Request for Feedback: Heraldry Tool Preview

the last charge, skull and crossbones, is a broken image

 

will the heraldry also be showable on shields?

 

Early feedback/Suggestions:

1) Hover text over buttons (rotate clockwise/counter clockwise is fairly obvious) but in the Ordinaires menu the vertical and horizontal arrows look to me like they're supposed to stretch the image or fit the image, instead it does something else.

2) Those arrows... the effect looks to be flipping the image? Both arrows seem to do the same thing. So if it's Contourne + inverted I can't tell the difference between that and the original image.

3) When selecting "Ordinaires" recommend an easy to choose no ordinaires without needing to trashcan it on the right side.
a) Default response from me was to try clicking the Ordinaire again to "unselect" it.
b) You could just have an empty box showing no ordinaire

4) Fill Colours/Patterns etc:
a) It would be nice to be able to switch to different Ordinaires and retain the primary and secondary colours already selected to preview different Ordinaires.
b) It would be nice for this to be the same behaviour for divisions as well.

5) Charges: Recommend Category for Charge 1, Charge 2, Charge 3, Charge 4, etc.
Reasoning: Assuming it was similar behaviour to Ordinaires screen, I selected several charges to preview... each selection put anther charge on my screen and cluttered it up. By setting "Charge 1, Charge 2, Charge 3, etc" Portalarium also can define the number of charges that will work. Currently one can select a seemingly limitless number of charges.

5) Bug: Human Skull and Crossbones has no preview image loading on the left side (though it works once selected)

6) Resizing the image resizes all the text but does NOT resize the blazon.

7) Having an undo/redo button would be nice.

 

Repro'd

 

My charges (see forum avatar) are not available in the demo.

Skinning knife
Jester head

Also, the plain ordinaire chevron is not available.

 

We are using all the charges that were provided with sotacoa.com generator and we currently are not planning on adding any additional ones unless they are added to the sotacoa.com code found here - https://github.com/GeneaLabs/sotacoa.com

 

@Rok Yrikk
How will it work if two or more people generate the same crest?

 

I thought that Internet Explorer was defuct?

 

Good question, I will see what we can do.

 

I seemed to get things appear a bit grey'd out, not sure if there was a "move layer down" or "move layer up" option. couldnt see.

Seems to lack banners etc, but there are some cool pictures in there.

 

I was kinda looking for banners such as this:

But I guess if text is not an option they made not be needed.

Control + [arrow keys] could be handy for micro placement perhaps. Going to be awesome to see what people come up with.

 

There is nothing preventing this at the moment, I believe this will be handled by customer support.

There is not currently a move layer up or down option. The controls are not very intuitive in my opinion. It shows you your selected layer in the top right - and you can de-select your current layer to see the normal view where it is not all greyed out. The layers kind of have a forced order depending on what type they are - Division will always be at the back, followed by Ordinaires, then charges will appear in the order they are added.

The banners are the same one from sotacoa.com's "new generator" https://sotacoa.com/generator/new - you can submit new art through their github I believe https://github.com/GeneaLabs/sotacoa.com

 

It would be nice to have some kind of preview that would show what it will look like on a tabard, a banner and at least one shield.

 

If you select say a charge from the buttons at top right and then select a position for it (even if it's the same position that it currently has) then that charge will be brought to the top.

@craftymethod

 

That isn't Lord British's coat of arms. It is missing the yellow and blue field.

 

The Silver Serpent was supposed to be for Lord British's use only, unless he approved it for general use. Also, the fedora was intended for a specific VIP.

 

I'm not a fan of their Edge browser.

 

Yes but Chrome and Firefox are both up-to-date and free.

 

I'm not the greatest at these type of things, but I had trouble making my fairly simple one. I could get it ,but not the correct colors at the same time.

 

Only the shield in the middle of that is the coat of arms. All the stuff around it, the achievement, is not supported in the generator. You might be able to draw something like that and upload it.