Crossfire Logo

Rowfo · Post by **Rowfo** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:19 pm

I have noticed that the crossfire logo seems a bit out of date with pictures of old monsters such as those dragons. I personaly think that someone could use the same Crossfire text that says CrossFire, but have modern monster pictures intead of the old ones used now. Its only a sugestion.

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:03 pm

Thank you for the reminder on this.

ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/crossfire/incoming/crossfire-gifs.html

It looks like whatever issue this server had the last time I found this file (2+ years ago) has been resolved.

CrossFire images

Here are some images that I created for CrossFire, using CrossEdit, the GIMP and some patience... You are free to use them for anything related to CrossFire, such as WWW pages or documentation. It is not necessary to credit me for the images, but please do not pretend that you created them.

If you have the GIMP and you would like to create similar images, the font that I used is "becker" from the freefonts package. The golden letters were created with Xtns -> Script-Fu -> Logos -> Glossy, by setting the font size to 70 and the gradients to "Golden". The glowing logo at the end of the first animation was created with Xtns -> Script-Fu -> Logos -> Glowing Hot. The animations were created from screenshots of custom maps (the icestorm and some other objects were pasted separately from their XPM files). I also used Filters -> Animation -> Animation Optimize to reduce the size of the files, although they are still a bit too big.

Raphaël Quinet, June 1998

So.. that's how you replicate the text. Perhaps we should have a (friendly..) logo design contest?

Rowfo · Post by **Rowfo** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:10 pm

ya, that sounds like a good idea, a freindly logo contest would be a great idea.

Rednaxela · Post by **Rednaxela** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:57 am

I agree, a logo contest of some sort would be an execelent idea. I would definitaly participate.

techolous · Post by **techolous** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:12 pm

the font that I used is "becker" from the freefonts package. The golden letters were created with Xtns -> Script-Fu -> Logos -> Glossy, by setting the font size to 70 and the gradients to "Golden". The glowing logo at the end of the first animation was created with Xtns -> Script-Fu -> Logos -> Glowing Hot.

That seems to explain how the text was made...

Rowfo · Post by **Rowfo** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:47 pm

oh ya, i also noticed that the screanshots on the main crossfire page http://crossfire.real-time.com/screenshots/index.html
are also old, such as the map of scorn, it looks compleatly different now.

bort · Post by **bort** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:10 pm

So when does this contest get going and what are the prizes?

Rowfo · Post by **Rowfo** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:18 am

good question bort, i think i should be soon, but i dont know when

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:04 am

well, given that mwedel has announced his intention to have a release weekend after next ( http://shadowknight.real-time.com/piper ... 08877.html )

it might be a little late to start the contest for this release cycle.

Unless you can change his mind of course, although I can't really see a new logo as being a release-critical feature.

Rowfo · Post by **Rowfo** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:14 am

agreed, it is not needed right away, if we have to, lets just have the contest, and we could just put it up as soon as an opertunity arives, without too much trobble