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by **cairnswk** on Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:57 pm

I had licked this map for graphics, but i had better check first otherwise i will get in trouble from up top.

by **wcaclimbing** on Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:27 am

The terrain texture is broken up at the top of the map. Directly under where the territory letters are.
It just breaks from one texture to another and doesn't look very good. A straight line all the way across the map, directly under the territory numbers.
Could you smooth that out a bit so it looks like one whole texture, not two different parts copy-pasted on top of eachother?

EDIT: I'm not completely sure how to explain what I'm seeing. If you don't get what I'm saying, I could try to explain it differently.

by **Incandenza** on Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:42 am

wcaclimbing wrote:The terrain texture is broken up at the top of the map. Directly under where the territory letters are.
It just breaks from one texture to another and doesn't look very good. A straight line all the way across the map, directly under the territory numbers.
Could you smooth that out a bit so it looks like one whole texture, not two different parts copy-pasted on top of eachother?

EDIT: I'm not completely sure how to explain what I'm seeing. If you don't get what I'm saying, I could try to explain it differently.

Oh, yeah, I see it too. It'll go on the to-do list, which brings me to my next point:

Let's not get carried away with graphics stamps. There's a small graphics to-do list, and we're still waiting on the xml update that would make this map possible. Certainly, and I hope I speak for mibi, we'd be obliged to get a graphics stamp as part of a reasonably swift induction into the forge when the aforementioned xml update occurs, but again, let's not get carried away.

by **wcaclimbing** on Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:55 am

Awesome.

The same thing is visible (but not nearly as much) along the right side of the map. Just in a few places. Not very noticable. But that could be fixed also.

For the boundary between the Map Legend and the Terrain texture, right now it just switches from one brown texture to another. Could you do either:
A. add a border or shadow or something to separate the two.
B. gradually blend the two together along that edge so there isn't much of a noticeable change between the two sides.

My vote would be for A, but either would work, I think.
If you need an idea for the border/shadow, I think what I did on Oasis would work well here. click here if you want to see the map.
I just did a one pixel black border along the entire thing. And a small shadow behind it to make the legend stand in front of the map.
I think that'd work for this map.

by **mibi** on Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:30 am

wcaclimbing wrote:Awesome.

The same thing is visible (but not nearly as much) along the right side of the map. Just in a few places. Not very noticable. But that could be fixed also.

For the boundary between the Map Legend and the Terrain texture, right now it just switches from one brown texture to another. Could you do either:
A. add a border or shadow or something to separate the two.
B. gradually blend the two together along that edge so there isn't much of a noticeable change between the two sides.

My vote would be for A, but either would work, I think.
If you need an idea for the border/shadow, I think what I did on Oasis would work well here. click here if you want to see the map.
I just did a one pixel black border along the entire thing. And a small shadow behind it to make the legend stand in front of the map.
I think that'd work for this map.

the texture behind the legend is actually a photo of some WW1'ers jumping out of a trench. Obviously it's very obscured.

by **gimil** on Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:37 pm

I just realised that I haven't mentioned this to you guys yet so I will say it now in case you haven't worked it out.

Since you are waiting for XML features to be introduced before you map can be complete I won't be stamping this map for graphics, for the time being. I don't think it is very fair to continue any map through the system until there is confirmation that your needed features are garunteed in the pipeline.

This by no means, means that your map isn't supported by CC. I am more than happy with your map being here. I just don't want to move it any further while it is in a state that it can't be quenched. I hope you understand

by **Incandenza** on Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:05 am

I'm not sure you used those exact words, but that's pretty much the impression under which we've been laboring. Besides, when the xml update comes, it'll work better to be able to put up a fresh new draft and have some momentum going into the forge. 8-)

Thanks, gim

by **mibi** on Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:25 pm

cool, I will put the last few pages of suggestion in the new draft once the xml becomes available. No point in throwing up another "draft to nowhere".

I'm so clever.

by **Bootsmann Rommel** on Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:15 am

Interesting map indeed, I must say that it is hard to read and the layout is different but it would be a nice challenge to play, I would love to play it and hope to see it soon !

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