Topic: Widelands customization

I will change everything until community is satisfied.Good thing is that i already have blender on my PC.

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Chariots are an interesting idea - it would need some engine changes though, because we would need different animations for the upgraded soldiers. Upgrading a soldier with a chariot and not seeing him ride it would be strange.

I think it could also look good to have a Kush-inspired tribe rather than Egyptians - it would give us some racial diversity. A lot of research has been done on the 0AD forums https://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?/topic/21602-the-kingdom-of-kush-a-proper-introduction-illustrated/

The main documentation on how to create a tribe: https://wl.widelands.org/documentation/map_objects/

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I like the idea of chariots, that would make a big difference in how they appeared. I also like the idea of camels as carriers and archers. Dates are definite requirement and for drinks what about fruit wines, a berry picker, like the Frisians, could collect berries which are made into wine.

I would suggest that rather than wait until everything is agreed before starting work, create a launchpad account and create a branch to add things to. Use other tribes images as placeholders and their scripts as templates. You will get an idea of the work involved and if you wait for concensus you will never started. People will be requesting changes even after you think you have finished, especially when people start playing competitive games against other tribes.

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Camels as carriers are nice, but ancient Egyptians didn't bother much about them. And they weren't the champions of milk either. And I cannot see how chariots could get implemented within Widelands' battle-model. The more I think about it, the more I find Egyptians to be a non-ideal choice.

I would prefer some more exotic tribe, which would have more to do with the Arabic desert than with Nile. Like Atlanteans are about water, that tribe could be about desert, sand being both their friend and their enemy, occasionally destroying their settlements and forcing them to load their camels and settle elsewhere, being cursed to meet green civilizations on their way, only to desertify them in their struggle for survival. The parallel fate could be the only resemblance with the Atlanteans, the rest of the tribe being very different, their most precious ware being their animals.

That drives my imagination wild, so I'm writing down some thoughts. It could be the only tribe without the ability to sustain a forest neither to cultivate cereals nor to produce coal nor to dismantle their buildings nor to fish. They could use leather instead of logs (still possessing woodcutters for ground-clearing operations) and processed leather for advanced buildings, the smallest of their buildings being tents (instead of huts and houses) and suffering erosion over time (they could have a maintainer of buildings instead of a collector of food, using leather to serve buildings in a limited range), their wells mining petroleum after water gets exhausted (which they use in place of coal and in their ship construction), they could build small military caves on mining sites, having goat-breeders along with camel-breeders, seeding grass instead of cereals (grass can grow on mountains as well) then fold buildings could release goats there instead of bees (both need big working areas), producing wool, leather, meat, milk and yogurt (differences between camels and goats could increase the variety of foods for miners, trainers and other jobs). Could also get some inspiration from Dune. Such ideas could make for a tribe diversified enough from the existing ones.

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TheHunter wrote:

its to small.I dont know how to make them bigger if anyone can help me with this problem i can start modeling buildings.Thank you.

I found fiddling with the building size horrible when I started to create the frisian buildings
I assume you´re using the template file? I always render at 800×800px resolution with an ortographic camera scale of 6.250, then I need to resize the rendered images to a scale of 0.162, then they have the correct size.

I´m not sure about attack-upgrading soldiers with chariots. It´s certainly cool, but are they really agile enough to attack and withdraw within 1 second? I can´t imagine how that could work…
Having a tribe that doesn´t train in attack could also be nice. Perhaps the soldiers could get a very high attack strength, and their rookies would have low health+evade as recompense. Heroes could then have ultra-high defence and health. Battles between their and other heroes would then last very long though – which makes new strategies possible

And what about fish/meat supply? Are they able to replenish fish resources like atlanteans, or do they have piggery/aquafarm-like buildings?

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