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Does anyone know what came of Telumar's final graphic mod which apparently was never finished, or at least posted? I really like this and in the process of doing something similar when I stumbled on this old thread.

ORIGINAL: Telumar

This is what i am currently working on. It's not yet fully finished, but almost:

Nick

AFAIK that were his latest projects. I tried to get in touch with Stefan, and I hope he's alright. In a way, he was/is one of my mentors.

https://thetoawbeachhead.wordpress.com/ ... phic-mods/

Klink, Oberst

I still have all the files.. though it has evolved into this (if there is need i can compile all the files and make them available):

It looks very good.
It would be great to have this mod [&o]

The great Telumar resurfaced, so I'm sure he'll be able to shed some light on this

ORIGINAL: Telumar
I still have all the files.. though it has evolved into this (if there is need i can compile all the files and make them available):

Well I would certainly appreciate your posting them. By far the best use of low contrast colors and textures, which I find very appealing. Love the forest textures too - I dug up a sheet of Letraset dry transfer decal with the same pattern to scan as I lost all my Photoshop brushes when by external backup HD died. Needless to say I'd rather simple use your terrain and play than work on terrain! [:D]

Glad you are back. Thank you!

Letraset dry transfer decal - had to google this. [:D]

You will have to wait a few days as the IV graphics engine is kind of giving me a headache with hills and mountain terrain. When I use the files in IV the mountains are not visible when hill terrain is in the same hex. Has something to do with the transparency in tiles_hills_overlay which I still have to figure out. The above screenshot is from TOAW III.

Reminds me a lot of the beautiful Command Ops maps, very nice! [:)]

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ORIGINAL: Telumar

Letraset dry transfer decal - had to google this. [:D]

You will have to wait a few days as the IV graphics engine is kind of giving me a headache with hills and mountain terrain. When I use the files in IV the mountains are not visible when hill terrain is in the same hex. Has something to do with the transparency in tiles_hills_overlay which I still have to figure out. The above screenshot is from TOAW III.

Understood, the transparencies are a pain.

Here's a very reduced size image of that decal. Purchased it over 30 years ago when I was making my own maps for board wargames.

ORIGINAL: larrybush
Remind me a lot of SPI maps too.

So true and so nice for old-timers like myself. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Nicholas Bell

ORIGINAL: Telumar

Letraset dry transfer decal - had to google this. [:D]

You will have to wait a few days as the IV graphics engine is kind of giving me a headache with hills and mountain terrain. When I use the files in IV the mountains are not visible when hill terrain is in the same hex. Has something to do with the transparency in tiles_hills_overlay which I still have to figure out. The above screenshot is from TOAW III.

Understood, the transparencies are a pain.

Here's a very reduced size image of that decal. Purchased it over 30 years ago when I was making my own maps for board wargames.

Lol, it indeed looks like my forest tiles [:D]

Very nice looking map, I would certainly use it, if it became available. [:)]

look like real military map.Great mod

ORIGINAL: Rasputitsa

Very nice looking map, I would certainly use it, if it became available. [:)]

+1. Amazing. Would love to be able to use these maps.

Telumar is this available through your mod?

ORIGINAL: gliz2

Telumar is this available through your mod?

No. Not yet. I will release this soon, still doing some fine- tuning, mostly with hills and mountains as these work in a different manner from TOAW III [:@]

The mod really looked better in III ...

Take Your time dear Sir. Your work looks amazing - reminds me of ol' good boardgaming times [8D]

My only gripe with the development of TAOW4 is that the graphic solutions are actually worse then before. I had high hopes for customizable counters and unit display panels but unfortunatelly it never came to be [:(][:(][:(]

ORIGINAL: gliz2

My only gripe with the development of TAOW4 is that the graphic solutions are actually worse then before. I had high hopes for customizable counters and unit display panels but unfortunatelly it never came to be [:(][:(][:(]

Yes, the new counters are really a step backward in regard to moddability. Pity.

I have found that tiles_hills_overlay (tiles_hills ist still there but does nothing), tiles_mountainous and tiles_impassable work as a kind of overlay with hard coded transparency settings. That works somehow ok with the standard graphics, but if one wants to use a kind of terrain graphics that is more like a sort of 'area fill' as in the above mod this just does not look good. I. e. when i combine hills with mountains it gives a different shading than mountains alone. See here:

The graphic performance is also pretty atrocious when compared to the previous game.