Want a higher res version of a power icon?

[Rylas]

42 minutes ago, biostem said:

I always thought it was interesting how some power types use the same general icon, (only recolored), while others seem to use unique or much rarer ones.

 

For instance, most status protection powers use an icon like: 

And most damage resist shields use: 

But some sets, that have status protection baked into a damage resist or defense aura use some variety of:  or 

While other sets that have RES shields that also provide some status protection just use: 

It just seems like which icons were used for which power were sometimes chosen arbitrarily...

For the most part, I believe they stick to the icon legend.

 

Currently, I'm working my way through the legend making updated versions of the borders and icons. From there I'll work up templates to turn around whole sets a bit faster. It'll take some time (thanks to how low res the ones I find on Paragon Wiki are, it's difficult to tell what some of the details were meant to look like), but my hopes are to have all the set done some day.

[biostem]

Thank you, Rylas!  That is a very interesting read.  I guess with how some powers pack so many effects into them, some compromises had to be made...

[davpa]

Any way to get the inspiration drops? I use, as you can see in my profile, the Rez cause I drit nap a lot. I might use an Essence of Earth or an Ultimate Inspire if the resolution was better.

Edited August 27, 2019 by davpa

[Christopher Robin]

36 minutes ago, davpa said:

Any way to get the inspiration drops? I use, as you can see in my profile, the Rez cause I drit nap a lot. I might use an Essence of Earth or an Ultimate Inspire if the resolution was better.

Man I hate drit naps. Drit tastes terrible.

[Rylas]

18 hours ago, davpa said:

Any way to get the inspiration drops? I use, as you can see in my profile, the Rez cause I drit nap a lot. I might use an Essence of Earth or an Ultimate Inspire if the resolution was better.

Not sure how happy I am with these. Matching the border bevel and starburst with any kind of accuracy was tricky AF. I may revisit these again later, when I'm done with creating the power icon templates.

   

Edited August 27, 2019 by Rylas

[davpa]

I decided to go with the Immortal Recovery. Thanks.

[ParaBruce]

Wow. So beautiful. Thank you, @Rylas!

[Rylas]

I've gone through the icon legend and redrawn all the icons and borders to help make the process faster. So here's the first full set I've been able to redo. I chose Energy Melee because, well, personal bias. I'll be going through when time permits to start working on whole sets. Perhaps rotating by AT and choosing a set from each. We'll see. 

 

 Energy Melee

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Barrage	Energy Punch	Bone Smasher	Build Up	Whirling Hands	Taunt
Total Focus	Stun	Energy Transfer	Assassin's Strike	Placate

     

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2019 by Rylas

[Rylas]

 Electric Armor

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Charged Armor	Lightning Field	Conductive Shield	Static Shield	Grounded
Energize	Lightning Reflexes	Power Sink	Surge	Hide

     

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2019 by Rylas

[Some Random User]

These are wonderful, but can you include the names so I know what to save them as?

[biostem]

21 minutes ago, Some Random User said:

These are wonderful, but can you include the names so I know what to save them as?

Here's Energy Melee and Electric Armor...

[Christopher Robin]

On 9/4/2019 at 9:08 AM, Rylas said:

I've gone through the icon legend and redrawn all the icons and borders to help make the process faster. So here's the first full set I've been able to redo. I chose Energy Melee because, well, personal bias. I'll be going through when time permits to start working on whole sets. Perhaps rotating by AT and choosing a set from each. We'll see. 

 

Energy Melee

 

     

    

Some quick thoughts.

These look great!

Amusing that Placate has a red heart shape in the center of the palm. "I'm all about the lov... ASSASSIN STRIKE!"

Not sure but on the first three images it looks more a like streak following the "bang" than a series of fading black rings?

Curious why there is a thin white line at the left right top and bottom of each?

These look great! Did I say that already? Well they do.

 

 

 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Christopher Robin

[Rylas]

5 minutes ago, Christopher Robin said:

Some quick thoughts.

These look great!

Amusing that Placate has a red heart shape in the center of the palm. "I'm all about the lov... ASSASSIN STRIKE!"

Not sure but on the first three the images look more like streaks following the "bang" than a series of fading black rings?

Curious why there is a thin white line at the left right top and bottom of each?

These look great! Did I say that already? Well they do.

All super valid questions. 

 

First; yeah, it's a bit heart shaped. But I'm just following the icons as close as I can. Which in this case, the Placate icon does actually have a bit of a heart shape to it. 

