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Dan van Ohllus:
Very nice icon you have there.
Dan van Ohllus:
Very nice icon you have there.
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BTNbackstab6
- Author(s)
- Discipline
- Tags
- Spell / Ability, Human
- Size
- 19.29 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 249
- Created
- Sep 23, 2008
- Updated
- Oct 3, 2008
- Resources
- 1
- State
Approved
This bundle is marked as recommended. It works and satisfies the submission rules.
This is an icon I created for a request on thehelper.net
It's completely freehand, drawn with a mouse using the image editing software GIMP.
After trialing the icon ingame I was not happy with how much detail it lost so I have enhanced the contrast to preserve a better shape. I have also added a background due to a hive member's suggestion.
Here is the original icon, intermediate background and a higher quality version of the current (final) icon -
Keywords:
stab, back, backstab, execute
It's completely freehand, drawn with a mouse using the image editing software GIMP.
After trialing the icon ingame I was not happy with how much detail it lost so I have enhanced the contrast to preserve a better shape. I have also added a background due to a hive member's suggestion.
Here is the original icon, intermediate background and a higher quality version of the current (final) icon -
Keywords:
stab, back, backstab, execute
Reviews
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2008
- Messages
- 341
Damn it lost a little quality when I converted it to blp. Still useable tho... here's the original anyhow
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- May 16, 2007
- Messages
- 7,285
its more of like a, Finish him, icon.
- Joined
- May 1, 2008
- Messages
- 3,213
It looks good, but you should add some background, looks kinda... empty with that black background.
At least put some glow as a background :/
At least put some glow as a background :/
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2008
- Messages
- 341
Yeah it wasn't so much a backstab icon as it was an icon of a guy with a sword in his back (as was requested)... but seriously if someone backstabbed you in rl with a sword, well I think you would kind of end up like this guy anyhow.
I tried adding a background but because the image has such tiny detail the background really detracts from it. When the icon is used ingame warcraft blurs it quite a bit (atleast on my pc). Here's the version with a background, it looks ok in this format but ingame it's just too much. I even altered the contrast on this one but ingame it still comes up smudgey
I'm going to have to learn to simplify the detail in icons for the sake of ingame appearance, as well as create better colour contrast
I tried adding a background but because the image has such tiny detail the background really detracts from it. When the icon is used ingame warcraft blurs it quite a bit (atleast on my pc). Here's the version with a background, it looks ok in this format but ingame it's just too much. I even altered the contrast on this one but ingame it still comes up smudgey
I'm going to have to learn to simplify the detail in icons for the sake of ingame appearance, as well as create better colour contrast
- Joined
- May 1, 2008
- Messages
- 3,213
That's better, now update it... thanks!
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- Nov 28, 2006
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- 5,360
Even that much black between the guy and the "red effect" makes it look defined and overall lacking in quality. It may be in your interests to fix that.
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2008
- Messages
- 341
yeah I see what you are saying... I kept it dark around the edges because -
a) that was the style I was going for and
b) my icons tend to be too high detail for war3 and once ingame blur up, so defined edges help keep that under control
.... but I took onboard what you said (the black edges got uglier the more I looked at it) and I tightened up the whole icon
a) that was the style I was going for and
b) my icons tend to be too high detail for war3 and once ingame blur up, so defined edges help keep that under control
.... but I took onboard what you said (the black edges got uglier the more I looked at it) and I tightened up the whole icon
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2008
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It looks kinda dramatic, but its good! And maybe you should make a PAS button also, as backstab is somethimes used as a passive skill.
