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Re: [Official] British Isles P52 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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max is gr8 wrote:I like the mountains, did you make your own brush?


Damn, how did you guess?
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Definitely much easier for me to read that text on the small map. Good to know I'm not the only one who's eyes aren't what they used to be.
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max is gr8 wrote:I like the mountains, did you make your own brush?

I disagree. They are shit. 8-)
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gimil wrote:
max is gr8 wrote:I like the mountains, did you make your own brush?


Damn, how did you guess?


I've been trying to make my own brushes on Photo Shop for ages and failed miserably
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Re: [Official] British Isles P52 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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The bottom left legend text has a slight glow in the small - but not in the large?!

Should it be consistent?

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I think it should I like it.
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Re: [Official] British Isles P52 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

Post by iancanton »

the brighter, less watercoloured, look is closer to the spirit of the original than what we had. the isle of wight appears to be rather too distant from the mainland. can u move it closer? if u need to have a decent distance for the sea link to be clearly evident, then it's possible to make the dots form a curved, rather than straight, line. hadrian's wall is missing an apostrophe, but the wall itself is looking good!

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A couple of your borders ned to be tidied up:

Tayside - the border looks messy as it goes beneath the mountains
Strathclyde/Lothian & Borders - the lines cross rather than meet
Westmorland/Yorkshire - it looks like there's a small 'clump' of about 1 or 2 pixels
Northern Ireland/Border Counties - the border overlaps by about 1px
South Leinster - the border ends before it reaches the edge
Midlands/Essex&Cambs - the boder doesn't quite join, it needs another px or so
East Anglia/Lincolnshire - another 1 or 2 pixel overlap

I think the wall is slightly transparent as you can see the borderline through it - the blue line is more obvious

I'm still not convinced by the mountains between England/Wales... it's not the mountains themselves, but the way that your borders interact with them - it just looks a bit messy. Do you need to have the mountains in Avon; would a blue border suffice?
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MrBenn wrote:A couple of your borders ned to be tidied up:

Tayside - the border looks messy as it goes beneath the mountains
Strathclyde/Lothian & Borders - the lines cross rather than meet
Westmorland/Yorkshire - it looks like there's a small 'clump' of about 1 or 2 pixels
Northern Ireland/Border Counties - the border overlaps by about 1px
South Leinster - the border ends before it reaches the edge
Midlands/Essex&Cambs - the boder doesn't quite join, it needs another px or so
East Anglia/Lincolnshire - another 1 or 2 pixel overlap

I think the wall is slightly transparent as you can see the borderline through it - the blue line is more obvious

I'm still not convinced by the mountains between England/Wales... it's not the mountains themselves, but the way that your borders interact with them - it just looks a bit messy. Do you need to have the mountains in Avon; would a blue border suffice?


Small , large or both benny?
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small with a random mountain on the large
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gimil wrote:
MrBenn wrote:A couple of your borders ned to be tidied up:

Tayside - the border looks messy as it goes beneath the mountains
Strathclyde/Lothian & Borders - the lines cross rather than meet
Westmorland/Yorkshire - it looks like there's a small 'clump' of about 1 or 2 pixels
Northern Ireland/Border Counties - the border overlaps by about 1px
South Leinster - the border ends before it reaches the edge
Midlands/Essex&Cambs - the boder doesn't quite join, it needs another px or so
East Anglia/Lincolnshire - another 1 or 2 pixel overlap

I think the wall is slightly transparent as you can see the borderline through it - the blue line is more obvious

I'm still not convinced by the mountains between England/Wales... it's not the mountains themselves, but the way that your borders interact with them - it just looks a bit messy. Do you need to have the mountains in Avon; would a blue border suffice?


Small , large or both benny?

I was primarily looking at the large map, but I think they're on both ;-)

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MrBenn wrote:...and for the record my name is not Benny [-X


That's probably my fault!!

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MrBenn wrote:
gimil wrote:
MrBenn wrote:A couple of your borders ned to be tidied up:

Tayside - the border looks messy as it goes beneath the mountains
Strathclyde/Lothian & Borders - the lines cross rather than meet
Westmorland/Yorkshire - it looks like there's a small 'clump' of about 1 or 2 pixels
Northern Ireland/Border Counties - the border overlaps by about 1px
South Leinster - the border ends before it reaches the edge
Midlands/Essex&Cambs - the boder doesn't quite join, it needs another px or so
East Anglia/Lincolnshire - another 1 or 2 pixel overlap

I think the wall is slightly transparent as you can see the borderline through it - the blue line is more obvious

I'm still not convinced by the mountains between England/Wales... it's not the mountains themselves, but the way that your borders interact with them - it just looks a bit messy. Do you need to have the mountains in Avon; would a blue border suffice?


Small , large or both benny?

I was primarily looking at the large map, but I think they're on both ;-)

...and for the record my name is not Benny [-X


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SMALL
[bigimg]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c64/Gimil_01/BritishIsles.png[/bigimg]

LARGE
[bigimg]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c64/Gimil_01/BritishIslesLARGE.png[/bigimg]
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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I thought you were going to take out the one way attack note on the water?
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ZeakCytho wrote:I thought you were going to take out the one way attack note on the water?


I took out the arrow in the water, do you want the note as well?
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I think arrows make it abundantly clear that they're 1-way attacks, but I guess there's no harm in leaving it in.
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ZeakCytho wrote:I think arrows make it abundantly clear that they're 1-way attacks, but I guess there's no harm in leaving it in.


It really makes no difference wether its there or not, a little more is better than a little less :D
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Can Cumberland attack Lothian and Borders or not? I'm still not quite sure
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It looks like it at least...:)


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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

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InkL0sed wrote:Can Cumberland attack Lothian and Borders or not? I'm still not quite sure


no. there is not an arrow going from Cumberland to L & B


AndyDufresne wrote:It looks like it at least...:)
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I'm not sure what gives you that impression...perhaps you just glanced at the map?
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My mistake for glancing! :)


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InkL0sed wrote:Can Cumberland attack Lothian and Borders or not? I'm still not quite sure


They are not supposed to but on the large map it seems possible (didn't we have this discussion 30 pages ago???).
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Re: [Official] British Isles P53 [I, GP, Gr, X] [Final Forge]

Post by AndyDufresne »

We could replace the text in the water with "Attacks/Forts Only Via Arrows." But that is quite long and perhaps uneeded.


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