Bts "DUNE WARS" {Development Thread}

[keldath]

Phoenician,

beutyfull work!

i totally agree with the mushrooms, the only problem is, that i dont have another model for a suitible trees........

maybe you can track a suitible model and color it? in the resources that ive added theres a red plant - maybe we can use this?

dont worry, i already added the 7 temples,
i also changed apollo program to "prophacy of the mahdi" as a preqeq project to the 7 temples its ok right?

by the way, dont you think that the ice should be more brownish?



Ajidica, The_J,

yap i know, i basicly tried every combination there is,
it does look nicer when i use the bwater tag,


the_j, you can use that too, its better then the work i did to color the ocean....


pheonician,
how about it? can you make 2 desert terrain that will replace the current sand sea?
it would look alot better then the current - which you can see squares on squares on squares,
one terrain is deep desert the other is bad land, its need to be bright sandi color.

have a good week guys.

 

[johny smith]

I sent keldath a merge with the WoC Lite. And put in the Final Frontier theme. I figure you guys will like it, but if you hate it let me know. Can do some more alterations to it in the future much more easily because the WoC has modular themes.

As for religions, corporations, and resources I can give those overhaul but I would like to get some more input of what things should look like.

I need some links for info on what in general would dune religions, corporations, and resources would look like.

And again if you hate the changes please let me know.

 

[keldath]

hey johny,

theres a religion list on page 2 post 24,

check it out, this is what i wanna use basically.


thanks!

 

[Phoenician]

Phoenician,

beutyfull work!

i totally agree with the mushrooms, the only problem is, that i dont have another model for a suitible trees........

maybe you can track a suitible model and color it? in the resources that ive added theres a red plant - maybe we can use this?

dont worry, i already added the 7 temples,
i also changed apollo program to "prophacy of the mahdi" as a preqeq project to the 7 temples its ok right?

by the way, dont you think that the ice should be more brownish?



Ajidica, The_J,

yap i know, i basicly tried every combination there is,
it does look nicer when i use the bwater tag,


the_j, you can use that too, its better then the work i did to color the ocean....


pheonician,
how about it? can you make 2 desert terrain that will replace the current sand sea?
it would look alot better then the current - which you can see squares on squares on squares,
one terrain is deep desert the other is bad land, its need to be bright sandi color.

have a good week guys.

If you don't like the sandy ice, then change it back to what you had before, But imo it makes the map look more desert like.
I really like the sand sea as it looks now, I completely disagree with Ajidica, I think the sand sea looks fantastic. And just use a bush to replace the mushrooms.

 

[keldath]

really? you think its fantastic?

how nice

ok then ill leave it, but perhaps you can smooth it a bit more?

its fine i like the ice,
the tundra is a really nice graphics, but, maybe you can change it shade a bit? its color is very similar to desert, might be abit confusing.

what do you think of using woc as a basis for the mod?
and the final frontier interface colors?
johny smith did a conversion of the current dune wars to woc + ff interface, it look really nice, but, i think a more sandi interface is needed, perhaps someone can help us with this.

 

[Ajidica]

We can use a modified desert to serve as the sea terrain. Currently it looks flat and too muddy. There is no open water on Dune! Why should sand look muddy?

 

[keldath]

dont worry guys,

ill made a two or three terrains sets so each can play with what he likes.


Phoenician,
what bush should i use instead of the mushrooms??

 

[Ajidica]

Mushrooms is the spice plant, right? IIRC, the closest thing to a spice plant are the tubers found near the northern lattitudes around Arakeen and Carthag. Spice is produced between an interaction between the Shai-Hulud (makers) and the little makers. I can't really explain the whole cycle as that sort of ruins the book. Best thing to do would be to use the reskinned oil that GarretSidzaka made a while ago.

 

[keldath]

humm...im using the reskinned oil as spice...

well ill try to look for some model that will be tubers.

 

[Phoenician]

I would use any bush you could find. I remember seeing a bush like thing in the resources, maybe use that and replace it with something else.

The tundra looks different from the desert terrain, I would leave it.

I tried to make the grass plains to be more desert color, but every time I tried it wouldn't blend well with the other terrain.

Leave the sand-sea alone. It looks great.

 

[Ajidica]

The sand sea just looks bleh and muddy. I'll see if I can track down some pictures of sand dunes to try and make some photo-realistic sand dunes. Currently the sand sea just looks fake.
EDIT:Then again, it really isnt that important. I can always switch the terrain later, and it doesnt effect the gameplay one way or another.

 

[johny smith]

Ok before I go crazy with this idea. I would like to know if there is any interest. I made a lot of religion icons in Rapture. And read a lot of religious stuff on symbols in the past.

Well anyway since Dune has the combined religions I was thinking of making combined real religious symbols.

Why. I thought this could be used for mods as well.

Well if the idea is hated tell me please. Here is just one I tried for Zensufism. Zen has usually black and white colors and the circle is popular. Sufism has a heart symbol very often. This is the actual size in game. So this is how it would look. But of course without the white background.

Tell me if it sucks please.

 

[Phoenician]

I prefer the Gods of Old icons. For example there's an icon that looks like water and another that looks like a moon. Very very Dune-esque.

 

[johny smith]

I may try one more thing then to make it look like Gods of Old symbols but with the newer stuff engraved in the block.

 

[johny smith]

How about something like this?

 

[keldath]

ah nice johny - this i a style i like.



dont worry guys about the terrain, ill make a few packs of terrians - everyone will get to play whatever he prefers

 

[Ajidica]

Looks nice, a tad dark though.

 

[johny smith]

Ok I have 2 different color changes for the WoC Lite theme.

I tried to brighten the theme up, but this is my first time with adjusting theme colors.

Well anyway tell me what you think if you got the WoC Lite version.


Oh and on the buttons I can work on them more. But it is good to know you like the style. I will have a whole bunch options for you guys in this style.

 

[The_J]

Phoenician,

beutyfull work!

i totally agree with the mushrooms, the only problem is, that i dont have another model for a suitible trees........

maybe you can track a suitible model and color it? in the resources that ive added theres a red plant - maybe we can use this?

I could look again at Morrowind, there are several plants in the game, maybe one fits.

Ajidica, The_J,

yap i know, i basicly tried every combination there is,
it does look nicer when i use the bwater tag,


the_j, you can use that too, its better then the work i did to color the ocean....

Thanks, would be nice .

How about something like this?

Looks nice .

 

[Phoenician]

Keldath, I have a request. I was looking at units in the latest dune wars you sent me.
Light Thopters seem to be available at late renaissance, can you make light thopters at around the same time as light hornets?

also I don't know if you made any changes in this, but when I played the older version the techs were way too cheap.