[FT] ST FT2.5 designs

> Dean wrote:

> They were posted on rec.games.miniatures.misc on September 19th. FT2.5

Thanks for the info

Someone must have them to hand, so please could you send them to ME

> They were posted on rec.games.miniatures.misc on September 19th.
FT2.5
> designs for most Trek ships. I don't quite agree with all of

I would not mind it if they were posted to the list. I also missed that post
to rec.games.miniatures.misc. And this would be an on-topic post.

I've started doing some BMP's of the designs; of course, the ones for my
scenerio are the ones done so far. However, I can't find the original list
on disk, and I assume you can do Deja News as well as I. ;->=

When I get a fair number done, I'll put them on my website, with proper
attributions to John, whom, I believe, is on the list now. Even if he doesn't
post his original designs here, I hope we can encourage him to do
so with any new/reworked he produces.

I have reservations on the designs myself, but the thing about beggars lacking
options of choice is certainly valid in my case. Thanks very much, John, for
'they are a good start'!

As an aside, the BMP's are cut-and-paste from a set of system icons at
another web site (Siefert's?) but I'm finding the images are coming out rather
large, and Paint Shop Pro shrinks them with disastrous results in quality.
Suggestions, other than changing formats in PSP, are more than welcome.

The_Beast

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 Subject: [FT] ST FT2.5 designs

> Dean wrote:

> They were posted on rec.games.miniatures.misc on September 19th. FT2.5

Thanks for the info

Someone must have them to hand, so please could you send them to ME

> The_Beast wrote:

When I did my fleet sheets for GenCon (both the tourney sheets on Allan's
GenCon Page and the ones I used in my Sci-Fi Crossover game) I used
those bmps but had to create a different sized blank sheets with a new orders
table at the bottom so everything came out the right size (1080x1440 and
1500x2000 compared to the 630x950 one I think you are using). Let me know if
you want a copies.

Hey, I'm famous! (Turn your back on the list for one week and look what
happens. That and about 500 messages, but I digress...)

As long as the talk has turned toward the Star Trek designs I'd like to point
out that the new DS9 Technical manual is now available and includes the major
ship designs featured in that show. Some of the short descriptions seem to be
missing the essential "Armament" line but there's still good stuff there. In
my experience, trying to get FT ships to match "cannon" descriptions is a lost
cause but others may have better luck.

> devans@uneb.edu wrote:

> <snip>

A couple of suggestions - forgive me if you've already tried them :

I'm not sure which version of PSP you're using, but PSP 3 has two image
resizing functions - resize and resample. Resample gives a much better
result because it recalculates pixel values in the new image rather than just
picking
the closest pixel from the old image. Bit depth is also important - if
you
aren't using 24-bit images (16.7m colours) it can be worth changing the
bit
depth of your image to 24-bit, resampling to the new size and then
changing back to your original bit depth.

> rather large, and Paint Shop Pro shrinks them with

> depth of your image to 24-bit, resampling to the new size and

Resampling is only available on 24bit images which BMP aren't so you *have* to
increase the color depth before you can use it.

Alternatively you can create it big and scale it at print time using fit to
page in the page setup.

Though this way not resample as well as the explicit image resample above.

> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 devans@uneb.edu wrote:

as an aside, it would be really, really nice if someone could do the (ft anf
ftfb) icons up as a truetype font, like tom mouat's army symbols font. this
would get rid of the scaling problem and make them usable by a wider audience
(i think). i'm not enough of a font hacker to do this myself, but
if no-one else has a better idea i could have a crack at it.

Tom

> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 devans@uneb.edu wrote:

Hey, give me time. There are only 28 hours in a day. (Huh...I'm *what*?
Ummm...I seem to be slightly overscheduled
here.... ;-) I plan (crossing fingers!) to put FB graphic
files and a TT font together in the next couple of weeks. It'll depend on my
schedule otherwise, though. (I *really* need that extra Christmas money!)

- Sam

Check out:

 http://www.glasscity.net/users/channing/FT3font.ttf

Chan Faunce

> Thomas Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 devans@uneb.edu wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Channing Faunce wrote:

good work mr faunce! a most impressive font, if a bit grainy in places
(the lines tend to come out a bit rough at most sizes - i tried 24, 36,
48 and 72). now all i have to do is learn what all these darned new symbols
mean - a dot with two circles around it? is that the new shield symbol?
call me old-fashioned, but i liked the old beam symbols a lot more.

Tom

> Thomas Anderson wrote: