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[VSPavlov]

Honestly, I still don't like that one.

I wash my hands, then.

 

[Valkrionn]

If it helps, I found Tarq's post on where he got the leader/hero art originally...

Mostly (maybe wholly) fantasygallery.net and deviantART. (Melante is "Queen of Air and Darkness" from deviantART.)

This is Melante.

http://niko2137.deviantart.com/art/Queen-of-Air-and-Darkness-44606562

 

[VSPavlov]

Actually, I pillaged deviantart for all, that seemed more or less appropriate Guess, I'm just not lucky.

 

[Valkrionn]

Actually, I pillaged deviantart for all, that seemed more or less appropriate Guess, I'm just not lucky.

Did a bit of searching of my own.... Basically, I think the banner for the Scions would be best showing the Haunted Lands. Problem is, it's not just a creepy forest. It's a place where death and life blur...

Here's a potential pic (little small, but it can be scaled up easily enough):

http://media.photobucket.com/image/twisted forest/shokou/fantasyforest2.jpg

 

[VSPavlov]

I hate loosing quality on scaling. Resize blur looks unprofessional - you don't want it for the mod.

Maybe, some of the following will do?
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x67/Crimson_visage73/fantasy-wallpaper02.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs45/f/2009/155/0/2/Creepy_Forest_by_AndreaGerstmann.jpg
http://sites.google.com/site/raginraven/Forest_fog.jpg

(colouring can be changed rather easy, as you know)

It's also possible to make a collage of Dark Council from hero pics - quite a representation.



On another matter. Is it possible from interface coding point of view to use civ-specific graphics for specialist citizens?

 

[Valkrionn]

I hate loosing quality on scaling. Resize blur looks unprofessional - you don't want it for the mod.

Maybe, some of the following will do?
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x67/Crimson_visage73/fantasy-wallpaper02.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs45/f/2009/155/0/2/Creepy_Forest_by_AndreaGerstmann.jpg
http://sites.google.com/site/raginraven/Forest_fog.jpg

(colouring can be changed rather easy, as you know)

It's also possible to make a collage of Dark Council from hero pics - quite a representation.



On another matter. Is it possible from interface coding point of view to use civ-specific graphics for specialist citizens?

I like all of those links, though I think I like the first the best.

On citizens... Since that screen is generated in python, yes, it is possible. Would want to edit the following code to check the player's civ, and if equal to the civ you want have a different setImageButton and addCheckBoxGFC line, using the .dds you wish rather than 'gc.getSpecialistInfo(i).getTexture().

You'd have to make sure you're changing the CORRECT specialist, of course, so before the civ check you'd compare getSpecialistInfo(i) to the one you have in mind.

This is all in CvMainInterface.py.

        i = 0
        for i in range( gc.getNumSpecialistInfos() ):
        
            if (gc.getSpecialistInfo(i).isVisible()):
            
                szName = "CitizenDisabledButton" + str(i)
                screen.setImageButton( szName, gc.getSpecialistInfo(i).getTexture(), xResolution - 74, (yResolution - 272 - (26 * i)), 24, 24, WidgetTypes.WIDGET_DISABLED_CITIZEN, i, -1 )
                screen.enable( szName, False )
                screen.hide( szName )

                for j in range(MAX_CITIZEN_BUTTONS):
                    szName = "CitizenButton" + str((i * 100) + j)
                    screen.addCheckBoxGFC( szName, gc.getSpecialistInfo(i).getTexture(), "", xResolution - 74 - (26 * j), (yResolution - 272 - (26 * i)), 24, 24, WidgetTypes.WIDGET_CITIZEN, i, j, ButtonStyles.BUTTON_STYLE_LABEL )
                    screen.hide( szName )

 

[VSPavlov]

I'll look to Scions tomorrow.

On citizens... Since that screen is generated in python, yes...

if I provide you with decent dds for, for example, Lizardmen, would you care to implement them into RifE, using all that stuff you've described?)

 

[Valkrionn]

I could try if I had time, yes. I'm sure there's a better way to do it (something that could be done dynamically; Will talk to Grey Fox about it, he's better at that sort of thing), but it would be interesting to have the ability.

 

[KillerClowns]

I hate loosing quality on scaling. Resize blur looks unprofessional - you don't want it for the mod.

Maybe, some of the following will do?
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x67/Crimson_visage73/fantasy-wallpaper02.jpg
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs45/f/2009/155/0/2/Creepy_Forest_by_AndreaGerstmann.jpg
http://sites.google.com/site/raginraven/Forest_fog.jpg

(colouring can be changed rather easy, as you know)

It's also possible to make a collage of Dark Council from hero pics - quite a representation.



On another matter. Is it possible from interface coding point of view to use civ-specific graphics for specialist citizens?

While the second one best captures how I've always imagined the Haunted Lands looks, the first one is probably the best for the purposes of banner construction, especially if you make sure to get the humanoid figure in there.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Those have me thinking less Haunted Lands and more Whispering Wood, around the Well of Shadows. I guess the rest of you haven't read the Ashes of Brigdarrow though.

 

[Valkrionn]

Those have me thinking less Haunted Lands and more Whispering Wood, around the Well of Shadows. I guess the rest of you haven't read the Ashes of Brigdarrow though.

No. No we haven't, as you make abundantly clear every time you mention it.

 

[blade117]

You cruel sadistic person, MC.

 

[VSPavlov]

Well, guys, since you all participate - will this do for Haunted lands?
http://www.mediafire.com/file/4wimwqydywn/ScionsDraft.jpg

Even if it will, it definitely needs something humanoid on it..

 

[Valkrionn]

Yes, but I think it needs a humanoid of some kind in it.

 

[VSPavlov]

Anyone can offer a suitable humanoid? I thought of some shadowy silhouettes, but that would be too much of a Sidar

 

[Valkrionn]

Shadowy is fine; Some of their units become hauntstalks in HL anyway.

 

[VSPavlov]

Huh?
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmnzm5ugzqw/ScionsDraft.jpg

 

[Valkrionn]

I like that one, will use it. That should be all the civs now.

Attached it to the post so people can see it easily.

 

[blade117]

Very nice

 

[VSPavlov]

Good. Mission accomplished.