Topic: [GUI] ration, snack and meal icons
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fraang Topic Opener
Joined: 2010-02-15, 13:13
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Posted at: 2015-04-22, 02:51
I have started to work on the ware icons for the ration, snack and meal wares. Besides making it possible to render them later again I tried to make them resemble more the ingredients which they are made of. For example the ration is made of fish, meat or bread. So I added there no beer while the other wares have them included. Another thing is the general art style of the icons. While the relative high contrast is good for the visibility it is a bit in conflict with the lower contrast of the other rendered icons. Here is a first version:
Any thoughts? 
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 15:18
Posts: 1440  One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2015-04-22, 06:21
I think your new icons are way prettier, but the old ones are easier to understand - they have a better distinctiveness and level of abstraction IMHO. They are very distinct in the menu and ingame.
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GunChleoc
Joined: 2013-10-07, 15:56
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Posted at: 2015-04-22, 06:26
I think it's a good idea to have them look less like hamburgers, which I always associate with modern fast food. There is one problem though with showing the ingredients like that: There will only be 1 snack ware in the future, which is bread fish,meat for the Empire and bread fish,meat beer for the Barbarians. Also, ingredients might in theory change for game balancing in the future. Busy indexing nil values
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kaputtnik
Joined: 2013-02-18, 20:48
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Posted at: 2015-04-22, 07:41
The same icons are also used for the carriers if they carry such a ware. I think we shouldn't use different icons for warehouse and carriers.
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einstein13
Joined: 2013-07-29, 00:01
Posts: 1116 One Elder of Players Location: Poland |
Posted at: 2015-04-22, 13:35
I agree with that. Also it is important to use simillar icons for Barbarians and Empire (Atleantans don't have rations?) So you should consider using unified images for both tribes. einstein13
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2015-04-22, 18:08
This will be a programmed fact that they are the same. We can't have different icons.The reason that they will be the same is so that Barbarians and Empire will be able to trade rations/snacks, once we have trading. Busy indexing nil values
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fuchur
Joined: 2009-10-07, 14:01
Posts: 186 Widelands-Forum-Junkie Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2015-04-22, 21:37
Hm, I wouldn't have identified the new ration icon as something to eat. Sorry, I don't want to displease you, but what should it represent? Is it a plate with something on it? Personally I don't mind the hamburger style of the old icons. Maybe it's because, like SirVer said, they can be distinguished very well.
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fraang Topic Opener
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Posted at: 2015-05-11, 22:38
Does this look better?
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kaputtnik
Joined: 2013-02-18, 20:48
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Posted at: 2015-05-11, 22:53
Awesome! The bread icon should imho be adjusted to fit the colors of ration and snack
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2015-05-12, 10:59
They look great I think the bread in them has too much gloss though, maybe that can be toned down a bit / make the bread look a bit rougher? Busy indexing nil values
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