That looks awesome!  Definitely captures the feel of them.

Just FYI - you might want to have a look at how CoS handles the Frost Giant faction for the scaling thing.  Frost giants are larger in tactical in that mod as well, but you can still see them normally (vs. zoom-in of torso) in the unit equipping screens, etc.

Always love to see anything related to Lords of Magic. The more, the better.

I wish you well in your work, and will be up to check out the results, even though I never played in any StarDock game except Galactic Civilizations (I loved it actually).

I expected the 3D graphic changes too, but we can always dream.  

Hehe, now they really remind of their originals, which is awesome. I'd like a bit more black color to the Fire Queen maybe.  

Speaking of graphic changes, the more LOM icons and overall similarities the better. :>

You might probably need the "highres" version of faith icons.

and even the remastered ones (although incomplete, unfortunately)

Also, why don't you use rotating images when making scrolls/recipes?

Even MS Paint can be capable of that in some ways, with some pixel art I did not do on this example

I suppose, only sleeves and boots really require that.

The scroll with the Rocca's Chalice looks acceptably good, the angles are close to perfect both horizontal and vertical, although I must say that the chalice is blurry. Perhaps Photoshop is not the right way to do that in that resolution, the picture should be enlarged considerably in Paint first, like 800% or more.

The other solution will be smart sharpening the existing small picture, but I guess it will be harder. 

Speaking of angles, I'd prefer to tilt horizontally to -30 degrees and vertically to 8 degrees in MS Paint.

Speaking of alternatives, I managed to do this by my humble pixel art skills. The image for sure can and should be upgraded further, posting it here just to show the capabilities of MS Paint. (:

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The "After" scroll looks better. 

However, unless you're a graphics kind of person, it might be good to get the mechanics down first with "rough draft" graphics, and then polish them as time allows.  You can spend an infinite amount of time making pixel graphics "better".

Also - for a free "better version of paint", I highly recommend Paint.Net (http://www.getpaint.net/)

It won't do everything that Photoshop/Gimp can do, but the learning curve is a lot less steep (and it's a lot less resource intensive, for lower end machines.)

If they will be done like your After Scroll , it will take a few seconds for each to fix. Otherwise pixel art won't be of much help I'm afraid - it will be time-consuming.

Yeah, that's it. I'm sorry for my English

I would also recommend these templates for the scrolls of each faith. They contain no thrash.

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