A spontaneous community faction project.

[Davyboy]

Interesting. 

How close would you say you are to being finished?  I assume you want me to do Branson2.pcx and Branson3.pcx?  I usually don't bother, but I wouldn't mind.

Kil, would you like to describe what cleaning up you think the logo needs, or even do it yourself?

Pretty close. I really would be grateful for a version of the other .pcx's. I'm finished for tonight (your time +6hrs) but intend to try 'him' in a contemporaneous SMACX tomorrow and also run him a couple of times as AI. I think the ver1.6 file is about as good as I can make it -- I took Kil's criticisms on board and rewrote the datalinks. I've had more than a few very refreshing games. And they weren't easy imho.

BUncle, If you could post a copy of whatever you have for the Virgin logos I'll have a bit of time over the w/e to knock the Branson2 and 3 pcxs out. My opinion was that the Hive versions have a female occupant in the Punishment Sphere, which looked a bit outré really, so I'm putting a male oriented version together involving a cap from "loseman.wve" which I'll hopefully post up if anyone's interested.

[Buster's Uncle]

You're in luck; I did save a largish copy - this is just the Virgin Galactic logo hue-shifted.

[Davyboy]

Perfect.
I'll even have a go at deriving some gold coloured bits for monument pics etc.

Thanks Man.

[Kilkakon]

Do you want me to have my bash at the logo and/or sea city?

[Buster's Uncle]

It would be fine by me.

[Kilkakon]

I'll check what Davy says/does, wouldn't want to repeat work he's done.

[Davyboy]

Fine by me too.

I've got a logo on a (now male PS captive) which I faked up as noted previously. But I've had trouble getting gold coloured logos for diplo / monument use. This is my current offering but it's less than ideal.

[Buster's Uncle]

It seems like it does have too much white left around the edges, but it's hard to see what can be done with the thing.

[Davyboy]

It seems like it does have too much white left around the edges, but it's hard to see what can be done with the thing.

I'm not too bothered about the white highlights -- with an icon derived from an iris there are never going to be any regular shapes / shaping to line up with much. I was more p*ssed off with my own colour shifts / inverts to get the gold iconlets.

I'm better pleased with THIS offering (even though the 'old-gold' look seems to have copied over as bronze.

[Davyboy]

@BUncle and @Kilkakon

This was the intermediate template and the moviecapture that I faked it up from. Bearing in mind that it's rough, and also that a mucking great FacIcon would cover the central stuff, does it have ANY merit?

[Buster's Uncle]

It has merit.

It seems like it does have too much white left around the edges, but it's hard to see what can be done with the thing.

I'm not too bothered about the white highlights -- with an icon derived from an iris there are never going to be any regular shapes / shaping to line up with much. I was more p*ssed off with my own colour shifts / inverts to get the gold iconlets.

I'm better pleased with THIS offering (even though the 'old-gold' look seems to have copied over as bronze.

Maybe try it with the black removed and the contrast on the rest cranked up around 40%?

[Davyboy]

Or even go for the embossed, gold-effect as though mimicking a hit record as it were?

[Buster's Uncle]

Ooooh!

[Davyboy]

It looks greenish on this page but not so much in Gimp. (and the white bits don't matter anymore)

[Buster's Uncle]

But how will it look in the SMAC(X) palette?  You might want to hue-shift that about 10%, depending.