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Why don't we use actual historical coins, to keep the feel of the time period? I found several victorian coins that are ready for use, including this one:

 

http://www.btinternet.com/~petercoins/images/pc41.jpg

 

Edit: a few more:

 

http://www.coinimages.co.uk/images/1871sov...hieldrev240.JPG

 

http://www.coinmag.com/article/20STGAUDENT.gif

 

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe...ethelred2-r.gif

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Here's another cool batch of Egyptian coins...might be neat to include the bottom two for some variety. Perhaps to put in ancient ruin missions.

 

http://www.geocities.com/fareastwonders/CO...ns/egyptian.jpg

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Darkness has well and truley proved his artistic ability there.

 

I also agree on using real historical ones as a reference. I hope you don't mind drawing some new ones based on them, even though your original designs look good! Can't fault the actual artwork style at the moment though.

 

(edit)Although... Darkness' ones have a more fanciful look about them - the world of Thief is very fantastic (fantasy-like), and it could suit.

 

Maybe a blend of both Darkness' first ones, and the realistic ones?

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The historical ones are perfectly centered and just waiting to be run through a normalmap filter. There's no point in redrawing them...we just have to choose which ones we like the best.

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The historical ones are perfectly centered and just waiting to be run through a normalmap filter.  There's no point in redrawing them...we just have to choose which ones we like the best.

well actually no. they still have to be tweaked a bit, cauze auf the reflections. not much work though. I could do that pretty quick.

 

These two are my favorites:

 

pc41.jpg

 

1871sovereignvictoriashieldrev240.JPG

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Agreed. One could be silver and one gold. And then there is that funky egyptian one we could always include for foreign coins, if it matters.

 

On second thought, that might be silly...chances are you won't make out any of the details anyway.

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Lol. Be my guest. I don't think anyone will be able to read it in-game though. Too small. :)

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...There's no point in redrawing them...

Well I wouldn't say that...

 

Re-drawing them can give us our own style. And avoid some person playing, going "hey, they ripped off that image from blah", and ruin immersion for them. I remember someone complaining about how the Finnish military (lion) logo appeared in Thief 3.

 

It makes you think these people are just searching the net and using any image that looks "cool". Because that's what it is. It ruins the atmosphere, you stop beleiving as much.

 

It's not super-important, but I wouldn't say there's "no point" in re-drawing them...

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Re-drawing them can give us our own style. And avoid some person playing, going "hey, they ripped off that image from blah", and ruin immersion for them

 

Well, keep in mind that these coins will be slightly bigger than a thumbprint. Not exactly something that's going to be that noticeable, even if there are history students playing. (the only people liable to recognize coins from the 18th century....) :rolleyes:

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yes, it'll be really small ingame, but there're always some crazy guys, who find such eastereggs ;)

 

here we go - reduced the relections and added LGS:

 

coin_gold4.jpg

That's awsome! :lol: that would be perfect for the coins.

 

And in a side tangent-i'm making progress. (shameless self-plug)

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Of the ones posted, I preferred this one most:

20STGAUDENT.gif

 

Was thinking a Hammer symbol could replace the lady.

 

EDIT: On 2nd viewing, maybe it's not a lady. LOL.

that'd look cool, too. maybe we can use that for the copper coins. (remember there were always 3 types of coin stacks in T1/2: gold, silver and copper ;) )

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