Originally by: Corporal Cleggy

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Edited by: Corporal Cleggy on 19/05/2011 16:21:53
his point is that the new BPC prints are offensive on the eyes, they stand out over every other item in your hanger and are bloody distracting.

I agree that having diffrent icons is a big help, but jesus test the new icons on the community first before raping our retinas

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Originally by: FuzzyLogik360

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Hmm...

I previously posted on this thread, stating my disappointment at the new BPC design. But having experimented (very quickly) in photoshop I think I am coming round to the design.

A number of people have suggested that a good way to distinguish between copies and originals might be to implement a "corner tag", a little like the Tech II or Faction tag in the top left-hand corner. To illustrate, I created something along these lines as shown below:



It is at this point that you begin to realise a number of important requirements for the design of the BPC:

1) BPC must be clearly distingusihable from BPO
2) Design must be scalable (i.e. work at reduced thumbnail sizes)
3) It should be umabiguous, i.e. immmediately obvious what it is regardless of player language/culture.

The alternative design I have presented fails on at least points 2) and 3). You'll notice that the "Tech II" symbol does not re-scale when the icon is down-sized. This scale invariance means that the symbol is ALWAYS clear and umabiguous. However, introducing another "tag" and also making this scale-invariant simply obscures the underlying blueprint image. I have therefore broken the scale-invariant rule, and down-sized the tag in the smaller images - but now the tag requires a mircoscope to see it!

For the tag, I have used the symbol "C". However, this hardly universal across a number of different languages.

And so I have come to realise that the only alternative is to change the general appearance of the blueprint image (as CCP have done), and not add any more confusing tag symbols. I didn't commit much more time to this, but I suppose I could upload more ideas if this post continues to generate interest.

...maybe there is an opportunity to launch a community art contest for this? Or maybe not (c.f. Design a space-ship contest ).

Anyway, you could make it green, pink, hatched, checkerboard or whatever, but all would probably look no better than the current design CCP have come up with.

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