Duplicate Image: Elemental Crafting

The image for Elemental Crafting is already used on the Mithril page. It fits perfectly there, but fails to illustrate Elemental Crafting in my opinion.

It's not exactly an easy trope to illustrate, but we can probably do better. Maybe a few illustrations of fantasy armors...

edited 15th Jan '13 2:42:56 PM by StFan

I agree that pulling it from the Elemental Crafting page makes the most sense.

Would it work to have a few images from Minecraft, like the crafting matrixes? Leather, Stone, Gold, Iron, and Diamond.

The trope has more focus on the materials and their strength than the actual crafting, though.

edited 15th Jan '13 8:19:41 AM by AnotherDuck

Those are a bit on the small/pixelised side, I'm not sure it would look good even as a montage.

I'm sure there are some role-playing games illustrations that can be usable here.

They're not too small on my large screen. They're also pixelised because that's the style of the game, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

Yank it from Elemental Crafting.

+1 to pull it from Elemental Crafting.

This will probably be too weak, but here's a screen from Rune Scape showing different tiers of metals, with increasing requirements (which should imply them getting progressively better).

edited 15th Jan '13 3:30:35 PM by Xeniph

These are three Saints from Saint Seiya. Respectively, a Bronze, Silver and Gold saint. I mashed this from a wiki's profile pics, so I could swap someone out.

Not sure how illustrative they are, but this page has a few images of weapons made of assorted materials from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

That is the least bronze bronze I've seen in a good while.

Hmmm. Do you get different materials from this?◊ A caption specifying what they are would complete it, I'd think.

I like that, and I think it's more clear than #8. The caption would round it off nicely.

I think that one needs some assembly to make work. Say, line a few of them up like variables in an "a < b < c" style equation and then caption it.

Like this?◊

I see grey metal, grey metal, and grey metal.

...Which are clearly different types of metal, and the caption would clarify what they are. (Iron > Steel > Silver)

I prefer the Minecraft one, or no image over that.

You could also use some of the more obviously-different daggers, like that glass one (green daggers, fwee). Else, yeah, I prefer Minecraft; it's plenty obvious that the materials are different.

The middle three daggers could work (dwarven, elven and glass).

@Shadowhog: Hey, the bronze armors are actually a friggin rainbow of diversity. Even silvers had shades. For some reason only gold ones were almost uniformly gold (and even then, they had a palette of three colors that varied in dominance between armors).

14 could work, with text indicating the materials inserted into the pic.

^ That was my line of thought, yes.

Clock is set. Regardless of whether a new pic's chosen, we still need to decide which paeg to remove the pic from.

+1 to pull from elemental crafting.

Not a fan of gray, grey, and græy myself.

edited 6th Feb '13 10:25:27 AM by justanid

I like 23 best so far. The previous didn't make me think 'different materials' as much as simply 'increasingly ornate'.

Indeed; I'd be fine with it on the page.