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Well, when I put the mini-battle boards into the capital charts, I knew I was going to be re-doing the regular battle boards. First, there was actually a new feature to put in (the slot for plus and minus points), and then I wanted to update the look to match the much nicer style I'd achieved by starting with CorelDraw instead of PhotoShop. I think it's much nicer looking:


However, that left the 'Charts' the boards where the module lets you keep track of the Raid Pool, available tug pods, the Depot, and other limited items as the last bit of pure-PhotoShop graphics. While they aren't bad, they were starting to look out of step with the rest of the module. So, I've decided to re-do those too.

:sigh:

I'm still working out just how I want the new ones to look, but I think this is pretty much it:


As always, I'm interested in hearing opinions and advice.
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James Lowry
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Staring at the Lyran chart some more, I'm finally realizing why it's seeming so 'off' to me. Lack of color. It's technically the same color scheme as the Capital charts, but they now have the red/blue battle boards imposed on them, which seems to help out a lot.

I don't really want to get away from the racial empire color scheme though. Though ever since the survey cruisers were put in, every empire has an 'accent' color as well, so I could legitimately use that. Though, they're often black or white, which may not help much....

Or I may just have to abandon a certain amount of 'purity' of design.
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  • Posted Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:39 pm
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The new boards are coming out quite well, James. Once you fix the few minor issues we've found in the first few battles, I think this will be a well received upgrade. ^^
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  • Posted Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:05 pm
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The Battle Boards look nice and I agree that Lyran Record Chart is too lemon.....

By the way, which game is this VASSAL module talking about actually?
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  • Posted Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:24 am
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Same one as the question about the capital form: Federation & Empire
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  • Posted Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:43 pm
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