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[goolie]

Decided to fart out some redesigns for the Sol flags, wanted to see if there were any other on the forums and couldn't find any! Would love to see if anyone else has designed their own flags for the planets or factions. Feel free to give me some critique as well. The one's on the left are my designs!

  
Silversun ⬆

  

Venus ⬆

  

Pluto ⬆

  

Medina ⬆

  

San Colette ⬆

[maniacalFowl]

I like a lot of these flag redesigns and would love to see them implemented. I especially love the Updated Venusian flag that was posted in the main Discord. Even If we had to add the Cantons on them, Goolies has done great work to bring some life into these older flags.

[goolie]

❤️ to you for liking the designs, I kind of went for prettiness over accuracy, but it's SS13, so I'm not sure if we even want accurate... the cantons are staying for now, as said by @NewOriginalSchwann so instead, I would be down for it to be integrated into the flags since removal isn't an option.

   

[JeffMomentRed]

Medina flag is so good Goolies.

[wowzewow]

Honestly, these flags are great, Goolies.

I have a bit of feedback, if you don't mind.

- I love the Greenland-ization of Silversun. Makes the colors really *pop*. However, the bezier-curve wavy reflection is just too digital. Flags are designed physically, with straightedges and compasses. It's too obvious that this was made in a computer program. Of course, you could argue that this is the future and this doesn't matter, but this just means the flag looks more like a corporate .svg free online powerpoint graphics starter kit, rather than a sit-down serious flag.

- I think the hammer and sickle is a bit too on-the-nose that "VENUS IS COMMUNIST". I feel the deep crimson red and yellow stars already evokes strong soviet vibes, and it doesn't necessarily lock the planet into full on communism, but rather more broader strokes of socialism.

- Pluto, I think the pink/purple are way too close together. Once you squint (or better yet, squish them down to the 32x32 pixel art flag size), they're basically indistinguishable. I think they should be made the same color, or have them be completely different.

As for the cantons, personally, I like them staying, mainly because of what the Solarian Alliance really represents. It's an authoritarian empire first and foremost, under the guise of democracy. It's Sol-dominated, and it shows that the planets are obviously under the heel of the Alliance, as compared to the comparatively laissez-faire Tau Ceti and the loosely held together CoC.

Edited April 6 by wowzewow

[Shimmer]

2 minutes ago, wowzewow said:

However, the bezier-curve wavy reflection is just too digital. Flags are designed physically, with straightedges and compasses.

It fits the aesthetic of silversun. It's a planet caught in the vice of a corporate power, so it feeling corporate and artificial while retaining some of the almost vaporwave vibe of the planet makes sense to me.

It doesn't need to be designed conventionally, and in the case of Silversun it not being designed so conveys the feeling its meant to invoke a lot better.

[wowzewow]

3 minutes ago, Shimmer said:

It fits the aesthetic of silversun. It's a planet caught in the vice of a corporate power, so it feeling corporate and artificial while retaining some of the almost vaporwave vibe of the planet makes sense to me.

It doesn't need to be designed conventionally, and in the case of Silversun it not being designed so conveys the feeling its meant to invoke a lot better.

also when it gets compressed down into the 32x32 in game sprites it'll be impossible to actually tell and we'll have to fall back to straight lines

Edited April 6 by wowzewow

[Shimmer]

35 minutes ago, wowzewow said:

also when it gets compressed down into the 32x32 in game sprites it'll be impossible to actually tell and we'll have to fall back to straight lines

Flag sprites are always going to be a pain in the cunt if you design them with any degree of complexity :p

 

The Callistean banner I had to cut out one of the circles just so it works, with flags I believe the priority should be that it looks competent as a general design, translating it to banners is always going to be a compromise.

 

...especially when you remember its not even 32x32, the canvas itself is closer to 15x15 because 32 is the size of the sprite file, 15 is the pixels you get to actually work with.

[NewOriginalSchwann]

11 hours ago, goolie said:

❤️ to you for liking the designs, I kind of went for prettiness over accuracy, but it's SS13, so I'm not sure if we even want accurate... the cantons are staying for now, as said by @NewOriginalSchwann so instead, I would be down for it to be integrated into the flags since removal isn't an option.

   

While I cannot speak for Campin and Lain, I am not interested in modifying the cantons in this manner. I do not doubt they are going to stay as-is, in the upper corner of the flag.

 

This topic — modifying Solarian flags to remove their cantons — tends to come up every few months, and my response has always been the same: there is not a great interest on the team to make modifications to these flags. I understand there are size inconsistencies in the cantons, and one could correct them, but I do not want to see the design modified.

[goolie]

8 hours ago, wowzewow said:

However, the bezier-curve wavy reflection is just too digital. Flags are designed physically, with straightedges and compasses. It's too obvious that this was made in a computer program.

I was trying to go with what @Shimmer said and make it look more like a holiday destination flag rather than an actual political flag for a nation. I get what you're saying though, I don't really know much about the actual "rules" of flags and was just going off what looked pretty! LOL As for the Medina's purples looking too close... it had a equal three colour split but then I realised it looked exactly like the bi flag and I had accidentally made all of Medina bisexual... I went with purple since phoron is their entire deal. And the hammer and sickle I added just because they're communist... can you tell I don't know anything about flag etiquette yet? Thank you for the critique though. ❤️