On Forum Titles and Roles - Important!

[fancy]

Mm, dat Ultima Weapon.

I love how they overflow a bit off the 'edge' of the icon.

Sexy yeah? I was honestly leaning towards either that or the Buster Sword to be the admit badge. Now I’m thinking Buster Swords might be for the mods whilst Admins get Ultima

And yessss, B was suggesting the objects ‘overflow’ completely. Maximises what you see.

Dats some F A N C Y ( ) buttons!

I want one.

LOL!

Hype!

They all look SO GOOD. And I didn't think the Cosmo Canyon one would look clear when it was shrunk down, but it actually looks great.

The only one I'm not sure about is the nailbat with the 'nope' circle, I think it obscures too much of the bat so it's not clear what it is (the fully visible nailbat is great).

OMG B AND I WERE LIKE DETERMINED TO MAKE COSMO CANYON WORK THIS MORNING/(her evening)!! It was looking hideous but I think we finally got it to a point that’s passable. Soooooo happy <3

B was saying something similar re:ban badge! Might just take the bat out entirely and just leave the ‘nope’ circle? Like, the banned folks don’t get anything special because FUCK THEM THEY’RE BANNED

 

[Geostigma]

These are so awesome!

 

[Lex]

They'll be smaller than 50x50. Probably somewhere around 15x15.

I like the colour idea but can we see them in the original TLS style colours aswell? That way we can compare the two, it might be nicer to go for a more monochromatic look rather than having colours that pop

Again looking great, fab work <3

 

[Channy]

I think maybe one overall colour that pops (a little?) for the icons so they don't get lost in the background, especially if they'll go down to 15x15 or 20x20... the purple is really nice, maybe a slightly darker purple?

Also, when they get shrunk down, the effect of the "metallic edge" on the button sort of gets lost and pixelated, maybe this should be darker to look cleaner?

Minor suggestions for such beautiful pieces <3

 

[Cthulhu]

The current icons used on xf are 25x25 (see Lex's thing on https://thelifestream.net/xforums/i...nforo-testing-thread.20557/page-4#post-787231), that will fit 4 of them side by side. 50x50 would be possible but then 4 of them will be as big as the avatars are atm, which might be a bit much.

I'm concerned personally that the postbit will start looking a bit cluttered if there's >4 icons on there, .

 

[Mother]

So taking on Lex and Channy's feedback, we've come up with another potential set of icons for a more clean, modern, uniform look. Have only managed to come up with three at this moment, but we would love to get some feedback on these before we make more

Spoiler: (Full versions)

Side note: While I like the look of the buster sword against the Lifestream Green badge, would it blend in a little too well with the rest of the colour scheme on Xf?

 

[fancy]

They'll be smaller than 50x50. Probably somewhere around 15x15.

So, I was right in thinking that they looked a little big after all.

Resized properly...

*tries not to cry, cries a lot*

Yeah, I dunno if that would work after all. B's might be the safer bet. Looks proper modern as well. We'll see when it's resized.

EDIT:
I took the liberty of resizing your set B.

EDITED EDIT:

The current icons used on xf are 25x25 (see Lex's thing on https://thelifestream.net/xforums/i...nforo-testing-thread.20557/page-4#post-787231), that will fit 4 of them side by side. 50x50 would be possible but then 4 of them will be as big as the avatars are atm, which might be a bit much.

I'm concerned personally that the postbit will start looking a bit cluttered if there's >4 icons on there, .

FUCKITY FUCK how did I miss this

Lemme resize these once more.

EDITED EDITED EDIT:

Both sets resized at 25x25 px

 

[Flare]

I have to admit, I love the stylized simplicity of the ones B posted. It definitely gives things a more modern feel and is easier to see! Although the designs are still a bit hard to make out at such a small size. Hmmm.

 

[InterfaceLeader]

I think having 4 max at 50x50 looks good on the new forum.

BUT I also like the fact the cookie monster fake ones on the test thread are square. It makes it a pleasing grid, and also means the shape of the icon isn't adding distracting angles into the overall layout.

(I also think it might help with the overall clarity of the icons when they are shrunk down?)

 

[Fangu]

I took a look at xf and changed the width and height a little, imo 50px is a bit too big. Something between 25 and 35 looks okay to me, although 35 is pushing it. That being said I think 25 is too small to do the icons justice.

Re: placement in the postbit - do remember to check where it lands on mobile. As it is now it lands under the user's user name right before their title. Which looks fine to me, but needs to be checked off.

