Funny you ask this, the other day I published a tutorial outlining the workflow (mostly straight lines, converted to paths and then some node editing. But You may have say it already, I blogged about it in the meantime.

Done. The set consisting of 50 images is done and uploaded to OCAL (see the cartography tag) and also on my own website. Here are some samples: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/buildings1.jpg http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/buildings2.jpg http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/buildings3.jpg

Don't hurry, I am coloring a few each day, next week I hope to have the set complete, with both outlines and full color.

I made them with the Bezier tool (straight lines), converted strokes to paths an then edited the nodes. You are right about the floor, thanks.

Sure and thanks for sharing it, I hope people will find it useful.

In the meantime I started coloring, with a balance between shiny look and simplicity:

For some time I started drawing a set of tiles for RPG maps, I have 50 images so far, here are a few highlights: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/rpg/highlights.png The next step will be probably do add colors and then upload to OCAL, for now the outlines are available for download as individual images.

I suspect this is a bug in Inkscape, I saw in various instances the drawing disappearing after a boolean operation, but I am not able to reproduce the steps. Usually I change the shapes a bit, maybe simplify them and then the boolean operation works. I know I should be a good user, investigate it mo...

I wrote a tutorial about creating postage stamps with Inkscape: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_postage_stamps/



And a Romanian translation is available: http://dioanad.info/ghiduri/inkscape_timbre_postale/

Usually the contest start when the development freeze for a release, usually after pre-0 and we are not at that point yet. Developers have not decided so far a date for the next release.

Yeah, I saw this huge performance problem when using excessive blur. My final workaround is to NOT export the PNG from Inkscape. Save the SVG, open with GIMP and save the PNG with GIMP.

I didn't have the patience to wait 8 hours for the export like you and killed it about half hour...

ok how do I use Agave with IS?? I don't have a .create folder.. could someone post a step by step how to? the create website (at freedesktop.org) is down, so you can't install the package there. .create is a Linux thing, so here you can manually create it in Linux: go to your home folder and make a...

Correct, PNG is the best format for raster export from Inkscape, but there are use cases for the other too. And we have in the tracker an enhancement request with a lot of duplicates. The problem is old, the solution is known, but it seems there are other priorities. Note: export in multiple raster ...

The truth is, Darth_Gimp was the one giving me the final push for this...

A tutorial written at a very low level, suitable for beginners in which I'll talk about how to draw people faces (or hackergotchis) with Inkscape even if you don't know how to draw - http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_face_draw/. Something like this: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/inkscape_face_draw/dface_...

Another way is to open the XML Editor (Shift+Ctrl+X) and navigate here the objects, expanding the groups and so on.

ryanlerch wrote:i believe that the gimp will let you save as a .ico file too...

Sure. You can even do more: create .ico files with multiple sizes/color depths by having each version of the icon in a separate layer.

microUgly wrote:I'm not sure how to create Linux icons.

In Linux you can use directly the PNG or even the SVG, you have to do nothing special.

The_JinJ wrote:WINK - is a good opensource screen capture app

One small note: WINK is freeware , not FOSS. It is not even freely redistributable.
But the program is nice, I used some time ago (before Istanbul was usable) on Linux.

A quick and short tutorial about creating a rubber stamp effect I wrote recently:

Link: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/rubber_stamp_inkscape/