My Terrain (Mine!)

[Eternal]

I wonder if it'd look better with smaller stones piled outside of the wooden parts.
So that you can't see those walls just sticking out of the ground.

[Sangel]

I wonder if it'd look better with smaller stones piled outside of the wooden parts.
So that you can't see those walls just sticking out of the ground.

I like this idea - it could also serve to visually unify the wooden palisade with the stone pillars. I also still like to see a little bit more "grain" in the stone pillars, a la the dwarven fortification. Currently the rocks, while multifacted, remain very smooth.

But we are getting down to minor improvements here - this is looking very, very good.

[doofus-01]

I think I see what you mean. It's an idea.

I'm not going to be able to work on this for a while, so if anyone else wants to try or wants it for UMC, here it is. The images are in a folder called "elven" because I did not write any WML for it.

[Jetrel]

I think I see what you mean. It's an idea.

I'm not going to be able to work on this for a while, so if anyone else wants to try or wants it for UMC, here it is. The images are in a folder called "elven" because I did not write any WML for it.

I think it's good to go for inclusion in the game.
This topic is stickied until one of us gets it included; we're not letting this baby fall under the radar.

[Dragonchampion]

Who will change all the castles in the campaigns to this?

[Noyesdude]

Who will change all the castles in the campaigns to this?

Wouldnt you just leave the rest as is and just use thos to make new campaigns?

[zookeeper]

I think I see what you mean. It's an idea.

I'm not going to be able to work on this for a while, so if anyone else wants to try or wants it for UMC, here it is. The images are in a folder called "elven" because I did not write any WML for it.

I think it's good to go for inclusion in the game.
This topic is stickied until one of us gets it included; we're not letting this baby fall under the radar.

Committed and de-stickied. There's a couple of minor glitches to fix and maybe some other tweaks to be made, but those can be handled later.

Good job, this is exactly the kind of terrain we've been needing since...forever, basically. I'll see about wiring this in to several mainline campaigns ASAP.

EDIT: Also committed the fourth orcish village variation and the snowy ones, too.

[cretin]

cant wait to see these in game, congrats doofus-01.

[musketaquid]

These castle monoliths have a polished surface, i think this looks unnatural. Orcs are no stonemasons.

I quickly edited the right pillar. Compare the right and left one, and you'll see, what i mean.

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And i'm missing the shadows on the south west side of the castle tile.

No shadow on the south-west

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Look at the other castles and you'll see a darker south-west side.

Darker south-west side

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[Turuk]

These castle monoliths have a polished surface, i think this looks unnatural. Orcs are no stonemasons.

You do not have to be a stonemason to polish stone, it just takes basic grunt labor. Not to mention, if they are just dragging these monoliths from wherever they find them and using them, chances are the stone is fairly worn down and polished by the elements.

[Mefisto]

I liked the winter version of orcish houses but I think that the summer version, together with the stronghold, could be slightly tweaked. For me the stones are too grey and too monotonous, the borders between them are too thick and the trunks in palisade are also too plain. I tweaked slightly the last picture to show what I mean: added some patches of yellowish, greenish and reddish spots on stones and trunks.

[doofus-01]

I wasn't expecting the forts to be committed, but I'm glad they were useful. I'll try to get them finished when I can. My to-do list includes the ground shadows, the SW facing pike that somehow went missing, and fixing some little misalignments and gaps. And if I'm really on a tear, adding some small rocks at the base of the posts.

musketaquid - Personally, I'm not so fond of the little dark stuff. But if it is deemed better that way, then it certainly has my blessing.

Mefisto - I cannot really see a difference, but have no objections.

Thanks.

(While I'm posting, I'll mention that the dark dirt tile for the castle (not the keep) is just a recolour of a regular dirt tile.)

[Jetrel]

I wasn't expecting the forts to be committed, but I'm glad they were useful. I'll try to get them finished when I can. My to-do list includes the ground shadows, the SW facing pike that somehow went missing, and fixing some little misalignments and gaps. And if I'm really on a tear, adding some small rocks at the base of the posts.

We committed them because even if you, personally, were taken away from us forever, these were a great base to work from (in fact they're good enough that the room for improvement is pretty marginal). These are also something we've been wishing we had for a long, long time. We've really never had anything appropriate for orcs.

The magic of open-source is that projects like this can keep going even if individual contributors happen to run out of steam or get pulled away by other things in their life; this is assuming that because we're a popular game, we have a pool of skilled people around to do exactly that; fortunately we are. This doesn't work on unfinished projects where there aren't a lot of skilled fan-contributors who can do exactly that. In contrast, looking at a lot of small "closed" projects, I've seen such projects dry up and die when their one artist or whatnot ends up having a shift in their personal life, and has to move on. It's really tragic when said person is insanely skilled, but everything they did ends up just dying in a "locked safe" of licensure, somewhere, because no one else has permission to pick up where they left off.

[musketaquid]

And i'm missing the shadows on the south west side of the castle tile.

As i took a look on the screenshot again, i realised, that there is only missing a shadow on a certain tile, the others seem to have a darker south west side.

[doofus-01]

This may not be the one thing Wesnoth was truly missing, but I drew it anyway and maybe it would be nice to have. Here is a first pass at an industrial facility, probably dwarfish. Ultimately, it would be animated.