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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby natty dread on Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:09 pm

Oneyed wrote:natty is here any chance that you can help me with these cities?


Like they say - if you give a hungry man a fish, he's fed for a day; but if you teach him how to fish, he's fed for the rest of his life... ;)

Try this: set your zoom at 300%, then select the lasso tool. Now draw the city shape without ever taking your finger off the mouse, don't just click points with it... just draw with it like you draw with the paintbrush. Draw the city shape with it this way and you should get a selection with smooth edges.

Then just do the rest of the steps like I said... fill with black, then shrink selection by 2 (in the selection menu, select shrink) and then fill with grey.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:51 pm

natty dread wrote:Like they say - if you give a hungry man a fish, he's fed for a day; but if you teach him how to fish, he's fed for the rest of his life... ;)


:D

day is sometimes enough... :)

I followed your last help. so what do you think, could i eat fish all year? :lol:
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby natty dread on Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:17 pm

Well, it's getting better.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:19 pm

natty dread wrote:Well, it's getting better.


wait, wait what does mean? we sould go with this? :D

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby natty dread on Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:12 pm

Well they're good enough for now, you can improve them later.

Now about the highways, why don't you make them go all the way to the towns & cities? Why do they cut off just a bit before the city/town?
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:21 am

natty dread wrote:Well they're good enough for now, you can improve them later.


uf :P
natty dread wrote:Now about the highways, why don't you make them go all the way to the towns & cities? Why do they cut off just a bit before the city/town?


I had them as you wrote, but I did not like it.

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Flapcake on Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:44 am

I looks like your getting in to something smooting it out, greate work

Now you realy need to find a better looking coat of arms, the current one looks, ehhem bad.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:49 pm

Flapcake wrote:I looks like your getting in to something smooting it out, greate work


thanks.

this is the best coa what I found:
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby tokle on Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:54 pm

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:09 pm

tokle wrote:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/CoA_CSFRc.svg
You can use that.


thanks, but I used this one. it is too big and when I resized it, it looked bad...
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby tokle on Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:28 pm

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tokle wrote:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/CoA_CSFRc.svg
You can use that.


thanks, but I used this one. it is too big and when I resized it, it looked bad...

Really?
It looks fine when I do it. It's an SVG file, so you should be able to reduce the size without it looking worse at all.

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:56 pm

this is the result. do you like it?

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby natty dread on Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:51 am

Oneyed, when you resize things, do you have the interpolation algorithm set to Sinc?

When you select the scale tool, the tool settings has a drop-down box that says "Interpolation", if you set it to "sinc (lanczos3)" before you resize things, you'll get better results.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby Oneyed on Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:04 am

natty dread wrote:Oneyed, when you resize things, do you have the interpolation algorithm set to Sinc?

When you select the scale tool, the tool settings has a drop-down box that says "Interpolation", if you set it to "sinc (lanczos3)" before you resize things, you'll get better results.


natty, this advice should become a week sooner :D . I could had much less problems... thank you very much - yours advices work perfect =D>

tokle, thanks for coa. and sorry for my not knowing of GIMP possibilities :oops:

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - brand new large version

Postby natty dread on Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:23 am

Oneyed wrote:natty, this advice should become a week sooner :D . I could had much less problems... thank you very much - yours advices work perfect =D>


Ok, no problem. Just so you don't have to change the setting every time, do this:

Go to preferences (in the edit menu), there go to "tool options" and set "default interpolation" to Sinc, this way the interpolation will always be set to it when you start gimp.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - should we go with this version?

Postby Flapcake on Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:46 am

This is realy looking nice now, all smooted out :)

One nick picking thing, thers some white pixels at the borders between the territorys, is it suposed to be like this ? ohterwise you can easily fill it out whit the brush ;)

hmm wheres the draft stamp ? :mrgreen:

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - should we go with this version?

Postby natty dread on Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:02 am

A few things that could use attention before we start talking about stamps and whatnot...

The background looks really blurry and messy. Maybe you could find a better one? Or try making one yourself. There are some sites with free textures and patterns, you could search for a paper texture from one of those.

http://www.cgtextures.com/
http://www.textureking.com/

Also, the colour scheme of the map seems kind of drab and dull. Try making the colours a bit more lively.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - should we go with this version?

Postby Oneyed on Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:03 am

here is new version with another background and some little graphics things.
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Flapcake wrote:hmm wheres the draft stamp ? :mrgreen:

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thanks Flap. so where is it? :-k

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - no opinions here?

Postby koontz1973 on Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:52 am

:ike the border but the lines on the map could be toned down a bit. Also, everything looks really crisp and sharp, which does not look good on the paper you have it. Wrinkle up the borders a tad.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - no opinions here?

Postby natty dread on Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:53 am

koontz1973 wrote:everything looks really crisp and sharp, which does not look good


What? :-s
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - no opinions here?

Postby Oneyed on Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:33 pm

natty dread wrote:
koontz1973 wrote:everything looks really crisp and sharp, which does not look good


What? :-s


I do not also understand what you mean?

another background and lines a little less visible.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - another background, lets choose

Postby Jippd on Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:59 pm

Bottom right of map corner:
independent is spelled wrong

And what is a kraj? Can't even figure out the bonus structure because I have no idea what a kraj is

I would also consider abbreviating the CR/SR in the box in the bottom left corner that shows which belongs to CR/SR. This will free up some clutter in that top right box where you redefine and illustrate the abbreviation.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - another background, lets choose

Postby tokle on Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:55 pm

Jippd wrote:Bottom right of map corner:
independent is spelled wrong

And what is a kraj? Can't even figure out the bonus structure because I have no idea what a kraj is

The Krajs are the coloured teritories. The three-letter ones. The towns are the black dots inside them. I take it he means the bonus is for the kraj terit itself and the towns inside it.

Jippd wrote:I would also consider abbreviating the CR/SR in the box in the bottom left corner that shows which belongs to CR/SR. This will free up some clutter in that top right box where you redefine and illustrate the abbreviation.

I would write CR and SR in brackets after the names by the two miniature maps in the bottom left. And then use the abbreviations everywhere else.
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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - another background, lets choose

Postby Oneyed on Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:06 pm

Jippd wrote:Bottom right of map corner:
independent is spelled wrong


I see now. will edit this.
Jippd wrote:And what is a kraj? Can't even figure out the bonus structure because I have no idea what a kraj is


Kraj is name for region in Czech and Slovak republics, so two (Czech republic) or three towns (Slovak republic) + region. will do something with this - rename Kraj to Region or add Kraj (region and its towns). what is better way?
Jippd wrote:I would also consider abbreviating the CR/SR in the box in the bottom left corner that shows which belongs to CR/SR. This will free up some clutter in that top right box where you redefine and illustrate the abbreviation.


you mean delete CR/SR in the upper right corner, yes?

thank you for input :)

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Re: Fragmentation of CSFR - another background, lets choose

Postby Oneyed on Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:46 pm

tokle wrote:
Jippd wrote:Bottom right of map corner:
independent is spelled wrong

And what is a kraj? Can't even figure out the bonus structure because I have no idea what a kraj is

The Krajs are the coloured teritories. The three-letter ones. The towns are the black dots inside them. I take it he means the bonus is for the kraj terit itself and the towns inside it.


tokle read it correct. ;)

added explantation what is Kraj and also used CR/SR everywhere...

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