Maarten's Sign BAT Room

[zakuten]

Maarten, maybe could you give me some direction as for how to submit what signs I'd like? i.e. template dimension proportions or something? And what various types you can produce as well.

[j-dub]

Maybe using a sign generator, would help?

(sign not mine)
This could be simpler to make requests, since a picture is worth a thousand words.
http://www.kurumi.com/roads/signmaker/smapp/index.html -I have tried it, and  you can type anyting, use any highway symbol, and do any layout from a single, to full overhead sign. Then when you have it designed, you hit the prnt scrn button on your keyboard paste it in MS paint, and then display the image on the internet. I remember using this, it also had blue backrounds, but don't know how much Euro it covers.

[Fresh Prince of SC4D]

Taking two birds out with one stone, okay then, I can wait some more 

[zakuten]

Maybe using a sign generator, would help?

(sign not mine)
This could be simpler to make requests, since a picture is worth a thousand words.
http://www.kurumi.com/roads/signmaker/smapp/index.html -I have tried it, and  you can type anyting, use any highway symbol, and do any layout from a single, to full overhead sign. Then when you have it designed, you hit the prnt scrn button on your keyboard paste it in MS paint, and then display the image on the internet. I remember using this, it also had blue backrounds, but don't know how much Euro it covers.

Unfortunately, that won't work, as I'm making signs that don't conform to those options easily at all. The only thing I could really do with that is leech blank rectangles to work from. Which is why I want to know which rectangles are acceptable. 

[MandelSoft]

@Zakuten: I have no template actually. I just make the signs fit. And I can produce any type of sign you like. By the way, can you make a sketch for me of the design of the signs?

[zakuten]

Of course, that's what I'm working on. I was just making sure you didn't use some sort of standard size first; didn't wanna present you with something you couldn't work with.

[MandelSoft]

Pack 02 is on the STEX!!!

[Streetlight 725]

Nice signs.Thank You!!

[Fatsuhono]

Mrtnrln! You have quite the talents for motorway signs, I love them! Keep up your great works!

What exactly is that you do to make them overhanging? Do you export them with them not in the center, or maybe a different method?

[threestooges]

-Fatsuhono: You are correct. Exporting them off center will allow overhanging props.

Nice selection mrtnrln. Good work on the release.

[zakuten]

Maarten, when finished, how ought I get my sketches to you?

[Streetlight 725]

mrtnrln,I got more signs to request.If you are busy,You Don't have to make them.
Here they are:
Picture 1:Rest stop sign
Picture 2:Same sign said:Road work ahead then change and it says this:Right lane closed.
Picture 3:Just these words on that sign:State forest next right/Next left
Picture 4:Same sign with arrow pointing Right and the same sign pointing left

[MandelSoft]

@zakuten: Post them here or mail them to me (see my mail link at my profile.
@streetlight: I think I'll certainly make sign no.1 and 4, but the others are still under cosideration.

[j-dub]

Oh dang, that second sign, I think I know someone who could do that animation for sign #2. Ehbk2006  was able to animate this

remember? That electronic messaging sign wouldn't be sideways like that on the road though, it would be straight over the hitch, not the tire.

[zakuten]

I don't actually see the VMS in that picture at all....

And thanks, Maarten, I'll have 'em for you soon! 

[MandelSoft]

@ J-dub: Yeah, I was planning to do that. (I want to apply the same method on matrix signs).

[art128]

nice work on the last sign Maarten 

[Streetlight 725]

Heres a VMS in my city.
Details
Northbound on I-91 approaching Hartford, CT, we see a VMS message that wise guys might say belongs on a permanent sign.All the signs in Connecticut have the same function.If the message is long,it would go back to the first then secend message. Photo taken April 2004 by Kurumi.

Website of all the signs and highways: http://www.kurumi.com/roads/index.html

[mayorcwf]

how about a retro sign--A yellow Stop Sign from the 1950's. Yellow Stop Signs was mounted on many streets until the mid-1960's and was slowly replaced with the Red Signs.

(example of a "yellow Stop Sign" http://www.millenniumhwy.net/summa/summa-Pages/Image493.html )

[j-dub]

Oh man, I don't know what you mean by 1950's, because there is this rural area in my state that that still has those yellow STOP signs by this diner. The road also has a solid white line down it, and there is a rail road crossing that shortly after the intersection, after the diner with a diamond shaped signal that has a stop sign waive over a flashing red light when the train comes. This road sometimes has buses attached to electric cables driving down it. That might be why the one side has the yellow, while the ones crossing are still red. Sorry to get off topic, but maybe yellow may not be a bad idea, since the game also has this kitsch/1950's feel to it when you first start out with the Maxis stuff.

Oh yeah, also if you want a Real Electric Sign font, go here- http://atom.smasher.org/construction/ Then, after you type your message into the real construction sign, press your Prt Scrn button on your keyboard, open up MS paint, then press paste from the edit menu, and crop to the sign part. Voila you got yourself an electric sign texture for BAT>