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Any way to generate a hires corp logo?
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Turk Fezzik
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#1 - 2012-09-27 22:52:29 UTC
A search brought up plenty of people pointing to the image server 256 x 256 image but nobody really answers this question. Are the in-game art assets in vector form? Any way to extract a hires logo from the game?
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#2 - 2012-09-28 11:36:24 UTC
Turk Fezzik wrote:
A search brought up plenty of people pointing to the image server 256 x 256 image but nobody really answers this question. Are the in-game art assets in vector form? Any way to extract a hires logo from the game?


not in vector form afaik.

I'd take the image, import it into ps and scale it/convert it

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Turk Fezzik
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#3 - 2012-09-28 14:04:13 UTC
AlleyKat wrote:
not in vector form afaik.
I'd take the image, import it into ps and scale it/convert it


Scaling it up makes it look like crap. It's a shame CCP doesn't support exporting corp logos in a usable form. I want a corp T-shirt! P
Acid Kanshi
AIFAM
#4 - 2012-09-28 18:05:10 UTC
If it's a custom logo, you could ask for a logo from your corp CEO or the person who submitted it to CCP.

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Turk Fezzik
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#5 - 2012-09-28 18:14:37 UTC
Acid Kanshi wrote:
If it's a custom logo, you could ask for a logo from your corp CEO or the person who submitted it to CCP.

Only alliance logos are generated out-of-game and because of that there is no problem getting them hi-res.

Corp logos, however, are generated in game. Hence the need to ask this question on the forums. Regardless, from the response, I'd say it isn't possible or nobody has a clue how to do it.
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#6 - 2012-09-29 11:28:48 UTC
Turk Fezzik wrote:
Only alliance logos are generated out-of-game and because of that there is no problem getting them hi-res.

Corp logos, however, are generated in game. Hence the need to ask this question on the forums. Regardless, from the response, I'd say it isn't possible or nobody has a clue how to do it.


I told you how to do it, but didn't tell you how to use photoshop to do it, and if that is your belligerent attitude, I'm not going to.

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Turk Fezzik
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#7 - 2012-09-29 12:55:35 UTC
AlleyKat wrote:
I told you how to do it, but didn't tell you how to use photoshop to do it, and if that is your belligerent attitude, I'm not going to.


Wow. You are reading a lot of emotion into some words. I wasn't giving you attitude mate.
Dragonaire
Here there be Dragons
#8 - 2012-09-30 03:22:34 UTC
At one point there was someone talking about converting all of the component parts of corp logos to vectors so you could combine them at any res but I'm not sure who was doing the project or if it was ever finished. At the time CCP was being much less open about how people used stuff so might not have got very far. You could do it with PS but something like Inkscape might be better as it has a nice converter from bitmap to vector that can do an okay job with a little manual editing afterwards.

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Turk Fezzik
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#9 - 2012-10-02 15:09:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Turk Fezzik
FYI. I contacted the guy who did the original logo extraction and the largest images in the client are 256x256. I'm wanting to go up to something like 2048x2048 so that is quite a stretch. I suppose you could achieve slightly better quality by scaling each of the component parts in their grey-scale form then combining them. Also I've had mixed success converting bitmaps to vector images.

Here is the original logo pack for reference: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Entity/corplogos.7z
Turk Fezzik
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#10 - 2012-10-02 18:32:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Turk Fezzik
I found a free tool which does a really nice job of fractal interpolation. No where as nice as having a vector image to start with but it is decent.

Get ImageAnalyzer http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/
Then get the fractal plugin http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/plugins/index.htm#FractInterpolation

I ran a 2x interpolation three times to get to 2048x2048. When it asks if you want to merge the alpha channel say "no" and scale both images independently. When you save the resulting PNG you can specify the alpha channel you just resized.

Here are the results.

http://merkhan.net/481636042_256.png
http://merkhan.net/481636042_2048.png
Nutbolt
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-10-04 07:14:17 UTC
I have contacted CCP in the past regarding this issue and they stated that the corp logos are only rendered at 256x256, so even if they wanted to, they couldn't provide a higher res version.

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