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    Default Request for some medal mockups

    I've been brooding about the state of TWC medals for a while now. I'm thinking of making another proposal to the Curia, but I want some sample badges that look good so I can give screenshots. To keep it simple, I'll stick to only staff medals first.

    The system I'm thinking of is conceptually simple: you get one badge for every three months you serve in staff. This means that some people might have 15 or 20 badges, so they can't be too big. They have to fit in 175 pixels of width, and we don't want them too tall. So possible widths might be:
    • 43 pixels or narrower, so we get four (one year) per row. Should be maybe 20 pixels tall or shorter.
    • 29 pixels or narrower, so we get six (1.5 years) per row. Should be maybe 25 pixels tall or shorter.
    • 21 pixels or narrower, so we get eight (two years) per row. Should be maybe 35 pixels tall or shorter.

    I'd like four eight badges to start with:
    • Moderation medal. Should probably include a mace somewhere.
    • Content medal. Should probably include a quill somewhere.
    • Technical medal. Should probably include a screwdriver somewhere (or a gear, or wrench, or something like that).
    • Hex medal. Should probably include something hexagonal, and maybe a scepter or something like that.
    • Moderation + content
    • Moderation + technical
    • Content + technical
    • Moderation + content + technical

    Remember that you'd see lots of them lined up in a row, so they should probably look the part: they should preferably form a seamless whole, that doesn't look too terribly repetitive, if you put several next to each other.

    Thanks to anyone who wants to help out – I'm interested to see what you come up with!
    Last edited by Simetrical; February 13, 2010 at 08:07 PM.
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    Default Re: Request for some medal mockups

    Hmm, this sounds interesting. Badges almost the size of rep icons am I right?

    Stickied the thread!

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    Will work on something soon Sim. I remember a thread in the curia about bands of rank-military style so to speak to represent medals. A military look would be nice and clean. Desperato(sp) and Spiff was working on it I think.




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    LOLWUT?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Subuatai de Bodemloze View Post
    Great idea
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    I think you got the wrong impression there matey. Aargh, da booty be medals!
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    Hex


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    Content


    Technical



    This is my first set (I’ll try more)


    Sim, the stuff you suggested (mace, quill, screwdriver) it’s almost impossible to implement on the image of this size and to be recognizable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratbag View Post
    I think you got the wrong impression there matey. Aargh, da booty be medals!
    Yea, just deleted it, it's better that not too many people see it

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    here's a WIP I wiped up real quick of the Technical medal:



    changed the screwdriver to a hammer instead (a bit easier to discern )

    I'll refine it more in the morning and start working on the others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyonn View Post
    here's a WIP I wiped up real quick of the Technical medal:



    changed the screwdriver to a hammer instead (a bit easier to discern )

    I'll refine it more in the morning and start working on the others.
    Nice!

    I've made a template, altough making a scepter,mace and quill is almost impossible v.

    Here I made a screwdriver for the technical medal, yes that is a screwdriver

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    I like that abbews.. minus the screw driver. And that is exactly what I was thinking by mentioning the rank insignia's!! I would just assign the same colours to the badge as we already use for the big badges.. ie: HEX red, CA: gay blue Mod: Green etc..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subuatai de Bodemloze View Post
    I like that abbews.. minus the screw driver. And that is exactly what I was thinking by mentioning the rank insignia's!! I would just assign the same colours to the badge as we already use for the big badges.. ie: HEX red, CA: gay blue Mod: Green etc..


    But if you haven't noticed, the background colour is the colour Tech Staff has on their pretty names. More precisely AL's name

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    really seems a bit darker.. Looks more like the colour or the canadian airforce uniforms

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    Default Re: Request for some medal mockups

    Quote Originally Posted by Tzar View Post
    Hex


    Moderation


    Content


    Technical



    This is my first set (I’ll try more)


    Sim, the stuff you suggested (mace, quill, screwdriver) it’s almost impossible to implement on the image of this size and to be recognizable.







    I like these a lot, thanks! But it's hard to tell which is which. Would it be easier to fit things like mace, screwdriver, quill, and scepter if they were more vertical, 21 pixels wide but 35ish pixels tall? That's only slightly smaller than the current mace, for instance.

    But this approach is good too. I think they could be made more identifiable. Hex seems to currently be a crown on top of a hexagon, and moderation is a sheriff's badge inside a shield. These are okay conceptually, but at this size they're too small to be recognizable unless you squint. I think it would be better to drop one of the two symbols, so the other can be emphasized more.

    So how about a Hex badge with a bigger hexagon and no crown? The current hexagon looks a lot like a circle; if it still does after making it bigger, perhaps you could color the six sectors different colors, or two different colors alternating. Similarly, I think the moderator medal would be more recognizable if you stuck with a plain shield or a plain badge, not both.

    I'm not sure what content or technical is supposed to represent. For tech, how about a gear? I can't think of anything offhand for content, but you guys are the content people, your lookout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subuatai de Bodemloze View Post
    I would just assign the same colours to the badge as we already use for the big badges.. ie: HEX red, CA: gay blue Mod: Green etc..
    I didn't think about that until after I posted mine

    taken into consideration here's an edit:

    the others will follow suit in a while.

    Edit: If we're going to go with the first medals then I guess the rest of mine won't follow suit haha
    Last edited by Lyonn; February 10, 2010 at 02:10 PM.

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    Default Re: Request for some medal mockups

    IMO those look really bad now that they are side by side. Tzar you should try them w/o the ribbons. and about 10% bigger The moderation one IMO is the only clearly discernible one

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyonn View Post
    I didn't think about that until after I posted mine

    taken into consideration here's an edit:

    the others will follow suit in a while.

    Edit: If we're going to go with the first medals then I guess the rest of mine won't follow suit haha
    Remember, these are meant to be displayed in large numbers side-by-side, as in my last post in this thread. A medal appearance won't look good.
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    Default Re: Request for some medal mockups

    Quote Originally Posted by Simetrical View Post
    Remember, these are meant to be displayed in large numbers side-by-side, as in my last post in this thread. A medal appearance won't look good.
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    in that case I might whip up a few WIPs later on.

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    Here are a couple more options.. real quick and dirty.




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