Fans suggestion thread for future releases

[Kull]

Please do, unless one of them gets here first.



I'm mainly referring to building info pictures, both the symbols in the city UI and the detailed "unit card" of each building. Right now, they are a hodgepodge of pictures of different styles from different sources, with some being photographs (with or without filters), some being original EB art, some paintings, and some being directly taken from RTW and M2TW. In the interest of creating a more immersive atmosphere and giving the mod a more uniform look, I think that straightening these out would be a good idea. Ideally, all vanilla TW art would be replaced, especially the stuff from RTW which, while not necessarily bad for its time, looks bland and lifeless.

Personally, I like the photos best (a good example are the province info pics). That's where I could help out most easily, by providing you with royalty free ones for use in the mod specifically (and cropping or formatting (etc.) them if necessary).
Example (taken in Greece, no less. Might be suitable for a farming tier):

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Not sure I have the skill or time to help with creating 2d art unfortunately, certainly not paintings or CG models.

This is my area, so I'll just note that the preferred art-style is "painting". Provinces are a completely different animal since they are geographic in nature, and thus photos are the best way to represent them. But in all other cases (buildings and events) the intent is to use artwork. In some cases (ports and farms in particular) we do rely on vanilla RTW, but even there, there's a conscious effort to keep the styles similar across the whole range of building levels. So if you have an RTW graphic at L1, they'll be used all the way through to L5 (or whatever the terminating level. And they will be different by culture.

So I take exception to the "hodgepodge" accusation, because there isn't just a random distribution of pictures and art sprinkled everywhere. There is a theme, and we're slowly moving toward the ultimate goal, but within building types the sequences are consistent and yet still different for every culture.