Ultima VI Spell Concepting

Sunday, April 09, 2023 at 04:03 PM

A through H medieval scribe image-style spell icons.

A through H medieval scribe image-style spell icons.

Which of these do you think is WORST at representing the spell? And what text description would work better to show it? Likewise, which of these has the best style and color and content?

I through S medieval scribe image-style spell icons.

I through S medieval scribe image-style spell icons.

These are just concepts batch-generated with Stable Diffusion, and further iteration will make the style and colors more coherent between the images. Once we get the content right, altering the style and color is somewhat trivial using image2image in Stable Diffusion.

S through X medieval scribe image-style spell icons.

S through X medieval scribe image-style spell icons.

In the "open" spellbook you will be able to see all 80 spells on-screen at once. This has a side effect of turning the spellbook into a nice collection screen, making you want to traverse the world to find all the spells. So having nice thumbnails is a part of the "reward" for collecting them all. I'll have a quick radial way to access all spells in-world, and maybe a page-per-circle UI version like with the classic Ultima VI.

Here's the original fb UDIC post.

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