[Abandoned] - Switzerland

[whitestazn88]

the lighter version is definitely better btw

[pamoa]

Kap, you should display both v32 and v29 in the first page so it will be easier to compare for voting.

[Kaplowitz]

[bigimg]http://i35.tinypic.com/10x4oif.jpg[/bigimg]
Does this feel like Swisse yet?!!

[sam_levi_11]

No. It no longer feels like switizerland. However it looks great

[The Viking]

I think you should tone down the contrast of Switzerland itself, make it softer, more neutral...
And the continent borders are waayy to bright, imo.

[whitestazn88]

some purple bled into solothorn or whatever that one is called

[pamoa]

Solothurn and Unterwalden are normaly written in one word so there is no capital after hyphen.

[Blitzaholic]

[bigimg]http://i35.tinypic.com/10x4oif.jpg[/bigimg]
Does this feel like Swisse yet?!!

this looks neat

[Kaplowitz]

[bigimg]http://i36.tinypic.com/qs9wrl.jpg[/bigimg]
Im just changed random things now, hoping that I get something good... no one is giving me any more feedback towards the "Swiss-ness" of the map. (If I missed something, please speak up!)

[Androidz]

[bigimg]http://i36.tinypic.com/qs9wrl.jpg[/bigimg]
Im just changed random things now, hoping that I get something good... no one is giving me any more feedback towards the "Swiss-ness" of the map. (If I missed something, please speak up!)

i think this map will be better if you change the grey to red or any other strong fresh colour..

[Kaplowitz]

It was changed from Red to Gray.

A lot of people want more neutral, softer colors. Im not sure that would be a step in the right direction.

[Androidz]

It was changed from Red to Gray.

A lot of people want more neutral, softer colors. Im not sure that would be a step in the right direction.

really? But with your awsome new background i think a red dimmed as the other colours you have (or any other colour which goes with the flow) will fitt more than gray.Cant you just play with some colours. its something about the grey which mess things up.

[Kaplowitz]

Ill post it with red.

[Androidz]

Ill post it with red.

Good:D but if you know any other colours which may work better then you should try that. Weve got Pink, and the colour on this smiley: and even yellow. Play and have fun:D


Pink might work pretty good in this map actully:O

[Kaplowitz]

Is that what you had in mind?
(I only changed the color of the main map, if this stays, the rest will be changed)

[bigimg]http://i38.tinypic.com/mukfhc.jpg[/bigimg]

[Androidz]

Is that what you had in mind?
(I only changed the color of the main map, if this stays, the rest will be changed)

[bigimg]http://i38.tinypic.com/mukfhc.jpg[/bigimg]

Yeah i like this 50% better, now the land looks like a land. Verry nice.


hmm but i might think the place for the the pink might be a bit odd. Maybe place the pink in inner switerseland and green in Bern Domination? or any other location. But i think its looks great as it is now so dont need to change. You should put up a vote.

[pamoa]

let's say your pink is ... well very pink, very girly (give me some "nausea"), could you give it more red

[Androidz]

:? let's say your pink is ... well very pink, very girly (give me some "nausea"), could you give it more red

You might have right thats it is a bit brighter than the other colours i guess i overlooked that:D. But still its a better colour than the grey=)

[pamoa]

You probably do not know it but grey is a very swiss colour. In fact we even have a special shade of it called "federal grey". It's a way of naming something plain and boring as federal administration employee can be. But it's true we don't want a plain and boring map...

[Androidz]

You probably do not know it but grey is a very swiss colour. In fact we even have a special shade of it called "federal grey". It's a way of naming something plain and boring as federal administration employee can be. But it's true we don't want a plain and boring map...

You've right i didint know that but i think the backround covers up that part;)

Hehe true indeed.

[Kaplowitz]

I like gray...

Im trying to put a lot of red elsewhere on the map though.

[pamoa]

you could maybe try with the red you had in france or austria in version26b

[edbeard]

The grey and lighter colours are being used for the non-playable areas of the map so use brighter/stronger colours for the playable.


the red you tried wasn't right. A red more like the flag would be better. But, other colours might work too. Orange for one.

[t-o-m]

I havnt been up to date with this thread, and havnt read some previous comments, but ill just comment what i feel on the current image, which it this isnt it?



For me, the non-playeable areas are looking good, although i dont like that bevely looking thing on the country names, that just makes it look worse in my opinion. Those mountains aren't looking like Swiss, my suggestion is to not go for that style of mountain and instead go for a non-birds eye view of them, like on the france 1800s map (that view but not those moutains) keep some texture on them and make them slightly grey, and put some white from the top downwards for snow. I still feel the colours need work, they aren't normal for me, too...contrasting, too glowy, they look radioactive. This is a comment that you may disregard (and i wouldn't blame you for it) but i would go for a completely different style of map. I would have gone for white backgrounds with slight cream, then maybe colour the continents with an inner glow and make them the colours that are light and would be suited for switzerland, e.g light blue, reds, lighter colours and nothing harsh. (but that would be basically building a new(ish) map - from a graphical point of view)
With a lighter colour scheme you could have something like this as a title:

That would say Swiss and you could get the idea of encorporating switzerland into the map.

I havnt covered everything, but i have a different view on how the map should look than other people, which is quite contrasting feedback.
It's your map, just try to make it more Swiss.

[Kaplowitz]

Im posting this to show that im still working on the map, and that i will hopefully finish this update in a couple of days.

I wanted to try something completely different, so here is what i've been working on.

[bigimg]http://i38.tinypic.com/2iu2gpw.jpg[/bigimg]

which, when finished, will be put into a poll against this:

[bigimg]http://i36.tinypic.com/qs9wrl.jpg[/bigimg]

Hopefully this will show me where to go with this map.