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Title: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: The Weather Guy on August 17, 2011, 05:27:57 PM
Hey guys, I am making/programming an IntelliStar emulator (non powerpoint), and I need some help. Does anyone know where I can get the official IntelliStar graphics? Thanks guys! :D

P.S. The is is http://intellistaremulator.x10.mx/ (http://intellistaremulator.x10.mx/)
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: Trevor on August 17, 2011, 05:54:06 PM
They were in a file posted briefly here a while back, but are no longer available.
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: The Weather Guy on August 17, 2011, 06:07:35 PM
Do you know if he still has them?
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: Zach on August 17, 2011, 06:15:56 PM
The IntelliStar files were removed from the forum due to the potential risk of copyright, so don't expect to get ahold of them. Sorry.

EDIT: read https://twctodayforums.com/forums/questions-comments-suggestions/intellistar-'goodies-pack'/msg157578/#msg157578 (https://twctodayforums.com/forums/questions-comments-suggestions/intellistar-'goodies-pack'/msg157578/#msg157578)
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: The Weather Guy on August 17, 2011, 06:36:10 PM
Darn. :l That's too bad. :(  :cry:
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: twcfan68 on August 17, 2011, 07:03:54 PM
But you can still try and make your own. :) You can perhaps make your own concept.
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: The Weather Guy on August 17, 2011, 08:46:11 PM
On the site, I have some snapshots of what I have been able to create so far. Anyone have a opinion on them?

Exact Thread: http://intellistaremulator.b1.jcink.com/index.php?showtopic=20&view=getnewpost (http://intellistaremulator.b1.jcink.com/index.php?showtopic=20&view=getnewpost)
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: Eric on August 17, 2011, 10:05:18 PM
On the site, I have some snapshots of what I have been able to create so far. Anyone have a opinion on them?

Exact Thread: [url]http://intellistaremulator.b1.jcink.com/index.php?showtopic=20&view=getnewpost[/url] ([url]http://intellistaremulator.b1.jcink.com/index.php?showtopic=20&view=getnewpost[/url])


The graphics and pictures are quite nice.  The "UNK" looks extremely awkward.  Either leaving a field blank or, at most, putting "N/A" would make more sense, I think.  The Stars generally leave a field blank if there's no information for it, unless a whole product is unavailable, in which case a notification of that is displayed.  Also, the font needs work.  It seems much too large in places, such as the local forecast and ESPECIALLY the 4-city observations page.  And the font itself doesn't seem to match the beautiful backgrounds you have it on - it's a rather blocky and extraordinarily plain helvetica font.
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: The Weather Guy on August 18, 2011, 08:40:10 AM
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The graphics and pictures are quite nice.

Thanks! :D

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The "UNK" looks extremely awkward.  Either leaving a field blank or, at most, putting "N/A" would make more sense, I think.  The Stars generally leave a field blank if there's no information for it, unless a whole product is unavailable, in which case a notification of that is displayed. 

That's a bug I am working on. Sometimes randomly also, it will not draw/make appear and of the locations etc, So I have to find the source of that issue.

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Also, the font needs work.  It seems much too large in places, such as the local forecast and ESPECIALLY the 4-city observations page.  And the font itself doesn't seem to match the beautiful backgrounds you have it on - it's a rather blocky and extraordinarily plain helvetica font.

Ah, the font. That's a royal pain for me. I am working toward recreating the fonts from intelliStar, or make the fonts I am using look more like the intelliStar.
Thanks for you feed back! :D
Title: Re: Intellistar Emulator-- (Can you help?)
Post by: The Weather Guy on October 17, 2011, 07:46:04 PM
I'm back! lol! Anyway: I want to know if anyone here is good at developing graphics. Or knows where I can get the new intellistar icons. I have the '2006-2009' icons, but I want the new ones. Anyone know where I can get them? Or someone know who can develop them?

Also, anyone know a good forecast feed / cc feed? TWC stopped providing the XML feed I was implementing, so I am going to need a new one.

--So yea, those are my 2 questions--

 :biggrin: Thanks! :biggrin: