Baseball: King of Diamonds (v15 p.27)

[natty dread]

sure

[natty dread]

Are these better?

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[Victor Sullivan]

Yes, just fix the legend icon, dear

[natty dread]

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There.

Time for small?

[Victor Sullivan]

Yup.

[Evil DIMwit]

Wait, I'm not a hundred percent on this, but is the pitcher's mound supposed to have a little white bar thingy on it, or is that optional?

[Victor Sullivan]

Wait, I'm not a hundred percent on this, but is the pitcher's mound supposed to have a little white bar thingy on it, or is that optional?

Oh, yeah... Duh!

[natty dread]

Wait, I'm not a hundred percent on this, but is the pitcher's mound supposed to have a little white bar thingy on it, or is that optional?

I googled pitcher's mound, and it did show up on a lot of images. So here goes:

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Anything else?

[Evil DIMwit]

Cool. Let me see, now...

I'm wondering if the background/legend looks too plain, but I'm not sure what you'd put there.

[isaiah40]

Well you could put a couple of pictures as the background (really subdued of course) of say Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, etc. I think that would really fit in nicely.

[natty dread]

Well you could put a couple of pictures as the background (really subdued of course) of say Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, etc. I think that would really fit in nicely.

Yes but are we allowed to use their images?

[Evil DIMwit]

Here's an idea to zazz up all the legend pieces: Separate out the things in the corner with red baseball stitch borders, and give the corner background a texture like the surface of a baseball.

[Victor Sullivan]

The pitcher's mound is too small. It's supposed to be at least the width of a base.

[natty dread]

How's this?

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[Victor Sullivan]

The legend is mildly zazzed, but the pitcher's mound still needs fixed.

[natty dread]

It's supposed to be at least the width of a base.

Yeah, and baseballs aren't actually the size of players' heads, and pitchers aren't actually giant walking gloves, and OMG! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT FREAKISHLY GIANT BATTER!

[Evil DIMwit]

What I meant by the stitch thing was something more to the tune of this:

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(The holes in the white surfaces just mean that the legend component should go over the white surface)

If you can get a kind of leathery look to the white surfaces, I think that could make for a fairly striking effect.
You might wish to not do it for the upper right corner since that's where the two home runs landed.

[natty dread]

Ah, I see! Yes, I can see that could be a neat effect. And yeah, I think leaving out the upper right corner would be best.

I'll get on it...

[natty dread]

Something like this?

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[Evil DIMwit]

1. Maybe make the outside text, minimap, and chart a bit smaller so they don't ride over the stitchy outline
2. Try a darker background for the map itself to contrast better with the white corners. Maybe something that's not a radial gradient, since the map has plenty of that going on everywhere.

[natty dread]

Ok here's a background that's just a darker version of the previous

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And here's a linear version

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Which is better? I can't decide.

[isaiah40]

Both look good.

One little nitpick, Ball 5 should be where ball 8 is and then you can move ball 7 to where ball 5 is now and then you can put ball 8 to where ball 7 is. Does that make sense?

[natty dread]

How about I just swap 5 and 6?

[Evil DIMwit]

Of those two, I prefer the linear version.

[natty dread]

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If nobody has any more complaints, I'm starting the small map.