Topic: Frisian Models

The building textures are very dark, as has been mentioned before. We need to find some better textures. This one looks pretty good for brick: http://www.photos-public-domain.com/2011/01/04/red-brick-wall-texture/ the have good stuff in the walls category, and it's all Public Domain/CC0, so we can use them. They also have wood: http://www.photos-public-domain.com/?s=wooden+wall. For the roofs, we could use the new Barbarian textures (used e.g. by the Wood Hardener). Maybe also give the wooden walls a hint of player color, like in Scandinavian houses?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands-media/+bug/1764606

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Nordfriese wrote:

I don´t want to use wooden walls, as this is really atypical in frisian architecture. But many frisian houses (in olden times especially rich captain´s houses) have white (or rarely red) paint over the walls, with the brick structure clearly visible beneath.
Some real examples
I´m also experimenting with that. We could for example have houses with various brick structures and some with white paint, and more variation in the playercolor patterns around window frames.

I think experimenting with paint is a good idea, it will help make each building more unique and distinguishable.

For the roofs, we could use the new Barbarian textures (used e.g. by the Wood Hardener).

I´ve been using the texture from graphics/stock_sources/blender_resources/Materials/textures/Tathced_toof2.jpg in the media repo, is there another one?

I have no idea - I didn't find anything else in that folder. You could have a look at the current models themselves and try to extract the texture from there.

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I created a branch for the new building models:

lp:~widelands-dev/widelands/frisian-buildings

I redesigned the tavern and furnace so far. More buildings will follow soon…

I put two whitish paint-like textures over the tavern´s brickwall to get a white wall with the bricks shining through. The furnace´s walls are smeared with smoke-like grey. The unoccupied buildings have "newer" bricks and freshly thatched (=lighter-coloured) roofs.
By the way, the new furnace has two different working animations, one for smelting iron and the other when smelting gold.

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The new textures look good. I'd be happy with the buildings like that for Build 20

If you have the time, it would also be great to give the roofs some thickness at the bottom.

We also need a grass texture for the headquarters and military buildings.

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And here´s a high-resolution preview:

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