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    Call for an Icon artist

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    • speed2S Offline
      speed2
      last edited by speed2

      I need someone with decent painting skills (and photoshop/gimp) to finish the UI scaling for the game. While I did everything code related, there are strategic icons that are not affected by the code and have to be redone manually.

      BlackYps created a script to generate all the icons, once you have the basic shapes https://github.com/BlackYps/FAF-Icon-Generator
      As it is right now, the script generates +- 125% scaled icons.
      Now I need someone to make 150%, 175% and 200% to follow the options in the game.

      What is takes is to play with the pixels and draw the basic shapes. You can find them in symbols.xcf, shapes.xcf and techmarkers.xcf files.
      Once those shapes are done, the script uses them to generate the icons.

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        BRNKoINSANITY
        last edited by

        So.... You need someone to blow up the existing icons in 25% increments and then do pixel correction to get rid of the blur? I can do that. I may be misunderstanding what you want though.

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        • speed2S Offline
          speed2
          last edited by

          Thats exactly whats needed. Its playing with pixels. Get the basic shapes and symbols done and script them generates all 100000 icons

          Neroxis already started wizt 200% scale

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          • B Offline
            BRNKoINSANITY
            last edited by

            Yeah, if you do it at 200%, it is much easier to downsize with little to no correction. Can we get a list of icons that are already being worked on so peeps can claim some to punch out?

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            • NeroxisN Offline
              Neroxis
              last edited by Neroxis

              I scaled everything in the git repo to 200%, manually adjusted the pixels, and checked that it still aligns properly. This however requires a small change to the gimp plug-in. (doubling the offsets)
              https://mega.nz/file/cUVUiZRL#2k_NvVPpz4kH77IGlnF8__dXb9YME_UgUWwg41uW4SM

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              • BananaSmoothieB Offline
                BananaSmoothie
                last edited by BananaSmoothie

                Only just came across this, probably a bit late to the party. Might be useful to convert them into vector using programme like illustrator? You don't get pixel issue then, can just re-size them however big/small in the future.

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                • speed2S Offline
                  speed2
                  last edited by

                  You get the issue with pixels, cause the original icons are +- 16x16 pixels. So you have to play with pixels to get the look right.

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                  • tatsuT Offline
                    tatsu
                    last edited by

                    is this on the right tracks? If not hit me up. I am decent at this pixel stuff but I only have a 1080p screen.

                    How to setup FAF on linux

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                    • W Offline
                      Wainan
                      last edited by

                      Why not just use this mod? The icons are easier to read too

                      https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Advanced_Strategic_Icons

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                      • K Offline
                        keyser @Wainan
                        last edited by

                        @Wainan i wouldn't say easier to read, they have too much detail. There might be some better icon, like the nuke one, that help spot nukes easily, but it would break with the consistency of icons

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                        • tatsuT Offline
                          tatsu @Wainan
                          last edited by

                          @Wainan said in Call for an Icon artist:

                          Why not just use this mod? The icons are easier to read too

                          https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Advanced_Strategic_Icons

                          I hhhate that mod.

                          How to setup FAF on linux

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                          • S Offline
                            sweetpancake4
                            last edited by

                            I have a lot of experience with photoshop, design, and limited experience with game design. If you haven't found a solution yet, I would be interested in seeing if I could help.

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                            • U Offline
                              UHU
                              last edited by

                              I can recreate icons in Illustrator.
                              So you can enlarge icons any % in Photoshop.

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                                THEALPHA
                                last edited by

                                When will we get 4k in-game textures for units and trees and such? https://www.moddb.com/mods/better-graphics

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                                • tatsuT Offline
                                  tatsu @THEALPHA
                                  last edited by

                                  @THEALPHA the mod you linked looks identical to what we have. perhaps this mod is already integrated into FAF?

                                  you wouldn't want 4K textures for units and trees though. FA would probably not run well.

                                  How to setup FAF on linux

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                                  • tatsuT Offline
                                    tatsu @UHU
                                    last edited by

                                    @UHU said in Call for an Icon artist:

                                    I can recreate icons in Illustrator.
                                    So you can enlarge icons any % in Photoshop.

                                    you mean SVG? that's exactly what we want.

                                    How to setup FAF on linux

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                                      UHU
                                      last edited by

                                      Yes, I can create SVG, AI or EPS

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                                        UHU
                                        last edited by

                                        https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p1gdp4hngw_QJF6yhzc8mZJBiz6xehTF?usp=sharing

                                        i used icons 200% as a template

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                                        • nine2N Offline
                                          nine2
                                          last edited by

                                          How is this going?

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                                          • Eternal-E Offline
                                            Eternal- @nine2
                                            last edited by Eternal-

                                            @nine2 150% 175% sizes is useless if you look closely at them. Someone need to spend some hours on redraw the icons 😃

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