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Not a bad idea, and I do love me a tonberry https://78.media.tumblr.com/af13839e...b7llo1_400.gif but if we can, I'd really like to just keep all the icons as VII-centric as possible rather than general FF. I'm trying to think of external ways other FF icons could be used aswell, like maybe in the FF boards outside the compilation we have here. |
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Hell House icon for mods.
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dude there's chocobos and tonberries and shit in FFVII iirc, so, no u :monster:.
I've no clue if there's anything discerning about the meme creatures in FFVII though. Also I vote for a hover title of "this guy are sick!" for e.g. the great old one users, :monster: |
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I want like a Honeybee icon or something! :lol:
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Icon could either be a bumblebee butt or Mukki's speedos, :monster:
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Okay plz tell me you're using the Shinra logo for something <333
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Eep, sorry I've been awol, peeps. I'll get to reading through all of this asap
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jkjkjk <3 I think we should definitely utilize our fantastic graphic staff (and token non-staff) members, Fancy, Flare and B to do up a new set of icons for everything. I was also going to suggest different coloured materia orbs for staff groups. Do we really need Staff Emeritus? It was quite a lengthy list at some point and only a couple of former staff are still around, seems most have left for a reason at some point. We still have Howl, Fangu and Carlie? (who else??) - I get that you want to acknowledge their contribution to the forum at some point or anything but it seems like a 'meh' to me. Or for other items we could definitely use other FF items or creatures.. 1/35th Soldier for our staff? :monster: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20100527171208 Greens for newbies/members under 100 posts because they're....green? :awesome: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20100529011433 Frog for general members inbetween? Non-staff/non-newbs? https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120401221749 |
I should mention I want the icons to look OK stacked next to each other for people (like myself) who will have more than one :monster:
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Depends on what the icons are for I suppose... like how many different categories and tiers sort of thing.
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So the idea is that we're moving away from layered titles. Someone with the titles "Mod, Content Creator, Donator" will have three icons to represent that in a neat line somewhere in their postbit (probably between the avatar and username).
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Gotcha. I went through the thread but it's still all confusing lol
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Somebody give me a comprehensible list of something so I can start designing the things! It’s my off day and I’m here to sip soju and draw for TLS. And I’m all out of soju. :megusta: LMAO JK CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH OF THAT SHIT but seriously. Do we want to have mini stickers of the main nine characters and assign roles based on that? Just stick with objects maybe? How’s this list
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I love the idea of Jenova's head for the Great Old Ones! For Banned maybe Shinra #26 (the rocket, the one thing that leaves the Planet for good)?
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Jenova's head sounds good, but hear me out, what about her eyeboob instead
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Damn, she's got beauty, she's got brains, she's the whole package. :monster:
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What I would like to propose is that we give the things a uniform style and border of sorts, so that visually it flows nicely. Channy for example has these MSN and AIM icons in her postbit, if there were e.g. a masamune next to it, it'd look er, weird? TL;DR the icons should have the same size.
And we should probably determine a size, :monster:. I'm thinking four in a row at most? |
Oi, to be clear, I was gonna draw them all on a button in a 500px by 500px file. Figured you lot would resize them from there to make them nice, smol, uniformed badges/buttons with cute little images in them. Will look a bit like the trophies you unlock on Steam except they’re all gonna be circles n shit.
Was sketching and the masamune doesn’t look too impressive in such small form tho lmao. Might do the one winged thing instead. I’ll upload some sketches sometime this week if you lot are fine with that? And you’ll see what I mean. <3 |
Yeah that makes sense, we could have larger versions on a profile page, :awesome:. Something tells me this'd be a custom feature though, or maybe there's a plugin system for it, we'll have to check.
There's also the thing where high DPI screens (mobile, etc) can request a 2x resolution version. Alternatively, SVGs. |
^It'll require custom CSS <3
This is why I suggested the materia orbs, we want some degree of uniformity so it doesn't look like clutter :monster: So from that angle I feel like we should be going for things that are more recognisable badges like as suggested the Shinra logo, Soldier logo etc. but there's no harm in doing mock ups of some other stuff and seeing how it looks? For reference here is a postbit on XF: https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...41/unknown.png The icons will go in either of the places highlighted in red. I prefer the space between the avatar and the username. |
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okay so i don't have a protoype of errthang i listed. :closedmonster:
but i will NOT be made a liar, dammit, i said i'd poast this week so here i am. :ffuuu: first of all, everyone please give a round of applause to B and pay tribute to her in cheeses, soy lattes, sexual favours, whatever she wants bc she collabed with me in this creative effort and if she hadn't been helping me with the linearts, then TBH i would've been fucked and probably not posting this week. :mon: right so here we go. BUTTONS!! What do we think? Note that the polished versions of whatever we end up using will look a lot more, well, polished and not so like ROUGH N SHIT like the Jenova, i literally took the black and white sketch and put it on multiply so i could colour it, but if we kept the Jenova head, I'd fine tune that shit, obvs. kk, ty in advance for your thoughts and feedback. :3 |
holy shit balls that Jenova head is seriously bitchin. So glad I'm a Great Old One :monster:
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Methinks, of the two, the Buster Sword is the more iconic weapon and thus holds more weight. Hero’s sword n all that. Besides! Cloud only began using it not when he was still fighting like a grunt, but like a 1st Class SOLDIER (after all of the mind fuckery and the five years of being involuntarily experimented on and the torture n shit :mon:). (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ |
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Also OMG, those lpok great Fancy!!! :excited: Thank you for the help B!!! :loveglomp: |
Someone mentioned Brigitta and sexual favours....I am here!
