Different Space Terrain

sepamu92 · Jul 11, 2009

Hello all. I know there already are a few space terrain mods out there, but they didn't work the way I wanted them to, so I made this one. Unlike most other space mods, the "Space" terrain isn't represented by ocean. Instead, all main terrain is land. Feel free to pick this apart however you wish, since I've made it from basically anything I could find.

Spoiler Terrain :

Screenshots!

Spoiler A solar system with a blue star :

Spoiler A neutron star, a red giant, and a pulsar (graphics determined by tnt.pcx) :

Spoiler Some nebulae, and a black hole :

Spoiler My "dark matter" (water squares); turn up your brightness if it's hard to see :

Here it is: Download!

Please report any bugs you find. Enjoy

tom2050 · Jul 11, 2009

It looks terrific! Having the space terrain being represented on land, should bring a whole new dimension to the space-faring aspect of Civ3. I will be looking forward to see what this brings!

Tom

Vuldacon · Jul 11, 2009

sepamu92... That is Very Good Space Terrain you put together there and especially Good that it uses Land. It will allow for some Great New Games :goodjob:

Balthasar · Jul 11, 2009

As both a connoisseur of exotic terrains, and fan of space mods, I'm impressed.

Deth McBones · Jul 11, 2009

Very interesting stuff here. I like the stars a lot, and the idea of lost space probes is especially cool.

Huayna Capac357 · Jul 11, 2009

These are astounding! :eek:

Epic awesome. Very nice job. Very original.

Blue Monkey · Jul 11, 2009

If you haven't discovered it already, you will find that LM cannot be placed on LM. If it becomes possible to terraform an Ice Planet you'll find it has melted completely into empty space.

with that caveat, it looks like a very interesting concept.

Huayna Capac357 · Jul 11, 2009

I got all the features to work via editor. Maybe I might make a Space Mod

Blue Monkey · Jul 11, 2009

Blue Monkey said:
If you haven't discovered it already, you will find that LM cannot be placed on LM.

Huayna Capac357 said:
I got all the features to work via editor. Maybe I might make a Space Mod

If you've discovered a way to place LM on LM that's a major breakthrough! Please start a thread describing your technique. Be sure to include a set of 3 pictures showing (1) The base LM terrain (2) the base terrain with LM terrain overlayed (3) the base LM terrain exposed after the overlayed LM terrain has been removed by worker action.

sepamu92 · Jul 11, 2009

Thanks very much for the kind words everyone

Blue Monkey said:
If you haven't discovered it already, you will find that LM cannot be placed on LM. If it becomes possible to terraform an Ice Planet you'll find it has melted completely into empty space.

Really? I didn't think so... If I place LM plains on a plot, then LM forest over it, and it's cut down, doesn't it turn into LM plains?

Huayna Capac357 said:
I got all the features to work via editor. Maybe I might make a Space Mod

Please do! The more the better :goodjob:

Blue Monkey · Jul 12, 2009

sepamu92 said:
Really? I didn't think so... If I place LM plains on a plot, then LM forest over it, and it's cut down, doesn't it turn into LM plains?

If you don't want to take the time to do a little forum search on all the prior discussions, some of which I've been involved in, or don't trust what is said there, then try it yourself. Maybe we've all overlooked something and you will open up new modding possibilities for all of us. Seriously.

sepamu92 · Jul 12, 2009

Blue Monkey said:
If you don't want to take the time to do a little forum search on all the prior discussions, some of which I've been involved in, or don't trust what is said there, then try it yourself. Maybe we've all overlooked something and you will open up new modding possibilities for all of us. Seriously.

I didn't disbelieve you, I was asking for clarification. But never mind. I did a quick test, and apparently when you place LM plains, then LM forests over it, and your worker clears forest, it leaves a non-LM plains. And planting forest on that just gives non-LM forest. But this doesn't make a difference anyways since LM and non-LM plains look the same in this mod. I'll change the first post. Thanks for the heads-up Blue Monkey!

Huayna Capac357 · Jul 12, 2009

Blue Monkey said:
If you've discovered a way to place LM on LM that's a major breakthrough! Please start a thread describing your technique. Be sure to include a set of 3 pictures showing (1) The base LM terrain (2) the base terrain with LM terrain overlayed (3) the base LM terrain exposed after the overlayed LM terrain has been removed by worker action.

I just put some LM Plains and put LM Forest over it and it worked :dunno:

Virote_Considon · Jul 12, 2009

No, what he's saying is that if in game (not in the editor, but the actual game), if you use the worker actions plant or chop forest, the new terrain will not be LM.

Great work on the terrain, by the way! :goodjob:

Blue Monkey · Jul 12, 2009

Huayna Capac357 said:
I just put some LM Plains and put LM Forest over it and it worked

If you think that I'm mistaken, demonstrate it, as I suggested. Give us a before & after screenshot from the game of a worker terraforming the ice planet (lm forest) back to terran planet (lm plains).

Huayna Capac357 · Jul 13, 2009

Oh, I haven't tested it in game.

wolf_brother · Jul 16, 2009

Regardless of our already know problems with LM terrain, this is beautiful, and an interesting concept that I've been struggling with myself for some time. It'll be good to see where this thread goes.

Blue Monkey · Jul 17, 2009

wolf_brother said:
Regardless of our already know problems with LM terrain, this is beautiful, and an interesting concept that I've been struggling with myself for some time. It'll be good to see where this thread goes.

I agree completely! I love seeing new terrain concepts. My only issue was keeping clear what's hard-coded vs. what's adaptable.

da3dalus · Jul 21, 2009

Brilliant!!!! I found the other space terrains to be kind of rediculous (Sorry to their creators) because the "land" just ends and people would presumably fall off the edge of the planet.

I think your concept is much more realistic and condusive to a space colonization style game. I'd LOVE to see a mod made for this, complete with space ships to replace all of the unit types in game. This really opens up a whole new realm of possibilities, I may give it a go myself if I find time.

Again, bloody brilliant work sepamu92!

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