_title_RC.mch POP_Title_RC.xex 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Nice, long ago I did a g2f of a slimmed version of the NES screen: http://g2f.atari8.info/gallery/index.html#prince.of.persia_nes_wratchild.png 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, VinsCool said: blockquote widgetblockquote widge 8 hours ago, TIX said: There is always the option to go for a crisp monochrome title screen.. actually various shades of one color ! If I manage to finish at least 2 of my on-going projects, I might try it. Hi. This is my opinion I know but I personally think it would be a great shame to go monochrome/a la Gameboy as per above image. Having seen many games during the 90s go monochrome for the A8, (I understand some of the reasons why), I think there is an opportunity to show a really great colourful title screen. (And show what the A8 can really do). Again obviously it's down to the team in the end, but I am sure a colourful source image could be made which then allows a good conversion/final image. Or a graph2font, or piccalo image, etc. From my relatively limited time using RastaConverter for example a big part of it is getting a clean source image. You may well have to do a lot of preprocessing (like I did for my attempt at the Flob title poster) where you reduce the number of colours, swap colours and fill in gradient colour transitions with perhaps a single colour among other things. Edited July 29, 2021 by Beeblebrox Typos 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rensoup Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 9 hours ago, TIX said: here is always the option to go for a crisp monochrome title screen.. actually various shades of one color ! If I manage to finish at least 2 of my on-going projects, I might try it. monochrome ? Please, this is an Atari... 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARIO130XE Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Made a new version after realizing some errors in the left border feel free to optimize, use, change, recolour ... Maybe we could have a nice POP title some day. POP_Title_RC.asm POP_Title_RC.g2f POP_Title_RC.mch POP_Title_RC.xex POP_Title_RC-outputs.zip 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, MARIO130XE said: Made a new version after realizing some errors in the left border feel free to optimize, use, change, recolour ... Maybe we could have a nice POP title some day. POP_Title_RC.asm 51.75 kB · 0 downloads POP_Title_RC.g2f 12.92 kB · 0 downloads POP_Title_RC.mch 30.11 kB · 0 downloads POP_Title_RC.xex 18.51 kB · 2 downloads POP_Title_RC-outputs.zip 455.73 kB · 0 downloads Thanks for that, it's looking very, very nice and promising. Clean Atari version of iconic PoP title screen. Edited July 30, 2021 by Jacques 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Looks good - could the title text be luma graduated? Not like some cheap rainbow 80s effect but just 3 or shades of white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 On 7/25/2021 at 12:52 PM, Gunstar said: Garden. 82 colors. Garden.xex 21.98 kB · 18 downloads Your conversions have always been fantastic and still you continue to get better at making them. The shadows in the foreground from a mostly unseen tree not only look just right they give real depth to the image. I'm wishing yet again to have a PAL Atari rig. -SteveS 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsCool Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 20 hours ago, MARIO130XE said: Made a new version after realizing some errors in the left border feel free to optimize, use, change, recolour ... Maybe we could have a nice POP title some day. POP_Title_RC.asm 51.75 kB · 0 downloads POP_Title_RC.g2f 12.92 kB · 1 download POP_Title_RC.mch 30.11 kB · 0 downloads POP_Title_RC.xex 18.51 kB · 8 downloads POP_Title_RC-outputs.zip 455.73 kB · 0 downloads That looks really good! I think with some brightness shading this would fit perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 NTSC does a better job of reds than PAL that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Simone Biles 68 colours drpeter_Biles.xex 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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