Any good concept art (even in other games' gfx) of ancient or medieval mines?

[Kyriakos]

It is becoming very rapidly obvious that I will need to build stuff around it, to make the water/river believable.

 

[Kyriakos]

Still looks pretty terrible.

 

[Civinator]

It is a nice graphic for a watermill building - and could replace the current watermill building in the RARR mod.

For ancient mines in my eyes the firaxis graphics with a wiped out waggon and the Vuldacon placement is the best solution. If indeed a good water connection to the watermill could be done, there would be the danger, that players could mix up that graphic with a real river tile on the map and think the water round the mill would provide an additional defense bonus for units by a river.

 

[Kyriakos]

It is a nice graphic for a watermill building - and could replace the current watermill building in the RARR mod.

For ancient mines in my eyes the firaxis graphics with a wiped out waggon and the Vuldacon placement is the best solution. If indeed a good water connection to the watermill could be done, there would be the danger, that players could mix up that graphic with a real river tile on the map and think the water round the mill would provide an additional defense bonus for units by a river.

You know what is the thing I hate the second-most?
Pixel-editing. Because it makes it pointless that I 3d modeled stuff and had them computer-calculated.
But the thing I hate the absolute most is my gfx not being recognized as superior

I will upload the file today or one of these days.
On second thought, I might just create a matching ancient fort/colony etc first.

 

[Vuldacon]

On second thought, I might just create a matching ancient fort/colony etc first.

Always Best to please yourself

 

[Kyriakos]

It's the only way to (try to) avoid the graphic being mangled by copy/pasting to an entirely incompatible palette :/

 

[Vuldacon]

Yes, some people do use different palettes but even the original TerrainBuildings.pcx palette is different so that makes it difficult to make new Graphics unless made for the specific palettes used.

 

[Kyriakos]

Actually found decent concept art for an ancient Greek fort. This must be a first

It's perfectly doable.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm...
Well, it could have been worse.
But getting the lighting to be a bit better is a challenge.

edit: will try at some monstrous resolution (eg 3000 pixels by over 2500)

 

[Vuldacon]

looks like the lighting is OK... some textures would help

 

[Kyriakos]

That's not it, though, if you look at (eg) the civ-size version windows, they are a blur and no texture will change that.

Made some lighting + resolution changes, but it's still a long way from anything I want.

 

[Civinator]

What about simply sharpen the image ?

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes, but I need to establish how to do it in Blender 4. I don't wish to have to manually edit stuff after the render
And I don't mean sharpening a rendered image in Blender (which typically produces a terrible result), but having the render be sharp enough (as were my old gfx with Blender 2.8).

 

[Kyriakos]

Pic of the new mine in an actual game

 

[Kyriakos]

I think it's a bit better now:

 

[Kyriakos]

Something like this - a bit smaller scale, two or three of the central buildings - may work better as the ancient mine.