Tech Icons

Solid Liquid · **Joined:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 8

hi, there are two new icons:

Artificial heavenly bodies:

Economic spectroscopy:

-similar, but NOT based on any previous icons-

as you said, its better to create more icons now and improve it later, so I'll try.

eleazar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:52 pm

Solid Liquid wrote:

-similar, but NOT based on any previous icons-

IMHO it's a good thing if similar technologies have somewhat similar icons— as long as you can tell the difference.

Geoff the Medio · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:13 am

Solid Liquid wrote:

Economic spectroscopy:

I could use another (different frequency) sine function on the right side... It's pretty sparse visually, and just two sines isn't much of a fourier series decomposition. But don't delay making something new in order to change it, unless so-inclined yourself.

Solid Liquid · **Joined:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 8

Geoff the Medio wrote:

...It's pretty sparse visually, and just two sines isn't much of a fourier series decomposition...

heh, you are right, I made it look more "Fourierish" and added some stuff, hope its better now.
the Artificial heavenly bodies icon look empty too, but I dont know, what to fiil it with, maybe something like planet ring..
damn, lack of inspiration comes to me.. :roll:

Geoff the Medio · **Posted:** Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:08 pm

Solid Liquid wrote:

heh, you are right, I made it look more "Fourierish" and added some stuff, hope its better now.

Why does the middle-frequency sine wave stop before the rightmost grid column?

Quote:

the Artificial heavenly bodies icon look empty too, but I dont know, what to fiil it with, maybe something like planet ring..
damn, lack of inspiration comes to me.. :roll:

Maybe make it only partially constructed, with sticky-out bits of superstructure like the Death Star 2 in ROTJ? Alternatively, make a bunch of them around a ring, co-orbiting the star.

eleazar · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:01 am

Is the list on page 1 up to date? (i know i'm being lazy)

Also i'd like to put in my preference for the simpler, SMAC style of the category icons. Obviously many will need to be more complicated, but that simplicity is worth aiming at.

No matter how much we invoke KISS, FO will be a complicated game. Simple, direct, clean icons for techs and so-forth can help mitigate the potential information overload.

Geoff the Medio · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:13 pm

eleazar wrote:

Is the list on page 1 up to date?

Mostly. Nobody's updated it in a few months. The techs Artificial Heavenly Bodies and
Economic Spectroscopy have icons, but aren't marked.

I'm making some modifications to the techs content though. I'm changing some theories to applications if they sound like they should be (eg. Fusion Generation), and to just reduce the total number of theories. Thare are also numerous application techs that were never listed on the "list of theories".

I think the wiki would be a better way to organize the list, since it can be updated more easily. Discussion about specific icons should still be done in the thread though.

Anyway, the current set of techs, with type, category and graphic (if entered in techs.txt) are below, though I might have missed a few icons (ie. not put them into techs.txt) that are in SVN.

Code:

Architectural Monofilaments (Construction Theory) - tech_icons/Architectural_Monofilaments.png
Architectural Psychology (Construction Theory) - tech_icons/Architecture_Psychology.png
Artificial Heavenly Bodies (Construction Theory) - tech_icons/Artificial_Heavenly_Bodies.png
Asymptotic Materials (Construction Theory) -
Controlled Gravity Architecture (Construction Theory) -
Force-Energy Structures (Construction Theory) -
Galactic Infrastructure (Construction Theory) -
Controlled gravity wells (Construction Application) -
Infrastructure Ecology (Construction Theory) - tech_icons/Infrastructure_Ecology.png
Megalith Construction (Construction Application) -
Metroplex Infrastructure (Construction Theory) - tech_icons/Metroplex_Infrastructure.png
N-Dimensional Structures (Construction Theory) -
Orbital Construction (Construction Theory) - tech_icons/Orbital_Construction.png
Orbital Infrastructure (Construction Application) -
Organic Structures (Construction Theory) -
Planetary Ring (Construction Application) -
Self-Gravitating Structures (Construction Theory) -
Space Elevator (Construction Application) -
Structural Integrity Fields (Construction Theory) -
Subterranean Construction (Construction Application) -
Transcendent Architecture (Construction Theory) -
Transforming Structures (Construction Theory) -
Colonial Economic Blueprinting (Economics Application) -
Commercial Union of the Colonies (Economics Application) -
Deep Green (Economics Application) -
Economic Fluidity (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Economic_Fluidity.png
Economic Hegemony (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Economic_Hegemony.png
Economic Prescience (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Economic_Prescience.png
Economic Spectroscopy (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Economic_Spectroscopy.png
Economic Etherealization (Economics Application) -
Environmental Adaptation (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Enviromental_Adaptation.png
Externality Integration (Economics Theory) -
Galactic Monetary Policy (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Galactic_Monetary_Policy.png
Interstellar Trade (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Interstellar_Trade.png
Market Economics (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Market_Economics.png
Paradise Planet (Economics Application) -
Planetary Colonialism (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Planetary_Colonialism.png
Planned Economics (Economics Theory) - tech_icons/Planned_Economics.png
Economic Sinkholes (Economics Application) -
Stabilized Hypergrowth (Economics Theory) -
Bioterror Facilites (Growth Application) -
The Caducean Institute (Growth Application) -
Pure-Energy Metabolism (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Pure-Energy_Metabolism.png
Environmenal Encapsulation (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Environmental_Encapsulation.png
Genetic Engineering (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Genetic_Engineering.png
Genetic Medicine (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Genetic_Medicine.png
Genome Bank (Growth Application) -
Habitation Domes (Growth Application) -
Industrial Cloning (Growth Application) - tech_icons/Industrial_Cloning.png
Industrial Farming (Growth Application) - tech_icons/Industrial_Farming.png
Lifecycle Manipulation (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Lifecycle_Manipulation.png
The Living Planet (Growth Application) -
Medical Pathology (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Medical_Pathology.png
Nanotech Medicine (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Nanotech_Medicine.png
Nanotech Cybernetics (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Nanotech_Cybernetics.png
Orbital Gardens (Growth Application) -
Orbital Farming (Growth Application) - tech_icons/Orbital_Farming.png
Planetary Ecology (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Planetary_Ecology.png
Self-Rotating Crops (Growth Application) -
Symbotic Biology (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Symbiosis_Biology.png
Urban Farming (Growth Application) -
Xenological Genetics (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Xenological_Genetics.png
Xenological Hybridization (Growth Theory) - tech_icons/Xenological_Hybridization.png
Algorithmic Elegance (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Algorithmic_Elegance.png
Artificial Minds (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Artificial_Minds.png
Basic Autolabs (Learning Application) -
Collective Thought Network (Learning Application) -
Distributed Thought Computing (Learning Application) -
Enclave of the Void (Learning Application) -
Theory of Everything (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/The_Theory_of_Everything.png
Force-Field Harmonics (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Force-Field_Harmonics.png
Galactic Exploration (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Galactic_Exploration.png
Gravitonics (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Gravitonics.png
Interstellar Lighthouses (Learning Application) -
The Looking Glass (Learning Application) -
Mind of the Void (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Mind_of_the_Void.png
Monument to Exodus (Learning Application) -
Intersetaller Navigation (Learning Application) -
N-Dimensional Subspace (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/N-Dimensional_Subspace.png
The Physical Brain (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/The_Physical_Brain.png
PsiCorp (Learning Application) -
Psionics (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Psionics.png
Stellar Tomography (Learning Application) -
Automatic Theorm Prover (Learning Application) -
Temporal Mechanics (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Temporal_Mechanics.png
Singularity of Transcendence (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Singularity_of_Transcendence.png
Translinguistics (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Translingustic_Thought.png
Unified Consciousness (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Unified_Conscious.png
Xenoarchaeology (Learning Theory) - tech_icons/Xenoarchaeology.png
Artificial Black Hole (Production Application) -
Asteroid Mining (Production Application) - tech_icons/Asteroid_Mining.png
Advanced Asteroid Mines (Production Refinement) -
Basic Autofactories (Production Application) -
Deep Core Mining (Production Application) - tech_icons/Deep_Core_Mining.png
Energy Conversion (Production Application) - tech_icons/Matter-Energy_Conversion.png
Environmentally-Conscious Mining (Production Application) -
Exobots (Production Application) -
Force-Field Assembly (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Force-Field_Assembly.png
Fusion Generation (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Fusion_Generation.png
Fusion Plants (Production Application) -
Heavy Mining Processors (Production Application) -
Hyperspatial Dam (Production Application) -
Industrial Centres (Production Application) -
Greater Industrial Centre (Production Refinement) -
Supreme Industrial Centre (Production Refinement) -
Interstellar Co-Production (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Interstellar_Co-Production.png
Replication (Production Application) - tech_icons/Matter-Energy_Replication.png
Microgravity Manufacturing (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Microgravity_Manufacturing.png
Mining Engineering (Production Application) -
Miniature Sun (Production Application) -
Nanotech Production (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Nanotech_Production.png
N-Dimensional Assembly (Production Theory) -
Orbital Generation (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Orbital_Generation.png
Orbital Mining (Production Application) - tech_icons/Orbital_Mining.png
Planetary Geology (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Planetary_Geology.png
Robotic Production (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Robotic_Production.png
Sentient Automation (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Sentient_Autofactories.png
Singularity Generation (Production Theory) - tech_icons/Singularity_Generation.png
Zero-Point Generation (Production Theory) -

