Netherlands [Quenched]

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:51 pm

HI AGAIN LONE, THIS MAP WAS STARTED WAY BEFORE I LEFT AND IT WAS GREAT THEN, IT WAS BETTER THEN THAN IT IS NOW, QUENCH!

Lone.prophet · Post by **Lone.prophet** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:23 pm

i know what blur and thins meant just wanted to see if theres more to improve before i get my hands on it

MarVal · Post by **MarVal** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:53 pm

Lone.prophet wrote:i know what blur and thins meant just wanted to see if theres more to improve before i get my hands on it

Oké, then

Grtz
MarVal

Lt. Strike · Post by **Lt. Strike** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:29 am

i think you should give the territories from the smame continent 1 steady colour and a little brighter

cairnswk · Post by **cairnswk** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:43 am

Coleman wrote:I think you may need a blur on a lot of the small map borders. They look scratchy, for lack of a better word coming to mind for me at the moment.

Lone.prophet, I am inclined to agree with Coleman on the remarks above, and i beleive it also translates to the large map.

I have to say that I am still not entirely happy with the two reds at the tops of the legend list as they are very close together in colour, whereas all the other colours are quite distinctive. I'm not asking you to change them altogether, but is there anything you might be able to do to make them more distinct?

Apart from the above...a very clean map. Well done.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:49 am

cairnswk wrote:
Coleman wrote:I think you may need a blur on a lot of the small map borders. They look scratchy, for lack of a better word coming to mind for me at the moment.
Lone.prophet, I am inclined to agree with Coleman on the remarks above, and i beleive it also translates to the large map.

I have to say that I am still not entirely happy with the two reds at the tops of the legend list as they are very close together in colour, whereas all the other colours are quite distinctive. I'm not asking you to change them altogether, but is there anything you might be able to do to make them more distinct?

Apart from the above...a very clean map. Well done.

Use gaurtucian blur to blur the lines, it works well

Lone.prophet · Post by **Lone.prophet** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:48 am

ok hope the borders are better this way

gimil · Post by **gimil** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:24 am

can we have some kind of boarder around te water please? Right now it kinda doesnt look nice. Even if its a faint one. I jsut feel it needs it.

Lone.prophet · Post by **Lone.prophet** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:16 am

sry gimil it was an issue way back and we decided no lines there

and people i need comments

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:30 am

I THINK QUENCH

Lone.prophet · Post by **Lone.prophet** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:45 pm

ill upload the XML tomorrow

freak87 · Post by **freak87** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:37 pm

lone i think it looks awesome

but is it just me or does the red in the flag looks diffrent between the large map and the small map?

MarVal · Post by **MarVal** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:50 pm

Great job, we shall play it in the Dutch tourney for sure...

I like the style and most of them the armycircles, Awesome!

Grtz
MarVal

cairnswk · Post by **cairnswk** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:25 pm

lone.prophet....i have asked this question twice before....the red rectangle on the legend shows (particularly on the small map) that these two colours are very close.

Is there anything you can do to make them more distinguishable in colour on the legend by lightening the first one for instance so that the colours are not so close?

Unit_2 · Post by **Unit_2** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:36 pm

what was wonrg with the very first one? the grafics were very good.

RjBeals · Post by **RjBeals** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:40 pm

Lone.prophet wrote:

Hmm... I kinda like this map?

I really really don't like the army circles. I think they look really out of place. It's like some kind of pegboard. I think you should really lose or lessen the drop shadows. Did you ever consider not using army circles? You really don't need them for this map. Your countries are clearly defined. If your circles are on a separate layer, could you turn it off and post a map without them?

The spheres that hold the bonus amounts also look a little out of place. The bevel on the numbers makes them blurry. I can read them, but it just doesn't look as good as it could. Too much inner shadow i think.

I'm not sure I like the different shades of the same color for the countries. And I definitely would not put the brown/orange right beside the tan/yellow areas in the center. Even not being color blind, they still blend in to each other. But I do like the bold colors, especially the red & green.

Sorry I didn't vote in the bridges poll - but I do not like them. I think it's the way they extend onto the lands. I would prefer closed borders, with some sort of line connectors - but I guess it's been polled & voted. So be it.

