New splash screen and icon

[Redspear]

Consider the following a rough mockup, not optimised, not agonised over. just patched up...

(source of original royalty free background image included at base).



Printed far too large of course (apologies) but how does one shrink post link, so to speak?

[phkb]

I was thinking something along those lines, but using in game assets instead.

[hiran]

When looking at OoliteStarter now the question would be whether I go for an orange icon or for a splashscreen that better matches the new logo..

It's a pretty good splash screen, without changing anything. I probably wouldn't go with an orange variant on the logo, as the image has a predominance of orange already.

I just did a quick look at putting the red logo on the existing image, and I have to say I think the red logo adds to the drama. I'd probably recommend doing that, and keeping it simple!

Thank you for taking a look.
I updated the splash screen for future versions.

[another_commander]

For fun, I asked Copilot (the new AI thing bot installed with MS Edge) to create its own version of the Oolite logo. The prompt it worked with was:

"create a logo based on the existing Oolite game logo, but make it predominantly red. The new logo should be viewed reasonably clearly up to resolutions of 16x16 for use in icons,"

And it came up with this:


Not too bad (I guess), although it's got plenty of "artistic license" in there... I get Star Trek vibes too if I stare at it for a while.
Good boy, Copilot. Here is a cookie.

[Redspear]

Good boy, Copilot. Here is a cookie.

Not bad...

I was thinking something along those lines, but using in game assets instead.

Besides an in-game eclipse or a ringed planet, what about the nav buoy? It's unique to oolite, an intriquing shape yet a simple outline... Just a thought.

[phkb]

Here's my first pass at this:


Or maybe this:

[phkb]

Another attempt:

[arquebus]

I'm in love with those last three! Especially the one with the three ships.

[Redspear]

I'm in love with those last three! Especially the one with the three ships.

That's the one I like the least

First one is good though. Reason being that it's clearest what it is (that's the angle that you'd typically line up to dock), the shadows don't interfere with that clarity (unlike with the ships) and it's simple. That combination makes it the most iconic of the three, to my mind at least.

[arquebus]

I don't like the first two as much mainly because there's not enough definition in the station. If you don't know what it is already, you won't know what it is. I think it would work better if the light were hitting it more from the front.

[cbr]

[0b1]

All fanstastic work! I wish I had something that spectacular for Obelite (the WebGPU Port)

[Killer Wolf]

i kinds think it might look good if the logo was painted on the space station.

[seventh]

[seventh]

+ sources https://oolite.ru/pictures/oolitelogo.zip

https://www.figma.com/file/CSfgki9RLTGE ... 1zZkhoaS-1