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Title: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: modman on 20 February 2010, 03:58:04: Gimp > Photoshop
I made some icons a while back in the GIMP, so I thought I should share them with y'all. There should be three:

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[URL=http://img521.imageshack.us/i/mapeditoricon.png/][IMG]http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4816/mapeditoricon.th.png[/img][/URL][URL=http://img251.imageshack.us/i/glesticon.png/][IMG]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4232/glesticon.th.png[/img][/URL][URL=http://img213.imageshack.us/i/g3dviewericon.png/][IMG]http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6518/g3dviewericon.th.png[/img][/URL]
If you don't see three, click the quote button and snag the URL of the image it should be showing you. You can download the image (it's in *.png format) this way as well.

EDIT: New icons are available. I changed these two so they would scale down to 32x32 better.

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[img]http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/6518/g3dviewericon.png[/img][img]http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/4816/mapeditoricon.png[/img]
EDIT: I was feeling inspired so I made some splash screens. Hopefully Facebook allows hotlinking.

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[img]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/7605/megaglestsplash.png[/img][img]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2893/gaesplash.png[/img][img]http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/9813/gamicon.png[/img]
Downloads
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[url=http://www.filefront.com/17181717/G3D Viewer Icon.xcf]G3D Viewer Icon *.xcf[/url] [url=http://www.filefront.com/17181741/Map Editor Icon.xcf]Map Editor Icon *.xcf[/url] [url=http://www.filefront.com/17181731/Glest Icon.xcf]Glest Icon *.xcf[/url] [url=http://www.filefront.com/17181727/GAM Icon.xcf]GAM Icon *.xcf[/url]
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ultifd on 20 February 2010, 04:47:25: Cool. 8)

No seriously they're cool. :)
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: -Archmage- on 20 February 2010, 05:27:46: Seriously how the hell do you do that!?!? :D
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: wciow on 20 February 2010, 10:29:08: Great work Sir,

I was gonna make some icons for glest files myself, but these are much better than I could have done ;)
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: modman on 22 February 2010, 01:52:39: I used the GIMP, and the "flame" tool there. There are other tricks I won't delve into here, too.

I guess I just wanted some higher-res icons I could use instead of the ugly, generic one Windows makes me use otherwise for the g3d viewer and map editor. The Glest icon was not high-res enough.

I have a lot more work in the Gimp, it's just that this is the only Glest-related stuff.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ultifd on 12 June 2010, 21:37:34: Alright, I know it has been more then 90 days...but since now Modman you are out of school, another thing you could do, besides working on DM, is edit these icons, as a lot of people have said, there is a problem with resizing them... ::)
Quote from: silnarm on 6 June 2010, 04:59:21
We only used the Glest 'G' icon though, the 'g3d' and 'map' ones I would love to use too, but as titi pointed out, they don't scale so well (even just down to 32x32).
Quote from: titi on 4 June 2010, 21:46:35
I like them , but they are useless because they look really bad when you resize them to the needed size. the original icon has a size of 48x48.
If you use it in the taskbar where its only shown in 16x16 ( I think) it just look slike a green spot :/ . We need something different.
Thanks...
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: Gabbe on 12 June 2010, 21:40:13: yes modman! and perhaps participate with little helper? he might help you...
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ultifd on 12 June 2010, 21:41:42: Yeah, they look great, but too bad...since you resize them... ::)
I mean, if you still have the "base" image for it. ::)
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: Gabbe on 12 June 2010, 21:44:11: Idea, just use "m" for map and "3D" for g3d
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ultifd on 12 June 2010, 21:48:00: Quote from: HyperCube on 12 June 2010, 21:44:11
Idea, just use "m" for map and "3D" for g3d
Yeah, I could see why, but that would mean he would have to alter the whole image again...or layer I guess.
But yeah, I could see why.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: wyvern on 12 June 2010, 22:28:01: Cool :o :o
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: modman on 25 July 2010, 19:02:24: Sorry to bump this topic, but I will be making new icons. I will not only be taking Gabbe's suggestion to make the Map icon an 'M' in the front and the G3D icon into '3d', but if you ask, I'll give you the Gimp *.xcf files.

I will also be making some icons for the map editor. Any suggestions of how the map editor icons should look?
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ElimiNator on 26 July 2010, 00:57:34: what will they be for? GAE, MG, ect.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: modman on 26 July 2010, 03:58:06: I guess I was rather cryptic in my post. I will be making new icons which are 32x32 for the latest version of the map editor.

I was thinking of making them look like iTouch app icons. Basically, they are rounded squares lit from the top. Very simple.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: modman on 26 July 2010, 19:24:37: I made some new icons. The first post is updated.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: Gabbe on 26 July 2010, 21:56:04: Looks fine too me :)
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: Omega on 27 July 2010, 02:30:05: Ooh! Very pret-ty! :D
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ultifd on 27 July 2010, 18:32:34: Looks awesome! :thumbup:
Thanks, now the GAE team will have problems scaling it down...
For the megaglest icons, unless softcoder or titi wants to change them, they are fine.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: modman on 28 July 2010, 01:46:36: About the map editor icons, I think I'm going to push myself away from that. I'll pick it up later, maybe, but don't expect anything soon. The only Glest project I need to be doing is Dark Magic (which I am uploading now).

