Not to be that guy but... that sundial is horrible. The base has the correct perspective and yet the face (as always) is a full circle rather than an oval like the base is. When you mix perspectives like that it makes the face seem like its at a drastic angle rather than flat on top of a pedestal, making it resemble a satellite dish more than a sundial.just got booted, logged back, and bamf:
Assuming the recipe will be random
Sundail tell time of day
Plade is... meh... another Mondain killed someone thing. (why so negative all the time?)
Sundail looks cool.
Of course anything zoomed up will look pixilated, but that wasn't why I was zooming it. I was showing how lazy it was, because it really was just a 25 point pencil, with an 1 point wide inner circle, and a 1 point wide UO symbol with a gradient/noise over it. You could literally do it in like 5 minutes. Nothing was done to make the inner line look like the depth contour you would see in an actual plate, or make the UO symbol look like anything more than a pixel line. I mean christ, at least try and anti-alias them! The "shadows" which I assume the gradient was an attempt at are completely half-assed and incorrect making the plate look completely flat.
The sad thing is they know it looks out of place. Years ago, some time after the current (apparent) aesthetic was set, there was an artist dev member (Cathat I think?) who came in and said that the full perspective was intentional and actually correct because of the floor tiles, despite the fact that it didn't fit in with the perspective used in the original art assets, or any art made up until whoever took over and made that arbitrary decision. It's absurd.
It's probably one of those deals where you've got to be around 30 days or whatever. Like in the old days we made new characters just for extra gifts lolThe pictures here look nice. Ty team. You only get on TC if you copied a character over? My TC newbies got no toys.
I only have 3 chars on test but the only recipes I've gotten are for a tall and short vase...so I think these are not the recipes for the new expansion, that just wouldn't make sense.
That's neat they say different things. Plus I have a character named Time Lord
Love Dr. Who.... fact it ties into UO was a bonus lol
Oh that is rather nice! TY very much
Hopefully it passes inspection on perspective lol
I got a bad feeling about the perspective on the shorter one lol. The hole in the top should look more like an oval I think. But we'll see. People assume were just being jerks but if you want to put a rose or something in it it's gotta be right
But nice work! Thanks for doing that for us. One nice thing about them stealing art and recoloring it is they get the perspective right lol
Holy cow those are big lol I like the taller one better, the short one looks odd for some reason. I'm sure someone will tell me
LOL yeah that's why I took a screenshot standing next to them....they ARE big!
Yes I'm hopeful about the plates. That could be the winner of the set. Do they turn? lol Trying to keep you busy
I'm guessing not as they are kinda
I think the look just as half assed at regular resolution. As I said, I only zoomed in to clearly display my criticisms.
It has no lip around top!Holy cow those are big lol I like the taller one better, the short one looks odd for some reason. I'm sure someone will tell me
LOL no problem I like to keep busy!Yes I'm hopeful about the plates. That could be the winner of the set. Do they turn? lol Trying to keep you busy
turned halfway to each direction.
A lot of the larger vases don't
The shorter one looks like it leans forward more than the taller one. Probably just me. I think the taller one will be ok, need to place it next to old art.
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The plate is also bad, but because it's poorly made. I could make a better looking plate, and my art skills are marginal at best, and poor by professional standards. It looks like someone plopped down a 25 size pencil mark, filled it with a gradient, drew a circle UO symbol in grey with a couple solid brown twigs hanging down, and called it good. No depth of color, no attempt to give the form depth, no light reflections or shadow, no attempt at anti-aliasing... yuck. The sundial has some similar issues, but nowhere near as drastically.
Just look at it close up:
Maybe it's just me, but that looks like mailing it in.
Yes exactly it's the hole at the top that is giving me the perspective problem. I think whoever does the art was working on a different game for a long time and just can't seem to get the concept of UO lol But the tall one is probably usable. But they're getting closer, a couple more years and they'll have it!
Yeah, nothing should have a circular top like that. Take a look at the Vases from SA, they actually did it correctly. That being of course because they had outside artists working at the time who realized the proper perspective to not make it look completely silly.
LOL yes you are correct.
The old base looks odd with the perspective of an angled top down view. If you were standing above an object at a slight angle, the hole on top should look more like the new vases, think about it for a second. The old vase looks like you are looking at it from the side and not from above
If they just put a bit of work in on them I think they would look fine.Yes I'm hopeful about the plates. That could be the winner of the set. Do they turn? lol Trying to keep you busy
turned halfway to each direction.
Yeah that was the discussion I was referring to. The thing I don't understand is that it's admitted that its less aesthetically pleasing, and I think 90% of people probably agree... but accepting that... they decided not to just change it for one item, but to go ahead and replace the old perspective with the new worse looking perspective for everything from that point forward. Why. WHY?
Well you can't change the plan at the end of the game. At this point it has to look right with the stuff from the last 18 years. If it's more right or wrong doesn't matter if it doesn't match anything else.
That's correct, but you also would see the body of the vase in a much different way as well. They are mixing perspectives. The body of things is the same perspective as the old UO art around 45%, but the tops of things is the same as the floor, 100%, which makes everything look like its sliding or deformed.
I mean I completely agree. The game kept the original aesthetic until... I want to say SE? Then clearly a new art director came in (cathat I assume?) and had a personal issue with the presentation and officially changed the aesthetic despite the fact that it looks bad and went against the aesthetic foundation that it had to coexist next to literally side by side.
You think they'll EVER get it? We hammer them every single time for awhile now and these art problems just keeps coming back. Maybe they're mad at us and do it on purpose? lol. I've have zero art training but I get that doesn't look right. I just don't get why this keeps happening....
I like the idea, and even the basic form is fine! Stops there though.
Even if you don't like this or that, just art in general, the circle at the top of the vase doesn't match the angle of the vase. It really makes one wonder what the hell? lol I'm baffled...
