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Welcome to my Spawning Cluster!

Over here i will store most of the work i'm doing for the swarm.

There will be complete spells (data abilities effects behaviours + icons), bar icons, concepts, work in progress and maybe also some models sometimes in the future. (Blender importer and exporter has to be finished first...)

You can post request over here as well, but note that they maybe won't be noticed or just be ignored if i doesn't like the idea or see any sense in it...(also lifetime is limited.)

The list

...of all done stuff so far.

Work for myself:

• Cerebratal Armor (lvl 0 - done, lvl 1 - done, lvl 2 - done. lvl 3 - finally let as it was)
• Zerg: Mind Link passiv ability (icon - done, ability - planed)
• Defiler Devour ability (icon - done, ability - planed)
• Melee Attack Icons for Rouch, Hydralisk, Ultralisk. (planed & concepts)
• Range Attack Icons for Rouch, Queen (2 different weapons), Spinecrawler, Sporecrawler, Broodlord, Corrupter (planed & concepts of some of them)
• Armor Icons for Crawlers (Concepts & WIP)
• Special Order Icons (Was planed to be used by an Cerebrate to upgrade your whole swarm - 2 done & more planed)
• Kerrigans Butt Wiggle Icon (Someone mentioned it somewhere on the IRC and i hate kerrigan so why not making such a Icons XD )
• Thread Header Logo (Concept)

Work for others or teamwork:

• Kheldruns Weapon Icons
• Dark Swarm (Part of the Data are done my be and the icons is mine)
• Converted Mind Link Icon for Kheldrun
• Colored the plague icon from Blizzard for Kheldrun again

Non-zerg-Work:

• there is some... i will add it later

(Sry there are some issues with directly attaching stuff while creating a new thread.)

Melee Attack Icons:

Drone:

Baneling:

Roach:

Queen:

• still in progress.

Hydralisk:

(Scourge:)

Ultralisk:

Range Attack Icons:

(Spinecrawler:)

(Sporecrawler:)

Roach:

Queen:

(Lurker:)

Corrupter:

Broodlord:

(Swarmguardian:)

Unit Armor Icons:

(Building Armor Icons:)

Cerebrate:

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Skill & Passiv Icons

Overlord:

Queen:

Mutalisk:

Defiler:

Infestor:

Cerebratal Armor:

^{This acutally is lots of lots of work. You will find there 4 armor icons cause i want cerebrates to be something between unit and building. They would act a little like the crawlers and be able to root and uproot. I also dislike that not all zerg building profit from the armor upgrades... but well thats an other point.}

^{First here is some concept are i done for the development of the Cerebratal Armor. As nearly always i started with drawing them on paper =P}

^{Then i started my first tries on making those icons with GIMP. Normaly i use 760*760 pixel images for those propose. Background is usally black. And here are the first 4 concepts of the work.}

^{I really disliked the look of the cerebrat itself. They gray looked very ugly and there wasn't and detail. As well the whole color blend from step to step was missing at this stage. So i graped a slimy texture from Bildburg and blended it onto my gray cerebrate mass. Wow - there we go.}

^{After some work on the green glow this was the birth of the first two icon in the line.}

^{Updates will follow - NOPE.}

Consume

Consume is a legacy ability of the missing defiler from SC1. But i really miss that unit in SC2 and as i made the dark swarm ability icon here comes the devour icon was well.

I used a very dark color sheme cause the portrait of the defiler in Sc1 was solid black what give me the impression of a very dark wretched weird creature lurking in the shadow....

I hope i did a good job...

Download: Just click on the icon above!

Kheldruns Weapon Icons:

I'm very said cause i wanted some other colors =P but all in all it counts that Kheldrun is happy with his spiny sparkling psi needles.

You should find the dds files in AegisRunestones Kheldrun Test Map

Dark Swarm:

I really like this icon and i stuned how fast i finished it, after spending lots of time in the sporecloud icon from blizzard i decided to remake this icons completly from scratch. It's not very high detailed but i transverse the right feeling.

Get your Dark Swarm HERE!

alternatively you can look at AegisRunestones Kheldrun Test Map. You will find Dark Swarm there as well.

Missing Icons & Simple Recolors

(More will be edited cause i'm to lazy at the moment.)

I love them. I love the zergs so its fantastic you make some. You could make icons for the remaining sc1 zerg abilities.

