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by **Victor Sullivan** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:10 am

ender516 wrote:HIs profile says he was on about 90 minutes before OliverFA posted. His location says Slovakia, which implies it is now about 4:20 AM where he is. A guy has to sleep some time. (Please, no 4:20 jokes, it's just a coincidence.)

There are jokes to be had regarding the time of 4:20? :-s

At any rate, congrats on the XML stamp!

-Sully

by **DiM** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:26 am

april 20th is the international day of marijuana. that's the closest thing i can relate to 4.20 :-s

by **thenobodies80** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:42 am

Ender, I mean that I'm worried that thebastard is no more interested....OliverFA has sent some PM to us all so he knows what is happening.

Anyway, I'll try to catch him on MSN. He is a good guy and work with him was nice but I've asked him a 1000 times to keep the first post updated.....that's why I'm wondering where he is...I hope is not declaring forfait when we're so close to the completion of this map.

Btw, knowing him it wouldn't so strange if he is online at 4AM

by **OliverFA** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:05 pm

I am interested to learn the 4:20 joke too.

A pitty TheBastard is leaving. He seems to complain his maps don't succeed. Well, this one is pretty advanced, that shoul encourage him.

by **Nola_Lifer** on Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:32 pm

He just loves his sweet leaf. 4:20 is when you smoke your herb. He hasn't responded to any of my walls to play more games. He could just be busy or frustrated with real life. Just speculation here.

by **thenobodies80** on Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:36 am

I've edited/updated the OP.

by **thenobodies80** on Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:03 pm

DiM wrote:sorry if this is too late.
feel free to ignore my comments if you do not wish to make changes as they are only minor things:

1. the B and S at the edges of the title are written even though the parchment is torn. basically where's a tear in the parchment there should also be a tear in the letter but it's not.

2. the shadows of the parchments are too big. it makes them look like they're floating way above the map

3. the corner curls of the parchments have individual shadows that don't look normal. for example the top left parchment with castles is hit by light coming from NNW but its bottom right curl has a shadow as if light is coming from E

4. the title parchment is so squished and stretched it looks very weird.

5. i'd like to see a version where the castles/towns/cities/ships are set on either overlay or multiply. right now they stand too much apart from the rest of the map, mainly because they have so much white.

Yeah all you said is true.
I tried to work on those things but the main issue is that thebastard gave me a "bad" gimp file and the current version is the sum of previous errors (like merged layers, etc). So it's easy to understand that I had and have some limits in what i can do (for example parachments) if I keep the current files.

Anyway....I'm going to do a thing I don't like to do, specially considering that this one is not totally my own map....but thebastard is disappeared....

What I'm going to do is to re-draw the map again, but this time from the scratch, throwing away everything I have now! ](*,)

Ender, I'll try to keep the coords in the current positions, but this is not a promise...i'll do my best.

It will take a while before that I'm able to post the new version.
Nobodies

by **thenobodies80** on Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:08 pm

btw I forgot a thing: isaiah40 can you please officially move this one back to the graphics stage and also officially withdraw the current graphics stamp ?

by **isaiah40** on Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:38 pm

[MOVED]

Done per above request.

by **thenobodies80** on Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:58 pm

Not finished yet, but I want to post something....

Click image to enlarge.

by **Industrial Helix** on Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:25 pm

DiM wrote:april 20th is the international day of marijuana. that's the closest thing i can relate to 4.20

Also Hitler's birthday.

by **ender516** on Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:34 pm

The new graphics look pretty good. Will you be restoring a graphic connection (like the coloured shields) between the map and the bonus legend?

by **Nola_Lifer** on Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:49 am

Was wondering about this one. Good to see that its moving.

by **thenobodies80** on Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:21 am

ender516 wrote:Will you be restoring a graphic connection (like the coloured shields) between the map and the bonus legend?

Doing some tests to see if there's something better to save space

by **koontz1973** on Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:32 am

thenobodies80, glad to see that you have managed to get this one moving again. Been a while since it was sitting at the bottom of the forum with nothing new. A couple of things, firstly, the map legend looks very dark and the text is hard to read. Can you lighten it up a tad? Secondly, as you seem to be the only one working on this, I take it that you will be the one getting credit for this now?