Bay 12 Games Forum

It looks like the people has spoken!


The winner is GFXiNXS's Dark bload-soaked Volcano Vista!

Second place goes to xobl1v10nx's Magma Disk!

Third place is taken by Djohaal's Gold spiked sphere!


Woot! 

I'm going to setup Obsidian so that it loads one of these four logo's (GFXiNXS' logo has two versions - with and without the stone) randomly during startup, weighted by the number of votes received by each.

So, the winning artists can make final tweaks to their designs before I add them to Obsidian. Please don't change it radically, though - cleanup work, resizing and signing will be fine.

We need to aim for a good splash screen size. I can crop and resize xobl1v10nx's disk to a nice 700x700. Djohaal, would you be able to re-render at that size and aspect ratio without losing too much detail?

GFXiNXS, I'm going to use your full-size with-stone logo as the official logo on the wiki etc. May I resample both versions at 640x150 for use as splash screens? Or would you prefer to provide smaller splash versions yourself?

I've been doing that for a while now

Most of my personal projects have an exception called Vloermoer, which is a colloquial Afrikaans word for tantrum that is fun to say. It literally means to beat up the floor. I usually throw that one whenever there is an error caused by the user doing something stupid.

Right, so I've uploaded what I've got so far for definition files: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Cell_definition_files

Let's use the discussion page to figure out what needs to go in there

I feel the same way with including just one logo with a lower weight if doing random logo's - people will bet used to seeing the top few, and then all of a sudden *pop* woah, what is that?

Graaaargh! Too many good logos!

I definitely agree James - each new entry was a more awesome surprise after the others.

<musing>
Just from a professional developer's perspective - a glimpse of the final look and feel for a project really makes a difference in motivation.

The hardest part in starting a new project is to get past the motivational slump that follows the initial rush of "let's try this". Its when the grand idea meets the practicality and the scope of the work required becomes clear.

Most of my side-projects usually peter out around that point, and Obsidian was in danger of that. I had big troubles with the Lua binding generator this week, the basis for all of the other functionality.

But I have to say that seeing these logo's allowed me to power through. Last night I finally cracked it, and now have 80% of DFHack available in Obsidian (I can access materials, creatures and items from DF now )

The rest of the project will go easier from this point on, methinks.

Therefore I would like to especially thank Djohaal for his render (got me through the OpenSceneGraph cluster$%$) and GFXiNXS for his volcano logo (it helped me slay the Lua binding generator dragon).

So, yeah, I'm thinking I'll have to add an inspiration section to the credits 
</musing>

Next up it will be up to the model artists and render guru's to provide the inspiration! (I'm a visual person, okay?)

Modify thread title by changing subject of first post.

Well, that's intuitive (sic).

I'm going to leave the poll open till Monday evening (PST), see how things look then.

Even though the current trend seems to favour GFXiNXS's excellent volcano/blood logo, there are others that also stand out (xobl1v10nx's magma disk, djohaal's rendered orb, etc).

The amount of work that went into these entries are considerable, and I'd hate to not use such lovingly crafted examples of craftdwarfship.

What about following DF's example of a random title? It creates a different title each time you load it, by randomly picking the last two words from a list of synonyms.

I'm thinking Obsidian can do the same. We take the top X (I'm thinking three) logo's and Obsidian randomly picks one each time it starts up. It would be a weighted random pick, i.e. the number of votes received by each of the logo's would determine how often it gets picked, relative to the others.

This will of course be an init option so that you can select your favorite logo to display all the time... and only the winning logo will be the official one for online/publication purposes.

What do ya think?

Mosey on over to this thread http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57923.0 and vote for the Obsidian logo.

Righto, competition closed. Let me compile the entries and set up the poll.

So far I have found entries for:
Sizik
Bloogonis
ITnetlolor
Rotten
Djohaal (2)
soundandfury
bmaczero
Adamantine Fist (2)
xobl1v10nx
GFXiNXS (2)
BManx2000

I took the last image submitted for the cases where the poster did not indicate which submission is final.

Alas, farmerbob, I'm not sure if your picture was a submission or not, but if it was I must decline and say 'original art' only. Copyright reasons, amongst other things.

I'm going to add the poll to this thread, unless people think it needs its own thread?

Just to make it official - Janus' icon is now in Obsidian. I just really liked it

It had that Quake II feel about it...