How to make icons typewriters for Autobazary

Each user Automatable there is a virtual garage where his car is stored. Project developers (Theme Video) came to us (Turbomilk) a challenge — to paint icons for all cars in the world. But not simple icons, and a "repaint" so that users could choose any color for your car.


As a rule, the size of the icons in one set of identical, but real cars are different sizes and we had to decide how to display it. At first, we thought to divide the cars into classes and for each class to enter a fixed width in pixels. But then I decided to use a more precise system to draw in scale. We took a 60 mm length of the real car in 1 pixel length icons. Thus, to obtain the length of the icons, it was necessary to measure the real car and divide the resulting value by 60.



To cars can easily be repainted, we had to invent a special technology of drawing. First, draw the outline of the car, and then placed on top of black shadows and white highlights. It turns out that such a translucent machine:



If such a picture to put on top of a colored background, it magically turns to the color of the background:



At the moment, drawn icons for most popular vehicles. They decorate virtual garages and delight users Autobazary. Here are just a small part of the total number of avtogonok:

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