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David of Mac
Elite RangerCa
As you might've guessed from my avatar, a little side project over the last few days has been recreating the icons of the DRADIS displays from Battlestar Galactica.
[img]http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Battlestar%20Galactica_files/Dradis_Showcase.jpg[/img]
A couple notes: The small Unknown icon is conjectural. In "Resurrection Ship Part I" a small ship was represented with the large Unknown icon, and in "Hero," they used the Cylon Raider icon for a small Unknown, but whited it out when they bleached the flashback scenes, so it was hard to tell. So I made is a combination of the large Unknown and the Raider icons.
Also, the Resurrection Ship icon was only seen once, from a distance, where it appeared to be a modified version of the large Unknown icon, though it was difficult to confirm any details. In "A Measure of Salvation," the Resurrection Ship II: Son Of Resurrection Ship was represented by the Basestar icon, which was unhelpful. However, the fact that the civilian ships were all made of pieces of the Viper and Raptor icons was very helpful, so I have no ill will.
I'm not sure how or when I'm going to release them. I'm thinking a zip of Photoshop files with the arrow for each icon on a separate layer. I'm also thinking about making them into a set of Mac OS X icons, but I'm not quite sure about that yet.
Final note, thanks to TrekBBS poster [b]backstept[/b] for pointing me to the almost-perfect DRADIS display font. And after drawing out text pixel-by-pixel, "almost" perfect is perfect.
[img]http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Battlestar%20Galactica_files/Dradis_Showcase.jpg[/img]
A couple notes: The small Unknown icon is conjectural. In "Resurrection Ship Part I" a small ship was represented with the large Unknown icon, and in "Hero," they used the Cylon Raider icon for a small Unknown, but whited it out when they bleached the flashback scenes, so it was hard to tell. So I made is a combination of the large Unknown and the Raider icons.
Also, the Resurrection Ship icon was only seen once, from a distance, where it appeared to be a modified version of the large Unknown icon, though it was difficult to confirm any details. In "A Measure of Salvation," the Resurrection Ship II: Son Of Resurrection Ship was represented by the Basestar icon, which was unhelpful. However, the fact that the civilian ships were all made of pieces of the Viper and Raptor icons was very helpful, so I have no ill will.
I'm not sure how or when I'm going to release them. I'm thinking a zip of Photoshop files with the arrow for each icon on a separate layer. I'm also thinking about making them into a set of Mac OS X icons, but I'm not quite sure about that yet.
Final note, thanks to TrekBBS poster [b]backstept[/b] for pointing me to the almost-perfect DRADIS display font. And after drawing out text pixel-by-pixel, "almost" perfect is perfect.
Comments
You have too much time on your hands. :)
Is there a chance you could attach and post the font in question? Our new forums should handle it just fine :)
Additionally, a link to the font I used, "Visitor" is included in the read me. Or you could probably Google it, now. ;)
Is it similar to the blackbird stealth fighter.
By the way nice job on the font and display. Just out of curiousity whats the numbers above the radial lines mean is it angle or distance.
Oh, right. iWeb broke all my links and I never got around to making a new website. Fear not, though, the files are still there, [url=http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/3D_Website/DRADIS_Icons.html]the program just changed how it handled spaces in page titles.[/url]