Ahem, those buttons are neat, both awesome and suitably compact. |
Those are bitchin', well done :)
I also love our FF7-ized AIM, MSN, and ICQ buttons, it's a shame they're obsolete now, haha. |
Those icons look amazing! I love them!!
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moar buttons??
my date cancelled on me so, consequently, i suddenly had all this extra time to work on making more buttons :alone:
lemme tell you upfront that this set is a hell of a lot uglier than the first bc it was just me scribbling up some ideas and colouring n shit. it made me appreciate B 1000% more than i already did. ty for the simple and clean lineart babe. anyway BUTTONS PARTE DEUX Right right, same deal, give me your thoughts. As you can see, I experimented some more with different button colours. Merci! |
Omg BITCH!!!!! These are amazing! I loooooove them, especially how the meteor, Cosmo Canyon and Highwind buttons turned out. They're all you, babe! I can't tell you enough how beautifully your efforts have turned out.
Possible improvements: 1. The button colour - Lifestream Green may not be the best colour to go for as it might blend in with the Xf forum's default colour palette. I would suggest a contrasting colour, like purples/reds/oranges/yellows.I accept any and all offers for sexual favours for all past, present and future projects I participate in. If this is what it takes I'll draw the whole goddamn forum. PS: Who dares cancel their date with you!? Lemme at em! Lemme at em!!!!!! https://i.embed.ly/1/image?url=https...854040d3dc5c07 |
These are really looking nice! :D My main thought right now, how do they look at much smaller sizes? Like, would the Cosmo Canyon show up clearly, for example?
Also what about a black feather or the black wing to represent Sephiroth instead of the Masamune? Also also, could maybe do the ultima weapon (the one cloud wields) instead for admins, and make mods with the buster sword? Hmm idk idk! I'm flashing back to those updated cookie monster award trophies we made :lol: |
Amazing. These are going to look great on the new forum.
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Badges looking fantastic - can't individually talk about them now due to time constraints but I echo the concern about how they'll look shrunk down, and for that reason I think we should stick to the more iconic/ less detailed logos (soldier logo, masamune, buster sword, meteor, wolf etc) but we can trial them all and see how they look for sure before making any solid decisions in that respect.
I'll give more detailed input in a bit :) |
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fuckin' buttons man.
^'lmfao @ i'll be back in a few hours lmao' i didn't even nap :mon:
anyway, here's how the icons looks 50x50 https://s20.postimg.cc/8r0yp1x4d/smol_buttons.png ....I think :monster: I uploaded it so that the file size wouldn't be resized but it's looking a widdle big to me. idk. ANYWAY. Put in Ultima, the bat, fixed up Cosmo Canyon. Shout out to Flare Bear for reminding me that she already made a render of Ultima and the nail bat for the TLS awards, so those are her works there. Shout out to my wife Brigitta for working so hard on the cosmo canyon lineart only for me to cut off most of it to show the dome LOL. Also shout out to wifey for suggesting the shit in the badges poke out a little out of the badges n shit. Makes it look moar dynamic. IF Y'ALL WERE CURIOUS Okay, so I went with B's suggestion to do just purple, red, yellow, and orange to pop against the lifestream colours. I just came up with this random ranking: Purple - Admins Orange - Mods/Old Ones Red - Donators Yellow - Contributors/Lower Staff/Ex-Staff |
YASSSS!!! That Cosmo Canyon badge can get itttt. Even if we forgo the Staff Emeritus title, we could probably allocate it to another title :P
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Mm, dat Ultima Weapon.
I love how they overflow a bit off the 'edge' of the icon. |
Dats some F A N C Y (;) ) buttons!
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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). |
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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 :mon: |
These are so awesome!
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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 |
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 :monster: <3 |
The current icons used on xf are 25x25 (see Lex's thing on https://thelifestream.net/xforums/in...-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, :monster:. |
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 :mon:
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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.
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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?) |
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 :monster: |
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 |
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, :monster: |
I think the shinra with green background looks fine tbh - if you know ff7 you'll know what it is :monster:
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See that might be my problem, I don't know FF7 :monster:
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