The Forgotten: The Other Civilizations (BNW)
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Lord Xavius
Mostly Lurking
Won't a Welsh Longbowman show up in the game as "Welsh Welsh Longbowman"? Is there a Welsh word for it that might fit better (Google Translate suggests Dyn Bwa Hir, but Google Translate isn't known for its flawless command of grammar)? Or, of course, you could give England a Redcoat or something.
TPangolin
Just the worst person
The starburst generally should go behind the thing in question, not over the top of it!
COF
Emperor
It's not really a good starburst to begin with.
Seriously, I want the one you used for the Uyghur UU.
I'll have to edit the Archer and the Caer later and put them up.
TPangolin
Just the worst person
Let me know if you need help with icons and such. I'm finding it hard finding a good image for the Sho Hashi leaderscreen.
Try putting the starburst behind the thing in question, and for the thing itself, I'd use the Oil Paint feature on it, reduce the shine and stylization, then duplicate it and apply the cutout filter. Then use the Overlay setting on the Cutout layer and it should look quite good. Thats what i use for the majority of my icons.
Try putting the starburst behind the thing in question, and for the thing itself, I'd use the Oil Paint feature on it, reduce the shine and stylization, then duplicate it and apply the cutout filter. Then use the Overlay setting on the Cutout layer and it should look quite good. Thats what i use for the majority of my icons.
COF
Emperor
For some reason the Oil Paining feature isn't working on my PC,so I just use Smart Blur.
I'm really sorry but I don't know how to reduce the shine,stylization nor how to apply a cutout filter.If possible could you tell me where those options are located in Photoshop?
But don't get me wrong, I find this extremely helpful, I thank you.
Here's my result.
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EDIT:Here's Caer
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Lord Xavius
Mostly Lurking
Here's a Sho Shin leaderscreen I cobbled together in GIMP a few weeks ago. It's probably not very good and not the leader you want, but maybe it can be of some inspiration.
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TPangolin
Just the worst person
I'd use a sunburst with less lines as well (i.e zoom in on it a little). If the Oil Paint function isn't working, I'd settle for surface blur (Under Blur). Duplicate that layer, and navigate to the Filter Gallery. Under the Artistic tab you'll find Cutout. Set the number of Levels to 8, Edge Simplicity to 5 and Edge Fidelty to 1. Once this is done, close the screen and apply the changes. Next you'll want to get the layer that looks like all those shapes and change the mode from "Normal" to "Overlay". Adjust the opacity if you want to.
For the backgrounds, I'd set a color overlay (in this case probably green, because Wales) on the circle and place your desired background (with your blur effects) on top of it. Then I'd set the background to "soft light" and then duplicate it.
This is how I create the majority of my icons
Sho Hashi looks super interesting there. Nice use all the elements. I'd set the sky to be less red though and add a blur throughout. I can touch it up for you if you have the .Psd.
For the backgrounds, I'd set a color overlay (in this case probably green, because Wales) on the circle and place your desired background (with your blur effects) on top of it. Then I'd set the background to "soft light" and then duplicate it.
This is how I create the majority of my icons
Sho Hashi looks super interesting there. Nice use all the elements. I'd set the sky to be less red though and add a blur throughout. I can touch it up for you if you have the .Psd.
Homusubi
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Here's a Sho Shin leaderscreen I cobbled together in GIMP a few weeks ago. It's probably not very good and not the leader you want, but maybe it can be of some inspiration.
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The background is brilliant. The leader himself, on the other hand, looks too... Civ4-ish... and has the wrong resolution for the background.
COF
Emperor
Couldn't figure this part out, but here's my best result, turned out fairly well compared to my previous stuff.
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Caer
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Crannog
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Lord Xavius
Mostly Lurking
Sho Shin himself definitely looks very video game-y compared to the background, yeah. Photoshop gets all the useful filters.
^And really nice icons, of course.
^And really nice icons, of course.
Hiram
XML Plebian
Nice work everyone! I'm going to look around for some images for Brian Boru and Llywelyn's leader art.
Edit: Found a decent picture of Brian Boru which will work great with the right background:
For Llywelyn there's mostly just images of a statue of him. We could however use some photoshop trickery to make him look a bit more human, I suppose. Here's the best pic I could find:
Edit: Found a decent picture of Brian Boru which will work great with the right background:
For Llywelyn there's mostly just images of a statue of him. We could however use some photoshop trickery to make him look a bit more human, I suppose. Here's the best pic I could find:
TPangolin
Just the worst person
Here we go:
Llewelyn Icon
Llewelyn Diplo
Llewelyn Icon
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Llewelyn Diplo
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Hiram
XML Plebian
Here we go:
Llewelyn Icon
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Llewelyn Diplo
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As I said earlier, fantastic!
@Homusubi: How does a unit using Nunti Bō sound for a Ryukyu UU?
Homusubi
Lafcadio Hearn Wannabe
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They seem fairly obscure as far as weapons go. However, it is certainly better than Pechin.
Hiram
XML Plebian
The Bō is quite common apparently, though the inclusion of a Nunti makes it work well as a pikeman replacement. I've already done 3 swordsman replacements, haha.
How's this for a Welsh UA?
Land of our fathers - Hill and mountain tiles generate +4 culture when worked.
Also, I'm thinking of giving the Caer a tourism bonus when built in coastal cities.
COF
Emperor
Hills would be extremely overpowered in that case, they should only carry +2 culture.
Mountains seem fine.
Hiram
XML Plebian
And now for a surprise:
Download links are on the OP. Also, special thanks to TPangolin for the new spiffy teaser pics. I'll have them up for all my civs soonish.
Big news for the Mitanni is that they have war/peace music! I will be adding music to the rest of my civs over the course of the week. TPangolin has already shown my some good material for the Aboriginal civ so I'm taking suggestions for all of the others.
Download links are on the OP. Also, special thanks to TPangolin for the new spiffy teaser pics. I'll have them up for all my civs soonish.
Big news for the Mitanni is that they have war/peace music! I will be adding music to the rest of my civs over the course of the week. TPangolin has already shown my some good material for the Aboriginal civ so I'm taking suggestions for all of the others.
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