Chinese Checkers [Quenched] May '07 re-opener?

[sully800]

If you add a border around the whole gameboard and then shade that border it will make it looke like a 3D board instead of a flat drawing.

[Fircoal]

2 things.

1) The triangles I think should be 3 per each.

2) An idea, how about if you own all of the B's you get a bonus.

[oaktown]

the "glow" from the armie shades annoy me u mind making them solid?

Try these on for size... got a favorite? I kind of like the white-to-grey circles on the right. Possibilities are limitless.



I threw on a radial gradiant border around the entire board... not sure it achieves the desired effect. I haven't used photoshop since 1993, so I'm re-learning as I go. More to come later.

Also dropped the bonuses back down to three, and removed the redundant bonus info.

[KEYOGI]

I'm not sure about the army shadows. I think we're going to need to see how they look with numbers, which means the xml needs to be coded. I don't see this as a big problem for you though because it's not like your circles are going to move around.

[reverend_kyle]

Yeah I like the original.

[oaktown]

-XML is 75% completed
-used map maker test tool to generate sample numbers

Which is most readable, or should I find another option?

[cedar-h]

I feel sorry for blue stuck in the middle with only 4 armies I think everything looks good.

[boberz]

blue D and red D are good but green D is my favourite

i still like green D the best it is great

[KEYOGI]

I think the white circles with the grey outline are obviously going to be the easiest to read, but I feel the orignal shadows look best.

[Lone.prophet]

yep i thing the green army circels are best

[Bad Speler]

For me, i also think the original shadows are good, minus the the transparency effect.

[Wisse]

I think the white circles with the grey outline are obviously going to be the easiest to read, but I feel the orignal shadows look best.

i agree

[Wisse]

I think the white circles with the grey outline are obviously going to be the easiest to read, but I feel the orignal shadows look best.

i agree

[cowshrptrn]

white C if you could get the grey a bit more transparent that would be even better, and white D is a close second

[AndyDufresne]

Is it possible to try the original ones, minus the large gray dot in center of them? I think a simple shadow like that might work, but otherwise I'm leaning toward the whiter ones.


--Andy

[sully800]

I like the circles in the green triangle the best.

[oaktown]

Three options for the army cicles:
1. original shaded gradiant circle (blue and purple part of the board)
2. white circle with gradiant border (green and yellow triangles)
3. lightened version of original circle (orange and red)

My hope was to give the effect of a concave space as per old chinese checkers boards... I think the white circle is a nod to that effect, and is by far the easiest to read.

I still need to work on lining up the numbers a bit.

[reverend_kyle]

I like yellow.

[KEYOGI]

Three options for the army cicles:
1. original shaded gradiant circle (blue and purple part of the board)
2. white circle with gradiant border (green and yellow triangles)
3. lightened version of original circle (orange and red)

My hope was to give the effect of a concave space as per old chinese checkers boards... I think the white circle is a nod to that effect, and is by far the easiest to read.

I still need to work on lining up the numbers a bit.

If that was your aim then definately 2. Making the board more 3D might help that effect also.

[glee]

i like the look of the map but i have mixed feelings about the map beeing fun or boring when all the continents are the same.

the white circles are defenatly best from every point of view

[Wisse]

i like the white ones if the numbers do fit in there exactly, they don't now...

[oaktown]

i like the white ones if the numbers do fit in there exactly, they don't now...

I could make 'em a bit bigger - also, I haven't mastered settings the coordinates, so few of the numbers are correctly centered. That will work itself out over time.

Once I've settled on a circle I'll work on making the entire map seem more 3-D, as it is very flat right now.

[KEYOGI]

What program are you using for making the map?

I came up with a way in Photoshop to get all my numbers centred the first time with the exception of the errors in the xml tester. That just required making all my x coordinates -2 and y coordinates +23.

[oaktown]

OK, here's the map with the popular white army circles. The circles are a bit larger, to fit the numbers fully.



And here's what the small version could potentially look like:

What program are you using for making the map? I came up with a way in Photoshop to get all my numbers centred the first time with the exception of the errors in the xml tester.

Photoshop - which is a daily battle. The last time I used photoshop it was version 3.0 on my Mac IIx.

The map assist tool was fine for dropping coordinates in the XML - I just didn't know where the targets should be. I could certainly do it in photoshop, which gives x-y coordinates, but I'm not going to waste more time on that until I know I have the map right - there are still changes ahead.

[oaktown]

48 total posts since I started (some of which are by me) and nothing in the past week... I'm happy to continue working on this map and complete the XML, but I'm thinking there may not be enough interest to devote any more of my time to it. I have other ideas I want to float, so unless I'm convinced that anybody thinks that Chinese Checkers is a playable map idea I may turn my attention to something new.

So, Chinese Checkers: to be, or not to be??

And if you think I should continue, please give me some feedback on where to go next... I don't want this to be one of those maps that gets kicked around for months and never gets anywhere.

Thanks.