Animated Bus Destination signs

[OrionFlyer]

HAHA everyone has these signs as their signatures now lol. Anyways I'd like to see 29X NVCC Annandale (front and rear), EXPRESS/NOT IN SERVICE, LOCAL/NOT IN SERVICE, LIMITED STOP NOT IN SERVICE, Oh and if you can the Limited Stop T18 sign please if it isn't too much.

No prob.

[Scrabbleship]

Would it be possible to do ones for hypothetical routes? You know, to mix it up some more?

I'd like a 3Y to McPherson Square, a S9 to Silver Spring, and a J5 to Twinbrook please.

[OrionFlyer]

Brandon:







BTW did you want the Local/Not In Service, Express/Not In Service, Limited-Stop/Not in Service to be rear signs or front signs?

Scrabbleship:







And here is Green Crushed 79 sign:

[DCAreaTransitFan]

Nice. What software do you use?

I always wanted to ask you where you got those signs...

But yeah that's cool that you make them. I would like to see a Q2 sign (and maybe the other Qs) since that's my home route.

I use an image editing program called GIMP.

I made a grid of black dots (based on the dimensions of the Luminator bus destination signs), on a dark gray background. I used a font guide for the fonts that found on the NYC Transit forum. Then I fill the black dots with amber, or any other color, with the destination sign I want.  When making continuous loop signs, the layers in the program give me the ability to switch between destinations. Like, the first layer would be "C2 WHEATON", then the second layer would be "C2 STATION". After that's done, I save it as a gif animation, and it comes out as C2 WHEATION STATION in a continuous loop.

I'll have all the requested ones done in no time.

Very cool. I would like to nominate the J9 Lakeforest/I270 Express. 

Do you want it to read "J9 LAKEFOREST; J9 I-270 EXPRESS"?

can u write like the steps!

[OrionFlyer]

First I made a 1350x174 Gray background. Then I filled the background with evenly shaped and spaced black dots going by the Luminator Horizon sign dimensions. After that, you make a sign. You can follow the font guide or make your own fonts.

The blank sign and fonts are below. I found the fonts on the NYC Transit Forum.

[DCAreaTransitFan]

this so complicated alright i just need to know how to get the words in dot form

[Tristan]

Wow these look great.  Any thoughts about doing some TwinVisions?  What about some old school MTA Balios signs, with the scrolling?  It was controversial but unique and I miss it.

One note, if you want to play around more, the MetroExtra PR slides down from the top. 

Barely related: Remember the 87/88/89/90/91/9200s? 

[Tritransit Area]

Wow these look great.  Any thoughts about doing some TwinVisions?  What about some old school MTA Balios signs, with the scrolling?  It was controversial but unique and I miss it.

One note, if you want to play around more, the MetroExtra PR slides down from the top. 

Barely related: Remember the 87/88/89/90/91/9200s? 

Ah ha!  I remember those signs and how they scrolled downwards.  Much different from the usual swipe of other destination signs.  Did the side signs do the same thing?

[79MetroExtraMD]

I got another one. The old Vultron signs on the 42 and 4300s. I remember those.

[OrionFlyer]

Wow these look great.  Any thoughts about doing some TwinVisions?  What about some old school MTA Balios signs, with the scrolling?  It was controversial but unique and I miss it.

One note, if you want to play around more, the MetroExtra PR slides down from the top. 

Barely related: Remember the 87/88/89/90/91/9200s? 

Yeah I can do those. It's going to take a lot of copying and pasting and layers.

[Tristan]

The original Vultrons in the Orion Vs were interesting because they scrolled from both the left and the center at the same time.  OF, I guess flipdots are your next venture LOL

If you really want to play around, you could do the original TwinVision Flip/LEDs in the 2100s, where they were more visible in the daytime than at night because only 20% of the LEDs worked at any one time.

[NewFlyer9736BCT]

so which of those fonts posted goes with the regular Luminator signs on WMATA? and the signs on Ride On? any Aesys font by any chance?

[OrionFlyer]

so which of those fonts posted goes with the regular Luminator signs on WMATA? and the signs on Ride On? any Aesys font by any chance?

All of them go with the WMATA ones. I couldn't find and Aesys fonts. So if I see them in a photo, I'll just have to make them the best I can based on the picture.

[NewFlyer9736BCT]

hmm...I don't know what it is, but I tried putting the letters above on the blank sign and I can't really get it into proportion. does GIMP help with that or is that just a program like photoshop or fireworks?

[OrionFlyer]

hmm...I don't know what it is, but I tried putting the letters above on the blank sign and I can't really get it into proportion. does GIMP help with that or is that just a program like photoshop or fireworks?

What specific parts are you having trouble with?