Bonus Grasslands, Roads & Railroads

[Racc00n]

Hi everybody! My first post here

I'm currently in a Civ3 phase (again) and I decided to rework some smaller gfx mods I originally created looong time ago. I pretty much like the result so I decided to share them. Well, as long as I find out how to attach files, that is.

All files go to \Civilization III\Art\Terrain (backup the existing files)

Bonus grasslands
Several larger rocks/rock plates instead of the single small rock, making it look like... well.. rocky grassland The bonus remains visible on tiles with improvements like irrigation, roads and the like (see second preview image), and it doesn't get mixed up with other resource gfx or 'outshine' it. Tested and fits quite well with the original terrain, Sn00py's Terrain (all 4 versions), Rhye's Terrain and Pounder's Fitted Irrigations.
Like most of the bonus grassland mods it won't really work with the "show food/shields on map" option turned on, due to Firaxis' strange idea of combining both gfx into one file.
Preview on different terrains:

Spoiler :

Roads
The very first mod I created for Civ3, just after a few games played and because I didn't like the original roads. These roads here are slightly less saturated (less brown) and have a subtle 'pseudo 3D effect', which makes them look especially nice over grassland and irrigations. Fits with the original terrain, Sn00py's, Rhye's as well as Pounder's Fitted Irrigations.

Railroads
Based on Niessuh's Lightened Railroads with those nice dead ends. I added some sort of 'pseudo 3D look' here as well and made them a bit darker, so they work better with more 'contrasty' terrains like Sn00py's and especially Rhye's amongst others.

Preview of roads/railroads on different terrains and irrigations:

Spoiler :

EDIT: Reattached images.

 

[Racc00n]

Hmmm, obviously I didn't manage to attach something to the first post. Another try...

EDIT: railroad.pcx updated (removed a few glitches, see post below)

 

[Gojira54]

Welcome to CFC!

Love your TNT changes!

 

[wolf_brother]

Wow!

... I'm speechless.

 

[Racc00n]

Thanks

 

[Ozymandias]

Lovely

 

[Underpaid]

All of them are spectacular. I really like the preview for the bonus grasslands (which I am currently using )

 

[Racc00n]

I really like the preview for the bonus grasslands (which I am currently using )

Thats nice to hear

 

[Blue Monkey]

Very nice bonus graphics. I think with a few more rocks it would make a good lm grassland as well.

 

[Racc00n]

Very nice bonus graphics. I think with a few more rocks it would make a good lm grassland as well.

Thanks The time I made all these mods, I actually started to create some sort of 'cobblestone terrain' with a similar look to use it for larger urban areas. However, I never completed it, simply lacking the time.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Really like the railroads. Like you, I wish I had more time to spend modding Civ3.

 

[Racc00n]

I have uploaded an update of railroads.pcx (see second post). Niessuh's version had a few glitches, I never really noticed before: one tile with a bad connection (row 8, column 4) and several tiles with 'artifacts' from overlapping neighbor tiles.

Really like the railroads. Like you, I wish I had more time to spend modding Civ3.

I still have loads of unfinished modding work lying around on my hard drive