Well I was looking at the shield design and I think it's pretty old school now in days. Though it looks ok still, I was looking at custom mods and realizing alot of ships just use a circle design simply because there is no ship bmp for the current custom ship sizes.
On top of that, resizing the current ones make it look pretty horrible. I was wondering who could design a new 'template' for ship designs. In order for this to work probably needs to be able to be sized.
For example, after a certain size, the green bar shouldn't expand either, else it overlaps ships for example. What I mean is the borderlength of the actual shield design shouldn't go over about 6-8 pixels so it doesn't start overlapping ship images like it would if you size up images now.
Basicly the image sizes needed currently would be:
8
12
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32
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48
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128
They would need to be more none round like the current ones, else if they are going to be bigger, we need to size it more then just +8 pixels more, maybe even +15 pixels from the ship design.
Basicly, I was either thinking of the same RED-ORANGE-GREEN type, or even a nice light blue/actual looking shields that seem to 'fade' when there almost depleated.. Maybe both however and I'll have a special toggle for people. But it will be good to get some sorta inital design first and we can see.
Please remember to keep it within SF limits atm.
