Icons Requests
- Geoff the Medio
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Icons Requests
I've recently replaced text buttons at the top-right of the galaxy map with icons. The textures for these icons are presently poor or poorly hacked by me into neutral, mouseover, and pressed versions:
It would be good for an artistically capable person to remake these and any other button icons to be better looking:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freeorion/cod ... s/buttons/
Edit: changed SVN url to new sourceforge repository location...
Moderator, Objects, Sitrep, Research, Production, Design, Pedia, MenuIt would be good for an artistically capable person to remake these and any other button icons to be better looking:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freeorion/cod ... s/buttons/
Edit: changed SVN url to new sourceforge repository location...
Re: Icons Requests
Could I ask for clarification of the impression meant to be given by (at least these versions of) the ModeratorAction, Object, and Design buttons?
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My guess the moderator action is supposed to look like a crown, since the moderator has absolute power. The design symbol has the symbol for the "Ships" category in the background; I'm not sure why that's the symbol, but it's been like that for as long as I've been here. I have no clue what the objects list button is supposed to be, but it's always been like that. That icon is used in the objects list itself.Dilvish wrote:Could I ask for clarification of the impression meant to be given by (at least these versions of) the ModeratorAction, Object, and Design buttons?
Now I want to know where those symbols came from...
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Re: Icons Requests
I would suggest for the design icon, we go with a ship image that is half a ship and half a blue wire frame of the ship (indicating a design diagram of the ship). You see car advertisements use this approach, to various degrees.
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- Geoff the Medio
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Re: Icons Requests
ModeratorAction is taken from the icon used to indicate moderators on the players list. It appears to be a crown.Dilvish wrote:...ModeratorAction, Object, and Design...
Object is a random shape I made for objects in the objects list for which there was no other icon available (such as planets before I made a bunch of icons for each planet type from their textures). It doesn't represent anything.
Design is the ships tech category icon with a wrench superimposed over it that's hard to see because the shapes blur together. The wrench represents building / designing stuff, and the ships icon was used because you're designing ships.
The ships icon itself is a rocket shape with two vaguely military-esque wing shapes surrounding it, likely evoking the birds often seen on US or UK (and other?) air force logos. It is also similar in shape to the economic sinkhole tech logo, which I randomly picked at one point to use as a ships category logo and someone decided had a reasonable decent shape on which to base the actual current ships category logo.
Re: Icons Requests
Ok, not great but what about something like a blueprint for ship design?
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That's what I was thinking also. The ship outline could maybe look a little more like one of our ships, or a plane, but the color scheme and basic idea I like a lot.AndrewW wrote:Ok, not great but what about something like a blueprint for ship design?
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Re: Icons Requests
Possibly, but a more distinct silhouette than the example given is probably necessary.AndrewW wrote:...what about something like a blueprint for ship design?
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Just meant as a concept, not a final icon. But seeing as how I seem to have gotten elected...
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I like the design, but I'd drop the lettering; no reason to label a specific hull, and I doubt it would be legible anyways.
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Well, usually text at the bottom of a blueprint. Designer, scale, design and such. Didn't try and do all of that since it wouldn't be readable that's why I just stuck the one bit of text in.Dilvish wrote:I like the design, but I'd drop the lettering; no reason to label a specific hull, and I doubt it would be legible anyways.
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Easy enough to remove though. Note starts out life as a vector image so can scale to whatever size is needed.
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And is the straightedge an extra layer that's easy to leave out? In the original somewhat smaller version that had it I hadn't even recognized what it was, & just focused on the version without. When shrunk down to smaller size for the button, I suspect it would look like a coffee stain smudge on the blueprint
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These are all on the same layer, but vector images the T-Square is a separate object. Along with the triangle (not even visible in the smaller size) and the compass (at least not recognizable at the smaller size).Dilvish wrote:And is the straightedge an extra layer that's easy to leave out? In the original somewhat smaller version that had it I hadn't even recognized what it was, & just focused on the version without. When shrunk down to smaller size for the button, I suspect it would look like a coffee stain smudge on the blueprint
I can do layers as well, but in this case don't see any need to.
Easy enough to adjust whatever, remove objects for example.
Re: Icons Requests
My feedback would be to do something like the top left of this image, where the ship is half-design, half real.
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