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[cccino]

Thanks, what did you think about the shadow I added? I need a second opinion.

Well... actually I do, to an extent. At the very least it means it will work well with the shield_flarp_xxx.bmp's adjusted to be suitable to both shields and flags.

 

[cccino]

PROBLEM #4 IS SOLVED

Ok, so I was thinking, what exactly is the shield that lies underneath?. So I put a transparent strip across my test shield, and voila:

That's correct, the mysterious shield appearing on the war message box is that of SPA. To confirm, I now put a transparant strip across shield_spa.bmp, with the following result:

Nothing underneath.

So, basically, there is only the Spanish shield lying underneath. Why, well who knows. But it means that once you replace the SPA shield the problem will... go away!

 

[Birger]

Excellent work cccino!

 

[cccino]

As I said earlier (at least, I think I said it...), changing the shape of the small shield means changing some of the interface graphics, namely the 'country info' sidebar that has a small shield on the left and the religion icon on the right, both in frames. The frames need to be there, because you need to be able to click on them to access DP/religion sliders.

Meanwhile, some suggestions...

Religion icons with BJ shape:

Religion icons with no shape (suitable for overlay on any shape shield?):

Looking into interface right now

 

[Birger]

Excellent work as always my friend, good to have some help with this massive thing...

For the religion shields, the latin/orthodox ones could be coa shaped.
The muslim round or rectangular, the rest just rectangular.

EDIT:

See how sweet it looks with the shadow.

 

[cccino]

Well... here's the problem:

For multiple small shield shapes, you need buttons that will fit for them all.

Oh, and here's what I meant with the message banner-flag shadows:

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(cheesy edit)





[edit: I don't want to know why you just changed your title to 'sexy boy' ]

 

[Birger]

Oh right, now I remember... o
You're the expert, what do you think we should use?

Ok, but the message banner shouldn't be that big problem, we'll can try to make a more squared shadow or something.

I've been listening to Air, hence the title. Changed it now.

 

[|AXiN|]

*drools*

Wow - thats some seriously impressive work, BJ

And go the completely random Spanish shield placement.

I have a small request, though - for the religious icons, would it be possible to do both the normal strip and the revised one, which I greatly prefer?

 

[cccino]

For the religion shields, the latin/orthodox ones could be coa shaped.
The muslim round or rectangular, the rest just rectangular.

How's this?

[edit: made muslim shields more round]

 

[Birger]

Looking good, but how will it look in the religion shields?

Otherwise I think that these will look great.

 

[cccino]

Haven't been able to work out anything good . I'll have a think about it tomorrow.

 

[Birger]

No worries, take your time. I'm glad you're helping out.

 

[unmerged(5110)]

Birger, IIRC, in the sprite graphics, among other graphics, they used a light blue for shadow... can you try it with your shields to see if a light blue in a certain palette number will produce the same shadow effect?

 

[Nikolai II]

Looking good, but how will it look in the religion shields?



Otherwise I think that these will look great.

I think transparent would be best too - for those rare but not unique cases when a nation gets a religion not really expected - Nippon goes catholic or Mantua province is converted by Ottoman and then rebels to independence..

 

[Birger]

Birger, IIRC, in the sprite graphics, among other graphics, they used a light blue for shadow... can you try it with your shields to see if a light blue in a certain palette number will produce the same shadow effect?

I don't know it that will work, I think that only applies to the sprite graphics, but I can give it a try.

 

[Mad King James]

For the sprites, it isn't the color but rather index color value (the second index value) and it's usually red (00FF00) not blue

Need any of my sources BJ?

 

[cccino]

For the sprites, it isn't the color but rather index color value (the second index value) and it's usually red (00FF00) not blue

Need any of my sources BJ?

That's what I've noticed looking through the interface graphics. I was trying to get the semi-transparency to work on the religion shields but after much mucking around I haven't figured out the palette. Best I can do is to get the shading to work but the rest of the colours corrupt (8-bit) or no shading at all (24-bit). I don't know if you'll be able to get it to work on your loverly 24-bit shields...

[edit: MKJ - I think red is FF0000, at least that's what PS is telling me ]

 

[cccino]

Got the semi-transparency to work by using the colortable .\Gfx\palette\Palette.act and changing the first two to meet my transp. and semi-t. requirements. Not the best range of colours, though. EU was obviously forcing this palette on my test graphic (with semi-t), but it wasn't doing it before. Weird.

 

[cccino]

Cleaned up the icons a little bit:

As for small shield buttons, well I've tried out a few things, but I'm no artist. I guess just use the old shape small shields for now?

I have a small request, though - for the religious icons, would it be possible to do both the normal strip and the revised one, which I greatly prefer?

Not sure what you mean by 'do both', but I've posted them as bmps so you can download them from the page for use at your leisure .

 

[unmerged(5110)]

Great job, guys, that was exactly what I meant

Yeah I was pretty sure that it would work for non-sprite graphics too because I'll be that the game uses the same "engine" to draw all of the graphics -- if you guys have HoI they use the shadow thing to draw ports and stuff.

In fact, it would be really awesome if you could get those religious symbols to cast shadows on the map and stuff