04/08/05

Improved Winter Assault design

Permalink 09:32:20 am, Categories: Dawn of War, Web Design, 248 words  

Having received a tip from Mel_Danes at the Hive World Terra forums about using the official art work for my colour scheme (I would use the art work with the Guardsman as well, but GW probably has legal problems with that!) I've now come up with a new scheme that looks quite a bit better. I've also included a logo in this one.

Feel free to check out the new Winter Assault @ Hive World Terra skin and tell me what you think. Just before Winter Assault is released, this skin will become the default for a while, with the option to change it back to the standard skin. Once Winter Assault has been out for a while, I'll leave the skin available but revert to the current cream skin as the default skin.

Please note that I'm having a few known issues with the various backgrounds lining up properly, and I'll be fixing it at some point.

Update: for those of you wanting to see the original look (well, original release, not my first attempt), then it is still available at http://skins.hiveworldterra.co.uk/SkinsAtHWT_WA2.html. Note that I didn't have a logo made for this one, but it would be about the same as the new one.

Update 2: The images have now been replaced with better versions that align correctly (the repeat was taken from the saved JPG instead of from the original non-resized image that was then scaled down seperately as before)

Comments, Trackbacks:

Comment from: Craig [Visitor]
Lookin good, just a few comments, the repeat looks a bit odd, the bands are too different, doesn't look as smooth as the cream version. Also, the logo could do with being a bit thicker, maybe bold it, just looks a little spindly.

Keep up the good work
Permalink 12/08/05 @ 16:45
Comment from: IBBoard [Member]
Yeah, good point, I'll have to see about fading the repeat into something more fuzzy and less definate. As for the logo, I'll see what I can do and whether the font came with a bold or whether it needs a new and slightly different font.
Permalink 12/08/05 @ 20:19

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