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Post Monday, 25th August 2014, 22:12

how shit are these icons

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so how much shit can bloax pull out in an hour

as it turns out, it's a lot
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<Sequell> 20749. Bloax, XL24 VSTm, T:13320: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Bloax/morgue-Bloax-20140907-000920.txt

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Post Monday, 25th August 2014, 22:18

Re: how shit are these icons

What? Those look great to me. :D
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Post Monday, 25th August 2014, 23:10

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can't see shit out of ten

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Post Monday, 25th August 2014, 23:12

Re: how shit are these icons

its abstract, you uncultured little shit.
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Post Monday, 25th August 2014, 23:41

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they look like stuff you would see in some moba

(and I never even played a moba)

Sort of trying to be constructive edit: I think they look good in vacuum, but they don't really fit "Crawl style" - yeah, I know Crawl doesn't really have a style because of different contributors and all, but still, it just sticks out to me (like some of your new monster icons). I would be interested somewhat in looking at a full Crawl tileset made by you, but with current tileset I think it'd be nice to make tiles that at least pretend to look somewhat similar.

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 00:48

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since sar is being all constructive and shit and making me look like some sort of CAVEMAN

I initially assumed these were tiles for three different spells: tornado, some ice aoe stuff and some poison aoe stuff.
Note that this already is a bit bad; there are several spells both in ice and poison that are "some aoe stuff" and these images could represent any such spell. It is true there isn't as much freedom in crawl tiles as one could wish for when it comes to dealing with things that demand room to artistic concession, but it is also true one can still have a bit of usability when it comes to icon design -ideally without crippling the artistic side of the piece.

To illustrate the problem with not adhering to usability at least a bit I had to check the filenames. As it turns out the ice/poison tiles wouldn't be different stabs at the cloud spells but wildy different spells themselves. Well, looking at them I don't think they show that very well and that seems like important information for the tiles to convey.
For example, the old tiles for chillcloud and pcloud used similar and distinctive artwork to create a recognizable link between them, based on their actual effects. Of course one could also say they also didn't exploit their artistic potential very much (I would disagree in this particular example), or perhaps that while they did make for distinct and recognizable icons the rest of the set around them did not match in terms of adhering to a certain logic between spell effect and visual representation and thus didn't achieve so much.
That last thing I would be more inclined to agree with, although the spell icon reform does seem to seek keeping it a relative priority so that's pretty cool.

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 00:57

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 04:24

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The tiles are meant for:

Tornado, Freezing Cloud, Glaciate, Poison Cloud, And Mephetic Cloud.

In that order. If you tried saving the images, the default names will be of the spells they are meant for. You could probably have already guessed that, but I figured I might as well create some additional clarity.
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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 05:37

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For what it's worth, I like the cloud spell icons, particularly fcloud & meph; they're recognizably similar, but still quite distinct. Pcloud is cool, but the skull & crossbones is both unnecessary & unrecognizable, and it doesn't really match the style of the other cloud spells. All of them have the aforementioned problem of being much more detailed than the 'house style' (ontoclasm & roctavian's stuff): compare e.g.

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Of course, 'extremely high detail' is the 'bloax style'. Whether or not the 'bloax style' makes sense in crawl is an open question!

...Also, I'm not really sure why glaciate looks like a tidal wave. (I'm informed this is intentional?)

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 06:02

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imo the icon for glaciate should be a shotgun shooting ice even though shotguns haven't been invented yet because that's what makes me think of glaciate the most
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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 06:08

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You're free to edit the skull&crossbones out of the pcloud icon if it's that bad.

and yes i did want to do something shotgunny for glaciate but then nothing really fit except a big ice avalanche but then it turned into a cool cloud/avalanche which was pretty cool
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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 07:19

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there was a skull there?

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 09:47

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Sar wrote:there was a skull there?

-Is- a skull there -- it's in the top right, and yes, basically too pixelated to be reliably recognizable.
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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 09:51

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I just thought it would be cute to have it there.
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!lg * won !DD-- min=turns -log
<Sequell> 20749. Bloax, XL24 VSTm, T:13320: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Bloax/morgue-Bloax-20140907-000920.txt

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 10:00

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thought WRONG then
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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 10:08

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As a visual "artist" (I use the term loosely to be clear I make no $$$ off my work and have no particular work ethic with regard to creating stuff.) These icons look nice. I do think they lack a coherency but find a way to work with tiny icons so that they are both pretty and clear is not always so easily done. One thing regarding the "skull & crossbones" as has been said it is too pixelated but even were it larger it would probably dominate the icon. I'd say they are a good attempt and if you keep at it you will have something great. Maybe even enough to make a complete tileset. One thing I would suggest is work a little larger. Then you can reduce size as needed (though carefully).
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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 11:47

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you can't tell me what to do!!!
dck wrote:thought WRONG then

FUCK

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!lg * won !DD-- min=turns -log
<Sequell> 20749. Bloax, XL24 VSTm, T:13320: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Bloax/morgue-Bloax-20140907-000920.txt

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 12:55

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I can't evaluate these tiles until you tell me what gender each one is!

