Arryn's Dominions 2 site news

Arryn · #1 March 5th, 2004, 10:45 PM

While on that subject, the Mictlan flag has insufficient contrast between the symbol and the background. IOW, it sort of blurs together. The R'leyh flag has a similar problem on the lower half where it becomes hard to see the symbol. Dark blue bordering a thin white spike against a slightly-less-dark blue is tough to resolve.

All the flags look great at close-in zoom, but if you zoom out to see the whole map the symbols tend to just fade against their backgrounds.

Finally, can you make the symbol for Vanheim slightly less bright? It's not "radioactive", but that color against that background does cause eyestrain.

TIA.

Vger · #2 March 6th, 2004, 12:38 AM

Hi,

Well, I'm just stuck then. I started that game before Unwise came out with his flags.

As to the feedback,

Thanks for the suggestions. Since I haven't been playing with it, I haven't seen these problems, but looking at the screenshot from Arryn's AAR, I can see that I need to adjust some of the flags so that they show up better when zoomed out.

When I created them I tried to make sure they looked decent at normal size, but didn't think about them being zoomed out.

Sad thing is I'll have to recreate them, since I didn't save them as PSP files but as TGAs. Ugh.

One of the things I was trying to do was to stay truer to the original colors of those nations, which is part of what causes problems when they're zoomed out. R'lyeh is one of the nations that suffers from this.

Vaya con carnage,
V'ger gone

Vger · #3 March 6th, 2004, 05:20 AM

Hi,

I decided to post again rather than edit to make sure y'all would see this. I redid some of the flags and just sent them over to Arryn.

The flags I remade are: Arco, Mictlan, Vanheim, R'lyeh and Man. (I'm keeping the Man I did in the mod I'm using, I LIKE the radioactive glow. )

I tried to make Arco and R'lyeh have more contrast.

Man I made less radioactive.

Vanheim: I made the shield lighter so that there was more separation between the shield color and the symbol.

Mictlan: I changed the fist to make it stand out better against the shield. The ghost affect I had on it looked good, I thought, but not at the sizes it's actually being used at. This one looks better, I think and is easier to see.

Unfortunately, there is only so much I can do with the fist symbol. It's just hard to make it clear (without doing something really lame, like plain black and white) at half its size.

Hope y'all approve of the changes,
V'ger gone

Arryn · #4 March 6th, 2004, 08:54 AM

Unwise's & V'ger's Flags v1.0 is on my site. It incorporates the 5 revised flags that V'ger sent me.

Vanheim is much easier on the eyes now, as is Man. R'leyh is improved, but only slightly, and probably as good as it can get. Thanks, V'ger!

Arryn · #5 April 19th, 2004, 09:09 AM

I've updated Targa's Karan and Zen's Europe map downloads on my site to include the latest corrected .map files provided by Tinkthank. Anyone already using these fine maps should grab the small .map-only downloads. The big archive files also include the updated .maps, of course, if there's anyone who hasn't yet downloaded these maps.

Arryn · #6 May 4th, 2004, 04:21 PM

Wauthan's Avatar mod has been updated to Version 1.0, and is available for download from my site.

EDIT: It adds a new pretender for each nation except Abysia and Caelum.

[ May 04, 2004, 15:22: Message edited by: Arryn ]

JaydedOne · #7 May 4th, 2004, 05:49 PM

That sounds pretty nifty. Can we get Wauthan or someone else familiar with the mod to comment a bit more on these Pretenders (as I just don't have the time to go through my screens and test out 15 different new Pretenders)?

In any case, thanks for the work - Wauthan in creating and Arryn in hosting.