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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,15, 12] Pg. 31

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:58 pm

ender516 wrote:GIllipig, I have to disagree. These tiny flags on poles will in many cases be obscured by the troop numbers, and my issue with the colouring still stands.

I'm afraid I've got to go with my XML guy on this one. It creates more complications than solutions, it obscures troop numbers and borders, and it makes those territory's relationship to surrounding bonuses unclear. None of these problems exist with the old style, which I think looks better any way.
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,15, 12] Pg. 31

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:05 pm

And here's the new update!
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The most notable change is that the signature is bigger and more regal.

-Added another effect to the coastline/water
-cleaned up the coastline's border
-changed the river and lakes color to match the sea
-moved a few territory names
-finally colored Corsica and the... whatever that Spanish island in the Mediterranean's called
-I added that extra dune between Niger and Murzag
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:08 pm

I'm hoping to get this into the forge soon!


on an interesting side note since I started this map a friend of mine has moved to Japan, moved back, and then moved to Arizona. So yeah, I think it's time to wrap this one up.
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby natty dread on Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:15 pm

I think you current landing points are good, but they don't seem to have the same texture as the other land, or at least it doesn't show as strongly...
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:24 pm

natty dread wrote:I think you current landing points are good, but they don't seem to have the same texture as the other land, or at least it doesn't show as strongly...

good point Boom:

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(it shows up better on some than others)
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby natty dread on Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:48 pm

Hm, it still doesn't really show on some of them. Perhaps you could increase the texture on the ones where it shows the worst. Also, even the best ones could be increased, I don't think it shows as well as it does on the regular regions on any of them...

I'm not sure about the layer modes of photoshop, but at least on gimp some layer modes show weaker on lighter colours. Maybe you could try combining layer modes by duplicating the texture layer and setting the layers on different modes, that's what I do when textures don't show evenly accross the map...

Also, you could make all the white colours very slightly off white, this will also help maintain the realistic "paper" feel of the map.
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby Gillipig on Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:56 pm

Why did you decide to scratch the buffalo? You only need to fine tune it a bit and it would look awesome! It gave the map some grit that I thought was really needed. What you have now does look classier, but classy is not always good :)!
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:17 pm

Gillipig wrote:Why did you decide to scratch the buffalo? You only need to fine tune it a bit and it would look awesome! It gave the map some grit that I thought was really needed. What you have now does look classier, but classy is not always good :)!

Because I'm the Bison King. I decided that I didn't want to portray one of my own loyal subjects being mauled to death by Lions. ;)

I'm glad you like it though.
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:27 pm

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Ok, increased the visibility of the texture and applied the same sepia tone I used everywhere else to dirty up the whites (just a little bit)
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby Gillipig on Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:31 pm

The Bison King wrote:
Gillipig wrote:Why did you decide to scratch the buffalo? You only need to fine tune it a bit and it would look awesome! It gave the map some grit that I thought was really needed. What you have now does look classier, but classy is not always good :)!

Because I'm the Bison King. I decided that I didn't want to portray one of my own loyal subjects being mauled to death by Lions. ;)

I'm glad you like it though.

Bisons and Buffalos are different animals you know ;)! Besides, I've always thought of you as the weasel humping a fish :o !
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:47 pm

Gillipig wrote:
The Bison King wrote:
Gillipig wrote:Why did you decide to scratch the buffalo? You only need to fine tune it a bit and it would look awesome! It gave the map some grit that I thought was really needed. What you have now does look classier, but classy is not always good :)!

Because I'm the Bison King. I decided that I didn't want to portray one of my own loyal subjects being mauled to death by Lions. ;)

I'm glad you like it though.

Bisons and Buffalos are different animals you know ;)! Besides, I've always thought of you as the weasel humping a fish :o !

HE'S NOT HUMPING THE FISH! HE'S DANCING BECAUSE HE'S HAPPY THAT HE CAUGHT THE FISH! AND THAT'S AN OTTER NOT A WEASEL!!

sheesh!
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby Gillipig on Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:14 pm

The Bison King wrote:
Gillipig wrote:
The Bison King wrote:
Gillipig wrote:Why did you decide to scratch the buffalo? You only need to fine tune it a bit and it would look awesome! It gave the map some grit that I thought was really needed. What you have now does look classier, but classy is not always good :)!

Because I'm the Bison King. I decided that I didn't want to portray one of my own loyal subjects being mauled to death by Lions. ;)

I'm glad you like it though.

Bisons and Buffalos are different animals you know ;)! Besides, I've always thought of you as the weasel humping a fish :o !

HE'S NOT HUMPING THE FISH! HE'S DANCING BECAUSE HE'S HAPPY THAT HE CAUGHT THE FISH! AND THAT'S AN OTTER NOT A WEASEL!!

sheesh!

WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME :cry: ? I'M TELLING MY MOM :cry: !!
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,27, 12] Pg. 34

Postby The Bison King on Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:50 pm

Gillipig wrote:
The Bison King wrote:
Gillipig wrote:
The Bison King wrote:
Gillipig wrote:Why did you decide to scratch the buffalo? You only need to fine tune it a bit and it would look awesome! It gave the map some grit that I thought was really needed. What you have now does look classier, but classy is not always good :)!

Because I'm the Bison King. I decided that I didn't want to portray one of my own loyal subjects being mauled to death by Lions. ;)

I'm glad you like it though.

Bisons and Buffalos are different animals you know ;)! Besides, I've always thought of you as the weasel humping a fish :o !

HE'S NOT HUMPING THE FISH! HE'S DANCING BECAUSE HE'S HAPPY THAT HE CAUGHT THE FISH! AND THAT'S AN OTTER NOT A WEASEL!!

sheesh!

WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME :cry: ? I'M TELLING MY MOM :cry: !!

MY CAPS LOCK BUTTON IS STUCK!!!!!
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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,15, 12] Pg. 31

Postby Oneyed on Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:30 am

Oneyed wrote:could you add one more "hill" between Murzag and Niger?


looks that this wasn´t read, so just to repeat ;)

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Re: Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [3,15, 12] Pg. 31

Postby The Bison King on Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:09 am

Oneyed wrote:
Oneyed wrote:could you add one more "hill" between Murzag and Niger?


looks that this wasn´t read, so just to repeat ;)

Oneyed

I did and I did:

-I added that extra dune between Niger and Murzag

Look at the latest version compared to the one a page or 2 back and you'll notice it.
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