Thanks for the comments so far...

i like the idea of remaking the good old sc1 icons and done some concepts how the icons could look like in SC2.

I would like to see some suggestions. Please not that those are raw concepts and the details can be reshaped, it more about getting an idea of the direction of the icon.

@onisagi: Go

True the last two versions are missing... they will be added as soon as i got them look acceptable.

Update:

So here comes the cerebratale armor lvl 2 and 3! Check it out and post suggestions!

Wow great work! Do you mind if I use some of those in my ReSwarm mod? Also, where can I download dds'es of those?

i lkie the new wips and nice cerebrate armor upgrade too.

HI guys,

first i think i will upload the dds ob finished icon rows. So all the cerebrate armor dds-files will come as soon as i'm statisfied with them and is a good some feedback that the colorblending isn't as smooth as it is on the level 0 to 1 icons i think i will rework step 2 and 3.

And a fact is that step 3 looks like the sun... and this feels really wrong =P

As well as i'm not very statisfied with my concepts so far.

There is something wrong with the "Devour" icon and as well "Parasit Injection" icons looks to constructed and foced to be understandable. Maybe i can get a got shot fo that one before the real injection act. So more like seeing the injection needle darting through the air while dropping some thick stuff out of its top.

As a bonus for still looking over here takes does dds of plague and dark swarm for the first. I will also add the mind link ability icon today.

@Demonette: Go

Really, really awsome icons. You say you're not satsified with the cerebrate icons, but imo those look extremely professional and well-made.

All I can say is: More. Please.

First i want to release the "zerged Mind Link"-ability button to you:

this time it comes directly with an dds-file.

Please don't think that i so progress so fast, tooked me a real while to get that zerged Mind Link ability done.

I'm very happy you all like my stuff so far.

Thanks for the dds'es! I was about to request one for parasite (SC:BW style), which I have as "Ocular Parasite" in my mod, but then I realized that the Mind Link icon works well for that too!

Hi guys!,

so there is some more work in progress stuff, for those who want to know how i do my icons from scratch.

• Sketches for the Cerebrate Armor
• Kerrigan butt wiggle or seducing ability
• Mindlink in Progress
• Mindlink in Progress 2

@CouchTomato: Go

Haha! =P True it can be seen as Ocular Parasite as well... but originally is was meant to be an energy sharing aura.

nice work , i love the zerg mind link icon, so i'm glad you put some wips about that. hehe kerrigan's ass :)

Oh, I finally remembered an icon that I needed... If you ever find time to, can you make an icon for an Overseer energy upgrade?

So everybody i will be gone for about one and an half week... you can still post but don't get confused if i won't answer.

@CouchTomato: Go

Like such an idea...

i will look if i can do somethink like this. Can you maybe specify what the upgrade should do?

For example: Faster energy generation. Energy max total increased. Does it work the whole time? Some things like daytime involved and similar...

@Demonette: Go

Butt wiggle ability. xD

Quote from Demonette: Go

So everybody i will be gone for about one and an half week... you can still post but don't get confused if i won't answer.

@CouchTomato: Go

Like such an idea...

i will look if i can do somethink like this. Can you maybe specify what the upgrade should do?

For example: Faster energy generation. Energy max total increased. Does it work the whole time? Some things like daytime involved and similar...

It's just the typical energy + 50 upgrade, like Peristalsis Glands I believe. The poor Overseer is one of the only "specialists" without one. Although in my mod, I give him abilities that are actually useful, so as such, he needed an energy upgrade to be fair. Currently I just use the icon for the Infestor energy upgrade and call it "Evolve Spawning Sacs."

Hi guys!

I'm back here now and continued with the icons right at the moment.

So here some more food for you:

• WIP of the Devour Icon
• 2 Concept for a "Spawning Sac" Upgrade Icon.

Tell me what you like, what you dislike and any ideas you got.

See ya,

-Demonette

Update:

I updated my post with the finished graphics of the devour icon. I really like it's style, hope you enjoy it as well. - Cheers

• Final Devour 760*760
• Finished Icon Preview
• Icon DDS-File

wait whats this devour ability for the defiler. I don't remember devourr ability, and i didn't find it in the starcraft wiki either.

Edit: oh i think it want to be the consume.

Sry... yea it was named consume...

How did you learn to do this stuff? I wouldn't mind trying to make custom icons. :D