TERRAIN: Snoopy's TERRAIN patch

[FrostyBoy]

do you guys realise that in order for me to change the railroads, I would have to edit 272 graphics, and do you also realise that I'd have to try and understand how these 272 railroads connect to each other?

I'm thinking of the number 73984 here

If you ask me, I think Firaxis spent a ridiculous amount of time on these roads and railroads, there's far too many uneccessary looping.

btw, Firaxis, if you are listening, could one of you explain the Fat Roads? I do remember reading one time, that Fat Roads would appear if you walk on a road long enough, is that still in the game? I have not seen it yet, and if its not in the game, could u turn it on?

[FrostyBoy]

http://www.civer.f2s.com/files.shtml

For those of you who wanted the grey mountains and nothing else


could you download the forests and jungle mountains, I am not sure if they are downloadable, I can't seem to download them, but I am pretty sure they are working

[m_m_x]

thanx a lot for the mountains snoopy
Now,can we please have only the blue sea uv created without the raised land ,wich to the original coastline??please...

[Harlan]

sn00py,
Given that there are so many railroad graphics to edit, that's why I was thinking you could just use the same shape as the roads, but change the color from brown to black. If you could then hollow out the centers of the lines and add crossties that would be super cool, but much more work. But at least this way you wouldn't have to worry about the relationships between each picture - the road graphics already all connect with each other properly.

[Martinus Magnificus]

http://www.civer.f2s.com/files.shtml

For those of you who wanted the grey mountains and nothing else

Exactly what I asked for. Thanx a lot!

I'm looking forward to your next graphics.

[Dark Penumbra]

Given that there are so many railroad graphics to edit, that's why I was thinking you could just use the same shape as the roads, but change the color from brown to black. If you could then hollow out the centers of the lines and add crossties that would be super cool, but much more work. But at least this way you wouldn't have to worry about the relationships between each picture - the road graphics already all connect with each other properly.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but I whipped that up in Photoshop after reading this thread:



Probably doesn't do justice, but they're black and have white lines in the middle (I probably should've made them yellow, but I figured there's enough of it in the game already ).

Here's the file if you want it. You'll want to backup art\terrain\railroads.pcx first, just to be safe (I've only tested it in the editor so far, just reinstalled Civ).

[Timeline]

Hey thats pretty cool Dark Penumbra! How long it take you to "whip" that up?

[kittenOFchaos]

A bit too black IMHO and it would be nice if it wasn't the same shade of black the whole way through...but it certainly jumps out at you though!

[Dreifels]

correct recources and size of sea ways to real facts (or nearby)
I expect from an earth map that there are minimum the main recource points right and the sea ways in right relation.

[FrostyBoy]

m_m_x, your water request is done

http://www.civer.f2s.com/files.shtml

no more requests people. I have other stuff to do at the moment, but I will be back soon.

[m_m_x]

thanx a lot snoopy!!!!

[Dark Penumbra]

Hey thats pretty cool Dark Penumbra! How long it take you to "whip" that up?

About 5 minutes, so I could probably work on it some more.

It didn't take long because I didn't edit the graphics individually at all.

The way I did it, I just copied the original layer, removed the magenta/green transparency so all I'd have left was the railroad... desaturated, made it black (could've made it dark gray, I guess, but they just repaved the road in front of my office, so I got inspired by that ). Railroads already have "holes" down the middle (the space between the boards) so I just added a white layer under them, put back the colored transparency layer, applied the palette, and that's it.

Putting something like a gradient to add more detail would be a lot more work though, as you only have a few pixels wide to work with. I'll check it out sometime today though, see if I can work with the drawing that's already there and just use that to offset the black/dark grey a little.

[Dreifels]

http://www.civer.f2s.com/files.shtml

there is no map

[Dark Penumbra]

I've changed the colors a bit, looks more "asphalty" now.



Dark gray (not black, though), a bit darker on the edges (you'll probably never really notice in-game, though, I only see the edges in Photoshop when magnified) and yellow lines in the middle.

[FrostyBoy]

Dreifels, what gave you the impression there was a map on there?