SHOW ME YOUR SCREENSHOTS - FALL EDITION

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In my experience it works better to have the background color to be light and the outline to be dark. This time I figure I will start with an example and save myself some time. Also, the Xs only look bad because you are putting them against a dark background.

I suppose I could put them on a lighter background, but that example you gave is...er...blech. I'll try something else later; in the meantime, I lightened up the X's a little so they're somewhere between 'too dark' and 'leaping out of your computer to punch you in the face.' Thanks for the tip, though!

light sources, lennon! cliffs moving up-right should be lighter and those moving up-left should be darker, generally.

@Lennon: They look fine to me. The map doesn't seem to have a defined light source in its current state. The shadows from the plants suggest it's beating straight down on them, but how would that affect the cliffs?

I changed my chart a little.

I replaced the X's with spiffy check marks and set them on a white background (but kept the text areas darker). I think it looks a bit strange now, though. Like the text areas are too complex compared to the simpler check mark area. And I need to change that X to something slimmer.

The shadows from the plants suggest it's beating straight down on them, but how would that affect the cliffs?

the front would be lighter than the sides.

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That was a sarcastic post because the answer was horribly obvious.

do enlighten us ::)

Wha?

Edit: Here is your enlightment:

Truth does not fight against illusions,
nor do illusions fight against the truth...
Illusions battle only with themselves.

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okay now THIS is a mockup so far but it'll be a piece of cake to rearrange the code to make it work.

excellent, but please use a nicer looking system set :(

Hali: I would ignore Arcan's advice, use the original background with the new red check marks.

Arcan: I see what you're getting at, but it doesn't apply to your example. If your windows desktop is white and you're playing Tardis's game in windowed mode, you may as well be looking at a black screen. In your example, the lack of contrast between the text and the background is present within the confines of that screen, so it would be difficult to read whether it's fullscreen or not.

Feld: I would ignore Geodude's advice, it looks fine =)

The system set itself is easy peasy to change, but everything else that I added like the FF6-esque box that pops up whenever you enter a new town, party change menus, and the stuff you see above, it would be tedious.

I'd be included to do it all myself if I saw a better one or if someone showed me a better one.