My Terrain (Mine!)

[Boucman]

aaand the castle is in...

again, if I missed any commit throughout the thread, please point them to me

[doofus-01]

Thanks, Neoskel.

Boucman - I think that's it for now. The underground/evil stuff has a long way to go before it's ready.

[doofus-01]

I should stop cluttering the restricted terrain thread, so I'm posting here. The snowy encampment was on the to do list, so here it is. Or at least maybe a place-holder that could work for the first 1.9 release. The tent is in the same folder as the camp, though it needs to go into villages to be useful. I didn't touch the dirt. I included the .xcfs.

[thespaceinvader]

It looks really odd for it to have no snow on the floor at all...

[doofus-01]

That can be an embellishment, or something. We don't use different floors for winter variants anymore, it seems, so like I said, I didn't touch the dirt.

[thespaceinvader]

Ah, no worries.

I wonder whether a bit more could be added to the base of the walls, in that case.

[Eleazar]

Cool, i'll try to get this and your snowy chasm committed today.

That can be an embellishment, or something. We don't use different floors for winter variants anymore, it seems, so like I said, I didn't touch the dirt.

That's not my intent.
I got rid of a lot of custom castle floors because they didn't harmonize with the new colors, (orc castles) or because they were low quality (human castles). Most had no variants.

An embellishment still might be the best way to go here, but i'm not against a custom castle winter base tile in principle.

[Eleazar]

OK, i committed both.

The WML was much easier than i feared. They look good except for...

You used out-of-date chasm transitions as a base.

Looking at these i realized them could benefit from the recutting i had planned for the chasm. So i started on converting the chasm so it blends from side to side seamlessly with chasm walls of a different color. I'm 2/3rds of the way through -- just drop the attached in the proper folder, and use them for a base.

It will also allow you to put as much snow on the lip of the chasm as you want.

[doofus-01]

just drop the attached in the proper folder, and use them for a base.

Was there supposed to be another attachment?

I guess I'll use the chasm images from today's or tomorrow's snapshot, those should be up-to-date.

[Eleazar]

just drop the attached in the proper folder, and use them for a base.

Was there supposed to be another attachment?

I guess I'll use the chasm images from today's or tomorrow's snapshot, those should be up-to-date.

Sorry. It's attached to this post.

This is not the complete set. Images not includes will be revised soon.

[doofus-01]

I only have a trunk snapshot from a while back, so I didn't get to test the snow/regular transitions, but I think the fuzzy edges were supposed to take care of that anyways. Hopefully these work. The rim snow didn't look so flat and grey on my home computer... Well, I can't change it now.

[thespaceinvader]

Better. But the absence of the blue texturing seems to stick out to me a little. Nothing too terrible however.

[Eleazar]

I only have a trunk snapshot from a while back, so I didn't get to test the snow/regular transitions, but I think the fuzzy edges were supposed to take care of that anyways.

Fuzzy edges only work when you keep them-- most of these pieces don't feature the fuzzy edges that the regular chasm has.

Still it's works much better-- thanks. Committed.

Better. But the absence of the blue texturing seems to stick out to me a little.

Yeah. Ideally the snow on the top should match the regular snow tile.

[doofus-01]

Fuzzy edges only work when you keep them-- most of these pieces don't feature the fuzzy edges that the regular chasm has.

Well, I used the base image as a mask for the snow. Maybe the opacity got doubled when the base and snow layers were merged during export. I might be able work on this later, but I think anyone can fix it by merging the snow and chasm layers in the XCFs while preserving the mask, then exporting to PNG.

If that's not it, they must be the wrong images again.

[doofus-01]

I got distracted by the sandcastles instead, these are a trimmed-back version. The images are in the "castles" folder of the attached .tgz. The .tgz is basically the "source code".