I've made a few major recent updates to the Coat of Arms Visual Designer I've been creating, particularly to the user interface. (And I've already got another great upgrade in mind! Hopefully that will be ready next week.)
If you haven't seen it yet, the software allows you to easily and quickly create a coat of arms.
For a game setting, you may want to create a coat of arms for the key nobles in the game or maybe for each government or for other key organizations. Players of knights or other noble characters may want to create that character's arms. Outside of gaming, you may want to create a personal coat of arms as an avatar for the forums or you want to recreate an ancestor's coat of arms.
If you are interested, take a look at the examples to see what's possible, then open the instructions in one tab/window and then open the software designer in another web browser window.
Main Page: http://www.inkwellideas.com/heraldry/
Please send me feedback (see the link on the website) or post constructive criticism or positive reviews here. Thanks! I'm planning on adding to it and making improvements every week or so for a while yet. I'll definitely be adding more creatures, symbols, and objects to include in a coat of arms.
Latest changes:
- You can now re-position and re-size the creatures (like Lion Rampant, Dragon Statant, etc.) and symbols (such as many crosses, Cannon Balls, etc.) by dragging them or dragging the corners of the images.
- You can also quickly create several copies of a creature or symbol in a chosen pattern. You can tweak the locations of these copies individually, but changes to the colors change the colors of each copy. This makes the software more consistent with the rules of heraldry.
- The design graphic updates more quickly and uses less memory.
- And a bunch of minor enhancements.