Which one do you, oh member, find the purdiest of them all?
The options:
1. Simply dots:
2. Low opacity icons:
3. High opacity icons:
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Sooooo I figured I'd try my hand at some cartography after Señor Johnapillar mentioned something about an update to the town map.. It sounded interesting enough ;p
Now, I know it's not an exact 1:1 replica of the Godai region, but it's close enough as a first draft as far as I'm concerned.. It was a quick try-out anyways..
How big is the country supposed to be, btw?
Fun fact: I keep hearing 'Pokémon Godai' in my head as 'Pokémon Go Die!!!!' O_o (and now you shall too mwhahaha)
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
I honestly don't kow which is better. How about using two out of three for preference? The low opacity icons are hard to see but the high opacity icons make the map look cluttered and messy. The points are the most practical because they are compact, precise and clean. On the other hand, icons give people an idea of what the place is like and help them locate the place they are looking for without having to read over all the locations. For example: if I'm looking for a city, I'll know that it has a big building icon representing it, thus, making it easier to navigate the system.
Also, maybe we can compromise. In the games, they didn't just use different colors, they also used circles and squares representing cities or caves respectively. We could add other geometric figures like a triangle too -instead of big and cluttery icons. This way we keep the clean look of dots, but adapt the ease of navigation obtained from using icons.
I want to find a city in the map. If I know that cities are marked by a triangle, then I don't need to hover over all the dots just to find it; I narrow the search down to the following specifics:
General area (North, South, East, West) + Geometric Figure = Location.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as my own problems with the icons, and I'm gonna be ashamed for a bit that I didn't think of this elegance. :/ ELEGANCE!!!
So yeahh.. Imma try it out, though it'll be a while, since I'll be awaay being all touristy rest of the week.. And then maybe I'll try some actual RPing as well xD
(triangles as cities, though? since when are cities triangular? ;p)
Also, the idea I got from your General area (North, South, East, West, Central(?)) is that we'll want to use different colors for different 'continents', right?
Alexander "Alex" Brooks
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Name:Alexander "Alex" Brooks Trainer Class: Travelling Guy Dians: 6,273 EXP Gained: 53 Location: Oreback Town
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
Just returned from a lil' holiday.. If anyone ever visits good ol Bella Roma, and goes to the Vatican, go take a look at the Vatican museum's map hall for some purdyness (just to stay a bit on topic ;p)
Anywhoo.. Quickly threw this Icon/dot compromise together:
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
I'm having a tough time deciding... they both look pretty incredible. Much neater than the icons. However, what's what kind of confuses me. Like what are the white squares, the red squares, the green circles, the green triangles... I know this is very minor, but should we maybe have a legend? Even if we don't end up having a legend I think I like the unfilled ones better as well... Great job, btw.
I was thinking of going for the unfilled ones as well, though I simply wanted to see if the filled ones would be more clear (since I did want to make them smaller than the icons so as to not make the map so cluttered, but not so inconspicuous that they simply weren't clear anymore)
I tried to be as faithful to the original map as possible, with the red stuff meaning cities/towns, and the green stuff being (natural) landmarks. I wasn't sure what to make of the bridges/victory roads (which really are neither), so I made them grey for now, though I'm probably going to change them back to the original green (landmarks) as well.
As for the 'legend': I tried to make them be as intuitive as possible: cities/towns (and the roads/bridges), being man-made, were square, whereas mountains, caves and mines were triangular (because, you know... mountains xD), and everthing else was simply a circle.
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
In any case, here's the latest (last?) and highest quality jpg I could make of the unfilled icons version of el mappo.
Final alterations: made the grey icons green again (they are kinda landmarks, after all), and changed the brackbrine flats to a circle (it's not a cave, after all).
Aaand if there are no more comments or objections, I guess we can call this done?
Now off to find myself some other hobbyhorse to tinker with
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
Awesome~ I like it, I think it's great, and it's now on the site. Thebes you are a lovely lovely man and I might have to ask you to do this again in the future but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Awesome~ I like it, I think it's great, and it's now on the site. Thebes you are a lovely lovely man and I might have to ask you to do this again in the future but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Thank you, and sure thing!
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Why is this so beautiful? i_i
You're amazing, Thebes. You've earned that hat thing on your avatar.
Alexander "Alex" Brooks
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Name:Alexander "Alex" Brooks Trainer Class: Travelling Guy Dians: 6,273 EXP Gained: 53 Location: Oreback Town
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201
Once a lone stray on the streets of Parchdry Port, Shami was given her name by Alex himself as he met her as a kitten, and they have been nigh inseparable ever since, sharing a bond of deep understanding and affection. As such, Shami is loyal to a fault. She will not hesitate to help out her trainer, to the point of potentially hurting herself. That said, though, she is not tame, or at least not in the traditional sense of the word, as she still retains her wild and somewhat unpredictable nature, like any other stray would frankly need in order to hunt and survive in Parchdry Port. That is not to say she is dangerous, but she does have a certain ‘attitude’, something that will hopefully change with time as she is trained, but it is still something careless, nonchalant or inexperienced trainers might want to be wary about lest they get their hands zapped. Luckily, she is also a cat-like Pokémon, and an electric one at that, and therefore spends most of her time conserving her energy by being extraordinarily lazy, either lounging about, or outright sleeping (and unluckily for anyone around: snoring) like a Snorlax.
Nickname: Shami Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Intimidate Height: 2’11” / ~89 cm Weight: 67.2 lbs / ~30 kg Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (59/62) EXP Gained: 53 Level: 18 Division: D7 Total Stats: 201