Mupen64Plus Icons

[nmn]

It has been mentioned that there are no good icons for Mupen64Plus, So I've decided to make a couple prototype icons (As you'll notice, the quality of the full version is somewhat poor, in relative terms. I can fix it yes, but I just wanted a quick opinion.)

Both are 512x512 in full. The previews are at 128x128, 64x64, and 32x32.




[Full]
Seems to scale better than the other, but doesn't look as good closer up.


[Full]
A lot more going on in this one, and it looks better at high resolutions, but it has legibility trouble at lower resolutions.

I'd like some feedback if anyone has any. As well, I'd like to see others' icons. Note that I'm in no position to select icons to use in Mupen64Plus, so this is just a place to collect them up I suppose.

Do be aware that we can have different icons for any size, of course to solve readability issues (the lower resolutions should be drawn somewhere near pixel by pixel.) but I have chosen not to, because again, these are very quickly done icons.

[Toasty]

Oh if only Blacklord were still around! [/sarcasm]

I can't say I really like them too much. (No offense intended; it's just my opinion and I probably couldn't do any better.) My suggestion would be to use very few unique colors - like maybe 2 or 3.

You might look through the old PJ64 logo discussion if you're looking for artists. There were many good (and many not-so-good) submissions from a variety of different members - some of whom would probably do something similar for Mupen64Plus.

[nmn]

Hmm, I can see a couple differences in style that i could go for but since it's all logo it's hard to say. Anyways, I don't blame you for not liking them, and don't take offense. I didn't try very hard, I was trying to fuel discussion and ideas into this. I don't know for sure but these icons probably fit the least strangely on Mac OS X because I started at 512x512 and so many of the details are only visible at higher resolutions (I started there so my sloppiness would be less noticeable in the smaller versions)

I can already see a lot wrong with these icons, but I'll try some more later on. For now, I have a lot to do.

Oh and reading Blacklords posts... Do you ever get the feeling that every blatant idiot you see on a forum is the same as the blatant idiot on the other forums you browse?

[Slougi]

Oh if only Blacklord were still around! [/sarcasm]

OT: How about LightKnight? sheesh...

[nmn]

I've been thinking about doing some 3D renders of the Mupen "M" logo and just hand drawing the 16x16 icon. What is the opinion about that?

[_Zack_]

I'm no gfx guru but Bleh, at least I tried :



It's not bad I guess, hardly a Picasso mind

[nmn]

It's pretty good for it's simplicity. I'd do borders around the text and add a plus somewhere, but as you can see, I'm not so good an artist myself.

[_Zack_]

Just added the "+" to it (see previous post)

Can't believe I forgot that, *Hangs head in shame*

[Surkow]

For really low icon resolutions I prefer something more readable. Something in this direction:



This is just a suggestion and by no means an icon that should be used.

[okaygo]

I made this icon, nothing fancy, simple, 2 colors... It's original size is like 384x384

32x32:



64x64:



128x128:



Edit: The scaled down version doesn't look that great, and it seems my Photoshop just quit working on Wine... oops