Western US (Old West) Map & Terrain

[Balthasar]

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OLD WEST MAP VERSION 2
Feb 10, 1011

This update extends the map east, including St. Louis, New Orleans
a navigable Mississippi River
and south including Chihuahua

download it >here<
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Screenshots:
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Northern California

Southern California

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[Balthasar]

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

Womak (base terrain) especially mountains
Ares De Borg (base terrain) especially desert, plains, LM Hills, mountains

Blue Monkey's bonus Grassland Wildflowers

Goldfool's Canyon Flood Plains

Pounder's Western Frontier Towns

The rivers are Pounder's wider rivers but I've darkened them a little I think..

Version 2:

Pounder's Bayou Marsh

If you see something you made in here, remind me so that I can credit you; I can't remember everything I do...

All of these were modified for this terrain, so I recommend that you check out these creators' works in their original glory.

 

[Balthasar]

Reserved another one

 

[Mithadan]

Yee haw, looks great!

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Awesome. Nothing more to say.

 

[Meteor Man]

Balthasar, this looks really, really, nice. Just look at how much detail this thing depicts!

Like the Las Vegas screenshot.

 

[General 666]

This is a cool collection of Graphic Artwork ! All previews are looking like they are full of custom graphic.
It will help me a lot making a better Wild West Mod. Will take me a while sorting out.

Bye
General 666

 

[Blue Monkey]

Thanks for choosing to use the Wildflower bonus graphics.

I like the look of the grassland texture on the plains. But shouldn't the center of the tiles be filled in as well?

 

[Balthasar]

Actually the center is filled in, it's the edges that were deliberately left bare, so that they would blend better with the mountains and hills, under which I put that texture so that they would blend in with the deserts without too much grass showing. I could put the yellow grass texture on every one of those tiles, but then the mountains wouldn't look right in the northwest. It took me about a week to figure all of that out, so thanks for noticing. The bonus wildflowers were perfect for the west coast, although they look good everywhere...

 

[Blue Monkey]

You've still got a plaid regularity. Unfortunately, it makes it look like each prairie dog has an identical appetite.

 

[Balthasar]

Okay then, how about this grassier alternative:

See next post.

 

[Balthasar]

Update to file August 8, 09:

Replaced terrain with grassier terrain, fixed (I hope) the Cavalry forts, and added Pounder's Western Cities. All this can now be seen in the first picture in the first post.

 

[General 666]

Looks great. What have you changed on the Forts ? I have to compare the files with each other.

 

[Balthasar]

Top picture: Fort Laramie with floor; Bottom picture: Ft. Defiant, with no floor.

Here's a shot of Fort Boise on the Snake river

 

[Balthasar]

Maybe it would just be easier to post the file for you to look at:



View attachment rROMAN.PCX

I haven't put them separately into the downloads database because I'm having trouble with bleed-over (a tiny bit of an adjoining fort in the graphic). Until I'm sure I have that licked I don't want to give it to noobs.

 

[General 666]

They are great. I like the tents and horses that you have included.
They will make good Outposts in the wilderness.

 

[AncientOne]

Wonderful work. I think the greatest work of it all is the map itself. Thank you!

 

[Jaresh-Inyo]

Nice, I can see myself killing every buffalo in the central Great Plains area.

Feels good to be an American.

 

[Balthasar]

Sorry, the Buffalo is a resource. Can't kill 'em. Feel free to make us a "Buffalo" unit. Until then, they'll just disappear at an alarming rate, if you organize your resources correctly.

 

[Balthasar]

I've been playing with the mine, to try to find one that fits this terrain. First, I put some mines around Cheyenne:

Then I tested some ideas:

Spoiler :

On the top, I used the fences from Pounder's western town. Advantage: looks great, doesn't cover resources. Disadvantage: doesn't work at all with hills, mountains.

Just below that, I replaced the mine with one of Pounders buildings as a barn, offset so as to minimally conflict with resources, roads. Advantage: all-terrain. Disadvantage: doesn't go well with Indian villages.

At the bottom, I tried using trees instead. Advantage: mine disappears entirely; adds variety to terrain. Disadvantage: really awkward on desert terrain; hard to tell which tiles are mined.

More testing is needed...

I'm also working on another version of this map, that pushes everything west a little, and adds the Mississippi along the right edge. I'd love to be able to use the steamboat..

Here's a teaser:



Putting the Mississippi there will necessarily truncate the plains, losing most of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Dakota, but that could be a good thing for game play...