Custom Icons

[eager gust]

Custom stat icons instead of just ❤️🛡️⚡⚔️

Stylized character card icons instead of
:StarkCard: :FrierenCard: :HimmelCard: etc

Custom Icons

[terse snow]

Stark’s version of ⚔️ should be an axe like this

[terse snow]

🪓

[eager gust]

i need these

[dire blaze]

i kind of think its good for ❤️🛡️⚡⚔️ to be standardized? no matter which match up you immediately know what each symbol means

but stylized character card icons would be sick

[eager gust]

Definitely, It would still be standard across the tcg I just meant more Frieren themed

Like defense could be the tile from the defensive spells as an icon

[light harness]

is pixel art ok for icons?

[eager gust]

Sure why not

Just make sure it's Frieren themed!

[light harness]

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Btw this isn't like guaranteed to be approved by hexa or anything

I think they'll be on board but just letting you know

[light harness]

[sturdy tinsel]

Agreed

[junior hazel]

what is this

[eager gust]

The TCG just uses emojis for stats icons (HP, attack, defense, speed) but we're looking for Frieren themed ones

Or stylized card icons for each character

[junior hazel]

Ooo i might try this

[light harness]

Would Laufen's boot for speed be good? I'm having trouble thinking of other things the speed icon could be

[shell ivy]

A boot leaving the ground is pretty common and recognisable for speed stats, seems like a good idea

Attack could be the Zoltraak circle, or Himmel's sword

[light harness]

I was thinking attack to be Frieren's Staff and Himmel's Sword in a red aura

at least for my idea, i wanted all icons to have a specific coloured outline to be better recognized at a glance

Attack is red, Defence is blue, Speed is yellow, Health is white

[eager gust]

That's a great idea

[eager gust]

Remember that HP represents mana so you can work from that angle too

[eager gust]

Yeah it's probably the best themed icon
The alternative would be a generic lightning effect of something

[light harness]

That’s a good idea, though right now I can’t think of how to apply that, since i think the only visualization for mana is the swirl around characters. I was thinking of making health look like the souls from the Aura fight. In fact, we can make demons and monsters have a purple health icon with everyone else having the white

[eager gust]

That's actually a great idea

Making it look like Frieren's soul from the fight

It's a bit less abstract than the mana swirls and it's also white like you wanted to make it

Looking forward to it!

[eager gust]

Anyone working on this still?

[light harness]

Me, but I’m glacially slow

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Any updates?

[light harness]

early idea for Health, Attack, and Defense

[eternal yew]

:0

Good heckin job

[eager gust]

OMG THESE ARE SO GOOD

literally professional pixel art level right here

when you finish speed lmk this abouta be the best graphical improvement to tcg to date

the defense hex is actually a lighter shade of the border color (it depends on the scene because they're transparent. If they use a full sphere it layers with the one behind to make it look darker)

So try making the area lighter than the border

Design for hp and attack no words though

[light harness]

Personally I don't think it looks good

I went with blue inside because not just how it looks when it's a full sphere, but so it's very clearly blue, as I wanted each icon to be easily identified with a main colour

Health is white, Attack is red, Defense is blue, Speed is yellow. The lighter inside would conflict with Health. It's also really hard to see the detail

[eager gust]

Hm ye

[eager gust]

Go with a bluer version then

Transparent is hard to do + wouldn't be as distinct as blue as you said

I'll probably work on a feature to organize the different emojis across production and development modes

Oh also I realize that ability currently is ✨

Not sure what you could do for that but maybe you have an idea

Maybe a grimoire?

[eager gust]

@light harness do you have an estimate?

No pressure but it seems like you're almost done right

[light harness]

hopefully tomorrow

ping me again tomorrow so I remember + feel enough pressure to work on it

[eager gust]

Sure lol

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@light harness

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[light harness]

oh yeah

[light harness]

well now there's a bit of an issue with defense and true defense, the magic barrier fits better for true defense, but now i have no idea for regular

and i dont remember anyone with a shield in the show

[eager gust]

@devout plaza

any ideas for what to do?

[devout plaza]

Woah these look sick!

Uhm

[eager gust]

ikr, this will be a huge improvement

[devout plaza]

mostly ppl in the show just parry stuffs for defense huh

like stark

Defense can just be a single hexagon while TrueDEF can be the current honeycomb formation?

[eager gust]

ehhh

but then the level of detail is off

out of the main ones defense would be noticably simpler

[devout plaza]

It's just simple DEF after all, so it makes sense

[eager gust]

something more abstract is probably fine for true def

or just a recolor of defense

its not like its actually in the show

for ability i would do a grimoire personally but what do you think hexa

[devout plaza]

Grimoire I think would be perfect yeah

[light harness]

Grinoire for True Defense?

[eager gust]

no for ability

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@light harness

hows it going

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@light harness

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@light harness still plan on finishing these?

