Re: [chessx-developer] origin of 132x132 pixel Merida chess pieces?

[Bruno R. <bru...@gm...>]

Hi Eric,

I am not really sure i understand your question. However, here are
some guidelines:

1. The pieces are created by starting from the TrueType fonts, that
are freeware and available online.
2. The fonts are installed and a document is prepared containing all
the images of the pieces.
3. The document is converted in an image format (TIF or PGN). This
basically gives you the "plain" pieces (as shown in ChessX if you
select Edit>Preferences>Board>Merida-plain)
4. An outline can be added in various ways (I used GIMP), and this
will give you the "outline" pieces (as shown in ChessX if you select
Edit>Preferences>Board>Merida-outline).
5. To the pieces with an outline you can also add a shadow. Again,
this can be done in various ways (I used the scriptfu
"shadow-dropshadow" in GIMP) and will give you the "plain+shadow"
pieces.

All this requires a lot of converting / resizing / playing with
parameters (eg. blur radius, opacity etc) / etc, but -even if quite
long- it is not really complicated in principle. So which is exactly
the part you are missing in the steps above?

Feel free to ask any question, and let's see if it can help. We can
keep this discussion here on the list if you think it can be useful
for ChessX developers, or otherwise you can write me offlist at my
personal mail.

Ciao, Bruno.



2008/4/17, Eric De MUND <ead...@ix...>:
> Hello,
>
>  Your Merida chess pieces are rendered beautifully. Few chess tools get
>  this right. (Jin is the only other one that comes to mind.)
>
>  Where did you folks find or how did you create the pieces in the file
>  <./data/themes/merida.png>? How did you either identify the interiors
>  for white painting or identify the backgrounds to designate them as
>  transparent?
>
>  I'm a chess player and graphics/image processing programmer developing a
>  chess diagram tool, one with anti-aliased chess pieces and user-specified
>  foreground and background colors.
>
>  It seems that, in the creation of merida.png, you've at least partially
>  solved this problem. Any pointers would be welcome. If I don't create my
>  own SVG pieces, an approach similar to yours may be the one I take.
>
>  Again, thank you for any pointers,
>  Eric
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