BigMac
Joined: Dec 19, 2004
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Jan 03, 2006 - 22:32 |
 
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Please use this topic to discuss Large Icons for the next official release of Java Blood Bowl. 
You will find a preview of all the icons in the related sticky topic above! |
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nkelsch
Joined: Dec 26, 2005
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Jan 04, 2006 - 20:37 |
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nkelsch
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Jan 04, 2006 - 21:04 |
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I don't plan on using ANTI-ALIAS so I see no need for translucent pixels... Most companies I do stuff for are using encoded images and not static files so translucent pixels is not an option. |
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nkelsch
Joined: Dec 26, 2005
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Jan 04, 2006 - 23:05 |
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Since there are multiple camps... here is the new NEW NEW sprite sheet.
So regular icons for the normies... Refreshed little dudes for small field and Big guys for future large pitch. Now everyone can feel happy and not left out.
EDIT: can you tell the difference between a Lineman and a Blitzer? |
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nkelsch
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Jan 04, 2006 - 23:14 |
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SnakeSanders
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Jan 04, 2006 - 23:42 |
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hmmm had a quick try in Fireworks resizing my minis (Dwarf) came out a little better than I thought They would...
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nkelsch
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Jan 04, 2006 - 23:46 |
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SnakeSanders
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Jan 04, 2006 - 23:53 |
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but are those too big/small? and i cant seem to get them to work in my games even changing the icons.ini to jpg/jpeg
if anyone could test em out and see what they look like? |
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nkelsch
Joined: Dec 26, 2005
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Jan 04, 2006 - 23:54 |
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SnakeSanders
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Jan 05, 2006 - 00:06 |
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yah I can see that now, but just converted them to gifs and did a quick swap in to see what it looks like... tbh, at that size if the rest was transparent, it would look good, just about the right size, then again, those are dwarves and not Ogres... but on a bigger pitch bring it on!
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SnakeSanders
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Jan 05, 2006 - 00:22 |
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but if the above was to be done, most likely you would need another painted team in a different colour! it is going to be well cool to be able to use my own minis on fumbbl  |
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JanMattys
Joined: Feb 29, 2004
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Jan 05, 2006 - 18:51 |
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Pat, I think the Chaos Warrior icon needs to be with horns.
Dunno why, but my perception of Chaos Warriors includes horns. Preferably horns united in the middle. |
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Hoodeddwarf
Joined: Feb 15, 2005
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Jan 05, 2006 - 20:59 |
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Those dwarves look awesome, nice work. My guess is that the beast potrait with the tentacles on would be more difficult to base an icon on.... |
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fen
Joined: Sep 10, 2005
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Jan 05, 2006 - 21:56 |
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I still can't imagine this thing on a blood bowl field though.
And the tentacles argument, well not every skill is paysically reflected on the miniatures, to me the left "hand" of the "great unclean one" looks tentaclic enough to pass :p |
You have to go with that. It rocks. That pretty much sums up why the beast is so bad at actually playing Blood Bowl.  |
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IbsontheGrey
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Jan 05, 2006 - 22:39 |
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Two things...
In the olde days, before we had JBB ('praise be to SKI!'), there was a game called Bloodbowl Internet. I used to play around with it quite alot. I created a whole set of icons based on actual minatures to use with it. All of them at 40x40 pix, so the big guys look small but they would look better at 54 pix tall. Most of them look pretty good. So it is possible to use real minis.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d103/ibsonthegrey/suprteam.jpg
Secondly, lots of these new previews look great here statically, but what about on a field. I made a quick sample of some of my customized Draconian icons (based off of Pat's originals) and a couple of very quick miniature rescales and put them on a proper sized 'big' field. Here is the result....
So which do we prefer... I kind of like the real minature look...feels more like a real life board. It would probably would take less work, just rescaling and checking details since there are several good sources of pics from the real minatures. Maybe we could get sets of both. Anyone interested in creating the mini-based ones (I'd be willing to lend a hand but don't have enough time to be lead)?
Cheers!
Ibson |
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