Re: [Widelands-public] Winterland and Northmen

[Peter S. <sea...@gm...>]

Hey, :-)

okay... :-)
Perhaps I wrote it a bit confusing :-)...

(1.)
my problem was mostly , that every world has a description. So 
winterland needs one, too, if I create it.
Greenlands description is:
"These are the beauty and bountifull countries of the Barbarians"
While the barbarians are included in greenland description, I thought 
about including the Northmen in the description for winterland:
"These are the white, wide and frosty winterlands of the Northmen"

But on the other hand... We want to have the Empire, and at least one 
asian-tribe would be good, too. So, it would be stupid, to create own 
worlds for that tribes, because normally they should life in 
greenland,too (even if the world "mediteran" would fit to the Empire, 
the world would be 98% like greenland. Perhaps the only difference would 
be some palms)
I believe it would be stupid, to have ONE WORLD for ONE  TRIBE... But we 
need a general solution for that problem. IF we want to have more tribes 
living in greenland, we SHOULD delete the barbarians from description of 
greenland. And than, I don't need to include the Northmen in Winterland.
Or what do you think?

(2.)
Other worlds:
Erik wrote:
 >Jungle/Savannah? Or that could perhaps be combined with dessert in a 
tropical world?
I think this is a real good idea. And it would be good, if I update that 
stuff soon, because older maps of "desert" won't be compatible with 
"tropical" if I include new groundtextures :-)

Anyone against this Idea?
I delete the world "desert" from CVS, and create tropical, with few new 
groundtextures. We just have to think about the animals, which should be 
fitting to jungle AND to desert :-).

Or should there be another world besides "desert", which includes jungle 
and steppe?
Would be more data on CVS, but would be easier and perhaps even more 
logical. :-)

(3.)
The "Northmen"
After the work on the worlds, I would like to first create a wiki about 
the Northmen and to talk about few things, which are perhaps not clear. 
(We also should think about a solution for global- or non-global options 
of industries like blacksmith, before - please look in our forums for 
that stuff, I wrote about two possible solutions two days ago. :-))
And if everything is clear, I would create all the scripts for the 
buildings.
But I don't know, if I should create the graphics for the buildings, 
because I never worked with blender before (Don't think gimp would be a 
good solution for painting buildings :-))

So is there anyone, who wants to help me with the graphics?


And finally:
If I have got enough time after all that work (I am ready with school 
now and will begin to work in july.) I could imagine, to start working 
on the Empire, but the Atlantics should be made by Holger (it's his baby 
:-P )



greetz to you all
Peter