UI QoL Improvement: Empty Container Icons for Vehicles

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UI QoL Improvement: Empty Container Icons for Vehicles

Postby DaniAngione » Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:27 pm

Hello :)

This is a simple suggestion for something that is a bit annoying when handling large amounts of certain containers (like wheelbarrows or barrels) inside vehicles like wagon, knarr or even the packrack on a bull.
Sometimes we take several wheelbarrows or barrels within those vehicles for major hauling operations or massive operations to collect a resource, and it is always annoying to pick up the barrel or wheelbarrow to check if it's filled already or empty. This can be slightly mitigated if you're alone (and organized) but it's always chaos when there are more people helping and any organization starts to get messy.

So the simple suggestion is: make the little "icon" of the item inside a vehicle (or whatever else like a shack) be different if empty. For example, the wheelbarrow icon appears as the loaded wheelbarrow - make it appear empty if it is empty. That way you can easily open a knarr with 50 barrels and tell which ones are filled with water already (for example), or when transporting stone or dirt with a wagon you can look at all the wheelbarrows and know which ones to fill, which ones are already filled, etc...

Not really a big deal, more like a Quality of Life improvement ;)
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Re: UI QoL Improvement: Empty Container Icons for Vehicles

Postby viznew » Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:26 pm

i agree iv oftentimes​ got frustrated dealing with fully loaded wagons and knarrs
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Re: UI QoL Improvement: Empty Container Icons for Vehicles

Postby MrPunchers » Fri Apr 07, 2017 11:25 pm

Yeah +1.
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Re: UI QoL Improvement: Empty Container Icons for Vehicles

Postby Iva » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:04 pm

I need this improvement too. I usually live in very small hermitages, and I use carts and wagons for storing all my things in containers, wheelbarrows and barrels as well as empty containers, wheelbarrows and barrels themselves. Sometimes I have to juggle with all this containers because I never remember which one is full and which one is not or empty. :)
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New graphic for empty wheelbarrows in vehicles

Postby Tammer » Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:04 am

It would be nice if an empty wheelbarrows loaded onto a packrack, knarr, or wagon have a different icon than a wheelbarrow that is not empty. Pulling them off to check and then putting them back is not fun.
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Re: New graphic for empty wheelbarrows in vehicles

Postby Granger » Sun Sep 24, 2017 9:42 am

Same applies to barrels, currently they all render the same.
Best would if they would show the label of the contents...

Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with cherry on top?
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Re: New graphic for empty wheelbarrows in vehicles

Postby DaniAngione » Thu Sep 28, 2017 1:08 am

Granger wrote:Same applies to barrels, currently they all render the same.
Best would if they would show the label of the contents...

Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with cherry on top?


Hey, Mod!
Use search, I've asked this already! :P

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=56992

Just kidding. But yeah, was posted already :P
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Re: New graphic for empty wheelbarrows in vehicles

Postby Granger » Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:12 am

DaniAngione wrote:Hey, Mod!
Use search, I've asked this already! :P

As of time constraints I sadly can't search the forum (to check for preexisting topics) on every new C&I topic created.
Please report the OP of a duplicate topic, including a link to the existing topic (like you did), in cases like this.

Thanks for the link, merged.
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Re: New graphic for empty wheelbarrows in vehicles

Postby DaniAngione » Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:14 am

Granger wrote:As of time constraints I sadly can't search the forum (to check for preexisting topics) on every new C&I topic created.


Haha, no worries.
Was just a jest, all in good sport, didn't really mean to be intrusive about it :lol:

Thanks for the merge and yes, let's hope this happens!

It is ... really... annoying... when you have a full knarr of wheelbarrows or barrels.
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Re: UI QoL Improvement: Empty Container Icons for Vehicles

Postby Granger » Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:17 am

Can we agree on that it would be optimal when:
- barrels would show the label if not empty
- stockpiles (on whellbarrows) would show the first item in them
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