Reflections on the welcome tab

[plumo]

http://www.facebook.com/play0ad?v=app_7146470109

Very nice but maybe there is room for improvement ( Personal opinion, only meant to provide constructive feedback to the 0 AD team).

1. The use of colours to indicate the six playable races could be more diverse, now it is very difficult to see where the lines go to and where the celtic zone passes onto the iberian zone.

2. Idea for the logo's ( windows, linux, max etc.) . Use an image of hoplites ( Maybe in a phalanx formation: a common strategy in most civs in that era ) and put one logo / per shield.

Otherwise: great work and visually very attractive.

[Jeru]

I did the Welcome tab, thanks for your feedback.

I realize the colors could use some work and will fix them a little bit more, thanks.

I like the hoplite idea but I am not very good at drawing human figures =\ If anyone can contribute a silhouette in the proper position I'll see what I can do.

Also I will add an arrow pointing to the "Like" button.

Edited September 10, 2010 by Jeru

[plumo]

Some ideas:

http://hoplitesolutions.net/images/hoplite.jpg

Cut out the 3 soldiers at the left:

http://info.nodo50.org/IMG/jpg/Hoplites.jpg

[feneur]

Perhaps there are some images here http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_cat.php?cat_id=184 you can use as a base? Not directly, but just tracing their outline or something?

[Pureon]

I really like it Jeru - it's very nicely done and the information is spot-on!

[Aldandil]

I like the welcome page but I agree that the colors are too similar to each other. In addition, it would help if they were less transparent. The Persian color, in particular, looks red on the map because the purple mixes with the yellow, but the key shows Persians in purple.

[Jeru]

Changed the purple and some other things. (I would rather not use proprietary images for 0 A.D. marketing, not even as derivative works that are quite probably within fair use). Thanks, guys.

[plumo]

The purple is much better now ! Nice.

Ive looked for some hoplite images on the website, and found some good ones. Its an image of only 1 guy, but if you "blend" 5 of them together, or behind eachother, i think that will work out fine.

Then add the logos on the shields

Here is the link:

http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_page.php?pic_id=8410

OR

http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/album_page.php?pic_id=8862

I feel guilty for sending you this stuff, because i'd love to be able to do it myself, but I can't. Do with it what you want, of course

I know it is easy to give comments without doing a thing, but i only think about improvement. Don't kill me

Edited September 12, 2010 by plumo