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Re: Terrain

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Thanks a lot. The key is to make it really out of crude stones. That should give some stonehenge impression. Otherwise it would give the future impression.
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This is a screen-shot of your files. I can't really see this being a stonehenge or being related to anything I was doing here. I'm not saying there's nothing to it, but I think any further discussion should not go in this thread. Thanks.
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btw, i think the animated water looks good, but i dont like "big" interactions with shore, as with the "water---sand" interaction.

looks in combination with other shore elements not optimal.
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I didn't have anything to do with the animated water, I think you meant to post that somewhere else.

If you do have a criticism, it would be better to post a screen-shot. I doubt Eleazar can do much with what you wrote.
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doofus-01 wrote: If you do have a criticism, it would be better to post a screen-shot. I doubt Eleazar can do much with what you wrote.
the water-sand transitions dont look always good.
(i can imagine that they might look good on a shoreline consisting of sand only)

it is the animation which makes it look "weird" in combination with other transitions, since these are not animated. (therefore a non animated screenshot wouldnt describe the "problem" very well)

if this isnt clear then you should probably take a look for yourself on for example conquest crusades map and watch the shores

if this isnt the right place then a mod can move it to the right place
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Doofus: for future you might consider renaming the thread to "doofus-01 terrain" or something like this. The current name does imply it's a generic terrain thread. :wink:
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Re: Terrain

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This is the transitions for the wooden floor. I didn't realize how compressed the JPEG was at the time I saved it, but it still gives an idea.

EDIT:Changed thread title.
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Re: My Terrain (Mine!)

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The square edges are great. I assume you're already looking into some of the glitches with snow+floor+other terrain combinations?
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Re: My Terrain (Mine!)

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Looks good! I like how the edges are hard on the long borders with grass, but with a little grass leaking over at the corners--kinda like a board lying on the ground with weeds starting to climb up over it in places.
The cobbles leaking up over it……don't make quite so much sense to me. I guess it works if you think of it as the board rotting away in places, but it still looks weird, IMO. Same goes for the mountains, though I really have no idea how you'd get a convincing transition with the scale of the two tiles so completely different, and I imagine it would look more natural if the board were completely surrounded with mountain tiles, or whatever.
On the flip side, the board having a hard edge along the snow looks off to me, as well. I'd think the snow would blow up onto the wood a little?
And, as Sangel said, I'm sure you're well aware of the little weird thingy going on with the snow where some of it is up on the board but the rest isn't.
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Most of the transition glitches, such as the snow, should be fixable with terrain-graphics WML, but it would take someone with a more "big picture" view of where it all fits (and better understanding of the code). I could simply raise the layers until is stops happening, but that's not a real fix. Eventually, we will hit layer zero.
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Re: My Terrain (Mine!)

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Thanks Doofus,

Committed the wood floor transitions. There are still some glitches, but not so bad as in the screenshot.
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I've started a wooden ... fort, I guess. Maybe it can be an outlaw castle.

It's lacking transitions, because I'm still working the base out. If anyone has opinions on the general idea, now's the time to say something. :)
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doofus-01 wrote:If anyone has opinions on the general idea, now's the time to say something.
It's nice and all, but I just don't see it fitting into the general Wesnoth artchitecture...

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That one highlights the distortions in Wesnoth scale to the point where I would practically never want to use it.
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This could make sense as an alternate encampment keep, i.e. the basic idea of a taller roofed wooden fort.

But the color and more importantly the scale of the wooden planks contrasts very badly with the walls. I think you need to make a new surface from scratch. It is also a bit awkward that the sides of the planks don't align with any of the walls
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