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Title: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Juschlan on August 25, 2013, 06:00:12 PM
G'day everyone!

I just created (or I tried to^^) a whole ABC of the Hammerwatch letters!

Without tilemap:
(http://i42.tinypic.com/27wy6pi.gif)

Ingame theme_a:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/28gqc8w.gif)


Installation tutorial for noobs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9urt-eJdxg

If some of the letters look bad, I'm not the best drawer, but I try to redraw some of them if it's really so bad
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC
Post by: Linaru on August 27, 2013, 08:08:36 AM
nice, i had already created an I so i could make the words say act I,act II etc but now there are so many possibility's =3

Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC
Post by: Juschlan on August 27, 2013, 11:04:04 AM
But Act 4 is IV
The I is small, want to make those corners top and bot so it's fitting the shadow
And then also writing roman numerals should look a bit nicer
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.2)
Post by: Hipshot on August 27, 2013, 12:42:37 PM
Nice. I made these using the font emulogic as base!
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.2)
Post by: Bolmaron on August 28, 2013, 06:34:42 PM
The shadow behind "D" is jumping :)
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.3)
Post by: Juschlan on August 28, 2013, 07:58:01 PM
The shadow behind "D" is jumping :)

Thank you^^ It is still jumping on the picture you see up there, but I added a new download link and changed the version
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.3)
Post by: Linaru on August 29, 2013, 12:39:43 PM
if you make the image file 512 pixels wide (so there is an empty space to the right) it will stop the error message complain about file sizes.
if your file sizes are to the power of two then the engine has an easyer time loading them/

the letter B could use a little shadow in its holes, like the a has

the letter S also looks a little bit off , its not as clear at a glance

other wise they look great =3
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.3)
Post by: Juschlan on August 29, 2013, 01:49:37 PM
if you make the image file 512 pixels wide (so there is an empty space to the right) it will stop the error message complain about file sizes.
if your file sizes are to the power of two then the engine has an easyer time loading them/

the letter B could use a little shadow in its holes, like the a has

the letter S also looks a little bit off , its not as clear at a glance

other wise they look great =3

Thank you all for helping me making these letters look better.
I noticed B and S had no holes, but you won't notice them, if you place them on a tilemap. I will upload an additional GIF with theme_a environment, so you see how it looks if you place them in your map.
I added holes, but you will only see the difference on the "no tilemap" picture.
Just give me some minutes to upload the new graphics...
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Keefachu on September 05, 2013, 03:35:43 AM
I wonder what these would be used for... I never understood the letter concept. I'm sure someone will use them for something creative though, so good job!
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Juschlan on September 05, 2013, 01:35:34 PM
I created them, because I wanted to create a map, where there is some sort of lobby where you can choose your level.
I wanted "JUSCHLAN" be somewhere, so you can tell, who made the map. But I deleted the map, wasn't able to play it, so now I wait for the patch, maybe that helps...
But writing many words is not recommended, spamming them is bad, because it's a) many work and b) confusing for players.
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Linaru on September 06, 2013, 01:43:58 PM
I wonder what these would be used for... I never understood the letter concept. I'm sure someone will use them for something creative though, so good job!

originally you had to find all the letters of 'Hammerwatch' to get to the ending, these where replaced with planks shortly before release. the letters where left in the editor
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Hipshot on September 30, 2013, 08:02:01 PM
I wonder what these would be used for... I never understood the letter concept. I'm sure someone will use them for something creative though, so good job!

Like Linaru said, then I kept them inside if anyone wanna use them. They can be used for spelling out things in the game but with style if someone would like to =)
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Craftimonium on June 23, 2014, 08:39:49 PM
Hey, im gonna start a youtube series on hammerwatch with my friends, but i dont know how to manipulate the XML files so i can make them a part of the thumbnail. this would be an serious help :D thanks in advance
Title: Re: [Items]Hammerwatch letters ABC (1.4)
Post by: Heretic on June 24, 2014, 10:57:33 AM
Hey, im gonna start a youtube series on hammerwatch with my friends, but i dont know how to manipulate the XML files so i can make them a part of the thumbnail. this would be an serious help :D thanks in advance

Be sure to do one for the Ravenwatch Act 1 Beta when its released soon :D