Topic: The Barbarian Food Sector

Okay, I have some substitutes to propose to you all.
With the ration, the obvious challenge was, that it may be either bread, or meat, or fish.
So what do you show, then? I took to the solution, of "packing" up the ration in a box, braided from reed.
The ration is served on wooden tablet, made by cutting an oblique slice from a trunk.
The snack uses the same tablet, but shows the components (I went for the meat, not the fish - don't like blue fish ).
The meal is served on a an ordinary porcelain plate. Okay, I don't really know, where there Barabarians got that from,
but I wanted a clear contrast to the wooden plate, and stainless steel seemed even more exotic.

Any comments?
The final decision is up to Chuck, our Graphic Elder, as usual.

Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
I am on Win32, have no means to compile, and rely on prefabricated distributions (Thanks to Tino).

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Solstice wrote: I like them -exept the first one which is in a box. I think it looks too modern whether the box is braided from reed or not. Could it be some kind of soup in a wooden cup or something? And that cup placed on the tablet. Ingredients of the cup could be camouflaged with steam arising from the cup or something. Or maybe the soup color isn't any of the colors used already in the food components - greenish gray for example would do (?) Now as I've seen the lowest one (deeper coal mine) some minutes here, the white color of tablet begins to irritate a bit - especially the one that is being carried from flag to flag. Why can't all of the tablets be identical (orientation, color) and only contents change? Would look more uniform that way which might be better.

I agree with that. A cup with some undifined "food" in it would be better, not the green box. The bread could be a little bit darker, the form is ok, the "no-hamburger-style", but on the roads its to white and there would be to low contrast, i think.

But the tablets are nice

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Thank you all for your comment so far.

First, please understand that I was trying to create a new set of graphics for the existing barbarian food. If the ration, consisting of either bread, fish or meat should be changed to "soup", it would have been easier and I certainly would not serve the soup in a braided basket
It would indeed be an elegant trick to have the inns make a "bread stew", "fish-stew", of "meat stew" and let them look the same in the end. Served in a some sort of bowle.
Given the fact, that none of the developers is overly enthusiastic about changing the graphics, they may not approve the necessary name change. But that should be discussed elsewhere (game suggestions).

@ solstice: I have the graphics in game currently but have not watched for a longer period. You may be right. Perhaps I can change the "china" to "earthenware" and give it a sort of greyish look. Uniformity was not an aim for me. Indeed I tried to create them all different in order to easily tell them apart.

@Sadchant: I had the bread darker initially and changed it for exactly the reason you give. It was even harder to see then.

@Bitiquinho: Hello and welcome to Widelands! Don't worry about your english - it's just fine, and even it were not, it would not matter.
I see your point; taverns an inns so far only seem to pass on bread, fish or meat, which is then called ration ect..
From this point of view, making a stew out of whetever they have, seems better. Making the miners go to the inns would be major change, and I can, so far, not see much advantage from the suggestion. But again, this should be placed in a different forum.

Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
I am on Win32, have no means to compile, and rely on prefabricated distributions (Thanks to Tino).

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I'll see what I can do "stew-wise" when I have some time.
Also, I want to wait for some more opinions, about changing this ....
.. especially Chuck's would be helpful (hint! hint!)

What do you think about the Empire and the Big Mac look?

PS: I have a feeling that the white plate's intrusiveness depends largely on your sceen resolution.
at 1900 x 1200 it seems perfectly okay, but at 640x480, it does attrack a lot of attention to itsself.

Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
I am on Win32, have no means to compile, and rely on prefabricated distributions (Thanks to Tino).

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Looks good. I would try that. I wish that the developing team includes these to the next build.

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