Re: [Super-tux-devel] Coins

[Benjamin P. J. <bp...@gm...>]

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>>Now that the Distros have been renamed to coins it'd be nice to have
>>something that looks more like a coin, I thought.
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>In the long run I would prefer to replace the coin with a herring, I
>think it would fit better to Tux. 
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Hmm... good idea.
I also like the idea of having herrings better.... what
would a penguin want to do with coins???

>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.
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Well... I'll give it another try. I don't think my first attempt
looks very much like a bubble ... on the other hand:
doesn't look like a coin, either ... :-)

>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).
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Ok... I'll give it a try.
I've been spending a while cleaning the font already (as it is
my handwriting it was kinda hard to remove all the edges and
stuff, already).
I've been trying to create @,_,:,;,[,] for both, the original letters
as well as my handwriting ... just have a look at it:
http://www.phreakzone.com/tmp/

keep you informed,
n8, guys.


Benjamin