eleazar · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:39 am

I snagged tech.txt from SVN, and added it to my RC4 compiled version of FO. FO crashes on startup. I don't know if RC4 and RC5+ are incompatible in this respect, or if there's a problem with tech.txt.

I think the best way (for me) to organize this is to screen-capture various tech tree categories, and to add the completed icons over the tree. It would give a good overview. However, i probably should abstain until you (Geoff) are done rearranging things— until it's time to stir things up again.

But i also created a wiki page.
http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Tech_icons

Geoff the Medio · **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:10 am

You can probably fix the crash by removing all the short_description lines from the file, one per tech. If that deosn't work, any futher crashes should be due to specific techs' effects stuff being different. It should saw which tech is the problem in the crash output, and you can fix it by removing that tech's effectsgroups entry, which looks something like:

Code:

    effectsgroups = [
        EffectsGroup
            scope = And [
                OwnedExclusivelyBy TheEmpire Source.Owner
                Planet
                Star type = BlackHole
                PrimaryFocus Research
            ]
            activation = Source
            effects = SetMaxResearch Target.MaxResearch + 4
    ]

Remove everything between equal-indented [ and ], and the preceeding effectsgroups =

Edit: Regarding the wiki page, I put up two test techs in a table layout that includes the images from SVN, the tech name, type, category, and short description. Would this be more useful if done for the whole lot? I can probably write some code to output wiki-formatted table text from the FO program, in order to make updating easier (for anyone with an update copy of FO anyway).

eleazar · **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:30 pm

Style of Tech Icons:

Tech icons should be as clean and simple as possible while still conveying the concept. The tech icons of Alpha Centari, and our category icons are a good stylistic model.

Notice here how at smaller sizes, most of the icons turn to unreadable static while the category icons are still recognizable.

icons should:
• Be on a transparent background
• Be recognizable at smaller sizes
• Have a strong silhouette
• Make minimal use of gradients, or variations in tone
• Avoid tiny details which carry the meaning

eleazar · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 8:05 am

Geoff the Medio wrote:

Edit: Regarding the wiki page, I put up two test techs in a table layout that includes the images from SVN, the tech name, type, category, and short description. Would this be more useful if done for the whole lot? I can probably write some code to output wiki-formatted table text from the FO program, in order to make updating easier (for anyone with an update copy of FO anyway).

Somehow i never read the above, 'till now.
Yes, that would be very cool.

The Silent One · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2007 6:51 pm

Artificial Black Hole

Eleazar: please post your tech icons here in case other artists do not check the svn. (or update the list)

Update: I've made some tech icons transparent:

genetic engineering, genetic medicine, infrastructure ecology, pure energy metabolism, singularity generation, symbiosis biology, temporal mechanics, translingustic thought, xenoarchaeology, xenological genetics

[Edit] Artificial black hole updated.

Stellar Tomography

The Silent One · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2007 4:04 pm

Stellar Navigation

Will there be a point release anytime soon? I'd like to see the tech icons in game (as well as all the other new stuff).

[EDIT]

redid stellar tomography because the old image sucked:

Stellar Tomography

Asymptotic Materials

Geoff the Medio · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 4:02 am

The Silent One wrote:

redid stellar tomography because the old image sucked:

Stellar Tomography

Is that the new one, or the old one? I'm not really getting the idea with this one... What's the % sign represent...?

utilae · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 5:44 am

The Silent One wrote:

Stellar Tomography

This one is better than the percent one.

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