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Tech Icons

#1 Post by Obiwan »

This thread will be sink for icons for the different theories associated with each of the five catagories.
Because we need so many, keep in mind that the icon designs might not end up being used for the theory that inspired its creation.

edit(pd):
The Icons will be shown on the research screen and will be 128x128 in resolution. You should work with 2 or 3 colors at most(black bg, white logo and possibly a grey shade too). They will be colored by code with the category color.
Anyone is welcome to take part and create icons.

Please refer to this page about all technologies, their descritions and missing icons.

Simply reply to this thread, mention the theory and post your icon, thanks.
We would be very thankfull to receive sketches too, no need for finished icons.
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#2 Post by pd »

Growth

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Industrial Farming

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Planetary Ecology

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Orbital Farming

Production

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Planetary Geology

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Robotic Production

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Fusion Generation

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Asteroid Mining
note: i know it's pretty detailed and doesn't fit the style we are aiming for. but when reading 'Asteroid Mining' a had instantly this image in mind, so i had to create it. maybe we could use it later for an application, until then it's a placeholder for this theorie.

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Deep Core Mining

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Interstellar Co-Production
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Force - Field Assembly

Economics

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Market Economics

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Planned Economics

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Galactic Monetary Policy

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Economic Fluidity

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Economic Prescience

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Interstellar Trade

Construction
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Orbital Construction
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#3 Post by Obiwan »

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medical-pathology.
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Genetic-Engineering
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Environmental-Encapsulation.
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Symbiosis Biology.
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Genetic-Medicine.
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Lifecycle-Manipulation.jpg
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Xenological-Genetice.
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Nanotech-Medicine.
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Industrial-Cloning.
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Xeno-Hybridization.
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Nanotech-Cybernetics.
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Pure---Energy-Metabolism.
LEARNING
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The-Physical-Brain.
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Agorithmic-Elegance.jpg
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Galactic-Exploration.
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Translingustic-Thought.jpg
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Psionics.jpg
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Artificial-Minds.jpg
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Xenoarchaeology
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Gravitonics
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The-Theory-of-Everything.
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Force-Field Harmonics.
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Mind of the Void.
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Temporal Mechanics
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N - Dimensional Subspace
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Matter - Energy Conversion
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Unified Conscious
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Singularity of Transcendence

PRODUCTION
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Microgravity-Manufacturing.png
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Orbital-Generation.png
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Orbital-Mining.png
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Sentient-Autofactories.png
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Singularity-Generation.png
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#4 Post by utilae »

Those icons look sweet as.

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#5 Post by noelte »

Yes, those icons look nice, but Obiwan did you look at them at a size used by fo. IMO, some of them are to detailed.
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#6 Post by Obiwan »

Pd keeps trying to tell me, Arnt these displayed at 128x128?

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#7 Post by noelte »

I'm using a monitor setting of 1280x1024. Based on that i would say, if fo use those icon in game at 1/4 size as they are now displayed they would be quit large. I would expect that those icon will be displayed around 32x32. At some placed maybe 64x64.
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#8 Post by Obiwan »

Ooh, that does put a new light on things.

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#9 Post by pd »

no, they will be displayed at 128x128, different from the category icons, the theory icons won't be scaled down. they are supposed to be displayed that 'large'. have a look at this:
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obi, the reason why i did bother you, was just for style reasons :)

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#10 Post by noelte »

@pd, if every f.i. growth tech would be displayed with that big icon (more a picture), it would be a wast of space. I can see an 32x32 icon on a list of already discovered techs

growth icon - stardate 1234 - Orbital Farming
science icon - stardate 1235 - ...
and so on.

BTW, i would place that icon on the left side of "Orbital Farming" (same level) and at size 32x32. This would give you the chance to let the text go beneath the Add .. and Center ... buttons.

EDIT :oops:
I see, those icon aren't supposed to be category icons. My mistake. But than, why are they icon-ish??? Shouldn't they be nicer, means more colorful ... (like the planet-icons) ???
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#11 Post by pd »

it's not a waste of space, because in the same area there will be displayed a picture for applications and refinements. having a picture/icon for techs was planed since the beginning and isn't debatable. also i want to have a stylistic difference between theories and applications -> icon-, symbolic-like pics for theories and rendered or painted pictures(atleast more colorfull and detailed) for apps.
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#12 Post by noelte »

pd wrote: ... having a picture/icon for techs was planed since the beginning and isn't debatable. ...
hehe, i already told that i was mistaken by my assumption that those icons are category icons . If they are tech icons that's fine (also the size). Yet, i don't see the need for iconish tech pictures, but i guess you will show me ;-).

OK, no need to discuss any further, there are many tech icons missing ;-P
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#13 Post by pd »

Yet, i don't see the need for iconish tech pictures, but i guess you will show me.
theories aren't manifest and as i understand usually only unlock other things, so they don't correspond to 'real' objects like buildings, ship components, etc. which are applications.

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#14 Post by Geoff the Medio »

pd wrote:
Yet, i don't see the need for iconish tech pictures, but i guess you will show me.
theories aren't manifest and as i understand usually only unlock other things, so they don't correspond to 'real' objects like buildings, ship components, etc. which are applications.
I like the basic idea, but you should keep in mind that there might / will eventually be application techs for non-tangible stuff, like governments or espionage attacks or automatic instant benefits that don't require a building to get. This probly doesn't apply to v0.3 though.

And so I'm clear on what's happening, is the plan to have more detailed / colourful images for applications, like Mystiqq's image as seen here: viewtopic.php?p=18257#18257

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#15 Post by pd »

exactly.

btw, do you know already when you can finish the descriptions? they are really well written and helpfull.

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