House designs

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by ReBorn_Spirit

Leaves wouldn't be used in a permanent building, but leaf-shapped tiles could be easily used instead of stereotypical shingling. Also, the goal of this project was to produce a similiar but different house style for the Forest kingdom. If you have a better suggestion, show us.

Im a pixel artist, there's no chance in hell I would attempt to make a GK styled GFX without a tablet. Im merely trying to point out that it doesnt look good.. try changing the design of the house itself, it *might* help. The leaves are riddicilous big, use ALOT of small ones instead - I bet that alone would do wonders.

[ViperZakuto]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Im a pixel artist, there's no chance in hell I would attempt to make a GK styled GFX without a tablet. Im merely trying to point out that it doesnt look good.. try changing the design of the house itself, it *might* help. The leaves are riddicilous big, use ALOT of small ones instead - I bet that alone would do wonders.

good suggestion that might actually work. see now thats constructive critisism. =P

[ReBorn_Spirit]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Im a pixel artist, there's no chance in hell I would attempt to make a GK styled GFX without a tablet. Im merely trying to point out that it doesnt look good.. try changing the design of the house itself, it *might* help. The leaves are riddicilous big, use ALOT of small ones instead - I bet that alone would do wonders.

Try to make many small ones, theres a small problem really. They are not actually leaves on the house. Forest is not just a bunch of elves, we have dwarves, x-pirates, humans, orcs.. YES ORCS!.. and a few other races. It really will not matter what size the leaves are, but if you asked me. A large tile shapped like a leaf was the better choice anyways. More complex is not always better, and until you actaully are a member of the kingdom, don't complain please. I really want to hear from our members not some outsider from the entire game.

**You can ask Governor Alan, I am actually an X-Pirate Architect, so this house has some meaning to using a simliar style in some way.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by ReBorn_Spirit

Try to make many small ones, theres a small problem really. They are not actually leaves on the house. Forest is not just a bunch of elves, we have dwarves, x-pirates, humans, orcs.. YES ORCS!.. and a few other races. It really will not matter what size the leaves are, but if you asked me. A large tile shapped like a leaf was the better choice anyways. More complex is not always better, and until you actaully are a member of the kingdom, don't complain please. I really want to hear from our members not some outsider from the entire game.

**You can ask Governor Alan, I am actually an X-Pirate Architect, so this house has some meaning to using a simliar style in some way.

Too bad, but, I am a member of Forest.. Soldier Ziro Xÿfé of (Forest). Do you think I would care otherwise? Do whatever, sorry for trying to explain how missplaced it would look.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Too bad, but, I am a member of Forest.. Soldier Ziro Xÿfé of (Forest). Do you think I would care otherwise? Do whatever, sorry for trying to explain how missplaced it would look.

Should take a look at the leafs on the Zormite houses.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Should take a look at the leafs on the Zormite houses.

Oh Ive seen them, and they're just as bad IMO

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Oh Ive seen them, and they're just as bad IMO

However, in my ~3 years experience of creating graphics on GK I would say it fits the style.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by Stephen

However, in my ~3 years experience of creating graphics on GK I would say it fits the style.

Perhaps, but I can not say that about the house in-progress in this thread..

[ViperZakuto]

Stephen was saying the house in project fits the gk style.

Look at the old houses in the latest pic, and tell me which would ook better. The old ugly ass trees, or the newer houses. I totally think the newer houses fit the gk style more so than the old ones. look at cp houses. looks basically the same, just with different roof, different bottom, and different colors.

[ReBorn_Spirit]

Ok, the next time you see a current forest house (tree). Think this... "Afro house", ok and now for the same theme you can see why we might want to change these soon. But joking aside, I could use some constructive information. Does the image seem pixelated too much or does it seem to fit better with a brighter colour? Or maybe various darker leaves?

**Also I am sorry if I offended any current forest members, I was trying to limit the feed back from people that don't really play GK at all. Theres a few people that fit the description but I want to be nice. Also if you have any of your own revisions of this show us. Maybe we can get a few different styles to pick from in the future.

[ViperZakuto]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Im a pixel artist, there's no chance in hell I would attempt to make a GK styled GFX without a tablet. Im merely trying to point out that it doesnt look good.. try changing the design of the house itself, it *might* help. The leaves are riddicilous big, use ALOT of small ones instead - I bet that alone would do wonders.

Maybe you could come up with something that will be better. That would be nice. I certainly think that if no one can make a better one than this. Then the one dayaa has made will work just fine. It looks good.

Originally Posted by ReBorn_Spirit

Ok, the next time you see a current forest house (tree). Think this... "Afro house", ok and now for the same theme you can see why we might want to change these soon. But joking aside, I could use some constructive information. Does the image seem pixelated too much or does it seem to fit better with a brighter colour? Or maybe various darker leaves?

**Also I am sorry if I offended any current forest members, I was trying to limit the feed back from people that don't really play GK at all. Theres a few people that fit the description but I want to be nice. Also if you have any of your own revisions of this show us. Maybe we can get a few different styles to pick from in the future.

It might look better if the leaves were different shades of green. good idea, let us see if you decide to do this.

[xXziroXx]

Several of things that might improve it:

* Why does all leave look exactly the same except the light source and rotation?
* Why are the leaves blurred?
* The leaves doesnt appear to be attached to the building at all.
* The design of the house itself doesnt fit together with leaves on top of it. Thats the main priority to change here.

[jaws908]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

Several of things that might improve it:

* Why does all leave look exactly the same except the light source and rotation?
* Why are the leaves blurred?
* The leaves doesnt appear to be attached to the building at all.
* The design of the house itself doesnt fit together with leaves on top of it. Thats the main priority to change here.

Heres the real problem

* They look like jello!

[ReBorn_Spirit]

** To answer any questions to as why the leaves look the way they do.

The "leaves" are actually leaf shaped tiles, hence the reason they are larger then a normal leaf. Unless you can make a better house image for the kingdom, this is what I would rather have us live in. Being inside the tree would do more harm to it.. as my RP would be of a wood elf.. I would think my character would be against even cutting them down. No matter how fat and ugly they were.

As for the original house shape, the story behind it would simply be that I was an architect at one time in the Pirates kingdom. If you have something against this, tough, its the past and I can't change that.

* By tiles I mean green tinted stone either magically made or formed or even carved out of wood. I don't care how you want to think of the tiles as its just to give you the idea that its NOT an actual tree your living in.

[npcserverRC]

lol @ reviving a 5 month dead post.

Point is no matter how you justify it, they just didn't(don't) look good