Any idea what a mine should look like?

[Kyriakos]

I had little to no luck finding presentable mines in google-search... However i still would like to create my own.
Anyone got any good pics of what they looked like? I am interested in anything from ancient times to early industrial

 

[Kyriakos]

No thoughts?

I created this smelter:

 

[BadKharma]

That smelter would be nice in the city for an industrial era Basically a mine is a shaft that leads into a hillside mountian etc. That is for hard rock mining strip mining is just ugly and ruins the landscape.

 

[wolf_brother]

Well, are you trying to make an actual mine, or just something to represent mines? In game all they do is add production to the country-side, so any building that could potentially do that is a mine

The smelter looks good. Maybe with your English city set?

 

[Colonel Tigh]

I've always liked the idea of "mines" having the graphics of a small village. That smelter is excellent, by the way.

 

[Kyriakos]

Any views about the shadow?
Perhaps it should be a bit darker/smaller, since mines end up ussually on hills and mountains.

 

[T.A JONES]

I've always liked the idea of "mines" having the graphics of a small village. That smelter is excellent, by the way.

Me to. To bad mines arn't like irrigation with many various looks about them. I think something small and not to noticable or distracting in numbers looks good. 'Soft mines' came about in this way.

THe building Varnos uses look good cuz he used a 'soft' technique that grouped in numbers has more of a symbol look of a village like plotting landmarks on a map.
Instead of tryin to make many buildings illistrate the same point, his makes the map very clean yet more detailed looking.

True civ3 terrain genius

 

[cubsfan6506]

I like the smelter.

 

[Kyriakos]

I added a small wall to avoid the tricky shadow, make it look more prominent than an ordinary house, and smoothen the link to the roads:

Better?

 

[T.A JONES]

Yep Roll it out.
Next, railroads?

 

[rifleman]

I like it, but I think it would look better if the chimney was a little thicker