RFC Europe -Art and Flags Thread

[AbsintheRed]

Yes. I do.
It's repetitive. The "HEAD DOWN, DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN."
Perhaps add a song from the Ridley Scott Robin Hood movie?

I don't find that song annoying at all.

So it's not obvious that everyone hates it
IOSI, Royal Tenenbaum: if you want it down, make a poll about it
Let's see what the majority of the players want

On the other hand, William I's leaderhead makes me avoid contacting them until Elizabeth takes power.

I very welcome any LH suggestions in the leaders thread
While the LH is not perfect, IMO the new William is still much better than the previous one

 

[AbsintheRed]

I uploaded it on sourceforge. If you unpack the file in the RFCEurope/Assets/Art and move the XML-file to Assets/XML/Art, it should work.

(It still uses a dummy button)

Saw you commited this recently
I plan to make some updates to the fpk as well
Will include your forests reskin and the Westminster Abbey when I do it, ok?

I would rather avoid redownloading and reuploading the fpk files too many times
Makes switching between revisions so much slower if they are changed too often
So we should only do it when necessary, preferably when we have more changes

 

[merijn_v1]

Saw you commited this recently
I plan to make some updates to the fpk as well
Will include your forests reskin and the Westminster Abbey when I do it, ok?

I would rather avoid redownloading and reuploading the fpk files too many times
Makes switching between revisions so much slower if they are changed too often
So we should only do it when necessary, preferably when we have more changes

Go ahead. I knew you were going to make some updates. So I intentionally didn't include them, so you can include them and we don't have to upload/download the whole file over and over again.

NOTE: The button of the new dense forest is a seperate file. You still have to merge it into the atlas.

Another reason why I didn't include it is that I might make some minor changes to the new dense forest art.

About the robinhood.mp3. I hardly ever have the sounds on, so I don't have an opinion about that. (Likely I never even heard that music)

 

[Spirictum]

On the other hand, William I's leaderhead makes me avoid contacting them until Elizabeth takes power.

He was much like that actually, you can look him here: William the Conqueror

But he could look a little less "I've been using strong drugs for the past 3 years". He needs a brighter expression IMO. But that's something only the creator of the LH (Novator?) should work on (or agree on someone doing it for him).

 

[DC123456789]

Yeah, he just looks messed up for some reason.

 

[iOnlySignIn]

So it's not obvious that everyone hates it
IOSI, Royal Tenenbaum: if you want it down, make a poll about it
Let's see what the majority of the players want

This is why democracy sucks. If we're to waste everybody's time, it should be on more important things.

I got rid of that song permanently for myself. So I don't care anymore.

Re: William, I think he looks fine. Invading England's got to make a man loose some sleep.

 

[AbsintheRed]

This is why democracy sucks. If we're to waste everybody's time, it should be on more important things.

Why is a quick vote on a poll counts as wasting time?
And for me, it's only one minute to remove that song if it's unwelcomed
I really don't mind either way

 

[AbsintheRed]

Nice buttons Merijn!
The one for Beatrice got the wrong name though, and now her BG looks hilarious
She is a little self-centered, you say?
Will fix it in a couple minutes

Btw, what do you think about backgrounds?
The ones I'm unstatisfied with:
George III, Simeon, Basil II, Margaret, Yaqub al_Mansur, Abd-ar-Rahman, Robert the Bruce, Otto I, Ferdinand III
Do you guys have any good idea for them?

 

[merijn_v1]

Basil II in SoI uses the background of Justinian.

Abd ar Rahman and Yakub al Mansour could swap BG.

Otto I could use the BG of vanilla Charlemagne.

Robert the Bruce: Edinburgh Castle perhaps?

