Topic: Icons for the website
Nasenbaer
Topic Opener
Joined: 2009-02-21, 18:17
Posts: 826  One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2012-03-26, 19:54
One idea of the "New website Design" thread was to create new icons for the news post based upon the blender files of the workers and similiar. When looking on the "tribes group pictures" Chuck created some months ago, I believe this would be really cool. So what are your ideas? Anyone willing to try creating such icons? Brainstorming start
Edited: 2012-03-26, 19:55
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chuckw
Joined: 2010-03-15, 16:23
Posts: 945 One Elder of Players Location: New York - USA |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 03:58
Yes, someone is willing.
Great ideas! How about: Website Development: The Atlantean spider-breeder holding one of her "pets" with a big spider web behind her. Play_Day News: One or two workers with a soccer (football). Tournament News: A couple workers sitting/standing on a 3D match grid. Wihack: Two or three workers with their noses in their little laptops. Maybe one taking a nap? Miscellaneous News: A worker with a megaphone? Security: Has to be one of the soldiers don't you think?. Artwork/Media: A worker with a beret, brush and palette with perhaps some music notes in the air around him? I see little people.
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chuckw
Joined: 2010-03-15, 16:23
Posts: 945 One Elder of Players Location: New York - USA |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 04:59
Maybe a Welcome to Widelands image? I think that I should put some blue, red and green player color on these guys like this: I see little people.
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Astuur
Joined: 2009-02-28, 10:08
Posts: 733 One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 09:20
Hehe, nice stuff. 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.
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wl-zocker
Joined: 2011-12-30, 17:37
Posts: 492  Tribe Member Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 09:44
The image looks already very good. What I do not like is the person on the left side: It is nude, it has a strange skin color and the bald head does not look really good. Should it represent the Atlantean tribe? If yes, do they all look like that (I have never seen a big picture of an Atlantean worker)? The green eyes of all three look strange. The white should be visible. "Only few people know how much one has to know in order to know how little one knows." - Werner Heisenberg
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 15:18
Posts: 1440 One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 10:29
I feel that presenting the workers at this scale is not a terrible good idea: it conveys that the graphics in widelands are crude and simplistic - but they aren't. They are sophisticated and very detailed - with respect to the scale they are needed in the game engine. Therefore I think we would need more detailed models of the workers - which is also not a good idea (imho) because it takes away from the picture each of us has in his head. Slight tangent: I always felt that the settlers graphics lost from S2 to S3. S3 had more detailed models of the workers which gave them goofy looks (imho), the comic like style from s2 allowed me to fill in the blanks of my workers like they were some character from a book. The very same applies to widelands for me and I like it. The tribe group-pictures in the artwork section are different: players will likely already have played widelands and identify with their tribe already. They already know that the graphics are awesome and will maybe even enjoy the lack of details. It just not something that first timers knowing nothing about the game will appreciate (imho). Also, as we want to convey a meaning with the image I would suggest resorting to symbolism (as we currently use for the news pictures). Taking the symbols from the widelands context would be totally cool of course.
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Nasenbaer
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Joined: 2009-02-21, 18:17
Posts: 826 One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 13:28
I see your point, SirVer.
However I think the image is too big for an eyecatcher for news posts anyway. And if we scale it down to a similiar scale than the currently used ones, the style looks fine for me Edited: 2012-03-27, 13:29
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Shevonar
Joined: 2011-09-05, 21:28
Posts: 136  At home in WL-forums |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 14:03
Actually I thought to take this cute not so little people instead of the current Widelands screenshot on the landing page: http://192.168.0.100:88/v2/ I like it but that's my personal opinion and I will change it if necessary. I share your opinion about settlers. S2 was the best of the series. However I don't think people will judge Widelands graphics as crude and simplistic just because of some image they see first. I also added a link to the screenshot section, so people can have a look at the ingame graphics. I actually really like the style of the 3D models also in large scale. Of course they are not state of the art 3D-models but they have their own charm. And last but not least: I guess most people play Widelands because of its gameplay and not because of beautiful graphics. Thanks chuck for this image. And your ideas for news categories are exactly what I had in mind. Love to see them Thanks for all the support and participation in making the Widelands website a better place!
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chuckw
Joined: 2010-03-15, 16:23
Posts: 945 One Elder of Players Location: New York - USA |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 14:15
Thank you all for your comments. I realize now that I should have stated that I did/do not intend to have them that large on the web page. My bad. I just like to give them some "face time", (warts and all) when they are with friends. Certainly what is designed to work at 1 centimeter can't be expected to always translate well at 10 times that size. The opposite is also true. Fingers and thumbs are obviously missing on the large scale images, but such details are lost at the scale of the game.
I do not intend at this point in time to refine the images for realism at these large scales. At the same time, I do not think we need to abandon the idea of using the workers in the icons. Bear with me while I cobble up some more examples at a scale I would suggest for their presentation to the public at large. Something closer to this, say: If they don't meet expectations (and they may not), I will gladly pursue more symbolic images without the workers in them. (Of course, the little guys will be very disappointed.) I see little people.
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chuckw
Joined: 2010-03-15, 16:23
Posts: 945 One Elder of Players Location: New York - USA |
Posted at: 2012-03-27, 14:26
About the hands: With some thought and ingenuity, I might be able to conceal the absence of their digits by either obscuring the hands in some way or having them hold something. Note that only two of the six hands are visible in the scene above and with the addition of a couple objects, their missing digits could be overlooked. Edit: I just KNEW the Empire carrier's wave was going to draw attention to their "unique" hands. Edited: 2012-03-27, 14:27
I see little people.
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