New Graphics Mod Coming

[Purple]

Taiga

Thanks for the link SpencerH.

On the same site is information about taiga (from the Russian word), which is the boreal forest, which "exists as a nearly continuous belt of coniferous trees across North America and Eurasia."

That page can be found here. It has an illustration of the sparse forest.

Seems like this is what Firaxis had in mind, not tundra.

[FrostyBoy]

Extract it to your /Art/ directory and overwrite all.

The first file in the zip will replace the circle with a tick, which is the icon that is for when want to issue an OK command. And also changes the x slightly.

The rest of the files in the terrain directory will overwrite most of the terrain files.

There are a few I have not gone over yet, and that's the jungle mountain, waterfalls, forest mountain and jungle hill.

I haven't included the cities yet because there's still more to do, but it's almost done.

This file is 3megs big roughly. For people who feel like 'beta testing', download it and please let me know how it goes, I suggest that the rest of you don't use these graphics until people who have tested it respond with any problems, so that I can fix them.

[FrostyBoy]

bloody hell, where the hell is it?!?!?

can I not upload files here still?

well anyway here's a screenie, i'll delete the others

[Mizaq]

can you email it to mizaq@u.washington.edu ? I can put the beta test up on my site for a few days until a bunch of people have it and you want me to take it down. You could also try uploading it to the civfanatics file server. try it in two pieces if you have to. the forum upload size is 500k for apolyton and 300k for civfan but I think the civfan file server can take 3mb files.

[sas]

I can host the files as well. Just mail it to me..

sastokke@broadpark.no

[FrostyBoy]

sorry man, my mailbox is full, took me ages to send it to mizaq too

thanks for the help tho

[Mizaq]

Ok, you can download the beta version from here.

[Mizaq]

Sn00py, I had a question and a bug report for pine forests.

I was wondering what those logs are in pine forests, they don't fit in very well.

On tundra those pine forests seem to sometimes show a green border.

here are two images:

[cassembler]

was that like a crazy football play or something???

J/K

[Mizaq]

there, is that better?

[FrostyBoy]

righteo ok, I will fix the green lines

I didn't know whether to keep the logs or not

[Elucidus]

I don't know, the logs would probably look okay if they were blended into a set of trees. I think, anyway.

[Zylka]

looks good... though I'd halve the number of tress that line the river banks, they dot the river a bit too frequently

Otherwise, much better than the original graphics

[FrostyBoy]

yes there are a lot of tree's on the rivers, but you'll find that when the river passes through tree's it doesn't look like its floating on top as much and I think that's more than enough reason to keep them.

I will remove the logs

[Mizaq]

they show up in jungles too though.

I know I mentioned this elsewhere, but I very much like the new water colors and the coast. Diverse mountains are cool too. But really, I like the water the best.

I think maybe the snow on the mountains could be brighter, as it stands now there isn't much difference between regular mountains and snow covered, it's very subtle. That may have been what you were shooting for though. However, my opinion comes from the sect that will play only with your retro-graphics once they are finished (someone called them Zeldaish).