OpenMW Game Template

[Greywander]

What about simply rotating the moon-and-cog logo 90 degrees so that the crescent is below the cog? It's visually distinct enough that it wouldn't be confused with Morrowind, and yet remains a solid callback to it for those who notice.

I'm also open to doing some mockups if people have some ideas. Logo design is fun, but I need a basic idea to work with. Maybe I could try to make a monogram using the letters "OMW". Hmm, I'm already getting some ideas, but it's late and I have a full day tomorrow. Maybe I can get something up tomorrowind gosh darn it best typo ever I'm leaving that in, but I meant "tomorrow".

[psi29a]

That sounds lovely Greywander! I wish you success in both the full day and if you have time over to whip something up.

Another idea, merging what other's have said... start off with a rotating gear, the O forms in the gear and the M and W fade in with and an underline or a crescent but rotated 90 counter-clockwise to be under the OMW?

[DestinedToDie]

I also support the idea of the gear O MW.

[psi29a]

I just got great news, hicks233 of nexusmods has agreed to re-license his textures as CC-BY!

He is the creator of:
Alternate Skies - http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/42629/?

He even agreed to upload his PSD files. This gets me thinking that we'll have to have two openmw-template: one ready to use with OpenMW and one for working with the original material.

His message to me was:

Very kind of you to get in touch.

I'm more than happy for you to make use of the textures. The meshes are I think adjusted version of Bethesda originals by another modder but the textures are all original.

If you need the .psd files that I made the .dds textures to work from I can send them also.

Lets give him a big round aplause, as he will definently be in the credits!

[Greywander]

Some basic logo designs. (Apparently it's a bit too wide, so you have to scroll over to see all the horizontal logo.)

Spoiler: Show

Some of the more complex ones are just sketched, and might require a more talented artist than myself to make. (I'm not actually that good of an artist.) (Although, logging in to deviantArt for the first time in months and checking my notes, I'm good enough to have my art stolen, apparently.)

I haven't done much animation before, but I could experiment with an animated logo for a title screen.

[psi29a]

Nice work Greywander, any way to experiment more with the gear aspect and how it can be worked into the O with MW there after?

[Penultima]

Here's a test of putting the MW inside the O instead of outside. Please excuse the programmer-art quality.

[psi29a]

You know, that is pretty good too... have the gear spinning counter-clockwise and the MW spinning clockwise. Then feather it out from left to right for the OMW where the O keeps spinning.

[psi29a]

BTW, with the new moons code going in, we have two misses:
Failed to open texture: Resource 'textures/tx_masser_full.dds' not found
Failed to open texture: Resource 'textures/tx_secunda_full.dds' not found

Anyone seen any nice replacements anywhere?

Eventually we'll have to de-hardcode this... no moon, one moon or many moons none of which should have the names masser and secunda.

[sandstranger]

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