Painting

Painting
"Ettinaz saw the signs, And read the Omens right. He made from hides a tapestry, To tell the gruesome tale."
LP Cost	2000
Skill(s) Required	Hearth Magic
Skill(s) Enabled	None
Hearth Magic(s) Unlocked	None
Required By (24)	Battle Standard, Beige Pigment, Black Pigment, Blue Pigment, Brown Pigment, Custom Image Sketch, Flag, Flagpole, Gray Pigment, Green Pigment, Heraldic Cape, Lime Pigment, Orange Pigment, Painting (Item), Pink Pigment, Plain Tabard, Purple Pigment, Rectangular Parchment Lantern, Red Pigment, Stained Glass Heart, Teal Pigment, Turquoise Pigment, White Pigment, Yellow Pigment
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"You can wield a brush, and mix the pigments, to create graphic patterns of your own from images uploaded to the Haven & Hearth webpage."

This page refers to the Painting skill. For the item, see Painting (Item)

All painting related recipes can be found in:

Craft > Processing & Materials > Pigments & Imagery

The Painting skill is required to craft custom sketches, which can be applied to some in-game objects.

Images can be uploaded on your account page, and then brought up for crafting in-game through Paint Sketch. Each sketch needs 2 dried hides, as well as 0.05 L of Linseed Oil per colour field, and various amounts of pigments depending on the colours. You also need a high enough Psyche to craft the sketch, determined by the amount of contours (0.5 PSY per contour), so complex images may be impossible for your character to craft.

After crafting the sketch, the objects to use it on need to be crafted with the sketch in your inventory. Make sure it is, because some things, such as a Shield, can be crafted without a sketch, resulting in the generic texture. To apply or reapply a sketch to a Barter Stand, hold the sketch and right-click the ownership sign. The sketch is always consumed.

Sketchbook Page (store item)

These allow you to circumvent all requirements to instantly craft any image into an in-game sketch, regardless of items or psyche needed.
They can be bought for real currency from the store page.

Pigments

All pigment related recipes can be found in:

Craft > Processing & Materials > Pigments & Imagery > Pigments

Colour		Amount	Recipe	Hex code	Sample
	Red Pigment	20	Poppy Flower x2, Beetroot	#f01432
	Orange Pigment	30	Pumpkin Flesh x3, Tar (0.10 L)	#dc5a1e
	Yellow Pigment	25	Bittersweet Nightshade Berries, Bone Glue x2	#e6dc32
	Green Pigment	30	Fresh Leaf of Pipeweed, Bone Glue	#32b419
	Turquoise Pigment	15	Dross, Chicken Egg	#5abebe
	Blue Pigment	25	Blueberries, Bone Glue	#2828e6
	Purple Pigment	5	Cinnabar x2, Chicken Egg	#be2882
	White Pigment	20	Limestone, Vegetable Oil (0.10 L)	#dcdcdc
	Black Pigment	40	Ashes (0.20 kg), Solid Fat	#1e1e1e
	Brown Pigment	25	Soil x2, Tanning Fluid (0.10 L)	#503526
	Teal Pigment	20	Zincspar, Vinegar (0.10 L)	#1ce76e
	Lime Pigment	20	Olivine, Salt Water (0.10 L)	#a3e71d
	Gray Pigment	15	Ashes (0.10 kg), Quicksilver (0.10 L)	#808080
	Beige Pigment	20	Treebark x2, Mastic Fruit	#b29b7b
	Pink Pigment	15	Red Pigment (0.10 kg), White Pigment (0.10 kg)	#ee108e

Transparency can also be used in the source image. But note that transparency is used in a all or nothing fashion. A RGBA alpha value of 0-127 will become fully transparent, and a value of 128-255 will become fully opaque. (Transparent parts in the resulting image seems to be ignored for the resulting fields and contour data.)

Templates

On most things that can accept a sketch, the picture isn't just a centered square. Here are templates for some of them.

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  The shield, transparent area is for drawing, the black areas can be seen on the final shield by just a few pixels, useful for making borders.

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  The flag, white area will be seen, the black area is completely outside the flag.

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  The wallpaper, the black area is for drawing, the transparent strips on the sides should be avoided, because they will overlap with adjacent wallpaper tiles, causing ugly z-fighting issues and damaging the eventual tiling of the pictures.

User Examples

Here are some examples of templates used by players.

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  An example of flag, this one is from the Candy City.

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  An example of shield design, the thin overlap of the black areas with the design area was used to keep the black outline on the crafted design.

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  Another example of design exploiting the black borders.

Notes

• Linseed Oil is obtained by pressing Flax Seeds in an Extraction Press.
• Because there are only 9 basic colours and no transitions, uploaded images will be simplified to the nearest matching basic colours. You can preview how they will look on in-game objects on the uploads page.
• It is possible to preview how your art will look on things by clicking on account, upload images, and then the view button under the sketch you want to see.
• Uploaded images must not exceed 512x512 pixels, and are stored as squares with (2^n)x(2^n) size edges, ie: 512x512, 256x256, 128x128 and so on. uploading images of different size will result in stretching/compressing to the closest dimensions.

Modifying an image to Haven's palette with Gimp

Gimp is a free image editing program which can be downloaded at https://www.gimp.org/downloads/. First, make your own palette using only Haven colors. A guide for that can be found here: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-palettes.html Then set the picture mode to indexed (https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-convert-indexed.html), using your palette and color dithering to Floyd-Steinberg. Using this method, you can make almost any image look good in the game.

Game Development

• Stonedolly & Cornpouch (2024-11-07)◎ >"(?) Paintings can now be crafted with any vegetable oil, rather than "Linseed Oil" specifically."

• Colorful Carpet (2024-09-12)◎ >"Added a Sketch/Custom Image upload GUI to the client. You need no longer manage your custom images via the webpage, and have access to a dynamic preview window which actually renders objects as they would appear ingame with your custom image, can be scaled, rotated, &c. You can also simply copy/paste images from and to the client. Quite neat!"

• Pink Angler (2020-07-19)◎ >"Added "Pink" and "Beige" pigments. Cleaned up the "Pigments & Imagery" submenu of the Action Menu."

• Olive Pigment (2020-07-04)◎ >"Added four new pigments: Brown, Gray, Teal, and Lime."

• World 9 (2016-02-18)◎ >"There is a new skill called Painting which allows access to Sketch and Pigment crafting, which are available to anyone. Sketch Pages from the store can instead be used to craft any pattern, irrespective of complexity, without the need for pigments or other inputs."