Frisian building models are too dark

[GunChleoc]

The Frisian buildings' graphics are hard to see when placing a building. They would benefit from a retexturing. Some candidate Public Domain textures:

http://www.photos-public-domain.com/2011/01/04/red-brick-wall-texture/
http://www.photos-public-domain.com/?s=wooden+wall

Forum discussion: https://wl.widelands.org/forum/topic/4234/

[Benedikt Straub (nordfriese)]

Here´s a first experiment with the brick wall texture, and a lighter roof and floor. What do you think?
The one thing I don´t like about this texture is that the bricks don´t blend very well at the edges.

I don´t want to use wooden walls, as this is really atypical in frisian architecture. But many frisian houses (in olden times especially rich captain´s houses) have white (or rarely red) paint over the walls, with the brick structure clearly visible beneath.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nieblum&t=canonical&iax=images&ia=images
I´m also experimenting with that. We could for example have houses with various brick structures and some with white paint, and more variation in the playercolor patterns around window frames.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

I think the brick texture looks really good :)

As for the edges, I guess there is some Blender magic that one can do?

0 A D use brick textures, maybe you can also look at how they've done it, or recolor one of their textures - they are CC-BY-SA, version 3.0., so we can reuse them if we want.

https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/art_source/trunk/art?order=name

I'm sure they wouldn't mind if we asked for help. And these people have helped me before too:

https://blenderartists.org/forum/

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Love the new windows :)

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Comparison screenshot - old on top, new on the bottom.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Fixed in build20-rc1