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Offline Ganrakel

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Looking for layout tutorials - PBBG layouts
« on: April 21, 2011, 09:29:20 PM »
Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this, well as the subject states I'm on the hunt
for good tutorials how to great layouts for PBBG, if anyone has any tutorials/links to point me to
i would greatly appreciate it.


Thank you in advance,
-GanRakél

Offline Chris

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Re: Looking for layout tutorials - PBBG layouts
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 09:06:47 AM »
I highly doubt there is such thing as "BBG layout tutorial", these are generally done identical to "normal" layouts. The only thing that you could keep in mind is that it will be "stretched" verically more (althrough some make it fixed height), you might also need dynamic menu (variable number of options) and the most important, the number of options on the menu will almost surely change duriong the game life cycle so don't make it as static gfx (unless you have very strict design habits and won't change it later once decided upon intially).

More interesting would be reading about game interfaces, but this falls more into game design theory than layouts and gfx. I can not recall any good article about it either right now.

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Re: Looking for layout tutorials - PBBG layouts
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 10:39:32 AM »
now that i think about it there is only like 2 thing's i want to learn how to make like fantasy/medieval/etc, looking (borders/banner/background/buttons) the rest I'm good.
borders like this would be awesome to learn,
www.cmrpg.net
http://gamelist.bbgsite.com/iframe.php?gamename=Warflow%20%28GameDP%29&officialsite=http://wf.gamedp.com
http://en.grepolis.com/
http://cog.koramgame.com/

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Re: Looking for layout tutorials - PBBG layouts
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 02:35:14 PM »
www.google.com

cmon what is this ****?
layout is ART + some strategical thingies Chris mentioned

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Re: Looking for layout tutorials - PBBG layouts
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2011, 02:48:59 PM »
So it's about layout or graphics? In case of graphics (borders/backgrounds...) ... well that takes a lot of practice and trying. You can try - as a training of course! - to copy some of those designs to get the grip how's it's done... it's sometimes down to pixels...

What I use for this detailed things in Photoshop - layer effects (really there's a LOT you can do with that - mostly for UI things), brushes (also downloaded custom free brushes; tablet can sometimes come handy if you can get/borrow one), overlaying bitmaps etc.
just look through your graphic editor and see what you can use there

here's a noise trick: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/happiness_bluebird/bluebird_04.php (I don't apply blur)
it's often used on websites recently

but it's difficult to advise, as I said imho you just have to keep trying yourself
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