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Tourism as a plot yield - artwork needed
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whoward69
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If you fix that, the icons all need dropping down by 26 pixels as well - make the sheet 26 pixels taller (adding the space at the top) and then make the sheet 26 pixels shorter (removing from the bottom)
Wodhann
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Alright.
By the way, making the tourism yields and figuring out what to use for the big icon was kind of fun. Would you guys be on board on me introducing proper culture and faith yields to the game? To replace the lazy "just use what we have" solution Firaxis did. It would be a good addition to the base patch I think.
By the way, making the tourism yields and figuring out what to use for the big icon was kind of fun. Would you guys be on board on me introducing proper culture and faith yields to the game? To replace the lazy "just use what we have" solution Firaxis did. It would be a good addition to the base patch I think.
whoward69
DLL Minion
I've had to re-write the yield icon manager, and in the process I've removed the hard coded references to the icon sheets - these are now held in the database. This makes it really easy to swap the icon sheets - just load the new ones into the VFS and update the database table. So if you make new ones and people want them, they can easily use them, and if they don't, they don't - simples!
So I'd say "go for it" - I personally hate the culture and faith ones.
[[You can either make the sheets separate for each icon, or produce a combined one (like food/gold/prod/science) as the second new value in the database is the X-offset to get to the correct column of icons.
Edit: Possibly makes more sense with the actual data
Food - YieldAtlas.dds at 0 x-offset
Prod - YieldAtlas.dds at 128 x-offset
Gold - YieldAtlas.dds at 256 x-offset
Science - YieldAtlas.dds at 384 x-offset
Culture - YieldAtlas_128_Culture.dds at 0 x-offset
Faith - YieldAtlas_128_Faith.dds at 0 x-offset
Tourism - YieldAtlas_128_Tourism.dds at 0 x-offset
]]
So I'd say "go for it" - I personally hate the culture and faith ones.
[[You can either make the sheets separate for each icon, or produce a combined one (like food/gold/prod/science) as the second new value in the database is the X-offset to get to the correct column of icons.
Edit: Possibly makes more sense with the actual data
Food - YieldAtlas.dds at 0 x-offset
Prod - YieldAtlas.dds at 128 x-offset
Gold - YieldAtlas.dds at 256 x-offset
Science - YieldAtlas.dds at 384 x-offset
Culture - YieldAtlas_128_Culture.dds at 0 x-offset
Faith - YieldAtlas_128_Faith.dds at 0 x-offset
Tourism - YieldAtlas_128_Tourism.dds at 0 x-offset
]]
Nutty
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...Because you have to create the alpha channel.
Note quite as easy as that, but the ellipse tool comes to the rescue!
EDIT: Uploaded a new one; trying to save more of the glow around the second icon.
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Lord Tirian
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If you're using Photoshop, you can just extract the transparency as selection (Select->Load Selection), which you can then use to make the alpha channel (make a new channel, set it black, fill the selection with white, that will give you the PNG transparency as alpha channel).
Since I looked up the menus for that, I quickly made DDS' out of the tourguide PNG, compressed and uncompressed (I recommend using the uncompressed version, the compression mangles small rounded shapes quite a bit - I wonder whether that's one of the reasons Firaxis uses the mangled DDS files - to preserve quality).
Wodhann
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Dude, I know. Not a photoshop noob here.
I created the alpha channel and everything, and for some reason when I saved the DDS and opened it, the alpha channel was empty. It was simply not saving it. I was saving DXT3.
Also yeah, what Tirian said - you can literally create an alpha channel out of transparency. If you drag the layer to create a new mask, it will automatically create a black and white mask based on the transparency which you can copy and paste into the alpha channel (though I think you have to invert it).
Lord Tirian
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I noticed when you have transparency AND alpha, it sometimes unchecks the "alpha channels" check box in the "Save As..." dialogue box, that might be it (it just happened to me when I did the export).
Wodhann
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It had no transparency when I was saving it as DDS. I created it afterwards for the png.
Nutty
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The shadows below the icons made that technique ugly (though I probably should have recreated those).
DXT3 is good for units, but for UI stuff with round edges, you really need to use DXT5.
Lord Tirian
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Even DXT5 is often problematic, that's why I provided the 8.8.8.8 encoded files (which basically are just uncompressed). Makes them a lot bigger, though (~ 4x the file size).
I wish we had a way to encode the UI textures the same way Firaxis does (run length encoding, that's why they are "scrambled" without Sterkhov's tool).
Wodhann
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The shadows are intentional... It's supposed to be that way.
ExpiredReign
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I love the way little gems like this are just handed out as though its no big deal.
Just when do you find the time to do all this? By 'this' I am referring to all your great ideas. It just so happened that this particular idea prompted me to write.
Not that my plaudits are worth much but, thanks!!
whoward69
DLL Minion
I love the way little gems like this are just handed out as though its no big deal.
Just when do you find the time to do all this?
Usually on my train commute to work (lots of thinking/coding time), but I've also been coding for many more years than I care to remember, so re-writing code into a data-driven format is second nature.
Lord Tirian
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Another version of the golden age yields, this one shouldn't look as much like the GP icon...
Attachment contains the compressed and uncompressed DDS (plus the PNG in case somebody wants to do edit it).
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Attachment contains the compressed and uncompressed DDS (plus the PNG in case somebody wants to do edit it).
Gilgamesch
Ancient Alien
Great work from all of you
I hope you dont mind, if we us the Guide dds. in CCTP.
For sure we will give you all the credit for your work
I hope you dont mind, if we us the Guide dds. in CCTP.
For sure we will give you all the credit for your work
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