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« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2011, 08:53:23 AM »

Cats vs Dogs idea isn't bad.

Let's put some Testosterone Poisoning in this one: Tigers vs. Bulldogs. Tongue
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« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2011, 09:14:44 AM »

My two cents ideas:
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« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2011, 03:31:43 PM »

My two cents ideas:

i like the bulldog. the tiger not so much.

imo it would be better if the other team symbol isn't a classic aggressive animal. how about a tortoise, rabbit, dove, alpaca, fish or koala? Smiley
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« Reply #28 on: January 29, 2011, 08:01:44 AM »

A glimpse on OA Player's bestiary:

The Gerbil:

The Hellopacajocketf:

El Cacatoes de la vega:

More I forgot of course, but as you can see, they're not the most typical nor the most agressive ones. Wish these icons could be as imaginative.
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« Reply #29 on: January 29, 2011, 08:12:11 AM »

Did some extra examples and also extra versions of those two icons of above. Attached.

BTW, I don't think completely non-aggressive animals can fit in the game.
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« Reply #30 on: January 29, 2011, 06:22:22 PM »

Hmmm, maybe I can try my hand at a couple of logos. I'd go for some simpler geometric forms. What do you think about something like round vs. angular? One can be something like a yin-yang or something flowing or tribal, while the other is something a cogwheel, heptagram or some runic symbol.

Artistic idea on the side: Red/Blue is obviously pretty established, but we might also hint at some two-colour standard even with the logo: Red would go well with silver (emblems/heraldic things) while for blue gold might look better as support colour. So each base colour has some metal associated with it that might look nicer in future maps. Orange and blue go well together, after all. For red it's usually green (mouldy/wet stones?) or silver.

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« Reply #31 on: January 30, 2011, 01:47:58 AM »

Do not forget a neutral symbol Wink
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« Reply #32 on: January 30, 2011, 06:39:00 AM »

What about a some mean looking skulls for the flag logos
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« Reply #33 on: January 30, 2011, 07:01:11 AM »

What about a some mean looking skulls for the flag logos
Hmm... I don't know, those would be confused by the Harvester skulls.
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« Reply #34 on: January 30, 2011, 03:52:32 PM »

Here's a test for the background, a sort of stylised 'coat of arms'. The actual logos are supposed to go above those. My plan was to have one in silver and one in gold, but they could even serve as the actual red/blue logos. Okay, they're not that good.
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« Reply #35 on: January 30, 2011, 04:04:27 PM »

I'd go for combining your two ideas with something else.
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« Reply #36 on: February 01, 2011, 11:16:02 AM »

Testing an idea for blue ... maybe the background 'coat of arms' needs to go on an actual shield; an abstract one, not a medieval one, of course.
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« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2011, 11:57:59 AM »

Aham... looks fine. I'd go for that.
How the red one would look?
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« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2011, 05:25:19 PM »

Nice coat of arms Pigcell I like it  Smiley
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« Reply #39 on: February 01, 2011, 05:44:16 PM »

The idea is to have a blue/yellow and red/green logos for both teams, so these can be used in maps and banners. And then, just the blue and red parts for the projections/decals.
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« Reply #40 on: February 02, 2011, 12:38:57 PM »

Those are all just ideas of mine tossed around a bit in gimp. There are two colour themes that go well together that mappers can adjust or ignore all together if they like. That would be the blue-orange and red-green combo that looks pleasing to the eye.

For the logos I went with silver vs. gold (or iron vs. brass or whatever) as secondary colours. Having some metal trim colour associated with each CTF base might help mappers incorporate blue/red surfaces more easily and without looking like crap.

Logo only versions will of course be available, but for now I'm still wrestling with what those logos should actually look like. Same with the backgrounds. Any input (x looks like butt, y is okayish) might help. Or sketch something and scan it in. I'm still learning my way around gimp.
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« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2011, 01:16:20 PM »

Well, I like both of your logos, PigCell, those look awesome, indeed!
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« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2011, 01:06:54 PM »

I agree with neon knight but, I think the blue/yellow one is not so agreable...
I recommend it more bright colors for the both ones.
I've got no critiques for the red one...
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« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2011, 02:21:44 PM »

I have to do some tests with those icons, to see how those would look in-game.
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« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2011, 10:15:10 AM »

I would like to improve these logos a bit, but I don't really know how. So, in case I vanish of the face of the earth or someone wants to fiddle with it, I'll provide the gimp source images. They are layered, so you can edit the original outlines and also get both foreground and background symbols separated.

The .7z contains two gimp .xcf files, one for blue and one for red.
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« Reply #45 on: February 05, 2011, 01:00:31 PM »

To give you an idea, here's how those would look in the form of decals. I have yet to do the flags. The map is this one.



I'll attach a test pk3 when I can do the flag textures (if I can find those among the sources) and remaining logos.
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« Reply #46 on: February 05, 2011, 01:33:17 PM »

Do tell if you have problems opening those. I might just make an archive with individual .tgas or something.

Ground decals that look like sprayed/painted on the pavement might actually be better as foreground logo only. If you write a shader with the individual layers as separate source textures, you might be able to give the background a metallic reflection effect, like it's supposed to be.

It might even make sense to have 'flat', i.e. unbevelled logos with all effects done inside OA via shaders. Might take some more fiddling, I'll try and write some shaders myself, too.
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« Reply #47 on: February 05, 2011, 01:44:28 PM »

And this is how it looks with the flags. I have yet to search what files are the sources for those team flag banners in oasago2. I'm pretty sure that many other maps use that as well.



Anyway, attached the test file. Rename it to pk3 and throw it in the baseoa folder.
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« Reply #48 on: December 17, 2012, 11:06:34 AM »

What about using the OA symbol within the logo? Would be more obvious than using some different decal.
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« Reply #49 on: January 01, 2013, 09:24:32 PM »

Team symbols exist to give each team something of an own "identity", like these have, for example, in the Threewave CTF maps. I don't think the OA logo alone would work.
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