Beginning of PSA.
Hey everyone. I have something to say. 
I started this project for only one reason. To give @HyperspaceMadness shader, graphics that live up to it’s excellence, and his tireless work. After spending some time frequenting his thread and posting some of my early work, (Primarily reworking some of @Orionsangel’s work.) I was incredibly impressed with the community, feedback, and HSM’s generosity and willingness. So impressed that I thought I would dust off my fairly rusty skills at vector art and give some original work a shot.
- I chose vector, even though it’s much, much tougher to do that raster, so it would be scalable and future proof.
I had such good feedback and response I decided to find way of distributing them. I release my source in addition to the graphics because from my experience, it was always something I wished artists would do. I have still never seen another artist do this. I wanted to have a “First” of my own to measure up to @HyperspaceMadness’s “First” with his shader.
- My graphics are all open source, I don’t require credit for use or expect it.
I am doing presets, not because the graphics require them, but because some members were having a tough time getting things up and running. I wanted it to be easy. Once again, I was following HSM’s example. His main motivation for the shader, at it’s inception, was to take away the normal difficulty of setting up overlays and make it “easy”.
This thread is for Feedback and Updates.
Going forward let me state once again that if I post a WIP, I like it and am proud of it. This project contributes greatly to my quality of life. In order to keep things that way, I thought I might lay out a few ground rules.
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Be gentle and considerate in your feedback.
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Keep your feedback constructive, major design modifications are reserved for the requester, if one exists. (The source is always available.) There is only one exception to this rule: my “Art Director” can make any suggestion they see fit.
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If you are making a request, limit it to one at a time. This is especially important now that the list of remaining graphics is growing short.
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If you are making a request, phrase it as one. I am not under the direction of the community. (The use of the word “Please” goes a long way.)
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Please. :-) Try to keep the discussion on topic. Although I am very familiar with the shader, technical questions really belong in HSM’s thread. (A link to his thread is at the top of this one.)
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Have some fun! (Play some games in Night Mode.)
In the end my works are a gift. If you don’t like the gift it then, by all means, don’t accept it. This is just one small corner of a large world of available options.
End of PSA.
I know it’s a bunch more work that it seems to change these things after all the realistic details are in, so many objects!
