BTNbackstab6

[Moderator]

17:50, 3rd Oct 2008
Dan van Ohllus:
Very nice icon you have there.

 

[Discipline]

Damn it lost a little quality when I converted it to blp. Still useable tho... here's the original anyhow

 

[Just_Spectating]

its more of like a, Finish him, icon.

 

[FrIkY]

It looks good, but you should add some background, looks kinda... empty with that black background.

At least put some glow as a background :/

 

[Discipline]

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

 

[FrIkY]

That's better, now update it... thanks!

 

[Hawkwing]

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.

 

[Discipline]

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

 

[Midnight Wolf]

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.