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Hi,

i ve made some visible armor icons. In my opinion the original icons are  tiny and  unseeable.
I know my icons dont look that good, but here they are.
Rename z-icons.pk3.zip to z-icons.pk3 and put it in your baseoa dir.

schlorri

edit: redone icons, looks better now!
edit2:redone again, 'cause nobody likes it :(

edit: ah sorry...wrong button

Perhaps some sort of distinctive feature (in shape) for the RA/YA would be good, rather than relying solely on colour?

i like your icons. maybe you can add a little gap between the shoulderpads and the rest of the armour - just a narrow line. it might make it more recognizable as to what it is?

if you're keen on creating more, i really think we need new icons for medikit (http://openarena.ws/svn/icons/medkit.tga) and regeneration (http://openarena.ws/svn/icons/regen.tga).

they are similar in design and not very good looking, imo. it might be a bit boring - but my first thought of the medikit was to maybe have some kind of resemblance to the star of life symbol (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Star_of_life2.svg/150px-Star_of_life2.svg.png). not that much detail though...

Thanks for your reply,
added some gaps(thanks pulchr, in my opinion it looks much better)

I'll try to add some protection to Red Armor(maybe arm-proctection?) feidi

PS: the star of life symbol would be an nice medikit!

now it looks good

Thanks a lot,

now ive added some arm protection. I dont think it looks good :(

Perhaps smaller shoulder pads for YA instead (and not as round as the RA ones)?

like that?

cannot see much difference

i don't think you need different symbols for YA / RA. it used the same symbol in q3a and it worked fine. the colours are so different it will work anyway.
i liked the line, made the shoulderpads stand out more.

the sleeves made it look some kind of hockey gear ;D

yes, youre right. And i dont think fromhell want to support monochrome graphics in OA486 :)

the lines on the syringe look a bit thin compared to the circle. maybe the syringe is a bit too see-through, how about filling it up with some liquid that isn't.

the regeneration symbol look too much like the one linked above. also i don't like the square around - the symbol should be clear enough to be on it's own.
also the thin white lines just inside the symbol might be better as thicker edges.

i don't know crap about licensing - but here's the link to the wikimedia file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_of_life2.svg
the image is public domain and can be used etc. seems ok to me

good work schlorri :)

i'll take another shot and request a new teleporter symbol (http://openarena.ws/svn/icons/teleporter.tga).

Had the same idea,

now spyringe is a bit thicker and medicine is in it.(transparency...is it supported?)



edit: new Regen-Symbol(Quake3-Style)

i put the icons in a pk3 and tried them out in quake 3.
here are some screens of how they appeared.

(http://www.anakronologerna.se/pulchr/medkit-01.jpg)(http://www.anakronologerna.se/pulchr/medkit-02.jpg)
(http://www.anakronologerna.se/pulchr/regen-01.jpg)(http://www.anakronologerna.se/pulchr/regen-02.jpg)

the yellow armour can be seen in the background. i like how they turned out.

Thank you pulchr,

tested the icons in OA too, but dont know a map with regeneration :).
In OA the medikit looks not so streched( your second picture).
 

schlorri

i don't know what happened to the medikit in the inventory. hmmm

thats the look in OA

Couldn't the icons not just be pictures of the 3d models? What would give them a retro look (from the time pickups was simple items)

But they would not be so visible i think. And i like the Quake3 Style :)

edit: added quad icon...i like the quake style, u know :)

Upload of Armor, Regen and Medikit pk3 for Ivan(and others)! :)
here you go

PS: i dont like the armprotection

Could you do the rest of the GFX as well? :D

P.S:
ps37ctf? czest3ctf? (underwater)

EDIT2: Those GFX reps should came with new item models too IMHO.

schlorri, please remember there is a new OA logo comming:
http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=3187.0 (http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=3187.0)

http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=1748.0 (http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=1748.0)