New terrain mod, work in progress...

[cbelva]

Hey Nick,
 
I read your comment on the bug thread. I am curious as to why you were getting that bug. In substituting sprikes I had no problems. It was trying to add additional sprikes that I was getting the bug. Are you adding new terrain sprites with your mod? I am working on a new scenario and the bug has ground me to a halt. Hopefully we will get the 1.02 beta tomorrow. Looking forward to your mod.

[NickGen]

Hey Cbelva, I have no problems for creating new landscape with new sprite, but, if i want to add additional sprite in same "tileset" i have the bug.....for example, if i want to add some additional sprite in a urban tileset, the first sprite work fine, but, for all the other sprites, i have the bug.....
I am also blocked in my work....Yes, i hope this patch will Solve the problem....
 

[kram]

Hi Nick69, a really awesome work, I'm curious to see how you will model heavy forest vs. light forest and swamp.
Hope your mod will be posted soon and many thanks for it[&o][&o][&o].

[NickGen]

Ok, a new screenshot, with, light forest, marsh, and some city graphic, but i am not very happy with them...Perhaps replaced by topographics symbols ?..... To follow

[Vic]

@nick,
 
looks great. amazing job. i should check the forums first for graphical artists for next game.
 
for the towns i would make them stand out more color wise and if possible let them also influence the edges of neighbouring hexes so they are better visible if units are on top.
 
kind regards,
vic
 

[NickGen]

Tanks for your advice, Vic, I am not a really a professional graphic designer, I am rather specializing in tabletop wargames ....
I also planned to redo the entire user interface .... in the near future ...
For the city and town, i thought somewhat darker Sprite ...
Sorry for my english, i am french....

[NickGen]

Vic, i have some trouble with the urban sprites...can you give me some advice ?
why two sprites for each urban type ? (urban01.png, urban01a.png)
How it work ?

[Vic]

ORIGINAL: Nick69

Vic, i have some trouble with the urban sprites...can you give me some advice ?
why two sprites for each urban type ? (urban01.png, urban01a.png)
How it work ?

well you can have two sprites for any landscape sprite. One which is drawn before any neighbouring hex influences are painted on the hex, and one which is drawn after. If you do a top down look i think it would be smart to have a fully transparent graphic as the second sprite for towns.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

[NickGen]

tanks Vic, I certainly have a lot of questions to ask ....
In fact, a lot of my graphics come from a game project that I had going on, but abandoned for lack of time ....

[NickGen]

Vic, another question...Is it possible that the sea override the rivers hexsides ? for good transition....

[Vic]

no the rivers are always drawn last.

but if you make sure the land always goes to the corners of the hex then the rivers will fit right?

kind regards,
vic

[NickGen]

ORIGINAL: Vic

no the rivers are always drawn last.

but if you make sure the land always goes to the corners of the hex then the rivers will fit right?

kind regards,
vic

Yes, tanks Vic, and i want to make the rivers the same color as the sea...
Soon a new screenshot with roads, towns and city

[NickGen]

New screenshot...with all terrain ok...Road, rivers, streams, bridge, town, city...on map....
Soon the release...[:)]

[Pocus]

Groovy!

[Arditi]

  Wow!  Lookin' great!
   Arditi

[EricSilver_MatrixForum]

Can't wait for the release, Nick!!, great job, m8!!

[Hentzau]

Looks excellent! [:D]

[NickGen]

Last screenshot for this mod, european theatre, all graphic done, now, I can schedule the terrain effects and make a new masterfile...[:)]
Soon, two new mod, one for desert theatre, one for asian theatre...[:)]

[Barthheart]

Awesome!!!![&o]

[PDiFolco]

Nick,
Very nice job, but why do you want to make a masterfile ?? What we need is a zipped file with all the png to replace all those in graphics/default/plain, lightforest etc... dirs !