Tolkien Style Tileset

[Mercator]

Excellent work!

You could simply make the Arctic terrain white(r) or slightly blue-ish to make it look cold (although I'm not sure if the latter would fit very well with the beige of the rest) and perhaps add some icy cracks.

If you're going to make the Arctic terrain fairly white, Tundra could be a mixture of some sort of this white and the "regular terrain" color.

About the desert, maybe the attached Civ2 terrains (left by MicroProse, right by Harlan Thompson) are enough inspiration to get you started...

( Somehow, attaching an image doesn't seem to work )

[Mercator]

Here it is...

[maubp]

Thanks for digging out those images Mercator.

I have done some pencil sketches of dunes that look reasonable. This is my first attempt to turn them into bitmaps, and I'm not that impressed with my handiwork.


Oh, and before anyone asks, my pencil drawings do join up the dunes - a bit like the sprawling dune by Harlan Thompson for Civ 2 - while the bitmap version below is rather primative.

I probably won't have time to do anything else on this till the new year now...

[maubp]

You could simply make the Arctic terrain white(r) or slightly blue-ish to make it look cold (although I'm not sure if the latter would fit very well with the beige of the rest) and perhaps add some icy cracks.

As a short term measure, along these lines, I decided to use the existing arctic terrain from trident/bigtrident with the borders changed from green to the dull yellow/brown I'm using.

I actually did this a while back, but didn't post here.

Its usable, but I'm not satisifed with this yet. Mainly because its using whites and greys, rather than browns:-

[St Leo]

You might enjoy my two-colour compression of The Discworld Mapp. It looks remarkably Tolkienesque.

[CapTVK]

i experimented a bit with your artic sample and tried different colours and edges.

I'm not happy with the ice in general but I'll have to experiment a bit for something different. Anyone else in the meantime?

[maubp]

OK, as promised before Christmas, an update to the deserts:

[maubp]

So far its just the one desert tile - joining them up should not be too hard, just time consuming.

Still to do:

Jungle, for which I need to draw some more trees - probably palm tree style.

Swamp, I plan to use rushes and small lakes.

I'm not happy with the Arctic (as shown earlier in the thread) yet.

I need ideas for Tundra...

[maubp]

Swamp, I plan to use rushes and small lakes.

Well so far just the rushes, and just the single tile, but seems to look OK.

This screenshot also includes a city and a few units - as discussed earlier they are in colour (for the time being at least).

Now - How can I change the colour of font used for the city names & production? As you can see, the current white text does not show up very well.

The .tileset file has entrys that seem to control font size...

[LarryN]

What about ths project?
It's alive?

[maubp]

Well Larry - I haven't touched it for a while. Holidays, work, playing Civ III, etc...

I would really like to get the terrain "finished" (i.e. at least one tile for each type) but I'm still stumped for how to draw tundra and arctic. Its not perfect but leaving the arctic white will do as a stop gap measure. There is also the Jungle still to do but I don't think that will be too bad once I get round to it.

Any ideas anyone?

[maubp]

I'm still looking for suggestions on how to do tundra (or the arctic) tiles. And I still want to know how to change the colour of the city text from white.

But today's work was a first attemt at doing the jungle. This is a sinlge tile only (so no fancy joining up bits) and I think its adequate. I never did like the use of palm trees for Jungle in the default trident tileset, but I must admit its difficult to draw trees and make the different from the jungle ones...

Suggestions please...

[maubp]

Jungle:

[LarryN]

It's looks very nice. But mayby more palms less normal trees?

[CapTVK]

The palm trees are a nice touch but the square looks a bit like a desert oasis now. We need more jungle. Make the normal trees a bit higher and add some vines hanging from the trees.