New Flags! Flagpack 4

[Osymandias]

servus!


Flagpack 4: 68 new Flags


overview:



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from the left to the right

Spoiler:

1. Terran Empire
2. Helix
3. Bloom/Helix
4. Sun and Rays
5. Skeleton Eagle
6. Rune "Tiwaz", equiv. "T"
7. Rune "Thurisaz", equiv. "th" (engl. articulation) and "ð"

8. Rune "Perthro", equiv. "P"
9. Rune "Othala", equiv. "O"
10. Rune "Naudhiz", equiv. "N"
11. Rune "Mannaz", equiv. "M"
12. Rune "Jera", equiv. "J"
13. Rune "Ingwaz", equiv. "ng"
14. Rune "Fehu", equiv. "F"

15. Rune "Eihwaz", equiv. "ei"
16. Rune "Dagaz", "Dagalaz", equiv. "D"
17. Flag of the Philipines
18. Rune "Algiz", equiv. "Z"
19. Flag of Hanover (State)
20. Flag of Okinawa
21. Nemesis-Eagle

22. Bird
23. Arms of Mandshuko
24. Flag of the CSA
25. Maltesercross
26. Flag of Macedonia 1
27. Flag of Macedonia 2
28. Tree of Life

29. Doubleheaded Falcon
30. Flag of Béarn
31. Kruckenkreuz
32. Hummingibrd
33. Arms of Cambodia
34. Irminsul
35. Wigwam

36. Hammer and Compasses
37. Crane
38. Flag of the Mongolian Empire of the Dshingis Khan
39. Communist Party of China
40. Flag of the empire of the Huns under Attlia
41. Wolfshead
42. Communist Party of Russia

43. Hammer and Pickax
44. Helix of Hammerheads
45. Persian Flag 15. Century -19. Century
46. Persian Flag apr.1845–apr.1885
47. Australian "Boxing-Kangaroo-Flag"
48. Cock
49. Flag of Florence

50. Plaited Star
51. Falconhead
52. Bird
53. Helix
54. Eagle seating
55. Bloom in Triangle
56. Double-/Battleaxe

60. Flag of the Avarian Empire
61. Eagle
62. Waterwave
63. Sparrow
64. Bird, aggressive

the zip contains:
-68 new flagdecals
-68 mono_XX.bmps for buttonmaking (like in the predecessor packs)
-the buttonbracket.png, buttonalpha.jpg and (new) a btn_example.dds for buttonmaking


--> Visit my [GUIDE] How i invert civ-coloured flags in 6 steps to invert the colours of the flags like you want
--> for buttonmaking visit my [GUIDE] How i make flag-buttons from 0d1n3oo3Broad's mono_XX.bmps


have fun!

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[hr_oskar]

As always, amazing work!

My only problem with it is that you make so many flags with the secondary civcolor as background (remember my problem earlier with the German Adler?), which I don't understand because it just seems wrong to me to have an empire's flag showing mostly a different color from the borders on the map.

I would just change the flags myself but I haven't found out how to do it in GIMP and last time I tried I got completely tired of working on flags and alpha channels. For some reason my technique produces files of size 65k while all other flags I've seen are 22k Wish someone could tell me what's the proper way to gimp a flag decal...

Anyway if you could include a primary-color-as-background version of the German Adler and Orthodox Cross in the next pack, I would be very grateful!

[Osymandias]

thanks

i think that in most cases the symbol looks better with the primary color. in my personell mod i've added some civs with the background as secondary and the symbol as primary color.
but also everyone has different tastes about that.

i don't know why gimp makes such problems, i don't use it. but i would recommend DXTBmp. it works perfectly and doesn't make any problems.
or perhaps you find anyone who can tell you how to work with flag-graphics in gimp.

in the new pack i started last week i've a lot of crosses in it, also the orthodox cross. perhaps i will do a double-version for every flag. a background-primary/symbol-secondary and background-secondary/symbol-primary color. so everyone can choose the version he wants.

[tlucky4life]

good work do you make these from scratch? If so do you take requests?

if so here are mine
1 good flag of a raven for the vikings
2 fire, with crossing tomohawk and peacepipe ,link www.potawatomi.org

[Willowmound]

The raven for the Vikings is perfect! The sagas tell us that Ragnar Lodbrok's banner was a raven. His sons used it too.

[Willowmound]

For some reason I can't get these to work. The flag turns BLACK, no symbol.

[Osymandias]

Originally Posted by tlucky4life

good work do you make these from scratch? If so do you take requests?

if so here are mine
1 good flag of a raven for the vikings
2 fire, with crossing tomohawk and peacepipe ,link www.potawatomi.org

thanks
no, i don't do them from scratch. i take images which i find in the internet, on my older pc or on flags. for some of them i haven't to do any work that they will look good, for the most i have to do more or less work for good looking and some other i alter a little bit.
i will try on your 2 requests for the next pack

Originally Posted by Willowmound

For some reason I can't get these to work. The flag turns BLACK, no symbol.

hm...strange. which flag do you use? the only reason that i can think of a black flag is that the <bWhiteFLag>-tag is set to 1 instead to 0.

[Mozza]

Originally Posted by Willowmound

For some reason I can't get these to work. The flag turns BLACK, no symbol.

It will be somewhere in the XML, probably the lookup for the flag file. I had the same problem, took about 2 hours to notice that in the file path I'd tyed TeamColour instead of TeamColor

[Willowmound]

Hmm. I copied the path (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V). I even tried putting the flag I wanted in the actual Warlords flags folder. Still no joy.

EDIT: Ah, didn't see your response there, 0d1n3oo3Broad. I'll try again tomorrow or later this week. I'll have a look at what the <bWhiteFLag> tag says. I was trying to get the 'falke_2' one as the flag for the Vikings. (And I thought it was a raven! I know enough German to realise it must be a falcon. Oh well )