New wesnoth icon

highhole · Post by **highhole** » March 28th, 2006, 12:24 pm

I dont know how to make a raster icon file (sorry

).
But I like the idea.

I made the icon with two crossed staffs.
The idea with the swords is nice, too, but what sworsd I should took.
The swords from the new icons are good, but to small...
Could someone draw a bigger version, please?

toms · Post by **toms** » March 28th, 2006, 1:25 pm

The ultimate Battle for Wesnoth-Where lollipops cross!

Sorry, but thatÃ‚Â´s what it looks like to me.

Post by **Kestenvarn** » March 28th, 2006, 1:59 pm

Yeah, that's... that's pretty bad.

Good effort, but neon colors?

highhole · Post by **highhole** » March 28th, 2006, 2:14 pm

Ok, OK here is a version without the halos:

toms · Post by **toms** » March 28th, 2006, 2:22 pm

Much better. Could you improve the mage staff (nonevil) in any way?

Post by **turin** » March 28th, 2006, 10:20 pm

I would advise using the up-to-date weapon icons.

highhole · Post by **highhole** » March 29th, 2006, 1:18 pm

Is thisone good?

sparr · Post by **sparr** » March 29th, 2006, 1:27 pm

* OSX can use SVG icons, I think.
* If you think textured looks cannot be achieved in SVG then you're a few years behind.
* 128x128 is a respectable size. At least not as bad as scaling up horrible 32x32 icons from windows apps to fit a 96x96 grid

jacobolus · Post by **jacobolus** » March 29th, 2006, 2:14 pm

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.

highhole · Post by **highhole** » March 30th, 2006, 1:45 pm

Which pogramm I should use to creat a .svg file???
I've try to do that with gimp, but there I can't save .svg files.

Here's a version without the white background:

scott · Post by **scott** » March 30th, 2006, 11:53 pm

highhole wrote:Which pogramm I should use to creat a .svg file???
I've try to do that with gimp, but there I can't save .svg files.

Here's a version without the white background:

Inkscape is a nice program for creating .svg vector art.

Post by **Jetrel** » April 28th, 2006, 2:21 am

Of the following two icons, which do you guys think would be better for the OS X version? (The windows version isn't really a choice; the text wouldn't work at that size). I'm leaning slightly in favor of having the text overlay, but I'd like to know what you guys think.

I'll be committing the windows icon, and an update to the general logo (just the inclusion of the swords) in just a bit.

(PS - I'm aware of, and will be removing the "waviness" in some of the shadows on the mac icons - that's the result of using that ^$%# Lanzcos interpolation instead of Bicubic - Lanzcos often looks better, but occasionally has certain undesirable side effects.)

Post by **Jetrel** » April 28th, 2006, 3:09 am

Hmm. I'm not quite sure what the "Wesnoth-Icon" in the images directory gets used for. It's not 48x48, the Windows XP standard, rather it's 64x64. So I made a 64x64 version.

Anyways, I've committed that and the new logo with the crossed swords - look forward to it next release.

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » April 28th, 2006, 1:45 pm

As usual, good work Jetryl.

Post by **Quensul** » April 28th, 2006, 4:38 pm

Jetryl wrote:Of the following two icons, which do you guys think would be better for the OS X version?

For what it's worth, I prefer the text-less version. Perhaps it's just me, but I prefer icons that are, well, iconic. The sword and shield is plenty representative of Wesnoth, without the need to be explicit. Plus, IIRC the vast majority of OS X icons don't include text; it would fit in better without.

Regardless, they're both quite spiffy.