PSUMA merit ribbon - Page 5

martyr · 2004-09-21, 10:45 PM

i'm using a combination (as usual) of corel draw for the ugly ones and photoshop for the nicer ones.

i'll post a psd in a sec

Baneblade · 2004-09-21, 10:45 PM

Hmm... those colors seem a bit dull. Is that how it would look ingame? Could be the PSU background hmm...

Maybe the purple instead of the teal, it is after all the more common representative color for the VS.

Mag · 2004-09-21, 10:46 PM

This didn't look too bad.

EarlyDawn · 2004-09-21, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by Mag

This didn't look too bad.

I like it.

martyr · 2004-09-21, 10:53 PM

remember these are going on black shoulder pads, and that's about half-sized (width)

edit:
for you builders,
here's the palette i got from spork (i blew it up and labeled it), and
this is the psd i'm working with

Electrofreak · 2004-09-21, 10:54 PM

It needs to utilize 10 pixels. Basically it has to be a 1 x 10 pixel image, though I put them together using a 5 x 50 setup with 5x5 pixel squares, just so I can better see what I'm doing in Paint.

(I still like my

the best

)

Mag · 2004-09-21, 10:55 PM

I can tweak the size.

EarlyDawn · 2004-09-21, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by martyr

remember these are going on black shoulder pads, and that's about half-sized (width)

So be it. That means any black conflicts with TR are resolved. I say go with Mag's then.

martyr · 2004-09-21, 10:58 PM

mine are all 40x4, but they do need to be 10x1 when i submit, and they'll have to use the colors from that palette... which, unfortunately, is heavily artifacted. it'll be sort of guesswork between spork and i for the colors.

edit: early, what i mean is that you lose a lot of space and contrast by using black on the ends

edit2 for early: http://www.planetside-universe.com/f...5&postcount=11

Electrofreak · 2004-09-21, 11:00 PM

I don't really like mags because the black will blend in with the shoulder pad making it look too stubby, and just having 3 empire color blocks next to eachother is kinda... unoriginal.

*cough*

*cough*

ok ok I'll stop

Mag · 2004-09-21, 11:01 PM

2nd attempt.

Electrofreak · 2004-09-21, 11:02 PM

eh, now the red is bigger than the 2 other colors. Still don't like. And is that using 10 stripes? remember it HAS to be in a 10 x 1 format, or any multiple of that format for display purposes. My suggestion, open Paint, make a 50 pixel width, 5 pixel height canvas, set the zoom level to 800%, and put it together using 5x5 squares.

Mag · 2004-09-21, 11:14 PM

Tried to stick an arrow in there, didn't come out too well.

Electrofreak · 2004-09-21, 11:18 PM

yeah... can't use arrows, only 10 squares next to one-another... so no letters or symbols are possible. Otherwise I'd be submitting this:

Originally Posted by martyr

turns out that the merit design is up to me - so i'll do it if nobody else gives me a good one. but if you do give me a good one, i'll translate it to their palette and submit it.

here's how the merit ribbons can be built (i know, it's pretty restrictive, sorry)

ten color bars in a row:

Code:

___________________
    |0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|

so an image with ten bars (you can do a 10x1 image if you want, but i'll hate you a little bit) would be great.

martyr · 2004-09-21, 11:21 PM

here's how mine would look.

the contrast i was going for looks like it'll work out well - i want it to be visible from across the room so people'll come up and look at it