Re: [Super-tux-devel] Coins

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:41:05AM +0200, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> About the coin itself, you could try to bump-map tux onto the coin,
> instead of just have him as a transparent overlay and as Ricardo
> already meantioned it looks a bit bubble like.

Maybe take Larry Ewing's original Tux (maybe the low-color EPS version?)
and use an 'emboss' effect (e.g., in Gimp)?

:)


> About your font, very nice, could need a bit smoothing and clearer,
> less blury, colors transitions. However that should be doable without
> much problems with a few Gimp filters (scale by factor two, convert to
> black&white, gausian-blur and then play with color-level-tool, once
> done, scale down again and you might end up with a nicly antialiased
> font).

I like what you (or someone?) did with my original Atari-computer-style
font using Gimp trickery. :^)  Neat effect!  (I thought someone hand-pixelled
it from scratch!)

-bill!