Imperial Library building graphic

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

My first Bryce building.

EDIT: City screen icons added.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Some previews. First is what it looks like in Bryce, the other is what it looks like as a Civlopedia icon. There's also a Wonder Splash included in the RAR/ZIP file.

 

[Grandraem]

My first Bryce building.

It's great. I hope there'll be many more.

 

[Stormrage]

Looks nice

 

[Kyriakos]

Good, but you sacrificed the delicate green background that all other building pics have.
Imo it would be better to just use less colours for the main buildings + i know that it is tiresome to make the palettes.

 

[mrtn]

Good, but you sacrificed the delicate green background that all other building pics have.

I too prefer the ordinary green background.

Imo it would be better to just use less colours for the main buildings + i know that it is tiresome to make the palettes.

For me it takes exactly 0 seconds to make a palette for a new building.

@Ogedei: Nice! But which Imperium is it? China?

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I too prefer the ordinary green background.

I thought of using the standard Civ3 grass background, but the colors would contrast too much. It'd look awkward. I think HikaroTakayama also uses the Bryce grass instead of the Civ3 grass as well.

@Ogedei: Nice! But which Imperium is it? China?

The building is modeled after Tang Dynasty architecture.

 

[Darque]

Great job. The Bryce grass looks fine.

 

[woodelf]

Very nice building.

 

[Storm Grunt]

Looks great Ogedei

I have a use for this if you think it could pass for sengoku architecture.

 

[Plotinus]

This is really excellent! I hope this is the first of many. It has a very nice Civ look to it.

 

[utahjazz7]

I really think this looks great as well. Congratulations.

 

[Yoda Power]

The building is really great. But for the purpose of consistency I too would probably prefer the normal grass

What the heck I'm just gonna do it myself

 

[Kyriakos]

For me it takes exactly 0 seconds to make a palette for a new building.

How?
I have mspaint & the gimp, and it definately does not take 0 seconds to place all the tonal variations needed. Saving as a 256-colour pic in mspaint means total destruction of the colours, since mspaint does not compute which colours appear more frequently; it just creates a generic 256-colour scale (i do not know judging on what exactly).

 

[mrtn]

I use Photoshop, and use the method described in the tutorial in my sig.
Basically, that means that I pick out the two transparency colours, and then let Photoshop do the rest.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I use Photoshop, and use the method described in the tutorial in my sig.
Basically, that means that I pick out the two transparency colours, and then let Photoshop do the rest.

That's what I did for this one as well. Works out quite well. I didn't lose a lot of colors.

 

[Bjornlo]

Ogedei_the_Mad,
Job well done. Certainly better than my first Bryce building, which was too low in quality for me to make avialable for download. Although I think later posted it here in some thread about Bryce.
One suggestion. Make a bmp of the existing civ grass and then cut out the rendered grass (except for the shadow) and combine them in photoshop.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

I think I'll do two versions for the next one then - one with the Bryce grass and the other with the Civ grass. I just don't like the Civ grass.

 

[Thunderfall]

Looks great!

 

[Snorken]

Looks very good, Ogedei.