Simple items

And one of my points was that some items are missing those placeholders, mine layer being one of them.

Come on, I already said a few posts above I made icons only for core weapons/items, and I also explained how to add the missing ones. Go back and read. I was not going to come up with 200 different and logical colors for the 200 weapons and items Xonotic has just for simple placeholders. What did you expect me to reply to your screenshots post and "bug report" when I already mentioned those things? Maybe I should've done only one placeholder with "THIS IS SOME ITEM, PICK IT UP TO KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS HAHA" as text and put that for every single item.

It's nice that you want to help but can you wait until there is actually something to criticize please?

Got some questions:

What color does the different items have?

Is it okey to use more then 1 color per item?

Am i supposed to make simple item icons for the HUD too?

You can do whatever you think is best since you are the one designing them, but you could do some concepts and ask for some opinions here.

Just keep in mind that they need to be very simple, they should recognizable from shape and color rather than shading and details, otherwise they will get very blurry ingame. One color is probably better for that reason, but you are free to try different things.

The hardest part I think is that Xonotic has so many weapons, it's hard to find a different color for each. And also need make ammo items that make sense for multiple weapons.

For the placeholders I used perweapon crosshair colors as guide (minus MG which was green, so I made slightly yellow-ish so it would be different from the armor). Here is a reference: http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/imra...dnqa5w.jpg

But again, do what you think is best, you don't need to use those colors.

For size, sure they make items more visible but they are rather to make it easier to recognize (hence why a single color is probably better, you know from any distance which item is it), not to make them huge and be visible from around a corner where you would not be able to see them with normal models.