PROJECT/DESIGN: Altered Tilesets

[Ekmek]

How'd you make it? you have a bump program or was this free hand?

[Locutus]

I agree with Maq, it works best for deepsea. And it will only really work if we can indeed reinstate the hiding of underwater terrain by tech.

E,
It's based on regular hills, as The Big Mc stated in his post before yours.

[Ekmek]

I guess he just changed the pallete or guessed the color scheme..

[The Big Mc]

I did it in Paint shop pros colour balancing feature

And to answer all of you the shallow hill will go in the finished altered tile file but will be shorted out in constants.txt so any moder can activate it again pretty easily.

[SMIFFGIG]

agree with Maq, it works best for deepsea. And it will only really work if we can indeed reinstate the hiding of underwater terrain by tech

i thought (REALLY HOPING) this was one of the first goals of the source code project anyway ??

P.S. I think irrigation should be a step before Farming

[Ekmek]

Big MC do you have a list of which TGAs are which terrain or you doing extraction one at a time? Do you know which ones are used and which arent?

[The Big Mc]

errr the only tiles i intergrated into tile file so far are the lava rifts and trenches. boht are based on the numbering system for rifts.

[The Big Mc]

I looked into dark smokers (Hydrothermal vents) today it appears that we can’t really model them in ctp this is because research has shown that a thermal vent is very small about two meters across but several times that in height. The graphic which would have to be made would be on the same size of a ctp1 tree which previous attempts have proven to look superimposed because of the size

[SMIFFGIG]

yes but big mc, forests arent modeled as single trees are they

Hydrothermal vents are located close together
I had a webpage somewhere, but i would suggest google

They do also hold VAST amounts of precious metal which are being looked into now, for a way of mining them.
One of which i remember of interest is large amounts of the rare metal Cobalt (although i have no idea of what this metal is used for)

[Ekmek]

Maybe it'll be better as good (vents that is, and it could be animated!)

Another recommendation are those ore fields, there is a lot of alloys laying on the floor, just hard to go that deep to get them

[The Big Mc]

The problem is that terrain that appears on ctp 2 is large if it’s over a mile across then it is in. as I have already pointed out I tried to get them graphically to work the over day but they came out as matches. If I made them bigger they would look like the volcanoes. So as you can see were stuck between rocks and a hard place.

[The Big Mc]

Just finished a preview of underwater mountains. There the hardest terrain I have done because you have to make a negative before you can make the mountains. The image on screen is not finished as there is only one tile making the image not the many I really need

I will have another look into thermal vents but now I need a coder so volunteers please.

[SMIFFGIG]

looking good again

im not sure how ur making the mountains but i assume your using the CTP2 land mountains as a base

An idea, use the CTP1 mountains too, to add variation (although i would like the see the CTP1 mountains implemented along with the current CTP2 mountains too)

[The Big Mc]

At the moment I am using the desert mountains the idea is that really deep areas have the old ctp style mountain this copys the larger mountains found deep on the sea floor

I am still not sure how they look I think when there fully implemented they will look good

[Gilgamensch]

Did you remove the picture, can't see it anymore

But anyway: You might want to round a bit the top, for water it is to rough, me thinks.......