Ok, it's 2:45 in the morning and I've been at it for about 8 hours but have made enormous progress...
First, I think I better understand the original issue. This was a chess font and it was never intended to be used in the way we were using it. The black pieces weren't supposed to be colored in. Like a typical chess font, the black pieces have both black outlines and black fills with thin white lines separating them. I think the gaps we were seeing were supposed to be the white from the page that shows through when the piece is turned black.
Anyway, that's neither here nor there. For our purposes, they needed to be edited. It was a bit of a pain but I got better with practice. It wasn't just the standard pieces that needed to be changed though. A lot of the pieces are modified chess pieces or have components from them, so, sensibly, you copied those elements (preserving the artifacts). So about half needed modification in order to be colorable.
Beyond that, as I was going through them anyway and had to zoom way in, I spent time cleaning up some tiny anomalies... things that probably wouldn't be visible in normal usage but stand out when blown way up... line segments that didn't connect perfectly, things not perfectly centered, small asymmetries in pieces that should be symmetric, etc. Not criticizing your work at all - you were able to crank out a very large number of pieces in record time. And they were probably fine, but I'm kind of anal, and if I'm messing with something I tend to obsess and go overboard.
Anyway, I'm really excited. These are going to look great and will be a huge improvement! So far, I have 74 pieces ready to go. There were a couple of yours that I had difficulty with or need more time to get to where I want them. (E.g., the SVG for the Cannon piece is really messed up.) But I also added a couple of extras.
Ok, it's 2:45 in the morning and I've been at it for about 8 hours but have made enormous progress...
First, I think I better understand the original issue. This was a chess font and it was never intended to be used in the way we were using it. The black pieces weren't supposed to be colored in. Like a typical chess font, the black pieces have both black outlines and black fills with thin white lines separating them. I think the gaps we were seeing were supposed to be the white from the page that shows through when the piece is turned black.
Anyway, that's neither here nor there. For our purposes, they needed to be edited. It was a bit of a pain but I got better with practice. It wasn't just the standard pieces that needed to be changed though. A lot of the pieces are modified chess pieces or have components from them, so, sensibly, you copied those elements (preserving the artifacts). So about half needed modification in order to be colorable.
Beyond that, as I was going through them anyway and had to zoom way in, I spent time cleaning up some tiny anomalies... things that probably wouldn't be visible in normal usage but stand out when blown way up... line segments that didn't connect perfectly, things not perfectly centered, small asymmetries in pieces that should be symmetric, etc. Not criticizing your work at all - you were able to crank out a very large number of pieces in record time. And they were probably fine, but I'm kind of anal, and if I'm messing with something I tend to obsess and go overboard.
Anyway, I'm really excited. These are going to look great and will be a huge improvement! So far, I have 74 pieces ready to go. There were a couple of yours that I had difficulty with or need more time to get to where I want them. (E.g., the SVG for the Cannon piece is really messed up.) But I also added a couple of extras.
So here is delivery one: http://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/alfaerieSVG/GS-2020-07-25.zip
Will do more tomorrow, but it's now time to pass out :)