Real Feast for the Senses menu
So I've seen a few threads popping up about the Feast lately, and I got to wondering, would the map really fold like that and work the way it does in-game? Well, there was only one way to test it out. Three screenshots, a few hours, and some frustration later, I had my very own Feast for the Senses menu.
Looks awesome, right? Well, remember my original question? Well, as I was making the thing, I realized that it would never fold right. Compare the following images:
The folded map:
The folded corners:
If you compare the question marks, you see that the corner version is more squished. Also, the shape of the folded area is wrong. In short, Telltale cheated (though given how complex a map like this is, I can hardly blame them) and messed with the dimensions of the folded corners. Were Guybrush in the real world, the map would've looked something like this when folded along the already present fold lines:
Compare to the in-game version:
It would take some imagination, but I imagine he could still find his way through the Flotsam jungle with it.
If anyone would like to make their own map, here are the images I used:
Front
Back
Edit: You'll want to squish the height on both images down to 560 without changing the width if you want it to fold properly.
Edit Edit: For some reason, Photobucket shrunk down the image of the inside. I could probably get a jpeg up at the original size, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice image quality. You'll still want to shrink the outside's height to 560, but you'll want to shrink the inside to 380. If you use a program that stretches the printed image to fit the paper, it should still align properly.
Edit x3: Don't use the images linked here. Use the ones in these two posts.
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=258182#post258182
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=258229#post258229
Looks awesome, right? Well, remember my original question? Well, as I was making the thing, I realized that it would never fold right. Compare the following images:
The folded map:
The folded corners:
If you compare the question marks, you see that the corner version is more squished. Also, the shape of the folded area is wrong. In short, Telltale cheated (though given how complex a map like this is, I can hardly blame them) and messed with the dimensions of the folded corners. Were Guybrush in the real world, the map would've looked something like this when folded along the already present fold lines:
Compare to the in-game version:
It would take some imagination, but I imagine he could still find his way through the Flotsam jungle with it.
If anyone would like to make their own map, here are the images I used:
Front
Back
Edit: You'll want to squish the height on both images down to 560 without changing the width if you want it to fold properly.
Edit Edit: For some reason, Photobucket shrunk down the image of the inside. I could probably get a jpeg up at the original size, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice image quality. You'll still want to shrink the outside's height to 560, but you'll want to shrink the inside to 380. If you use a program that stretches the printed image to fit the paper, it should still align properly.
Edit x3: Don't use the images linked here. Use the ones in these two posts.
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=258182#post258182
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=258229#post258229
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PS: Nice CD-R copy of Monkey 4 you've got there! Do you have a cousin named Sven?
Now, to clean up all the paper scraps on my desk...
Damn you're dedicated.
A printable version of the map would make a nice DVD extra.
This made me think of what would happen if the president was photographed with missle codes in big print behind him.
With a little work, I think we can get about 17 cards (if I'm counting correctly) from game screen-shots. Though I suspect they'd have to be retouched before being printed full-size and laminated... I think this hsoudl be the OP's next project
You can download them in good quality, including the back. Someone posted a link in a forums to download the BMP images.
I must find these! Then it's off to kinkos!
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10810&page=4
TYVM!
I'll be checking the diamentions and see if I can get them printed up realistically... if all else fails, maybe _I_ will send these out to epople willing to pay the cost of them, since TTG seems content with NOT making money off the idea...
Why not doing the nail-trick on the foldways? You know, do pressure in a straight line with your thumb nail to make excellent... foldages.
It's a little better now...
I actually did another one last night where I used the sharp corner on my desk to make perfectly straight folds exactly where I wanted them. The paths on the map line up so much better, but somehow it got a small grease spot on it, so I'm going to do another one. Besides, I still want to find something to fill in the white space on the back of the map.
That's a thought, but I'd still need a parchment background similar to the rest of the map to get the effect I really want. Any chance anybody here knows how to get a shot of the inside of the menu without the "course" text in the center?
I recently reformatted my computer so I don't have a copy of Photoshop but I can try acquiring another copy and give it a shot if you take pictures of the all six steps in the menu. Or, you or another person can do the trick instead of me >_>
What I had in mind was along the lines of how MISM did the tarot cards, but this is also a good idea. I think I'll give it a shot, but I'll also put up the screenshots in case anyone else wants to give it a try.
I doubt my method I wrote down here is near any kind of expertness. It's just a long and maybe even an unneeded way of making the most profit of some other person's usage of patterns. One with great skills can take less time and do a more wonderful job, but I'll try what I can do.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/1stCourse.png
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/2ndCourse.png
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/3rdCourse.png
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/4thCourse.png
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/5thCourse.png
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/6thCourse.png
I could probably make a better attempt using my usual image editing skills with Paint (in other words, by hand with the pencil tool and zoomed in at 800% with an additional magnifier provided by my mouse), but it would be pretty tedious and painstaking work to carefully remove all the lettering, but given how Photoshop handles the deleting of selections that aren't perfectly square, I imagine that there would be a tiny bit more parchment left after.
Or maybe someone at Telltale will see this, take pity on me, and provide an image of the menu without any text in the center?
you can find parchment images using hte internets. With a little work platintg around with the color settings you can make any two match as long as hte patterns are similar.
I'm thinking seriously about trying to get togeher a "fan made" casefile of sorts for ToMI with the Tarot cards, map, and 3 other items... It might even be possible to make a fully-useable Tarot deck using items form the game (such as the "wands" suit would use the mer-people clam-shell-unlocking-tool)
A printed version would be nicer
Maybe, but again, my photo editing skills aren't all that great. Besides, I thought the six sense icons would make a nice touch.
How does this look? Some parts were covered with letters in all the six courses, so I filled them in myself with the closest shade of brown.
And here's one with only the areas not covered by letters filled in, and the rest left empty. In case you want to fill it in yourself
Edit: Scratch that, I have to squash the corners down no matter what I do. I'm going to have to think about this a while longer to see if I can find a way to assemble the map without squashing the corners until it's already done.
This makes five of these things floating around on my desk. The original one that doesn't fold right, the one I hastily made when Jake told me how to fix it, a carefully folded one with nothing on the back, and these two.
Anyway, here's the images for anyone who wants to do their own. This time they're already properly scaled, so there's no resizing required.
Inside
Outside with logo
Outside without logo
Here's the file.