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These portraits all look great. The only slightly off thing about the ogres, it seems to me, is that they look really *clean*, like they live someplace easy and just stepped out of the shower. Being a bit scraped up, with some dirt, scars, scabs, etc. would go a long way to making them look more unp...

If you’re going to design a font or even just a logotype and you want it to work well, I really would recommend starting a discussion about it at typophile. You’ll get much better critique there than you will here (no offense to kitty et al – for real, the guys and gals over there know their stuff)....

You’re right, it’s possible to read text in a color scheme with *some* value contrast (from the scheme you drew from Monet’s painting the CIELAB lightnesses of the background and foreground are respectively 48 and 57). (see image) use3870-gray.png If you get rid of the value contrast altogether thou...

Heavy weight and strong stress are hallmarks of blackletter fonts, as is limited negative space. The font has already been stripped of lot of interesting detail to make it more legible, it is about as simple and streamlined as it can to still pass as a blackletter. Reducing the weight would risk lo...

The problem here is that there is not enough distinction between positive and negative space in the text, or between the letter shapes and the texture inside and around them. Both the letters themselves and the background are visually busy and made up of a mix of values from medium-light to medium-d...

I’m really not kidding about asking for advice at typophile (I’d make a post there myself, but that *would* be presumptuous). I think the overall concept for the letters is fine, but I’d guess the advice of the experts over there could make a dramatic improvement. I’m not really a member of that com...

Hopefully it’s not presumptuous of me to say that I think the current logotype letter shapes need a lot of work. In particular, the apparent x height is inconsistent, and the “texture” (density of positive vs. negative space) varies quite a bit from letter to letter. Parts are pretty cramped seeming...

You post is a reasonable start to a "color theory" education. Unfortunately though, the Wikipedia "color theory" article is rather deficient. The color circle picture you show is not nearly as useful as it could be, because it obscures the most fundamental perceptual contrast bet...

When building with XCode, I get the following error: Linking /Users/jrus/wesnoth/MacCompileStuff/build/BattleForWesnoth.build/Wesnoth/Battle for Wesnoth.build/Objects-normal/ppc/Battle for Wesnoth can't locate framework for: -framework SDL_ttf I have this framework installed in /Library/Frameworks/....

I just replayed HttT using the silver mage strategy. ... The best was on Test of the Clan. I defeated all four leaders on turn 23. I guess you captured a village near a leader,go out of it and let the silver mages pop up? :wink: Yes, that's the idea. I got extremely lucky on the last leader, who ca...

Note that vertical lines in the bricks on the side walls should still be vertical. you need to skew the bricks, not rotate them.

sparr wrote:* OSX can use SVG icons, I think.

Huh?

They're 128x128 bitmaps. Though 10.4 has support for 256x256 icons, and it's possible that the Finder will support showing these in 10.5. Icons should probably be made as SVG, but then need to be rasterized.

Valley of the Dead is so much easier with 3 or 4 silver mages. Stategy: send a few horses/knights north and south to grab villiages near the enemy liches. Send a bunch of new fighters w. shamans after them to delay enemy baddies. Make straight for the walking corpses with the main force. With this s...

Tcoloring is a bad idea for portraits. Instead, a separate layer with an alpha channel should be used for portions which change color. These could be made magenta, and then hue shifted to the appropriate color. But in portraits, unlike in tiny unit art, magenta hues might be necessary for non-tcolor...