Eleazar's Terrain Improvements

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Re: Eleazar's Terrain Improvements

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Eleazar wrote:And here's where we stand tonight--- very close to being done.
It's very hard to judge; I still think the submerged stuff could be a bit darker, but I'm not sure.

It's looking pretty darned good, though. :D

It's especially good you and zookeeper got that concave and convex thing worked out, because that's a massive, massive improvement.
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And now waves. It looks underwhelming in a still, but live the effect is too strong.

This is basically how i think the wave animation should work, though my example is a bit crude, and needs more in between frames. But i never claimed to be a good animator.

Committed to trunk, currently concave sides only.
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Refined everything.
* The sand extends a little further into the water now (1 hex sand island were too small)
* Waves are a little less subtile.
* The submerged part is less spiky and blends better into the water.

I'm putting the DONE stamp on it. It's not perfect, but it's time for me to leave it alone.
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Refined the reef a bit and reactivated variants.

This terrain would still benefit if someone redid it carefully from scratch.
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The issue with waves on sand is that they will not especially make sense in many situations, especially if they are nice ocean-type waves.

At this point, rather than gimp the waves to make them really small, i think the solution is to create another set of identical-looking sand terrains. The difference is that the big waves would not appear on their edges. The WML is simple-- i just want to air the idea before adding a terrain, i might need to remove.
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That sounds very sensible.
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Some further improvements of the appearance of beach in corner cases, mostly by zookeeper revising macros.

I think i know how to keep the transitions off the ice (and other less visible terrains) but that will take some graphics work.
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OK, i've heard the comments that the ocean and shallow water are too hard to distinguish. It's apparently a problem for a significant number of people, so i'll get on making some sort of adjustment, at least as a stop gap.
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New ocean in SVN: darker and more strongly textured:
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Looks good. Hopefully that'll stymie the complaints.
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