I think consistently using Lifestream green as a background looks the best, it makes the motives themselves pop more

 

[Geostigma]

I have to agree with Fangu that 50px is far to large especially along side XF's minimalist aesthetic. They look great though.

I'm curious what they would look like with someone who has to many roles etc. lol. Like Yopy pointed out its a bit concerning thinking about how funky a postbit would look like in that circumstance.

I'm assuming since XF won't stretch the postbit it would just make a second line and leave an uneven amount of Icons on there huh? lol

 

[Cthulhu]

I think we started off at roughly 35px; the default style for the user titles thing is that they're bars, one underneath the other, which I changed to icon + text at first (or which I can change to icon+text). Takes up quite a bit of spaec though.

That said, I really like some of the ones at 25x25; the weapons are recognizable enough. The shinra and soldier logos are a bit too smol though, hard to recognize as such. Although the soldier one on the left side works, as does the wolf dude.

An eyeboob would still work,

 

[Fangu]

I think the shinra with green background looks fine tbh - if you know ff7 you'll know what it is

 

[Cthulhu]

See that might be my problem, I don't know FF7

 

[Fangu]

 

[Mother]

Re: making the colours uniform, I think that aesthetically works for the badges that Fancy first did where the item on the badge itself is fully coloured, because each item still has its own distinctive features. I don't personally think that would be as effective for the badges I did, however, because the 2D white shapes don't have the same visually associative triggers that colours do. Of course, if this isn't really an issue then s'all good.

I gave them all an update so we can explore all our options anyway

30 x 30px:

Spoiler: (Full versions)

Lifestream Green only:

Lifestream Green 30 x 30px:

 

[CrashOuch]

The details definitely still look good at 30x30 huh! I think all these are looking fucking fierce as hell!

 

[Flare]

I think they look great with the green background, though I do really like the red Shinra badge (and more colors are nice!)

 

[fancy]

sexy sexy sexy

What are we doing at this point tho? I'm done with the prototypes of style 1 and it's a matter of deciding which buttons we're keeping and making polished versions of those far as that's concerned. Should we do a community vote on which button style we want to keep maybe?

Comparison at 30px.

 

[Mother]

I'm down with facilitating a vote to decide! Just to reiterate what Fancy had already said earlier, I wouldn't make every badge a different colour. The purpose of the colours would be to represent different staff tiers. For example, purple for Admins, orange for Mods, yellow for other Staff and Contributors, red for Donators, etc.

 

[Channy]

I really like the lifestream green for the button, it should merge well with the new theme. Some thoughts:

hexagon shape is hella sexy - reminds me of the original cell/web-like shape that was prominent in AC covers/art. For some reason in some instances, the hexagon with icon over the edge makes the hexagon disappear.

SOLDIER symbol should stay within the shape, not go to the edge/over the edge, it seems to lose the shape as well. Same goes for Shinra I think.

Circle is also good and works well with the icons that bleed over the edge. Smods, Admins, Staff, Donators, Regular Members? It seems like a bit much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There's something sexy about the clean white icons... but that bitching Jenova head can't be lost.

I'm not too sure on the different colours for different levels... how many would there be?


Final thought re: size/icon numbers: could a plugin be installed so that, should a user have more than 3 icons, they can choose which to put on their post bit? Like, for some who are Admins/Smods, also Great Old Ones, Donators, Site Staff and more... Lex for example could have 4 of these icons. I don't think there are as many people like him but there he is

So what if in the user profile it shows all icons.. but when updating a user profile, you could choose which 3 icons you want represented on your post bit area. Or maybe even two. These are such awesome ideas for graphics, it would be a total shame to see them hindered because of size

 

[Lex]

The size limitation is a visual choice as well as being about fitting them on the actual postbit. The more big in-your-face things we have on there the more cluttered it's going to become, and we're trying to avoid the pitfalls staff fell into when setting up here and keep it looking neat.

This was one of the reasons I suggested materia orbs in the beginning. I knew detailed icons at a small size would be difficult to make out. That said I think all the ones you folks have designed are fucking beautiful.

What we should do is cover what roles will be getting a badge and then start assigning them to roles so we know what to do over there. If someone wants to put this to community vote it's up to them, tbh I think it might be easier to do a google survey or something rather than using the poll system on here because there are a lot of icons to choose from and a bunch of roles to assign them to.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Dear gods they're wonderful, and you're all wonderful for working on them. <3





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[Cthulhu]

I can get creative and put some of those on the test forums or at least a screenshot to see how they look. 30x30 could work but we'll have to limit it to 3 icons per row then.

 

[fancy]

Made the survey. Please vote!!