Silverstag
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Really? How do I do that?
Uncharted 2: Among Theives
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Really? How do I do that?
Silverstag
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Ok thanks Ill try that later today
DARTH SABER
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Don't know what the top price for a finished journal would go for, but there was a guy on some blog site who saw my journal and said he'd be willing to pay $200.
Don't know if he was serious though.
Don't know if he was serious though.
Silverstag
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Id say the journal you made is worth $200 :lol
Silverstag
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Tried changing the date on my computer but photoshop was too smart to fall for it.
Legend Outbreak
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Hello i'm really new to all of this and the RPF. I've loved uncharted for a rrrrreeeeaaaalllllyyyy long time and i now want to try and create my own Nathan Drake journal and i have some questions and i would really appreciate it if anyone would care to answer them?
Sure I will answer all that I can for you... I'm sure other members will too what are your questions?
JazzK
New Member
I've decided that I'm also going to attempt to make Drakes Journal, I love all of the hard work you guys have put into yours and am really grateful that you have shared so much high quality images for it.
I've found a moleskin sketchbook that's about 8"x5.5", which from reading the thread seems to be the best one for the sizing of the inserts. It has 100 pages in it, do you think it would look good/accurate leaving the extra blank pages in?
I've found a moleskin sketchbook that's about 8"x5.5", which from reading the thread seems to be the best one for the sizing of the inserts. It has 100 pages in it, do you think it would look good/accurate leaving the extra blank pages in?
Silverstag
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Yeah Drakes has like 52 I think and in the gamevwhen the books finished theres still more pages.
agreed!! I left my pages in too
JazzK
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d_jedi1
Sr Member
first, I'd definitely do like everyone else and leave the pages in.
second... while I prefer the LOOK of the larger journal, it's rife with scaling issues... moreso than the pocket sized at it's LARGEST, it's 4"X6".
for example, here are two pocket sized journals with a real polaroid and the real coins in them.
(this next bit is reposted from another thread where I more fully explained my scaling tests)
technically you'll NEVER get a journal with properly sized items in it. the prayer flag is like 10"X12", the pages from the german book (last pages in the journal) are about that size too (seriously, re-watch the video when drake finds that book.. thing is HUGE)
at it's LARGEST, it's 4"X6".
The size of it fitting in his pocket tells me everything I need to know but other details reinforce it.
The way his hands line up, match mine on a pocket-sized one.
The coins (all four) scale properly to the pocket sized, as does the polaroid.. on the SECOND PAGE.
Only the later items that are too large get re-scaled and honestly, they'd be re-scaled in the larger journal too.. but then you'd have scaling issues with the coins and polaroid.
here are a couple of pictures to reinforce what I'm talking about.. The first one has casts of the real coins (eg: full sized) and they match perfectly what we see in-game.
The second pic has a standard sized polaroid of my brother and me. This shot helps sell the 4"X6" part but it could still allow for this (pocket) size.
Now assuming I haven't pissed everyone off (it's REALLY not my intention) I want to reiterate that the larger journals DO look better/more impressive.
I just don't think they're accurate.
either way we can fudge the printouts by scaling them to whichever preference but the real-world items (eg: the coins) cannot be easily re-scaled.
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DARTH SABER
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The major problem I had with the smaller journal is that (You knew this was coming D-jedi, LOL), although the coins and polaroid scale properly to size, almost all of the other items don't.
For example the passport pages, the postcard, airline ticket, receipt, museum brochure, business card need to be reduced to almost unbelievable sizes.
On the larger journal some fit almost perfectly, while others are slightly larger than they shouyld be but close enough to the real size to be believable..
To me I just can't accept the items in the journal as looking authentic if the size is too small.
A postcard the size of a credit card, or a business card the size of a raffle ticket or a passport page the size of candy wrapper just ruins the illusion for me.
That's just my personal choice though.
To be quite honest, the perfect size for the journal should be 7" X 4" 3/4. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a journal of this type in that size.
images of my journal-
For example the passport pages, the postcard, airline ticket, receipt, museum brochure, business card need to be reduced to almost unbelievable sizes.
On the larger journal some fit almost perfectly, while others are slightly larger than they shouyld be but close enough to the real size to be believable..
To me I just can't accept the items in the journal as looking authentic if the size is too small.
A postcard the size of a credit card, or a business card the size of a raffle ticket or a passport page the size of candy wrapper just ruins the illusion for me.
That's just my personal choice though.
To be quite honest, the perfect size for the journal should be 7" X 4" 3/4. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a journal of this type in that size.
images of my journal-
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d_jedi1
Sr Member
I understand and like I said, yours is a beautiful piece and I prefer the look of it, I just disagree with it and the game does too. Theres no way you're gonna fit that larger journal into the back pocket of some jeans and not show on a 5'10.5" guy.
I can't argue the passport pages, they would be pretty severely re-scaled in the pocket sized one but since everything after a certain point IS re-scaled, it's only fitting.
The postcard in my journals is NOT credit card sized, it's only MARGINALLY smaller than a real postcard yet keeps the scale intact, I HAVE business cards that size and the airline tickets? my brother-in-law compared his when he flew in from new york and they are the same size. The museum brochure (top) is actually larger in mine than any museum brochures I've ever held..
Anyway, whatever. I said early on that his journal has magical scaling properties. :lol
In any case, the Uncharted 3 journal IS the larger size like yours and is clearly shown to be so. You won't get any arguement from me on that one.
DARTH SABER
Master Member
No argument here. I just posted my personal reasons for choosing the larger journal.
Silverstag
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I found out how to resize things using pant so hopefully I can finally get some real progress done on the journal, besides painting the cover.
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