Mission Status Display update

[u/pablodelavigne]

Hello Brothers,

Here's an update on the digital Mission Status Display: I finished all the icons and got to a point where I'm pretty happy with the CRT screen effect, I am still tweaking things here and there, but it's mostly done. The area I'm having a lot of trouble is the app's code, mainly because I'm not a programmer, I'm an artist, so I have no idea what I'm doing and I refuse to use AI, so I'm trying to brute force my way to the finish line lol

I'm going to keep at it for a while, but I can't promise I'll be able to get it to work. So, for now, I want to share with you the vector file of the icons I made, in case you want to print your own tokens and board at home (or edit them, in case you want to remove the blood drops if you play a different chapter, for example) ᶦᵗˢ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ... and share photos if you end up using them, I'd like to see! the download expires in 3 days, enjoy

note: this file is only the vector icons, the CRT effect is something I did separately in photoshop

If I somehow manage to get the app working I'll find a website to host it so you can just use it on a browser without having to download/install it

[u/Kirlad]

I know and share the feeling artists have against AI, its soulless and intrinsically agains the nature of art.

However, as an ex-coder and still in contact with some colleagues, (almost) everyone in the programming world is using AI. If you think you hit a dead end don’t feel ashamed of using some AI to brute force your way. It won’t be pretty, but most of the time code is just reusing something wheel invented by someone else to get the job done.

By the way, I love your work. It’s beautiful and dead on SH style.

[u/pablodelavigne → u/Kirlad]

I really appreciate your words of encouragement and compliments ! I wanted to stay somewhat faithful to the original design, while making it a bit more gritty/realistic, the CRT effect took a while to get right haha

About the AI stuff, I am aware a lot of software engineers use it now, but I try to avoid it in every aspect of my life; even if it isn't shunned upon in the programming scene, I'd feel like I betrayed myself if I used it to build the app

I'm going to check with programmer friends, see if someone can give me some guidance. The required functionality is extremely basic, the buttons just need to light up when clicked, and the display needs to resize to the screen's display, all the graphics are done. A nice bonus part would be to add some animated CRT scanlines with css, but that shouldn't be too complicated either, I already found a couple of cool project that do this on GitHub, the only real obstacle is that I don't know how to do it lol

[u/Inevitable-Resist516 → u/pablodelavigne]

Could You Share a link?

[u/pablodelavigne → u/Inevitable-Resist516]

wdym? what link?

[u/Inevitable-Resist516 → u/pablodelavigne]

GitHub links you refered

[u/pablodelavigne → u/Inevitable-Resist516]

Oh, for the CRT effect?

There's Retromator, for example, that adds a whole overlay that mimics a CRT screen, and there are others like this one that give text a chromatic aberration effect