Terrain Art Request - Desert Terrains

[Sgt. Groovy]

Here's one variation:

[thespaceinvader]

The lizard's cool, but for it to work, it would need to be animated. Having a lizards just sitting there on the hex doing nothing for days on end would look weird... Simple variants on the pattern in the centre without touching the edges seems like a good idea to me. Maybe put some bigger rocks on in some areas or something.

[SkeletonCrew]

The Wesnoth engine supports animated terrain, it only needs art

[thespaceinvader]

I thought that was the case... does it support animations which extend across multiple hexes? Having a little lizard scampering around the whole terrain would be awesome. Having it doing it randomly would be even more so...

But that would be a lot of work. And in this case, the hex is still the same, it just has something sitting on top of it, which doesn't take away from the 'hexes-are-all-the-same' issue i don't think.

[Sgt. Groovy]

Well the lizards do spend lot of time basking in the sun, but I guess you're right. A cactus wouldn't need to move, though.

[thespaceinvader]

Strange, i had that thought myself =D

I wasn't sure whether cacti grow on that sort of ground, though.

[Weeksy]

These dried up remains of rivers often have semi-wet mud underneath, and so have some vegetation, but it's generally fairly small vegetation.

[Rhuvaen]

Sorry this has been languishing so long - I'm back to this idea this week!

Attached are some tests of the two terrains in-game. I'm very pleased with this so far.

The first salt flats looked too white (saltflats 1). I just did a quick coloration shift / RGB channel curve adjustment job to give it a hue that matches the environment better (and distinguishes it from snow terrain more - saltflats 3). It loses some definition in the color shift, though. I'm not sure how it can be done better.

The parched ground terrain looks really good in-game, I'll adopt it immediately. I'd be really happy if somebody wanted to make variations for it.

[Eleazar]

The "parched ground" is too contrasty, but has a nice perspective.

The "salt flats" fails to lay down properly. It's looks like a surface parallel to the screen, rather than angled back at about 45 degrees.

Sorry, no examples. My development computer is waiting for a replacement part to get here.

[Eleazar]

Well, 3 years later... I think this excuses a double post.

The parched ground has a promising start, and i can say that about very few terrain that hasn't been added to mainline.

* I think the scale is too large, the pieces should be at least half as large.
* Of course it needs some variants, and transitions.

[IPS]

Rhuvaenm, try to make the parched ground as the same colour than the normal sand, that should look really good.

[zookeeper]

Rhuvaenm, try to make the parched ground as the same colour than the normal sand, that should look really good.

I doubt he will. Look at the post dates.