New logos?

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:47 am

I think niko should change the logos (irrlicht, irrklang, irredit, etc.). It is because it gives an impression to people that irrlicht is an old style 3d engine. I'm not saying bad to irrlicht but this need to be done so that more people will use the engine and the community will turn larger. Thus, more people can contribute to the engine itself.

Here are some logos I made for Irrlicht, IrrKlang and IrrEdit. Please give comments on this. Thanks.

p/s. Niko if you like them I will help to change the size so that they fit with the websites/forums.

Under modification.

klikmaster · Post by **klikmaster** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:19 pm

I like the logos for IrrEdit and IrrKlang, but I think the Irrlicht one could use some work.
It says LIGHTNING fast realtime 3d engine, yet you used a fire theme...

A lightning theme might suit it better.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:46 pm

Thanks for the feedback. I used fire as the theme because Irrlicht means fire spirit in German... So i thought fire may be suitable. But it's ok, i will try to add some lightning on it.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:02 pm

No, Irrlicht does not mean fire. I't a small light which flies around in the swamps, but is just a fairy tale character. There's a small explanation in the Irrlicht FAQ.

sio2 · Post by **sio2** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:06 pm

Some people seeing those images may get the wrong impression that you created the 3D Engine, the Sound Engine and the 3D World Editor.

If I were to use them I would want to crop off the "BY..." bit.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:31 pm

hybrid wrote:No, Irrlicht does not mean fire. I't a small light which flies around in the swamps, but is just a fairy tale character. There's a small explanation in the Irrlicht FAQ.

Oh I see... thanks for correcting me. >_<"

sio2 wrote:Some people seeing those images may get the wrong impression that you created the 3D Engine, the Sound Engine and the 3D World Editor.

If I were to use them I would want to crop off the "BY..." bit.

Nono, i just put the words there for temperorily... until niko decided to use it.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:43 pm

Since IrrKlang and IrrEdit have no problem, so I resized them (into 300x150) so that it fix with the website/forum.

I also updated the first post.

I will modify the Irrlicht logo until reached satisfactory.
Thanks for the comments, feedbacks and corrections!

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:24 pm

how about...

this one?

zeno60 · Post by **zeno60** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:53 pm

I like the original logo myself.

The ones you made are very random, and not exactly something that "I" would consider logo material. Logos should be simple, little or no gradients or textures and use web friendly colors. Just my $0.02.

The only other irrlicht logo that I saw that I liked was one by rogorborg on one of his screenshots. Can't find it now to save myself, but I kinda remember saying "Oh, nice logo." I remember it was just simple text, block colors, with a black stroke, but it worked.

Anteater · Post by **Anteater** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:38 pm

Those logos look good, but they look too... "wild". I think a different font, such as bank gothic italic, would look better. And a smooth red/black gredient without the black lines would look better. ATM they remind me of OGRE3D's logo for some reason. Also, the lightning could be less cartoonish.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:29 am

zeno60 wrote: The only other irrlicht logo that I saw that I liked was one by rogorborg on one of his screenshots. Can't find it now to save myself, but I kinda remember saying "Oh, nice logo." I remember it was just simple text, block colors, with a black stroke, but it worked.

Do you mean this one here?:

I like it too.

JPulham · Post by **JPulham** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:48 pm

The current Irrlicht logo is good. These are too OTT,

maybe something more subtle, like the current logo with a slight lightning effect, but throwing special FX for the point of it isn't always a good idea.

(tip: use difference clouds on the logo and alter the levels for a lightning effect that follows the letters)

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:11 pm

but throwing special FX for the point of it isn't always a good idea.

Why?

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:37 pm

Because most people want the logo to be portable and generic-looking. So that it will look the same in different resolutions, colour depths, (Maybe even black/white!)

This helps keep it professional and epitomizes Irrlicht's cross-platform endeavour. (hehe i threw in some big words

)

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:04 pm

BlindSide wrote:Because most people want the logo to be portable and generic-looking. So that it will look the same in different resolutions, colour depths, (Maybe even black/white!)

This helps keep it professional and epitomizes Irrlicht's cross-platform endeavour. (hehe i threw in some big words )

I think that's the reason why Irrlicht logo is square in sized and has no transparancy.