[RWL] Grafiken und GameFonts

[raystuttgart]

Hi KJ,

could I ask you again for a favour considering Gamefonts ?

I have attached the following:

A. Your last version of my Gamefonts.
B. One of my tries to add Barley and Beer.
(I have got a real strange shift in there, the Yield-Icons do not start with Food any longer but with wood.)
C. A button with Seals

So could you please do the following ?:

A) Insertion of Beer and Barley into your latest version of my Gamefonts.
(Maybe you can take the icons from my try ?
They are left of grapes and left of wine.)

B) Some small adjustments to Building-Icons-Row.

1. Delete Rope and Coloured Cloth (since they do not have their own building)
2. The icon you have created for Trainstation is very hard to understand.
Would it be possible to have something simple like an iron train wheel ?
3. Add Icon for Beer at the end.

C) Bonus-Icon for Seals

Instead of culture (right of Wale).
Maybe you can use the graphic from the Button I have attached.

Thanks a lot in advance !

[melcher kürzer]

Hi melcher kürzer!

Could you, please, explain me how to fix this error on the screen?
...

Hi KJ_Jansson!
You need to determine in the nif file that the mesh uses transparency.
To do that:
-open the files with nifskope
-click on the model to select the NiTriShape
-right click on the NiTriShape, choose "Node" and than "Attach Property"
-Select "NiAlphaProperty"




You may need to adjust the transparency settings after that.
Therefor:
-extend the NiTriShape branch and select the NiAlphaProperty entry
-under the "Block Detalis" window you have two options to adjust the transparency, "Flags" and "Threshold" which determine how the engine handles the transparency.



It's a bit complicated to explain. But normally you will need a value of "237" or "4845" under flags. With "Threshold" you can adjust the borders, basically a higher number means lesser visible.
Just play a bit with these settings and you will see how they work.

Attached a fixed version.

[KJ_Jansson]

Hi melcher kürzer!

Absolutely GREAT MANUAL!!!!

Thank you very-very much!

I followed your instructions and now I have exactly what I just dream to have. All marked places now are TRANSPARENT as they should be. Great!!!

[KJ_Jansson]

Hi KJ,

could I ask you again for a favour considering Gamefonts ?

I have attached the following:

A. Your last version of my Gamefonts.
B. One of my tries to add Barley and Beer.
(I have got a real strange shift in there, the Yield-Icons do not start with Food any longer but with wood.)
C. A button with Seals

So could you please do the following ?:

A) Insertion of Beer and Barley into your latest version of my Gamefonts.
(Maybe you can take the icons from my try ?
They are left of grapes and left of wine.)

B) Some small adjustments to Building-Icons-Row.

1. Delete Rope and Coloured Cloth (since they do not have their own building)
2. The icon you have created for Trainstation is very hard to understand.
Would it be possible to have something simple like an iron train wheel ?
3. Add Icon for Beer at the end.

C) Bonus-Icon for Seals

Instead of culture (right of Wale).
Maybe you can use the graphic from the Button I have attached.

Thanks a lot in advance !

Ok, I will do these changes.

Only couple questions.

1. Delete Rope and Coloured Cloth (since they do not have their own building)

Are you plan to have own building for Rope? If "yes", I could find the variant. If "no" I will remove Rope from theSpecialBuilding section.

You wrote

2. The icon you have created for Trainstation is very hard to understand.
Would it be possible to have something simple like an iron train wheel ?

However I made the icon from this photo:



I tested other variants but the quality (= how easy to recognize) was worst. To prevent serious distortions the photo should be as small as possible because the final size of icons in GameFonts 21x20 and 16x16. The black color iron train wheel is really to difficult recognize.

[raystuttgart]

Are you plan to have own building for Rope? If "yes", I could find the variant. If "no" I will remove Rope from theSpecialBuilding section.

No, I already use "Harbor"-Buildings for Rope-Production.
(So Rope already has its Special-Building and this already has an icon.)

However I made the icon from this photo:

Sorry, I cannot recognize anything on that picture and the icon itself in the Gamefonts is not recognizable either.

I would prefer to have a very simpe iron wheel.
Similar to the wheel on this picture but maybe steel grey.

Edit:
I now dowloaded your picture and zoomed in.
I then reallized that these are really iron wheels.
(The coloration, especially the orange is very misleading.)
There is way to much detail and colour in the wheel and later in the icon.
I am really thinking of a very simple and very easy to recognize steel wheel. Only one color.

