Xorak on 23/5/2011 at 04:15

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http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg708/scaled.php?server=708&filename=r18.gif&res=gal

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/9955/r18working16s.png

Nameless Voice on 25/10/2012 at 22:57

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Arise, thread!

With the release of 1.19, this project has been resurrected.
There's a lot of activity happening in (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140187) this thread over in The Editor's Guild.

There are a lot of unfinished textures in this thread, which were never fully polished or completed.

Kolya, you never really finalised any of your textures - what happened to those?


Xorak:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2707/banner7otherd.png
I actually liked the creases in this version, which were removed from the later versions.
The crest in the middle always looked wrong, in every single version of this texture. I don't quite know how to make it look more part of the fabric and less like something glued onto the front. The circles also seem too clean and circular, whereas the ones on the original were fairly indistinct.

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/1565/stonenewsmall.png
This is a little too monochromatic compared to the original, which had darker, redder and lighter sections that gave it a little more character.

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5715/greensmall.png
The various parts could do with a little nudging to fit closer into the alignment of the original texture.
Compare (http://nameless.zanity.net/epterrain/compareImage.php?family=ramirez&texture=column1a&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg64.imageshack.us%2Fimg64%2F5715%2Fgreensmall.png) here (It's easier to see if you turn off the automatic fading and just use the instant mouseover fading.)

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3244/rampillar4fsmall.png
The way this texture is used, this just doesn't work as a drop-in replacement. The original is ambiguous enough that it looks OK when the entire main section (the section that isn't as wide as the capital and plinth in your version) is placed onto a square surface. Those same square surfaces just look wrong with this texture. ((http://i49.tinypic.com/wjz88k.jpg) Screenshot demonstrating this.)

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7199/r19temp4f.png
The pattern at the centre of this looks like Celtic knotwork in the original, rather than a flowery pattern.

Xorak on 26/10/2012 at 08:11

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Don't know if I should be posting here about these textures, but I'll probably just redo some of those textures when I get time again to get going on them. That crest was the first complex texture I ever attempted, and I made quite a bit of progress in my own skill just from the evolution of that single texture from first to last. Looking back on it, it's actually better than I remembered though. I'm much better at drawing and airbrushing freehand than I was then. It has too much of a shadow right around the border giving the illusion of it sticking out.

But I'm kind of embarrassed that I even posted that last one with the knotwork, or the metal one on the previous page. They look pretty crummy. Even the texture of the two statues needs the arms changed around a bit. Their arms are too short.

jtr7 on 26/10/2012 at 09:15

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The banners should be embroidered and with piping, don't you think, maybe even gilded or with metallic thread and stained? A lot of the fan-made banners look like spray-painted or airbrushed canvas, or at least like color was applied and even the cloth itself was never dyed.

LarryG on 26/10/2012 at 20:13

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No, the point of this post is to get folk involved in this HUGE undertaking who are graphics artist types but not DromEder types. These are folk who don't visit TEG but who can contribute their artistic talents to completing a canonically correct high resolution enhancement package for terrain textures.