Farms... with crops

wildcorn · Post by **wildcorn** » June 13th, 2005, 6:02 pm

After I put up those fences (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6349), I decided I needed something to protect, why not farmlands?

With a few variations of farmland (different sizes and shapes) it should be easy to make the in-game villages a little bit more interesting.

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » June 13th, 2005, 6:43 pm

As a stand alone piece it looks good, but in the actual example it needs a lot of work. It doesn't match the perspective of either the village or the wall, and it is in close proximety to both.

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » June 13th, 2005, 6:50 pm

Yes but I think the villages also havenÃ‚Â´t got the right alignment only the temple and the desert villages got the right perspective.

wildcorn · Post by **wildcorn** » June 13th, 2005, 6:52 pm

I agree it doesn't match the perspective of the house, but it looks to match the wall to me.

I haven't worried to much about the homes though, because there was a post about a replacing old graphics with updated perspective ones. Its got a perspective closer to the awesome mountain tile (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5603), as I think thats sort of the future of wesnoth graphics, while the house is just waiting for someone to come along and redo it.

SaintDust · Post by **SaintDust** » June 13th, 2005, 6:53 pm

mabye a small brown or red barn on the farm itself to give it more realism..

wildcorn · Post by **wildcorn** » June 13th, 2005, 8:42 pm

I was thinking some varient farms would have things like that, so a map editor can sort of pick and choose the right pieces to make bigger or smaller farms.

On the otherhand, there seems to be a shortage of available letters for tiles.

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » June 13th, 2005, 11:22 pm

I think it looks too much like a modern farm, however you can probably get away with it.

Also, I do think that different scale farms would be necessary, as the size of a hex varies with each scenario.

Post by **Dave** » June 13th, 2005, 11:25 pm

Personally I think it looks great. Maybe show an image of it in a full game screenshot?

wildcorn · Post by **wildcorn** » June 14th, 2005, 12:29 am

Attached is a fullscreen mockup.

Again, it seems to match the perspective of the landscape, but not the perspective of the houses. Theres a few other problems with it, namely the brightness.

The screencapture is from The South Guard campaign (converted to 256 color, so it might be distorted slightly).

aelius · Post by **aelius** » June 14th, 2005, 12:49 am

Hey hey, I know that campaign. One of the things that I think makes your farm stand out (and not in the good way) is the scale. It looks a lot like a farm seen from an airplane. Would it be possible for you to work one up that's more or less the same scale as the trees?

- b.

Cuyo Quiz · Post by **Cuyo Quiz** » June 14th, 2005, 1:59 am

Is a ''crops'' tile doable?.

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » June 15th, 2005, 12:16 am

Gafgarion drew some type of farm here, before the forum crash wiped it out: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1059 .

Breeblebox · Post by **Breeblebox** » June 15th, 2005, 4:27 am

Looks cool. Are the field edges parallel to the se/nw hex edges? Looks a little askew, but maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.

Edit: this is what I mean...

wildcorn · Post by **wildcorn** » June 15th, 2005, 6:41 am

The farm goes from different verticies on the two hexes it occupies. This was done to sort of 'eliminate the grid'.

I'll probably create an alternative farm crop tile sometime tomorrow, and see how that looks.

pstradomski · Post by **pstradomski** » June 15th, 2005, 8:12 pm

I think it may confuse players, just as new mountaint tiles. It's important to be able to tell edges of grid hexes.

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Farms... with crops

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