 

[AbsintheRed]

Updated the list:
George III - doesn't look good IMO, buildings are blurry, lights are strange
Simeon - currently a serbian temple
Basil II - currently a bulgarian temple, this BG should go the Simeon
Margaret - would prefer something a little bit more urban, connected to the Kalmar Union
Yaqub al_Mansur - have a cordoban bg currently, can possibly get Rahman's, although an interior BG would probably be better
Abd-ar-Rahman - should probably get Mansur's BG
Mohammed ibn Nasr - looks a little too insignificant to me. can possibly get Rahman's
Robert the Bruce - something more scottish
Otto I - currently an orthodox cathedral in the BG
Ferdinand III - something a little brighter
Alexander Nevsky - something more urban, tied to Novgorod
Harun al-Rashid - he should also get something more impressive
Ismail ibn Sharif - currently has Mali/Songhai mud mosques
Michael VIII Palaiologos and Justinian currently have the same background
Hermann von Salza and Isabella also shares a background
Philip Augustus - drawing as a BG

Any others you guys would like to change?

EDIT: Already done:
Simeon
Isabella
Yaqub al-Mansur
Mohammed ibn Nasr
George III
Robert the Bruce
Gustav Vasa
Otto I
Margaret
Alexander Nevsky
Basil II
Michael VIII Palaiologos
Philip Augustus
Ismail ibn Sharif
minor updates to Rurik and Abd-ar-Rahman, those are probably also fine now

maybe:
Ferdinand III
Harun al-Rashid
Bela III
Ivan Asen
Saladin

 

[Swarbs]

Basil II's background could be the Boukoleon Palace. Would fit with him founding the Varangian Guard who were reportedly garrisoned there.

 

[AbsintheRed]

Basil II's background could be the Boukoleon Palace. Would fit with him founding the Varangian Guard who were reportedly garrisoned there.

Probably fitting
Also the Blachernae Palace for Michael, now that I read about it:
"After the recapture of the city by Michael VIII Palaiologos, however, the palace, along with the entire Great Palace complex, was gradually abandoned in favour of the Blachernae Palace."

Need some good quality pics though

Also, Merijn, the Edingurgh castle looks good
But I'm not entirely statisfied with the the BG swap, especially because the LH for Yaqub have so much light
Will play around with those BGs a little more

 

[AbsintheRed]

Played around in gimp and nifskope a couple hours tonight
Mostly concentrated on buildings as you can see

Spoiler :

Aachen Cathedral - Otto I
Edinburgh Castle - Robert the Bruce
Tower of London - George III
Kalmar Castle - Margaret
Roggeborgen in Strangnas - Gustav Vasa
Walls of Novgorod / Novgorod Kremlin - Alexander Nevsky

I know backgrounds are a very minor thing, especially since most of them are barely seen most of the time
Still fairly pleased with the result, so go and check the new leaderscreens

 

[AbsintheRed]

Merijn, if you have some time, can you add a new button for Otto I and Mstislav I?

 

[merijn_v1]

No problem. I'm about to upload my current changes. I will do this after that and then it's about time to release 1.3.

EDIT: I already changed the button of Mtislav a while ago. I think it doesn't show in the pedia because the game loads from the FPK instead of the dds file.
EDIT2: I see I named the folder wrong back than. Will be fixed.

 

[AbsintheRed]

No problem. I'm about to upload my current changes. I will do this after that and then it's about time to release 1.3.

EDIT: I already changed the button of Mtislav a while ago. I think it doesn't show in the pedia because the game loads from the FPK instead of the dds file.
EDIT2: I see I named the folder wrong back than. Will be fixed.

Thanks
Sent you a PM about the release

 

[AbsintheRed]

Merijn, if you have time, can you add a button for James IV?
And maybe some civilopedia entries to both him and Johan de Witt?

 

[AbsintheRed]

Once again, some more buttons are needed:
(don't worry, no more LH updates for a while )
New button: Bohdan Khmelnytsky (while the current button looks awesome, it's a totally different style, and I would rather keep things consistent)
Button for James I and John II

Some more civilopedia entries would be great too, if you have some time for it:
Civilopedia entry for John II
Civilopedia entry for most new units

 

[AbsintheRed]

I dislike our icon for Protestantism.
Too different in style compared to the other 2 christian ones.
Does anyone have a better suggestion for it?

 

[SanJose]

This don't look better

Orthodox - white cross
Catholicism - brown(golden) cross
Protestantism - purple cross