Graphics

[Buster's Uncle]

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[Geo]

Diving suit of the future?

No, since she's supposed to fall in the tech weenie category, I'd thought of mechanical ornaments like some SMAC leaders have (like Domai or Yang) on those "neck collars" of theirs.

[Buster's Uncle]

Tell me more...

[Geo]

Its not like I'd be using new graphic material in the foreseeable future, you know. Just giving my .

[JarlWolf]

Give her a neck collar with cables running from it along her arm, for some sort of futuristic device for power or something.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm still letting this percolate in the back of my brain...

[Buster's Uncle]

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9 structures adapted from GalCiv2, laid out to copy/paste into the .pcx of your next custom faction.  These are a lot of work to put together, so please be sure to credit me in the empty space of the .pcx.

[Buster's Uncle]

I just stumbled over some make-your-own-diplomacy-landscape fodder in a story about the Alberta tar sands.

Naturally, all of these would require some fungusing first, but plop a base in the middle, blur just so and size/crop, and you've got something serviceable...

[Buster's Uncle]

Four more.

[Crowley]

This seems like a prudent place to post what I've been fiddling with. The portrait is from the cover art to an old game called Game Over (yes, really): http://www.mobygames.com/game/game-over/cover-art

The only thing left to do with the graphics is for me to come up with a logo for the faction. That is proving to be surprisingly difficult.

[Buster's Uncle]

Logos are pretty much the easiest part.  Tell us more about your faction - a little free association should be all it takes to come up with a idea.

[Crowley]

I've got something to my liking for the faction logo now. That brings me to a related point: Is there a blank version of faction3.pcx anywhere for easy insertion of new logos?

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't think so - that would be a worthwhile little project...

You are going to share the finished faction graphic?

[Crowley]

I'll certainly share this. It's the least I could do after how helpful all the stuff here has been to me.

[Buster's Uncle]

...The problem with making a blank 3.pcx (and 2.pcx) is the punishment sphere shot - not only does it have two genders and aliens to deal with, the background the logo goes over is not black, and so not suitable for just any logo - they actually come in a variety of dark background colors.

Making one for one gender/color range would be a crappy utility - covering all the variations is going to be tedious and require an additional file to cover most of the options...