Andor's Trail

Mayweed wrote:How would a screen like Nyktos' one look or work in landscape mode? Any idea?
Would the background be stretched and shield icon and text be pasted upon it?

we can make a separate landscape title screen,
so they both look polished!

Zukero wrote:Looking great. Maybe some bevel on the font, and some shading around the logo, to make it look like metal slotted (maybe there's a better word) in the leather.

that can be done, no problem.

rijackson741 wrote:How about a spine on the left:

i like this idea!

Lady Drager wrote:If you're going to add a spine, you need to recenter the text. It would be centered between the right edge of the spine and the right side of the book cover. Plus, the landscape view would have to be a separate image if you want to go with the book idea. Because the spine would go on top, the logo would then go to the left of the text.

maybe the landscape view could actually look like the spine of the book??

Lady Drager wrote:If you're going to add a spine, you need to recenter the text. It would be centered between the right edge of the spine and the right side of the book cover. Plus, the landscape view would have to be a separate image if you want to go with the book idea. Because the spine would go on top, the logo would then go to the left of the text.

I agree with your points. I also thought the text (and logo) needed recentering, but I'm just working with the image nyktos posted to the forums. I don't have the original file, which is presumably layered.

In landscape mode the spine could still be on the left. There were old books of art made like that.

I darkened the top, right, and bottom edges a little too (although it doesn't show very well in the image below; probably needs a little more):

a real quick landscape spine shot,
and yeah the original is layered...

The landscape book could look like this:
Sorry. I know that's a really crude hack job, but it's what I could do in 5 minutes with nothing more than a bitmap image to start from, and it's good enough for a general impression.

Edit: I made it look a little less horrible

rijackson741 wrote:it's good enough for a general impression.

that was perfect for this thread - we're just brainstorming here!

All this looks great, but it doesn't look medieval. It looks like a book that was printed anywhere from 1940 to now. I thought we wanted a medieval look... didn't we? That's why I did the gilding in the first place. So how about medieval binding?

Lady Drager wrote:All this looks great, but it doesn't look medieval. It looks like a book that was printed anywhere from 1940 to now. I thought we wanted a medieval look... didn't we? That's why I did the gilding in the first place. So how about medieval binding?

excellent point...

Lady Drager wrote:I thought we wanted a medieval look... didn't we? That's why I did the gilding in the first place. So how about medieval binding?

True. We are getting closer though. If we have the background, the logo, the font, and features like a spine, we have a basic book design. Then we have to make it look medieval. So gilding, some wear and tear, etc.

Maybe we need some clasps, and other metalwork. This is a real medieval book:

I'm going to snag that pic later! I'm at a friend's house right now so i can't do any artwork.