• mardi 5 avril 2016

    Frostgrave Combat Cards


    I wish realize this project since a long time... I always wanted to create my own Citadel Combat Cards, the only problem is that I‘m never found a dood application to concretize this project.
    I don’t know if you have already played to Frostgrave? But it’s  frequent to look for the skills of the monsters in the rules book , the Monsters cards are a practical solution to save time during a game.

    If we disregard the painting of the miniatures, the shooting of the miniatures and the editing of cards … The most complicated thing in this project it’s to find the good Fonts. Fortunately, our dear Zhu had the good idea to share its knowledge in Font researche in a discussion on the Oldhammer Forum (Link)
    If you read this article you will understand that it’s question about the Fonts at the top of cards: Friz Quadrata Bold and Helvetica. If you want to try to reproduce these cards, I advise you to parametrize these Fonts in size 44 then to reduce their width to 55 %. So you will obtain a rather close result from  the original Combat Cards.
    Concerning the Font of the skills (titles and values), I did not find them. I managed to reconstitute them with the original Font. A little complicated but it is possible!

    33 commentaires:

    1. Comme ca déboite, j'en avais fait pour une partie mais pas aussi belle que les tiennes. Faudra que je t'emprunte le fichier source pour en faire des propres.
      Franchement c'est magnifique mec.

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      1. Par contre on me dit dans l'oreillette que c'est Fight et pas Figth...

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      2. Le truc à la con... Je vais corriger ça ce soir. Merci pour le com :)

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      3. C'est bon c'est corrigé...

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    2. They look fantastic, although it breaks my heart to tell you you've spelt 'fight' wrong :(

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    3. Great work Nico. This is something I'd love to do with photos of my own miniatures...

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      1. Thank you Stuart, I think this project is in mind of many Old School painters/collectors.

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    4. The oldhammer forum link to the font discussion doesn't work :-(

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    5. Wonderful. Can I bother you for some tips on how you painted the red on the daemons? Thanks.

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    6. Hi! Anonyme :) I use Citadel range
      Base coat : Mephiston Red
      Shade : Agrax
      1st Highlight : Mephiston Red
      2nd Highlight : Evil Sunz Scarlet
      3rd Highlight : Wild Rider Red
      4th Highlight : Wild Rider Red + Ulthuan Grey

      Last Highlight only on face, knees and elbows.

      Nico

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    7. That is a great idea, perfectly executed. Bravo!

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    8. Do you use Magic Set Editor ?
      http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/

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    9. Salut Dread, en fait j'utilise Gimp. C'est du photoshop version fr et gratuit me semble t il. J'ai numérisé les quelques cartes originales et après c'est du travail classique de retouche :)

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    10. Salut. Ok tout simplement. Un modèle, des calques et c'est parti.

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    11. Exactement c'est le principe :)

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    12. These are absolutely brilliant, Great work.

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    13. I know it has been a while, but can you explain the symbols and the numeric value on bottom right on the cards? Thanks for the superb job!

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      1. Thank you Pedro, the value at the bottom right is the Xp you won when you slain the monsters.
        Symbols are reminders of specials capacities from the bestiary

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