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[quantumpotato]

Hi, I'm imitating https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/13434/shibumi .

Thinking about photographs of marbles -- 3D is beyond my tech scope at this time.

How else could I distinguish between the marbles? Borders? They kind of blend in right now:

[chriswearly]

Yeah the outlines look like a quick solution. You could also put a small darker crescent on the bottom half of each marble, and/or a white circle up top, like a light reflection

[quantumpotato]

Yeah the outlines look like a quick solution. You could also put a small darker crescent on the bottom half of each marble, and/or a white circle up top, like a light reflection

Ooh, thank you!

[Zorg]

You could use the crescent only, without the outlines:



Radial gradients would be an option, too.

[quantumpotato]

You could use the crescent only, without the outlines:



Radial gradients would be an option, too.

Damn that looks good! Hm... I'm currently drawing a big outline circle then a small one inside. For the crescent -- it looks like you're drawing a dark color circle then a smaller one with the center offset to the upper left a bit.

Thinking about calculating a "light source" to adjust the angle of the light, or even show marbles at lower levels covered by higher ones as darker. I feel that's approaching "uncanny valley" of lighting though an a simpler solution will work better.

[TitoOliveira]

Could use some sort of drop shadow effect. Like this
https://newevolutiondesigns.com/images/freebies/google-material-design-wallpaper-2.jpg

[quantumpotato]

Nice effect Tito.

My friend is taking photos of the marbles right now going to see how that looks, then I will experiment.

[quantumpotato]

You could use the crescent only, without the outlines:



Radial gradients would be an option, too.

You're drawing that with 3 circles, right? What are your alpha values & positioning?

Attempting to recreate

[Zorg]

I did not use any alpha values, i just picked two colors. It was a pretty fast sketch, you should play with the shadow size to see what looks best. That being said, here are the circles for that sketch on a grid:



Edit: The red line part was deleted. Only the parts inside the blue circle have been filled. You could say the blue circle is the mask for the green circle. Nothing sticks out.

Edit2:

[oahda]

How do you figure that's three? No matter how I look at it, I can only see two. It would've been three if there was an outline, but there isn't.

It's probably just an offset from the big circle's midpoint of the negative difference between the radii of the circles applied to the smaller one.

I.e. (R₂ - R₁, R₂ - R₁), where R₁ is the radius of the big circle and R₂ is the radius of the small one.



I guess this sticks ut just a little bit too much, so you might have to make it slightly less than the exact difference.

EDIT:
Ninja'd!

[Zorg]

You can apply the same technique to gradients, too, like this:

It depends on the look you want to achieve.