Simple, yet effective. I like it! The only thing I'm missing is some sort of thin bookmark between the pages of the arcane spellbook. No Mage should be without such a 'shortcut' to his/her favourite spells.
Hm, is this an astrology mosaic or some sort of holy symbol? Reminds me of Waukeen.
I know you've added the separation line for people to better distinguish the known and memorized spells... but it still feels a tad unnatural to me. On the other hand I'm unsure if bookmarks would make any sense in scrolls.
I fear the 'sun', while stylish yet immersive at the same time, would only really work for Morninglords of Lathander.
Rollers befitting the ceremonial function of such a holy priest scroll could be a nice thing to have. But it's also fine to stay true to the Baldur's Gate 1 priest scroll design in that regard.
@Archaic : nice job on the spells book (arcane and divine !) Much much better that way.
@Kamigoroshi : the only problem I can think of about having a Mosaic made for specific Clerics is that when you have more than one cleric in your party, you'll have to stick with one or another. It's just a matter of finding something that could fit. The one form Archaic is not so bad if you overlook the fact that it looks like the rising sun of Lathander ^^
Thanks everyone for your feedback on the Mage Book & Priest Scroll designs. Much of your feedback helps with the release version. I have a few more things left on my list and then I will release BETA 5.5 within the next few days.
Thanks everyone for your feedback on the Mage Book & Priest Scroll designs. Much of your feedback helps with the release version. I have a few more things left on my list and then I will release BETA 5.5 within the next few days.
The size seems about right. Though it may look better if you switch the font itself to something else. If BG:EE supports custom fonts I'd recommend the Magic Cards font, the Centaur font, or even the Andalus font since they would display better at this size.
@Kamigoroshi - Custom font types are not something I'm going to look into at this point. The amount of time to do a custom fonts would be many many hours of tedious labor. This is the only large font optional available right now. Maybe in the future I will look into doing my own custom font. Thanks for the suggestion of Magic Cards Font - will keep that in mind.
@Archaic I didn't meant to suggest that you create a custom font from scratch for BG:EE, but rather use existing custom fonts such as Magic Cards for that. Of course, if BG:EE doesn't support non-standard fonts this idea of mine is moot to begin with.
@Kamigoroshi - I understand what you mean. No matter what font you use you must create from scratch. Its not as simple as taking a font file and its done. You literally have to create a graphic for each letter etc. (approx 250+ graphics) It is very labor intensive... As you stated BGEE doesn't support standard font format. You can use a pre-existing font like Magic Cards but you must create the graphics from the font itself.
@mlnevese - Thanks for the suggestion. However, I've not been able to get the font bam generator to work. The program wont even start up. Not sure why... The bigger fonts mod for BG2 doesn't work for BGEE from what I've tested anyways.
@mlnevese - just copy and past "java -jar font-bam-generator-1.0 -charset CHARSET [-drawShadow BOOLEAN] -font FONT -out FILE [-useAA BOOLEAN]" into cmd line? I'm not a cmd line geek...I have java installed.
in this command cp 1250 referers to central european languages charset:
1250 – Central and East European Latin 1251 – Cyrillic 1252 – West European Latin 1253 – Greek 1254 – Turkish 1255 – Hebrew 1256 – Arabic 1257 – Baltic 1258 – Vietnamese 874 – Thai
-font must contain the name of the font, style and size you wish to use -out is the path and name for the bam you wish to create
-useAA makes the characters antialiased when set to true
-drawShadow will draw shadows in under the characters.
Make sure the java command is in your path or copy it from C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin or wherever you installed java to the same directory you're trying to run the font bam generator.
@Nathan - do you know what the max value is we can put in the baldur.ini for Path Search Nodes? Defaul tis 32000 but I believe it can go higher? 400000? I've tried changing it but I don't seem to notice a difference. Thanks.
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Feedback welcome...
Hm, is this an astrology mosaic or some sort of holy symbol? Reminds me of Waukeen.
I know you've added the separation line for people to better distinguish the known and memorized spells... but it still feels a tad unnatural to me. On the other hand I'm unsure if bookmarks would make any sense in scrolls.
I fear the 'sun', while stylish yet immersive at the same time, would only really work for Morninglords of Lathander.
Rollers befitting the ceremonial function of such a holy priest scroll could be a nice thing to have. But it's also fine to stay true to the Baldur's Gate 1 priest scroll design in that regard.
@Kamigoroshi : the only problem I can think of about having a Mosaic made for specific Clerics is that when you have more than one cleric in your party, you'll have to stick with one or another. It's just a matter of finding something that could fit. The one form Archaic is not so bad if you overlook the fact that it looks like the rising sun of Lathander ^^
Best Christmas gift ever =D
Bigger Fonts mod for Baldur's Gate 2
http://www.shsforums.net/topic/52452-bigger-fonts-mod-for-baldurs-gate-2/
Font Bam Generator
http://www.shsforums.net/topic/41417-fonts-for-pt-pl/
The link for the bam generator is in one fo the comments in the second thread.
Enjoy
Worked here. you must have Java installed. From command line:
java -jar font-bam-generator-1.0.jar -charset CHARSET [-drawShadow BOOLEAN] -font FONT -out FILE [-useAA BOOLEAN]
Let me give you an example from that thread:
java -jar font-bam-generator-1.0.jar -charset cp1250 -font "DejaVu Serif Bold 14" -out /tmp/test.bam -useAA true -drawShadow false
in this command cp 1250 referers to central european languages charset:
1250 – Central and East European Latin
1251 – Cyrillic
1252 – West European Latin
1253 – Greek
1254 – Turkish
1255 – Hebrew
1256 – Arabic
1257 – Baltic
1258 – Vietnamese
874 – Thai
-font must contain the name of the font, style and size you wish to use
-out is the path and name for the bam you wish to create
-useAA makes the characters antialiased when set to true
-drawShadow will draw shadows in under the characters.
Make sure the java command is in your path or copy it from C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin or wherever you installed java to the same directory you're trying to run the font bam generator.
Feedback welcome...