Caleb's talent icons! Grab while they're still fresh!

[AlexMdle]

Alright. Recently I started practicing my SAI by making talent icons, heavily inspired by the likes of Wacraft 3 or League of Legends. Since I dont plan to use them for anything specific they're free for anybody to use as long as I get some sort of credit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lfaa72iy7mp0g0c
http://www.mediafire.com/?c8a4yb5mjkag611
http://www.mediafire.com/?ayc3uau94ojh3um
http://www.mediafire.com/?ocj27a8nvgskueh
http://www.mediafire.com/?zlbv3pke593rgl7

More to come.

[edge2054]

I vote you do a whole set In other words, one for every talent in ToME!!

[AlexMdle]

DG: There's about 1000 icons in Tome.
Alex: Aw hell naw.

Speaking of which.
More icons!


















(I will also add all new icons to main post for ease of location)

[AlexMdle]

Aaand the next batch is done!


http://www.mediafire.com/?ayc3uau94ojh3um

[Endymion107]

wow... very nice, I envy your artistic skills
I can see myself using a few of these... will credit you if I do of course.

Would love to see more of these as well.

[AlexMdle]

Fourth set is underway.

[daftigod]

These are really good Alex! Do you use a tablet?

If I could suggest anything, maybe you should try to tackle a single class to completion, then upload an addon. There are indeed a ton of icons in the game, but if you picked a class with limited talents (alchemist maybe?) then you could see the fruits of your labor quicker. I think alchy only has 9 or 10 trees, which would mean that you could complete it with 40 icons. Then you could see your fleshed out hotkey bar.

I'm working on a similar project myself, but using the stock icons and enhancing them with brighter colors and color-coded borders for each tree. I find that when you have a hotkey bar full of talents (60 or so at 32x32 icon size, two rows deep) colored borders help your eye pick out what you're looking for a lot quicker. You could keep all the detail in your icons if you re-sized a 64x64 icon to 60x60 or 62x62 and added a border in the empty space. If you wanted to go this route, I recommend resizing to 60x60 which would leave a four pixel border on each side. This way, the right click menu (which uses 16x16 icons) would have a full 1 pixel border. I don't want to clutter up your thread with example pics, but I hope I'm doing a decent job of explaining what I mean.

Of course, you don't have to use my suggestions, your work is really awesome as is. I can definitely see the Warcraft influences. Good luck with the rest of the project and keep having fun with it!

[AlexMdle]

Heh. Yeaaah, DG said that the game has about 1000 icons, so no, I will not make icons of tome specifically (as much as I would like to).

[HousePet]

Many of the icons in ToME are a composite of a couple of symbols and recoloured to fit the theme of the talent.
Perhaps you could draw a few basicish symbols for ToME, I'm sure there would be a few icons that don't represent their talents well.

[AlexMdle]

Study is gonna severely delay about everything I do ever.

[AlexMdle]

Sorry for the long periods of abscence, learning how to code in C turned out to be harder than expected.

And I expected it to be hard. Or well, time-consuming.

I also switched to a more tedious method of drawing, which however allows me to fit far more details into an icon.



Also, 8/16 icons of set 3 is done.

[AlexMdle]

Fourth pack is done!



http://www.mediafire.com/?ocj27a8nvgskueh

[marvalis]

Those are some nice icons. Also, what is "SAI"?

[AlexMdle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAI_%28software%29

[AlexMdle]

Aaaand fifth one is ready.