Altered Irrigation

GIDustin · Mar 16, 2003

In a mod I am making, you are allowed to irrigate tundra since it sucks otherwise. My problem was that i was using snoopy's extra green mod, and bright green irrigation on tundra looked weird. So I made a few changes. A screenshot is below.

Details:

Grassland : Same as one supplied in Snoopy's extra green
Desert : Used the Plains irrigation from Snoopy's extra green
Plains : Darkened the Plains irrigation from Snoopy's extra green
Tundra : B&W version of the Grassland from Snoopy's extra green

The zip contains all 4 irrigation files. I posted on request from a friend.

GIDustin

NOTE: There is now more than one version of the irrigation. All downloads follow:

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Download all 4 changes

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Yoda Power's Tundra My New Desert

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My New Tundra 1

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My New Tundra 2

kring · Mar 16, 2003

That looks good, the irrigation looks the way I have been looking; I will download it to my Civ 3 cmputer.

Yoda Power · Mar 17, 2003

nice, but what kind a field is white?

GIDustin · Mar 17, 2003

Originally posted by Yoda Power
nice, but what kind a field is white?

a snow covered one

GIDustin

pdescobar · Mar 17, 2003

Looks good GIDustin :goodjob:

I, personally, would lighten or make yellower the desert irrigation a bit to give it even more contrast with the plains, but I think overall it's an improvement.

And to answer yoda, a field covered in snow

Sometimes sacrificing realism for gameplay is a good thing

warpstorm · Mar 17, 2003

A better question is what field is gray? A better approach might be to 'dust' the fields with snow.

Stormbringer · Mar 17, 2003

yeah, use the brown one and dust it with white

Yoda Power · Mar 17, 2003

like it or not, i made my own contribution

GIDustin · Mar 17, 2003

I will see what I can do about the desert one. Adding more yellow may make it look better.

As for tundra, I can mess with graphics to a certain extent, but I cannot "lightly" cover a field in snow. I looked at yours yoda, but I only got to see it in PSP. I will put it in a game and see how it looks on a map. Maybe a little bit more snow, but otherwise it looks ok.

GIDustin

GIDustin · Mar 17, 2003

I made the desert a little more yellow, and added 11% contrast. I also threw in Yoda's tundra so we can see what it looks like. I will not post my new desert until I get it just right (which means I need feedback

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GIDustin

warpstorm · Mar 17, 2003

Much better!

COAtlantis1745 · Mar 17, 2003

There is really no way I know of to irrigate let alone farm frozen tundra/permafrost, aside from perhaps tapping some geothermal elements. It would be nice for the next version of Civ if they would allow unique terraforming capabilities that will allow the farming of this terrain type at some point.

Until then, I simply do not allow cities or terrain improvements on tundra other than the occasional colony for say walrus ivory, seal pelting, etc. Just some ideas. . .

pdescobar · Mar 17, 2003

The new tundra looks good (although I didn't mind the original

) and I like the added contrast between desert and plains irrigation. The desert could still be a bit better, but I'm not sure how. Perhaps somewhat less yellow and more pale as right now it's pretty close to the unimproved plains color. Of course, if you make it paler you have to keep enough contrast with the bare desert so that it's still easy to see... :crazyeye:

Anyhow, keep up the good work. I like your new version more than your old version and that more than the original snoopy colors, so you're definitely improving things

GIDustin · Mar 17, 2003

Originally posted by COAtlantis1745
Until then, I simply do not allow cities or terrain improvements on tundra other than the occasional colony for say walrus ivory, seal pelting, etc. Just some ideas. . .

That would work, except in maps where 95% of a continent is tundra, and a computer opponent starts there, and in 1000 AD you find them still wandering with their settler and then you have to start again so that the game will be a challenge. Granted this doesnt happen often, it does/will happen.

If only you could specify how much of each terrain will appear on your map. Even Wet Warm maps have some rather large spots of tundra.

You are right though, that you really cannot farm/irrigate tundra, but I am willing to sacrifice realism for better gameplay.

GIDustin

GIDustin · Mar 18, 2003

Here is the new desert from the second screenshot.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/MyIrrigation3.zip

GIDustin

GIDustin · Mar 19, 2003

ok instead of altering in PSP, I took it into Photoshop and came up with 2 more tundras.

GIDustin

GIDustin · Mar 19, 2003

and the second

warpstorm · Mar 19, 2003

Excellent, that's pretty much what I was thinking of when I said 'dust it with snow'.

GIDustin · Mar 19, 2003

First Screenshot File:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/irrigation_tundra_plains.zip

Second Screenshot File:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/irrigation_tundra_grassland.zip

Since I need this file for my mod, I will keep toying with things until I get what I want, and post all my mishaps here

GIDustin

Ville · Mar 20, 2003

Awesome work

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