EDIT: And thanks to utifd, -Archmage-, wciow, Gabbe, Wyvern, Omega and softcoder in that order for the compliments :).
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: softcoder on 28 July 2010, 02:00:31: Sir Modman, your icons look very good. Nice job.
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: ultifd on 29 July 2010, 05:03:09: Quote from: Sir modman on 28 July 2010, 01:46:36
About the map editor icons, I think I'm going to push myself away from that. I'll pick it up later, maybe, but don't expect anything soon.
Alright, that's fine. Just, I guess, don't forget about it...?

Hmm, by the look of it, I think if titi was here, and he will be soon, he would say your icons are awesome...which he did, but the scaling...well that's fixed. :thumbup:
Title: Re: New Icons for Glest Stuff
Post by: modman on 29 July 2010, 05:13:52: Splash screens! Titi, softcoder, or anyone on the GAE team, if you want to use the images you are free to do so. No offense anyone, I just thought I might try my hand at the splashes, and I am personally very satisfied.

I might change them later to be on a black background; you can see the light streaks better then.

EDIT: There we go; FB apparently kills the transparency. Now you can see the streaks better because I used imageshack.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: ultifd on 29 July 2010, 05:23:13: Damm, that is amazing. If not, it looks awesome... Or is awesome > amazing?
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: modman on 29 July 2010, 05:50:11: Quote from: ultifd on 29 July 2010, 05:23:13
Damm, that is amazing. If not, it looks awesome... Or is awesome > amazing?
Thanks ;D. I literally smiled like that ( <-- ) when I read that.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: Gabbe on 29 July 2010, 11:05:41: amazingly awesome :thumbup: :thumbup:!!!!!
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: ultifd on 29 July 2010, 19:03:57: Quote from: Sir modman on 29 July 2010, 05:50:11
Quote from: ultifd on 29 July 2010, 05:23:13
Damm, that is amazing. If not, it looks awesome... Or is awesome > amazing?
Thanks ;D. I literally smiled like that ( <-- ) when I read that.
:O

I see Gabbe used it, I guess that is OK. too bad it does not look too good as an avatar. I think.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: Gabbe on 29 July 2010, 19:42:38: This one is my favourite :swordman: :archer: :archer: :archer:
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: modman on 29 July 2010, 21:00:17: I don't mind him using it (although I'm not so sure I would) but I think that more people here should try to learn "tricks" in Gimp. Making those light streaks is incredibly easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGcL-AelF7k

I would mute the sound though.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: John.d.h on 29 July 2010, 22:51:21: Cool. I know GIMP has some vector capabilities, but I haven't really explored them.

BTW, the music threw me off for a second because I have the same song in my collection. "Wait a sec, I just turned off my media player... OHH, it's the video!" :O
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: silnarm on 7 August 2010, 01:21:20: Quote from: Sir modman on 20 February 2010, 03:58:04
EDIT: New icons are available. I changed these two so they would scale down to 32x32 better.

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[img]http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/6518/g3dviewericon.png[/img][img]http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/4816/mapeditoricon.png[/img]

Very nice indeed! Any chance you could do the Glest 'G' in similar fashion (transparent bg) ? And, could we have the xcf files ? I assume the background and letters are on separate layers, in which case for very small (16x16) icons we can just ditch the text completely, and make proper icons that will look good at any common size.

Again, very nice work, Sir.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: modman on 7 August 2010, 19:14:20: Downloads

G3D Viewer Icon *.xcf (http://www.filefront.com/17181717/G3D Viewer Icon.xcf)
Map Editor Icon *.xcf (http://www.filefront.com/17181741/Map Editor Icon.xcf)
Glest Icon *.xcf (http://www.filefront.com/17181731/Glest Icon.xcf)
GAM Icon *.xcf (http://www.filefront.com/17181727/GAM Icon.xcf)

Thanks for the compliments, silnarm!

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[img]http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/9813/gamicon.png[/img]
Here's an icon for your GAM, if you're still working on that.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: silnarm on 10 August 2010, 10:11:50: Sweet, thanks dude!

As to the GAM, it hasn't been worked on in some time, but I do have most of the Glest shared library ported to C#, so it may get an update one day... Nice incentive having such a spiffy icon ready to go :)

Thanks again, great work.
Title: Re: Sir Modman's Glest Artwork
Post by: modman on 11 August 2010, 02:20:15: No problem. I kind of wanted to do it because I thought of the gear thing as I was going to sleep. I think of a lot of good ideas then.