[WIPz] Swiveller's Sundries: Dunmer City Banners

Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:17 am

Clothier added:

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t68/Mr_Swiveller/tx_bannerd_clothing_01B.jpg

@ NZdawghaus - thank you for the links.
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Madison Poo
 
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:47 am

Here's a few fonts that might work for the script

http://www.byfonts.com/fonts/10585/_futurelic_sans_souci.php

http://www.byfonts.com/fonts/9556/mexlar.php

http://www.byfonts.com/fonts/126/lava_lava.php
Whoa, that lava lava font really looks "dunmeri" to me, I've actually downloaded those as well. Thanks for sharing NZ ;)
Clothier added:

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t68/Mr_Swiveller/tx_bannerd_clothing_01B.jpg

@ NZdawghaus - thank you for the links.
That looks awesome Swiveller. Obviously you're following the original design, but looking at it again makes me feel like the mannequin should have some sort of dunmeri identifying feature (pointed ears, red eyes, spiked hair, or something). Just a suggestion, it looks great!
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:18 pm

Dunmer danger sign added. With the help of a friend who's a graphic designer I've also been able to figure out a way to make the daedric font blend more naturally with the background.

...And I've added pointed ears to the mannequin. :-)

Screens coming later today - have got to be away to work in a bit.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:56 am

Those guar on the 'goods' texture are giving me a headache, LOL. It's difficult to determine what to do with them. Too much detail, and it looks like a drawing plastered on a piece of cloth.
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:45 pm

Those guar on the 'goods' texture are giving me a headache, LOL. It's difficult to determine what to do with them. Too much detail, and it looks like a drawing plastered on a piece of cloth.

You could always give it somewhat fractured-looking layer and paste the banner on with transparency. That way it would look like it was sued into the banner rather than painted over.
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:50 pm

You could always give it somewhat fractured-looking layer and paste the banner on with transparency. That way it would look like it was sued into the banner rather than painted over.
Sued? Did Rollie open up a law firm? Does he work for guar snacks? Or maybe marshmerrow? :P

Yes, a sewn in design should help prevent that painted over look.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:34 am

Sued? Did Rollie open up a law firm? Does he work for guar snacks? Or maybe marshmerrow? :tongue:

Yes, a sewn in design should help prevent that painted over look.

Ok I mixed the spelling, let me know when you learn Croatian. :P
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:17 am

Thank you for your suggestions. :-) I redid the guar, leaving out some of the detail:

200% more Guaritude

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t68/Mr_Swiveller/tx_bannerd_goods_01B.jpg

EDIT

Final version: http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t68/Mr_Swiveller/tx_bannerd_goods_01c.jpg
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:32 pm

Tavern added.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t68/Mr_Swiveller/tx_bannerd_tavern_01B.jpg
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:16 pm

Rollie approves.
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Jason King
 
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:13 pm

LOL, who is Rollie?
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:16 am

Either he is speaking of the amazing
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pack Guar in Morrowind
or a member here. lol
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:59 am

Either he is speaking of the amazing
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pack Guar in Morrowind
or a member here. lol

Ah, thanks! I forgot about him.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:15 am

Great work on it Mr. Swiveller
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:47 am

Thanks, Apel.

I've just finished tx_bannerd_welcome_01 (one of the easier ones to do) and am currently working on tx_de_banner_book_01, which I am painting in the same manner as I did the 'goods' and 'tavern' textures.
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Post » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:50 pm

These look amazing.

Am I allowed to be a super nitpick?

On the alchemy banner, the photoshop "outer glow" effect around the daedric font really jumped out at me as being out of place. Maybe it's because I use that effect so much myself and actively look for it. Some of your other banners don't use this effect and I think they look better. I realize that you probably did this to make the font clearer / stand out, but if it could be blended better with the rest of the banner, that would be awesome.

Same goes with the Tavern banner. The daedric font either has an outer glow effect or a blur. Either way the text doesn't look textured with the rest of the banner.

The text on the general goods and clothier banners both look fine and don't look out of place at all.

Again, super nitpicks and to be honest it might not even be noticeable in-game. It just happened to jump out at me when I looked at them. Superior work and I can't wait to add it to my game.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:28 am

You may indeed! :-)

The effect you see is a blur effect which I've used in an attempt to make the font blend more with the rest of the texture. I'll take another look and see if it can be improved. To me the font looks a bit too crisp without it.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:29 am

I like it very much. Do you think you also could colour the signs a bit in their environment? I'd think that the Hla Oad banner is a tint more green than the Ald-Ruhn banner... btw does an Ald-ruhn banner exist? It's only for the towns name banners, the rest is abfab!
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:24 am

Do you think you also could colour the signs a bit in their environment?

I like the idea of this, but I would appreciate this being optional. I'm a purist when it comes to texture replacers and I'd really just like to have higher-resolution versions of the banners without too much artistic license taken.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:10 am

I like it very much. Do you think you also could colour the signs a bit in their environment? I'd think that the Hla Oad banner is a tint more green than the Ald-Ruhn banner... btw does an Ald-ruhn banner exist? It's only for the towns name banners, the rest is abfab!

Such a thing is fairly easy to achieve, but looking at the Bethesda textures I cannot see a difference. As far as I can tell, they're all the same texture with different lettering.

There is no Ald-Ruhn banner; at least not on the Morrowind resource CD. There should be at least one Redoran banner in the town, but I haven't touched the Great House banners yet.
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Post » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:11 am

I've been thinking. Maybe instead of using a person for the clothier banner, a shirt and/or a set of pants would be more appropriate?
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