It looks like when you reduced the size for the small map, some of the country names got blurred. The "O" in Ovenjissel and the "U" in Utecht jump out at me. If you just flattened the map and resized it, try resizing just the map layers and keeping the text layer as is (and the army circle layer also). Then adjust the font's as needed on the smaller map. I think it will help. I did that for my Italy map and it worked well.

I think your ocean water came out great, and I really like the subtle patterns behind the territories. The windmill is not needed and looks out of place to me. And I think the flag behind the legend is screwing with me also.

But - keep it up Lone Prophet. You'll get there. You've done great so far. Hope I wasn't to critical - just trying to help. And most of that is just my opinion.

spiesr · Post by **spiesr** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:44 pm

Suffle the colors so the maroon is now light blue, light blue is orange, and orange is maroon...

serious_conq · Post by **serious_conq** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:20 am

i defenitely like a dutch map, and according to me, if you leave out the wind mill you kinda leave out all decoration stuff thats usually on other maps. A waste if you remove it, I think.

furthermore I have no comments, so carry on with it and I hope to play with it soon!

ParadiceCity9 · Post by **ParadiceCity9** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:38 pm

I still like the old version. Make a poll on whether or not you should bring back the old version.

gimil · Post by **gimil** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:18 pm

ParadiceCity9 wrote:I still like the old version. Make a poll on whether or not you should bring back the old version.

I very much like hte version its crisp and clean. I have two very small concerns.

1. The stroke you used on the legends is pixalated to solve this reduce the opacitly and experiment with a white outerglow to try and soften it up.

2. The damn boarder is needed around the river in the dead territory lol. I know its been discussed before but i dont see how the community could agree that its better no to have them it just gives me a horrible feeling inside.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:20 pm

gimil wrote:I know its been discussed before but i dont see how the community could agree that its better not to have them it just gives me a horrible feeling inside.

Sexual Inuendo?

Anyways, I agree.

gimil · Post by **gimil** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:22 pm

unriggable wrote:
gimil wrote:I know its been discussed before but i dont see how the community could agree that its better not to have them it just gives me a horrible feeling inside.
Sexual Inuendo?

Anyways, I agree.

isnt sexual suppose to make you feel good inside

MPL · Post by **MPL** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:44 pm

Why hasn't it been Quenched??

gimil · Post by **gimil** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:04 pm

MPL wrote:Why hasn't it been Quenched??

because there is still discussion ongoing

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:05 pm

RjBeals wrote: I really really don't like the army circles. I think they look really out of place. It's like some kind of pegboard. I think you should really lose or lessen the drop shadows. Did you ever consider not using army circles? You really don't need them for this map. Your countries are clearly defined. If your circles are on a separate layer, could you turn it off and post a map without them?

The spheres that hold the bonus amounts also look a little out of place. The bevel on the numbers makes them blurry. I can read them, but it just doesn't look as good as it could. Too much inner shadow i think.

I'm not sure I like the different shades of the same color for the countries. And I definitely would not put the brown/orange right beside the tan/yellow areas in the center. Even not being color blind, they still blend in to each other. But I do like the bold colors, especially the red & green.

Sorry I didn't vote in the bridges poll - but I do not like them. I think it's the way they extend onto the lands. I would prefer closed borders, with some sort of line connectors - but I guess it's been polled & voted. So be it.

It looks like when you reduced the size for the small map, some of the country names got blurred. The "O" in Ovenjissel and the "U" in Utecht jump out at me. If you just flattened the map and resized it, try resizing just the map layers and keeping the text layer as is (and the army circle layer also). Then adjust the font's as needed on the smaller map. I think it will help. I did that for my Italy map and it worked well.

I think your ocean water came out great, and I really like the subtle patterns behind the territories. The windmill is not needed and looks out of place to me. And I think the flag behind the legend is screwing with me also.

But - keep it up Lone Prophet. You'll get there. You've done great so far. Hope I wasn't to critical - just trying to help. And most of that is just my opinion.

i agree with everything above except for the army circles. they do look out of place and they need a bit of tweaking but removing them completely is wrong.

imagine blue armies in zuid. completely unreadable.