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Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:41 pm
by Zukero
Hello adventurers.

I just completed the testing of a new code feature: Immunity to an actor condition.
It works kind of like the antidotes, that can clear any active food poisoning for examples, but on a longer term.

Imagine quaffing a "Potion of bulletproof stomach" that gives you five rounds of raw meat eating without risking food poisoning.
Imagine the "Rapier of the fearless" that makes you immune to "Fear" as long as you wield it.
You get the idea.

Now, in my tests, to show the active immunity, I simply overlaid the "skills" icon on top of the immunized actor condition's icon in the bottom-right corner and in your hero stats page.
It kinda works, but it's not really pretty nor has an intuitive meaning.

If any of the creative ones here could come up with a good icon overlay, that'd be awesome.
Here are the rules:
- A single PNG file with transparency.
- 32px by 32px.
- A good license (Public Domain, CC0, or CC-BY-SA for example).
- Visible enough to understand that it's a immunity, yet transparent enough to recognize the Actor Condition's icon below.
- Works well-enough on top of any icon in the following file: https://github.com/Zukero/andors-trail/ ... ions_1.png

The winner gains bragging rights, his name in the game (name + URL link) in the "Authors" section, and my gratitude.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:52 pm
by Nut
Maybe a red circle around with strike through like in ghostbusters as overlay?

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:55 pm
by Zukero
Nope. That won't do. First, because it sends a negative message, while an immunity is most likely to the benefit of the player, and second because it would be ugly.

I came up with something today. It works, IMHO, but if someone can offer something better, I'll have no seconds thoughts about replacing mine.
Here's what it looks like:
Image
The shape is directly derived from the logo's shape.

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:13 pm
by Zukero
Here are examples:
test_immunity_1.png
test_immunity_2.png
test_immunity_3.png

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:36 pm
by Firefly84
Perhaps make the shield a bit larger, at least to the bottom.

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:18 am
by Zukero
I first tried with a bigger shield. It was centered horizontally, and taking the whole height.
Trouble was, it covered the actor condition icon beneath it too much, and it was really hard to recognize what you were immune to.

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 10:41 am
by rijackson741
I think that looks pretty good.

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:47 am
by Nut
I like this too. Especially using a shield in logo shape fits perfectly.

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:32 pm
by sdevaney
I like the idea of the shield as the immunity symbol. I think it would look better a different color or shaded differently as it's pretty hard to distinguish that the shield is even there; at least to me.

Re: Icon wanted for Actor Condition Immunity

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:32 pm
by Urbain
What about a syringe on an angle from top left to bottom right? Though I like the shield as well.