[devout plaza]

Let's just drop it

[wide meteor]

😭

[light harness]

im not really happy with TrueDefense being based on Serie's barrier but i don't know what else to do. I could give give the normal defense icon to TrueDef then make normal defense like one of the shields from the soldiers that Aura controls cause I think that's literally the only shield in the series

also I think it would be cool if monsters were given the purple heart (this includes Stille, fuck that bird)

[wide meteor]

so cool icons

[light harness]

Wait, Aura's soldiers don't have shields either

is there literally one instance of a shield in the whole series?

[twin cradle]

This is the only major example I remember

[devout plaza]

OMG THIS LOOKS SO COOL?????

[eager gust]

Yeah I could probably implement that
And True def being the barrier works nicely

Do you have a plan for ability?

[light harness]

Oh I forgot about ability

No clue what that could be though

Since there’s not a pattern on that shield, I think a piece of armour would work to show defence, like Eisen’s helmet

[eager gust]

A grimoire!

[eager gust]

@light harness made any progress on the ability icon?

[light harness]

i completely forgot

ill work on it tonight after work

[deep summit]

"I think" bro acting like he didn't come begging people for any ideas

[light harness]

TO BE FAIR, after you suggested armour and dwarf armour I thought of Eisen’s helmet

But yes you came up with armour first all the rights go to you

[deep summit]

I thought you already thought of Eisen bro

It's like the only piece of armor we regularly see

I said Dwarf bro's helmet not to repeat what I thought would have already been thought

Still

I'm just needling you

Mine may have been the idea but you're one actually doing the work

[light harness]

“you’re the one doing actually doing the work”
Took over two months to make 6 20x20 pictures

[deep summit]

You still did more than me

[eager gust]

What's the progress

[light harness]

Eisen's helmet is being a bitch

[eager gust]

Oh did you want to redo one of the icons?

[light harness]

yeah im making the defense icon to TrueDef and Eisen's Helmet to be defense

[eager gust]

oh okay!

could i suggest having it the other way around though

since most mages use the defensive spell

[light harness]

Common Defensive Magic for Defense and Eisen's Helmet for TrueDef?

[eager gust]

yeah

[light harness]

eeeh, the entire point of TrueDef is to work like Common Defensive Magic

half of the 1 turn blocks are CDM

[eager gust]

yeah i see what you mean
But since true def isn't actually a thing in Frieren, and it was just added for gameplay, I would go the route of using the more familiar representation of blocking for the more common stat

also using serie's barrier for true def was a good idea you could use that too

but im assuming youre making a new icon since you didnt like that one

[light harness]

yeah it doesnt fit with the others

im almost done, let me post them first

[light harness]

the top 3 are all for abilities, but I can't decide which one is best

[wide meteor]

they all look so nice

[eager gust]

Woah the grimoire and helmet are spot on

I think either 1 or 3 for ability is good

[devout plaza]

This goes so hard oh my god

I think I like the first one the most! But all of them looks so sick!

[shell ivy]

I’d go first, the cover looks so nice (plus I think the pages would look a bit muddled up when the size is decreased)

Either way ts is so peak

[light harness]

alright, the first one then

though I still think Eisen's helmet should be defense

here's all of them on their own

[devout plaza]

WOW

Adding em soon

Ability
Atk
Def
Hp
not sure what we can use this for yet
Spd
TrueDef

Yeah I do think having the last icon as TrueDef is more familiar

[eager gust]

Yayyy thanks for finishing these!

Looks like hexa beat me to the implementation

I'll see about the monster soul

[deep summit]

I have to say, it's very nice, but it will take a bit to get used to it

Also

Could you scale them up a bit?

[devout plaza]

It being pixelated is what makes it iconic though...

[deep summit]

Actually

Only DEF and ATK feel small

And maybe the HP

The Ability is visible

[deep summit]

?

I just mean making them a tiny bit bigger

Okay

I'm just wrong

Only one that seems small is DEF

The rest are due to their color

Which is messed up by the fact that I use dark mode

[reef forum]

stark axe

what do yall think

[eager gust]

That's good!

[reef forum]

pixel art is a bit bigger (31x31) than the ones already made (around 20x20ish)

[reef forum]

anything you think should be changed?

[eager gust]

nah it looks pretty spot on

[light harness]

You got the shape of Stark’s axe perfect, but I’d suggest to limit the shades of grey. There are greys that are very similar to each other

The shading for the handle is great, the sides are clearly darker than the middle

[reef forum]

Hmm I see, I purposefully picked similar looking greys for shading, do u think they should be more distinct?

[reef forum]

the handle used to be even more opposite in brightness but i lowered the brightness of the middle pixels

Altough from concept art it looks like frieren's staff and stark's axe have similar handle width, ill try to do something real quick

[reef forum]

changed the handle and made the axe shading more obvious with less different shades

[reef forum]

bwa