[raystuttgart]

Hi Leute,

ich bin mal wieder auf der Suche nach Grafiken für eine Bonus-Ressource:

Kautschukbaum

Bild 1

Bild 2

Wilder Kautschukbaum

Kautschuk-"ernte"

Eventuell könnte man ja auch eine dieser beiden Bonus-Ressourcen etwas umgestalten oder die beiden kombinieren ?
(Beide aus 1492:Global Colonization. Links "Incense", Rechts "Kaffee".)

Was passen könnte:

1. Die geraden "Stämme" von Kaffee, aber einfach deutlich größer und weniger bezüglich der Anzahl. (Die werden nämlich uralt und riesig groß.)
2. Das dunkle Blattwerk von Incense mit dem hellen Blattwerk von Kaffee mischen. Das Blattwerk aber nur relativ weit oben in der Krone.

[KJ_Jansson]

Hi Leute,

ich bin mal wieder auf der Suche nach Grafiken für eine Bonus-Ressource:

Kautschukbaum

Bild 1

Bild 2

Wilder Kautschukbaum

Kautschuk-"ernte"

Eventuell könnte man ja auch eine dieser beiden Bonus-Ressourcen etwas umgestalten oder die beiden kombinieren ?
(Beide aus 1492:Global Colonization. Links "Incense", Rechts "Kaffee".)

Was passen könnte:

1. Die geraden "Stämme" von Kaffee, aber einfach deutlich größer und weniger bezüglich der Anzahl. (Die werden nämlich uralt und riesig groß.)
2. Das dunkle Blattwerk von Incense mit dem hellen Blattwerk von Kaffee mischen. Das Blattwerk aber nur relativ weit oben in der Krone.

How about this variant?

[raystuttgart]

How about this variant?

Yes I think that would work !
(It does not totally look like a Kautschuk-Tree, since those are not palm trees, but I guess most of the players will not notice and I am not very picky. )

And I really like that it is quite easy to distinguish from other trees and the other bonus-ressources.

Did you create those graphics yourself ?

[KJ_Jansson]

So could you please do the following ?:

A) Insertion of Beer and Barley into your latest version of my Gamefonts.
(Maybe you can take the icons from my try ?
They are left of grapes and left of wine.)

B) Some small adjustments to Building-Icons-Row.

1. Delete Rope and Coloured Cloth (since they do not have their own building)
2. The icon you have created for Trainstation is very hard to understand.
Would it be possible to have something simple like an iron train wheel ?
3. Add Icon for Beer at the end.

C) Bonus-Icon for Seals

Instead of culture (right of Wale).
Maybe you can use the graphic from the Button I have attached.

Hi Ray!

Here the Gamefonts for your mod.

[raystuttgart]

Hi Ray!

Here the Gamefonts for your mod.

Thanks KJ.

I will check on the weekend.

[KJ_Jansson]

I have 5 new professions:

Seal-Hunter (Plot)
Walruss-Hunter (Plot)
Salt-Miner (Plot)
Barley-Farmer (Plot, Barley is very similar to wheat)
Beer-Brewer (Building)

And maybe I will have 2 more later on:

Cannon-Smith (Builing, Similar to Weapon-Smith)
Kautshuk-Collector (Plot, rubber)

Would you be willing to create Profession-Icons for those, too ?

Hi Ray!

Here the set of icons. I also added a new version of Weaver icon.

[raystuttgart]

Here the set of icons. I also added a new version of Weaver icon.

They are fantastic.

[KJ_Jansson]

Links die neue, erste Ausbaustufe, rechts nur nochmal zum Vergleich das Original.
Datei hängt an.

Thank you very much, melcher kürzer, for your help.

Could you tell which program you used to edit the original nif file: only NifScope and/or Blender or any more serious graphical programs?

to Ray:

Here full set of icons for city screen and Build-Actions for both Tannery buildings.

Buildings_Tannery_level1


Buildings_Tannery_level2

[KJ_Jansson]

Hi KJ,

This Building I would like to use as improvement giving Bonus on Furs.

Currently lodge gives Bonus on Furs and Wood.
I will break that up.

Lodge -> Wood
Trapper's House -> Furs



Could you attach the complete set of graphics in this thread ?
(Including Button for Worldbuilder and Build-Action of Pioneer)

Here full set of graphics for Trapper's House, including nif file, button for Worldbuilder and Build-Action of Pioneer.

Have a nice hunting!

[raystuttgart]

Hi KJ,

thanks.
I will try to integrate them at the weekend.