Board authors,

Upon looking at the boards browse page (which is flushing out nicely), it has become apparent that we ought to start using some different colors than white as our fill "mask". Something that doesn't look so stark in the thumbnails. Since we don't need to use any one particular color, I'm going to suggest that everyone just pick something that looks ok on their own board for each board. Of course, use something you can keep track of and work with easily, but they should be in their own layer anyway.

That's an awesome idea!

Agreed.

A fine suggestion. However, I would much prefer to have the option to upload my own custom board thumbnail. That way, I could zoom in for a close-up, color things as I like, and crop out things like board instructions that don't look good in a thumbnail.

Cram, this is a fantastic idea. Would anyone have a problem if I took a dark shade of red? it tends to be a recurring theme on my boards. :)

Although I really like Red's input as well. I'd done a few boards on another site like Mortal Kombat and Hell on Earth (Doom) where using mods's and replacing images i made the thumbnail look the title screen from video games.

I don't get it? Somebody enlighten this monkey because really, I have no idea what the frak you guys are talking about. I don't have to have my territories white for fill to work?

RiskyBack wrote: I don't get it? Somebody enlighten this monkey because really, I have no idea what the frak you guys are talking about. I don't have to have my territories white for fill to work?

Nope, it can be any color (same rules though, it fills only through the exact match color).

Yertle wrote:

RiskyBack wrote: I don't get it? Somebody enlighten this monkey because really, I have no idea what the frak you guys are talking about. I don't have to have my territories white for fill to work?

Nope, it can be any color (same rules though, it fills only through the exact match color).

And for that matter, every territory can be a different color.

Your fill will spread across all the contiguous pixels which have the exact same color.

Does it have to be the same color all through out the map? Do I have to make all my territories yellow or can I have them be lots of different colors as long as that one territory is all the same color? How come I didn't know about this? Why do girls where Ug Boots in the winter......or at all for that matter?

Red Baron wrote: A fine suggestion. However, I would much prefer to have the option to upload my own custom board thumbnail. That way, I could zoom in for a close-up, color things as I like, and crop out things like board instructions that don't look good in a thumbnail.

I also like this idea. I would suggest that the thumbnail still be representative of the board so that people can see what it is at a glance. While Cumber's DOOM and Mortal Kombat maps were pretty cool, it did require taking the lid off the box, so to speak, to see what the game actually is.

You're a monkey is why you didn't know. What are Ug Boots? Cram answered the others :P

Cramchakle wrote:

Red Baron wrote: A fine suggestion. However, I would much prefer to have the option to upload my own custom board thumbnail. That way, I could zoom in for a close-up, color things as I like, and crop out things like board instructions that don't look good in a thumbnail.

I also like this idea. I would suggest that the thumbnail still be representative of the board so that people can see what it is at a glance. While Cumber's DOOM and Mortal Kombat maps were pretty cool, it did require taking the lid off the box, so to speak, to see what the game actually is.

Aye, the map preview and Board Image would somehow need to be directed to the actual board image and not the thumbnail, which would then be a bit confusing possibly (although I do really like what Cumber had started doing on WF).

Yertle wrote:  What are Ug Boots?

http://tinyurl.com/ygzdv8b

RiskyBack wrote:  Why do girls where Ug Boots in the winter......or at all for that matter?

A better question is "Why do they wear them in the summer... with a skirt?" Though, I'm not complaining, I rather like the look. It must be all the beer and snow talking.

Cramchakle wrote:

Yertle wrote:  What are Ug Boots?

http://tinyurl.com/ygzdv8b

Loser. 

Yertle wrote:

Cramchakle wrote:

Red Baron wrote: A fine suggestion. However, I would much prefer to have the option to upload my own custom board thumbnail. That way, I could zoom in for a close-up, color things as I like, and crop out things like board instructions that don't look good in a thumbnail.

I also like this idea. I would suggest that the thumbnail still be representative of the board so that people can see what it is at a glance. While Cumber's DOOM and Mortal Kombat maps were pretty cool, it did require taking the lid off the box, so to speak, to see what the game actually is.

Aye, the map preview and Board Image would somehow need to be directed to the actual board image and not the thumbnail, which would then be a bit confusing possibly (although I do really like what Cumber had started doing on WF).

Perhaps the two suggestions could be combined.  We should color our territories, and then permit the designer to choose a crop rectangle that will display the subset of the board that makes the most attractive thumbnail.

I updated Planet Yertle, although the Map Preview (click on the thumbnail image) doesn't show it as Green, that may get updated at some point.
Battle USA looks cool (transparent) in the Map Preview.

Yertle wrote: I updated Planet Yertle, although the Map Preview (click on the thumbnail image) doesn't show it as Green, that may get updated at some point.
Battle USA looks cool (transparent) in the Map Preview.

It gets updated when you refresh while on that page. Otherwise it pulls the image from your cache.

So if I have a straight line and I color sections different colors I could make those territories without any border disruption in the game? Meaning that if someone was red and took 2 of the territories it would look like 1 long red line and not 2 red sections?

That would be pretty cool