Suggestion for new type of fortress graphics

[aaglo]

As we all should know by now, when building fortresses side-by-side, (diagonally in your monitor), the enemy units cannot go through to the other side. And when you build them in corner-by-corner (vertically and horizontally in your monitor), the enemy units can go through to the other side.

Now I tried to make a try-out of a fortress that graphically shows these 'passable holes' and 'unpassable walls'. Please, tell me what do you think about this.

Here is a sample of the terrainbuildings.pcx. I've changed only the second fortress (medieval). I know, it's not that great, but just to get the idea.

[aaglo]

Here is a sample picture of the new type of fortress I'm talking about.

It looks pretty odd, but who cares..

[Willem]

A little big and clunky for my particular taste, but nice job anyway.

[badams52]

The only negative I can think of is that the fortress will completely cover the roads. better hope you build all your roads before fortresses.

[aaglo]

Oh, so it does cover the roads... well - the 'wall' could be replaced with pieces of wall. or make the fortress look like the city walls in the city wiev screen. A huge octagonal wall. On monday I'll show you what I mean.

[The Mad Monk]

You can 'see' the presence and absence of roads in a given tile by the roads in the tiles around it, so I don't think it's a problem unless you intend to carpet the land with fortresses. I wouldn't change a thing.

Good job, aaglo!

[kring]

Looks good. Did you change them by era?

I don't have time at the moment, but I will download it later.

[Amesjustin]

I like it!

[aaglo]

Ok, Here's something I did last weekend.

The original idea I had doesn't seem to work very well, when you put the fortress next to a river. The river goes allways on top of the fortress... Like this. (so, this is a failure ).

[aaglo]

So what I did next was to just shrink the fortress a bit, and make something interesting to the middle of it. I think this looks pretty good. For a medieval fortress.

[aaglo]

And yet something had annoyed me in the fortresses of the game: the modern times fortress. It just doesn't look cool (no offense, firaxians ). So I made my own version of it. Not necessarily better, but different.

[aaglo]

Bah! I hit the wrong button... Here's the pic...


oh... +1

[aaglo]

And finally, here's the terrainbuildings.pcx with replaced medieval and modern fortress... also the barbarian camp is changed - thanks to the person who made it.

[NeOmega]

this looks great... I like the first "cross" Idea actually, I'll probably use that idea in my mod.

[aaglo]

But if you use that cross idea, the rivers start running over your fortresses...