Thread:MikePrivius/@comment-25409243-20191017204717/@comment-40060194-20191018122153

Whoa, hold your horses. :D I never said I am going to convert any emblem anybody sends me, I was planning to only do major faction emblems that I can use here on English wiki to achieve an unified look. You can use any emblem I create in the future, but don't specifically ask me to make this stuff for you. :D

I also find it hard to believe that in your Russian community, which is probably much bigger than English-speaking community, there's not a single person who could work with Inkscape. :D Nobody taught me that either, I just downloaded the program, spent a few hours messing with it and that was enough, it's fairly intuitive. There are many videos and online tutorials if you want to speed up the learning process and skip the "trial and error" part. :D

A few basic information though: I created those emblems based on those used on the Metro map. I created a new file, put the map as a background and zoomed in as much as possible. Those emblems are only 40 px wide on the map, so of course they were very blurry and pixelated, but I could recognize the shapes well enough. Then I started drawing over the image, Inkscape puts every shape you draw into a separate "layer" so you can move it around, resize it etc as much as you like, so it doesn't matter if you don't get the right shapes on your first try.

Drawing in Inkscape is different than drawing in, say, Paint or GIMP, because it's vector-based. Instead of coloring individual pixels, you work with what's called Bézier curves. This ensures that the image is scalable indefinitely without ever becoming pixelated. Apart from shapes constructed from these curves, you can of course also create basic shapes like circles, squares etc, I used these to create the circular base of the emblems. Then it was just a matter of copying the symbol on the emblem as accurately as possible with shapes constructed from Bézier curves.

Either try downloading the program and watching a few tutorials (this software is often used for creating computer icons, various logos etc, those things are very similar to these emblems, so I'm sure you will find some tutorial where somebody is creating something similar) or just ask in the Russian community (I believe your Wiki has forums, blogs and stuff like that too) whether somebody can do this, there must be at least one person. :D And as I said, use any icons that you find here, I'm okay with that...I'm just not so keen on the idea of spending hours and hours creating icons and emblems for some Universe of Metro stuff that has never been translated to English so it would be of no use on this Wiki. I hope you understand.