Ares de Borg's Terrain Pack II: Open Beta! 2016-10-05

[Gazmeister]

Looks great, downloading it.

 

[Balthasar]

That's absolutely beautiful, Ares, especially the grassland. Downloading..

 

[darski]

I'm having trouble finding the bonus grassland. the tree disappears into the grassland. I do get a couple of red dots if I look very carefully.

also... the grid lines seem to disappear except for in the water tiles. Ok, I'm old and my eyes aren't so great but can these things be made more clear for us visually challenged?

 

[Blue Monkey]

The preview of the Lm terrains has my mouth watering.

If you are looking for a little color variation for the scrub/desert: sage (salvia apiana) might do.
It's a light grey - often with purplish undertones. The flowers add a very pale violet to it in the spring. Grows everywhere from high desert through chaparral to mountains. Used in xeriscaping so some of the pictures aren't in its native habitat.

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[tom2050]

Yea, this is definitely, hands down, going to be, without a doubt, the best terrain, by far, in the history of Civilization 3; if it isn't already.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Thanks for the comments.

@darsky: I'm sorry if you have any troubles. The trees are meant to blend in, maybe the contrast of your screen could be increased a little? And I'm not sure what you mean by grid lines - in the editor?

@Blue Monkey: Good idea, since the LM Desert isn't finished yet, there's room for improvement.

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe the trees in the irrigation can be changed a bit? Imo they look lifeless.

As i have said before i love the terrain, apart from the irrigation

 

[tom2050]

You don't like the irrigation...? It looks just like farmers fields and crops (I think I even saw a crop circle in one of them). Almost photo-realistic.

 

[Kyriakos]

They cover my nice cities

 

[darski]

Thanks for the comments.

@darsky: I'm sorry if you have any troubles. The trees are meant to blend in, maybe the contrast of your screen could be increased a little? And I'm not sure what you mean by grid lines - in the editor?

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the grid lines are those enabled by Control G. they divide the playing field into squares. The colour seems to be a perfect match for the greens.

I am enjoying playing this set - it just requires me to pay closer attention to my Terrain information windows.

 

[Ares de Borg]

They cover my nice cities

Because they aren't set correctly on the pcx grid, as I told you.

 

[Balthasar]

Because they aren't set correctly on the pcx grid, as I told you.

Well, we could fix that, but I've never seen a reliable template for where they're supposed to have open area.

 

[Ares de Borg]

@Kyriakos: I'll do that for one set and post it here... setting the cities correctly in the pcx so that we can use it as template, ok?

 

[Blue Monkey]

@Kyriakos: I'll do that for one set and post it here... setting the cities correctly in the pcx so that we can use it as template, ok?

That would be worth a thread in the tutorials forum.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Well, we could fix that, but I've never seen a reliable template for where they're supposed to have open area.

The irrigation is all right, it's the cities that need some movement.

 

[Kyriakos]

I was half-joking, although i agree it would look better if they are moved a bit

 

[Balthasar]

Y'know, I figured out some time ago that cities can be as tall as they want to be (as long as the pcx is designed correctly - see my manhattan and super scenario 'cities' for examples), so moving a city up on a tile might solve an overlap problem, even for "big" cities...

 

[Pounder]

Goldfool posted City Templates.

If you draw a 45 degree line up to the left and a 45 degree line up to the right, both originating from the bottom of the diamond, the city can occupy anything north of those two lines without irrigation overlapping the SE and SW sides of the city. The city overlaps anything to the North, which is not a problem.

It would be so much easier to use a diagram, I made one but the site presently not allowing uploads.

 

[Blue Monkey]

The explanation seems simple enough - at least for a start.

 

[Ares de Borg]

The problem with Kyriakos' cities is that he's using a 752x570 template, so this one won't work.