 

Second; this is the curse of only having low res icons to reference. I pulled icons from the icon legends page of Paragon Wiki and used two ways of looking at them before redrawing the icons. I would keep one at original size, and make a copy that I would blow up to 100x100 pixels in the hopes of pulling some of the details out. I originally thought it was a fade as well, but as you might agree when seeing them larger...

 

 

 

...there's definitely some trailing dots. I'm dedicated to preserving the original artwork as best I can. That said, I also wanted to keep a tighter consistency between icons with shared graphics. That's why the Barrage icon has two trailing dots even though its hard to tell if there's one or two trailing dots from the original. 

 

Third; no idea why that's happening when creating the PNG files from Photoshop. There's definitely no white lines on the artwork. If there's a setting I can adjust for that when exporting that someone's aware of, I'm all ears.

 

Fourth; THANKS! I'll keep them coming as frequently as I can. 

[Rylas]

11 hours ago, Some Random User said:

These are wonderful, but can you include the names so I know what to save them as?

I've gone back and added names under the icons. I'm also going to hide icons when posting them in sets to keep the page from being a scrolling nightmares. 

Edited September 5, 2019 by Rylas

[Rylas]

 Gravity Control (thought you might like this set, @biostem)

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Crush	Lift	Gravity Distortion	Propel	Crushing Field
Dimension Shift	Gravity Distortion Field	Wormhole	Singularity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dark Miasma 
 

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Twilight Grasp	Tar Patch	Darkest Night	Howling Twilight	Shadow Fall
Fearsome Stare	Petrifying Gaze	Black Hole	Dark Servant

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2019 by Rylas

[Rylas]

 Energy Manipulation

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Power Thrust	Energy Punch	Build Up	Bone Smasher	Conserve Power
Stun	Power Boost	Boost Range	Total Focus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Fire Blast

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Flares	Fire Blast	Fire Ball	Rain of Fire	Fire Breath
Aim	Blaze	Blazing Bolt	Inferno

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Psionic Assault

 

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Psionic Dart	Mind Probe	Telekinetic Thrust	Mental Blase	Psychic Scream
Drain Psyche	Subdue	Psychic Lance	Psychic Shockwave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 19, 2019 by Rylas

[Golden Azrael]

Great work on the icons.  Especially the Energy set.

 

Any plans on co-ordinating with SCORE to update the icons in CoH to hi-res?

 

Looks like you've already started.  Makes the icons much clearer.  Lord knows the text in the game gives me eye strain.  Too small and almost blurry.

 

Good job.

 

Azrael.

Edited September 10, 2019 by Golden Azrael

[biostem]

26 minutes ago, Golden Azrael said:

Any plans on co-ordinating with SCORE to update the icons in CoH to hi-res?

Personally, I think that, where appropriate, the game's artwork should remain original.  That being said, I'd love to see some sort of unoffical power icon replacer mod added, or an official one in-game, but purely as an option...

[Rylas]

1 hour ago, biostem said:

Personally, I think that, where appropriate, the game's artwork should remain original.  That being said, I'd love to see some sort of unoffical power icon replacer mod added, or an official one in-game, but purely as an option...

I'm inclined to agree. There's a reason I aimed to keep the icons as close to the original as possible. My main purpose when starting this was just to have nicer, cleaner versions for people to use in the forums or elsewhere. 

 

But if someone were to create a mod as @biostem mentioned, I'd be down for providing the artwork. 

[drboston]

Could I get a science and super huge Immortal? Results of using automatic upscaling have been... mixed. Do you have these in vector format?

[Rylas]

37 minutes ago, drboston said:

Could I get a science and super huge Immortal? Results of using automatic upscaling have been... mixed. Do you have these in vector format?

What size are you looking to get them at?

[drboston]

10 minutes ago, Rylas said:

What size are you looking to get them at?

Large mug - 900x900

[Rylas]

Origin Icons

Magic	Mutant	Natural	Science	Technology

 

 

 

 

@drboston, here's the science icon at 900x900. Sorry, but the wakie inspiration files were done in a way that the largest resolution was the one posted. I'll probably go back to those, along with the other inspirations at a later time. Tackling power icons is my main concern right now. 

 

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[drboston]

Thanks!

[Sura]

Ice Armor!  I saw where you posted you like Ice Armor and followed the link in your signature here.  Maybe Chilling Embrace?  That's a unique icon (I think) and very representative of the set.

 

Thanks!  🙂

Edited September 12, 2019 by Sura
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