Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
Yeah, he's a bit glowy, and maybe a little spiky, too, I can't help but think of this... Toning everything down by 10 to 15% luminosity would probably sort you out, i think. The face certainly looks meaner, though. With a few tweaks, this will look great.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
I'm not sure if the luminosity is too much (surely it wouldn't hurt to drop it a bit), but at least it could use a lot less saturation. Maybe even this much. Oh, and otherwise it looks great.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
Nice! Certainly a worthily update!
Apart from the colour issue there are two things that I prefer in the old version: The shape of the ears, they have become too pointy and triangular for wolf ears (which are rather round) and the darker back, which was a very wolf-like detail that made it recognizable as a wolf easily.
Apart from the colour issue there are two things that I prefer in the old version: The shape of the ears, they have become too pointy and triangular for wolf ears (which are rather round) and the darker back, which was a very wolf-like detail that made it recognizable as a wolf easily.
Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
Right. With those suggestions implemented, I'm satisfied with this latest version, attached below.
As far as kitty and other wolf portraits are concerned, there's a strong possibility the "goblin knight" is going to become rather more gray than it is now; but the direwolf and pillager won't really change at all.
As far as kitty and other wolf portraits are concerned, there's a strong possibility the "goblin knight" is going to become rather more gray than it is now; but the direwolf and pillager won't really change at all.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
It's still a bit too yellow IMO. Did a little recolour.
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Mermaid recolors. This should be final, unless some key person hates one of them.
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Nice! So much bling - and the new staff top works much better than the old one, too!
Only nitpick is that the leap in colour between priestess and diviner is a bit big, I'd make the diviner a tad bluer. But I can most certainly live with all of these - they look splendid!
Only nitpick is that the leap in colour between priestess and diviner is a bit big, I'd make the diviner a tad bluer. But I can most certainly live with all of these - they look splendid!
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
I was going to say the same thing, kitty - making the diviner bluer would be good.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
I believe I will make it bluer - I'll probably take a swing at finishing the merfolk recolors tomorrow, and also finish up the drake glider firebreath.
In the meantime, I've finally finished up and committed the orc archer, sans the idle animation (which I intend to do in short order, it's just getting late here). I'm very glad to finally have that unit replaced; here's a bit tip of the hat to Eternal for making it possible with his help on the base design.
In the meantime, I've finally finished up and committed the orc archer, sans the idle animation (which I intend to do in short order, it's just getting late here). I'm very glad to finally have that unit replaced; here's a bit tip of the hat to Eternal for making it possible with his help on the base design.
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Glad to be of use.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
Looks nice! My only comment would be that the mermaid on the bottom left has a less impressive looking staff (at first glance), than the one above it.
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this goes for they're/their/there as well
this goes for they're/their/there as well
Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
Nearly the last of the mermen edits; hopefully this has arrived before kitty's started on any portraits for the line. I still have a very minor update in mind for the hoplite; which is to move his shield forward, and change his pauldrons a little, but that shouldn't invalidate anything done in her portrait.
Based on a chat with some of the MP devs, I went ahead and did a major change on the netcaster and entangler lines, in order to get some variation in the race. We've had a big problem thus far because every last merman, period, uses a spear. That's rather bland.
We've changed the netcasters to use a whalebone club as their melee weapon. It's much thinner than it is wide; it's shaped something like a cricket-bat. Maori used such a weapon, historically, and this is what theirs looked like (the ones the mermen use have some carving on the club-body where the maori ones are smooth):
http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky ... ndard/1/en
Based on a chat with some of the MP devs, I went ahead and did a major change on the netcaster and entangler lines, in order to get some variation in the race. We've had a big problem thus far because every last merman, period, uses a spear. That's rather bland.
We've changed the netcasters to use a whalebone club as their melee weapon. It's much thinner than it is wide; it's shaped something like a cricket-bat. Maori used such a weapon, historically, and this is what theirs looked like (the ones the mermen use have some carving on the club-body where the maori ones are smooth):
http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky ... ndard/1/en
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
Hell, here's the slight edit to the hoplite, too.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
This is very good. And they're looking nice as well.We've changed the netcasters to use a whalebone club as their melee weapon.
Those bandanas seem to cover almost all of their face. I cant see the eyes, or even darkened sockets. Makes them look rather blind to me.
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Re: Help needed defining team rgb values for unit graphics
This face is one of my personal favorites, honestly; it's one of the best I've ever done, and we're not changing it.Eternal wrote:This is very good. And they're looking nice as well.We've changed the netcasters to use a whalebone club as their melee weapon.
Those bandanas seem to cover almost all of their face. I cant see the eyes, or even darkened sockets. Makes them look rather blind to me.
A possible misread is that that blue thing down at the bottom is a neck - it's a chin. He doesn't have beard on his chin, he has a big handlebar moustache. His face is supposed to look gaunt, like some celtic/gallic raider. C.f. this image:
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