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Post Tuesday, 26th August 2014, 15:33

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this little guy is very mad wind and thus hasn't really thought about the whole "gender" thing
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this little gal is all puffy and shit
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this guy wants some of dat puff
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this little guy can't come to a consensus
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this guy just takes it easy and pokes fun at them all
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!lg * won !DD-- min=turns -log
<Sequell> 20749. Bloax, XL24 VSTm, T:13320: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Bloax/morgue-Bloax-20140907-000920.txt

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Post Wednesday, 27th August 2014, 01:35

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You've just Ms. Male'd freezing cloud. Why is there only one female character among a sea of male characters?

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Post Wednesday, 27th August 2014, 01:39

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tasonir wrote:You've just Ms. Male'd freezing cloud. Why is there only one female character among a sea of male characters?

It's a shoujo manga.

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tasonir wrote:You've just Ms. Male'd freezing cloud. Why is there only one female character among a sea of male characters?

EXTREMELY problematic imho
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Post Wednesday, 27th August 2014, 05:59

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tasonir wrote:You've just Ms. Male'd freezing cloud. Why is there only one female character among a sea of male characters?

there are two male characters, two gender?? characters and one woman who is only of interest to one of the male characters

clearly i hate women

it's not like they're just pictures of mostly insubstantial phenomenons, nah

(by the way, if we don't count the two genderwhat then i have the daikatana setup)
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Post Wednesday, 27th August 2014, 09:21

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stick to the large oval brown seeds of tropical palm trees BLOAX
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Post Friday, 29th August 2014, 05:19

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Bloax I would like you to make a full 64x64 tileset for crawl.
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Post Friday, 29th August 2014, 05:56

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i wish i could make a full 32x32 set but apathy is a bitch like that
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Post Friday, 29th August 2014, 14:25

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I think they're gorgeous, and I'm pretty sure they're distinct enough that I'd be able to memorize what each one was for fairly quickly.
As an aside, Bloax, were you at all inspired by the spell icons from TES:Daggerfall? Couple of them really remind me of that style!
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Post Friday, 29th August 2014, 14:50

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Does crawl support non-32x32 tiles non-buggily? Has anyone ever tested that?
It seems like the tile size is defined on lines 4699,4700 of enum.h, so with a little ImageMagick I might be able to test that later.
Some of the tiles don't match this setting (eg mon/unique/lernean_hydra* is 32x48)
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Kaeoschassis wrote:I think they're gorgeous, and I'm pretty sure they're distinct enough that I'd be able to memorize what each one was for fairly quickly.
As an aside, Bloax, were you at all inspired by the spell icons from TES:Daggerfall? Couple of them really remind me of that style!

thanks

I'm one of the few that still invoke the rites of the 90's everything-is-chrome trend, but no - I wasn't inspired by anything while making any of these (in fact I've never played Daggerfall).
And all of them were made within a single hour, so it's not like I really thought the design through, not that I usually do it in the first place.
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!lg * won !DD-- min=turns -log
<Sequell> 20749. Bloax, XL24 VSTm, T:13320: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Bloax/morgue-Bloax-20140907-000920.txt

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Post Friday, 29th August 2014, 17:12

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whats the history behind bloax's tiles? they are cool, but people say he is ruining things and stuff...
damn, everyone here been here forever, its hard to catch up. feels like high school in a new city. and Ive been around for two years or something like that.
are you guys going to stick around for some years? I miss some of the people we dont see around anymore. but things are quiet and peaceful here, Im not sure I should complain. how do you guys feel about each other here? its a cozy little community, I wish I could know yall better. I like the feeling that I know everybody that plays crawl. not everybody but a good amount. do you consider each other strangers? I like you people.
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Post Sunday, 31st August 2014, 05:28

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Hirsch I wrote:whats the history behind bloax's tiles? they are cool, but people say he is ruining things and stuff...
damn, everyone here been here forever, its hard to catch up. feels like high school in a new city. and Ive been around for two years or something like that.
are you guys going to stick around for some years? I miss some of the people we dont see around anymore. but things are quiet and peaceful here, Im not sure I should complain. how do you guys feel about each other here? its a cozy little community, I wish I could know yall better. I like the feeling that I know everybody that plays crawl. not everybody but a good amount. do you consider each other strangers? I like you people.

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Post Sunday, 31st August 2014, 14:16

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yes, yes, when I was young things where quite different I say. now those youngsters have no sense of respect.
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I forgot I posted that. I was a little high, ignore it and move on. I'll leave it here cuz its funny. I sound so damn old in that.
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