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by **Tisha** on Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:16 pm

lighter tones of red would be pink. no.

maybe a stroke around the title letters in black.

by **natty dread** on Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:17 pm

The impassables that look like lots of small X:s... maybe you could change them to something more resembling barbed wire?

As for title, a black stroke would be fine.

by **DiM** on Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:29 pm

natty_dread wrote:The impassables that look like lots of small X:s... maybe you could change them to something more resembling barbed wire?

why should it look like barbed wire when it's not barbed wire? :shock:

those are hedgehogs. or at least i think that's what they're called.
here's an image:

by **Tisha** on Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:32 pm

DiM wrote:
natty_dread wrote:The impassables that look like lots of small X:s... maybe you could change them to something more resembling barbed wire?

why should it look like barbed wire when it's not barbed wire?

those are hedgehogs. or at least i think that's what they're called.
here's an image:

I like them how they are also.. I assumed the same as DiM.

by **natty dread** on Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:46 pm

Yeah, but they look like small X:s.

by **MrBenn** on Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:01 pm

natty_dread wrote:Yeah, but they look like small X:s.

Which is exactly what they would look like from the air, no?

by **natty dread** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:12 am

Maybe you could try making the dotted sea routes into straight dotted lines instead of bezier curves. Not sure if it'd work, but it might create a more appropriate feel for the map... you know, with the cold war theme and all, straight, hard lines would somehow seem to fit better than round, smooth curves...

I also have a suggestion for the colours. The current colour scheme has a sort of bright, sugary feel to it, again not very well conveying the feel of cold war. What I would do is make it a bit more dark and gritty, like this:

Click image to enlarge.

This is just a mock-up, but it shows how I would change the land and sea colour. Maybe the sea shouldn't be quite that dark, but in that direction... there's a better contrast between the land and sea there, and you can always add slight glows to the objects on the sea.

Note also the complementary colour contrast between the land and sea: land being more yellowish in hue, with sea being more blue. Yellow and blue are complementary colours, forming a good contrast with each other.

by **Tisha** on Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:31 pm

I like the shades that things were before.. for the area the map is in. Maybe bring down the saturation a tiny bit..

by **Ace Rimmer** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:33 pm

Version 39:

Click image to enlarge.

Changes:
- Changed color of land and sea
- Changed text color in top right
- Changed CMC logo
- Added shadows to ships
- Changed arrow between Arbonite and Guantanamo Bay

by **gimil** on Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:02 pm

Hi ace,

I am not feeling the title. I think it is because the colours sort of cut up the typography. Although, if you use the same kind of effect on the title that has be used on boht the White House/Kremlin text at the top right then I think it may fit better. By doing this I think you will gain some graphical consistency as well as defining the outline of the letters in the title. Does this make sense?

Also the crosshairs you use across the map to identify jet/submarine targets arn't as immediately obviously as I think they should be. I think they need a little something to make them stand out from the map, like a stroke, or drop shadow.

This is looking very good though, keep it up!

gimil

by **Ace Rimmer** on Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:15 pm

It wouldn't make sense to do the same kind of graphics touch to the White House/Kremlin as those are not titles, but part of the map itself. The title is different to stand out. The logo may look a little different/better in the supersized version.

No comments for a week, so it's time to use this as the baseline and start working on supersizing this. More updates to come eventually.

by **gimil** on Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:21 pm

Ace Rimmer wrote:It wouldn't make sense to do the same kind of graphics touch to the White House/Kremlin as those are not titles, but part of the map itself. The title is different to stand out. The logo may look a little different/better in the supersized version.

No comments for a week, so it's time to use this as the baseline and start working on supersizing this. More updates to come eventually.

I ment at the same light bevel and black stroke to the title as the Kremlin/White House have. This would make title my nicer to look at in my opinion.

by **Gillipig** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:44 am

This is in my mind one of the best maps in the foundry. Great map ace!!

by **DiM** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:56 am

Gillipig wrote:This is in my mind one of the best maps in the foundry. Great map ace!!

i concur.
ace should hurry up making both small and large images so this can get the graphics stamp and be moved to final forge.

by **Nola_Lifer** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:21 pm

DiM wrote:
Gillipig wrote:This is in my mind one of the best maps in the foundry. Great map ace!!

i concur.
ace should hurry up making both small and large images so this can get the graphics stamp and be moved to final forge.

Let us make that three.

Hope ace rimjob can find time for it.