Graphic features and other improvements

[raystuttgart]

@Schmiddie
Thank you for reworking the ugly yellow plains texture!

Could we please not call it "ugly" ?
(I am not sure who created the old version we inherited from original TAC.)

Let us instead call it "not as awesome as the new version @Schmiddie has created now".
I just realized that we Germans really tend towards very precise long descriptions and words ...

But jokes aside, I fully agree.
I really like the graphical improvements @Schmiddie currently implements as well.

 

[devolution]

I have to correct myself, I meant "yellow prarie" (there is no plains terrain in WTP like in the original Colonization). I suppose it's time that I propose that we add it back though

 

[raystuttgart]

... there is no plains terrain in WTP like in the original Colonization.

Are you sure?
I really believe we have all Terrains the Original Colonization had - except Marsh.

I could swear that in Original Colonization there was also just one Terrain where you could get Cotton.
(I am not sure though if it was called "Plains" or "Prairie" ...)

I suppose it's time that I propose that we add it back though

So ok , what should that new Terrain be used for / what is its gameplay purpose?
I currently see no need for it - but let us brainstorm.

If we really want to add further Terrains, we should do it now.
(Then I would not have to adjust all the maps twice in short time.)

 

[ConjurerDragon]

Wasn´t it Prairie and Savannah where you could produce Cotton in the original Colonization?

 

[raystuttgart]

You guys are right, there were actually Plains (lots of Food) in Original Colonization!
(see here - it is the best Source I know.)

And there were both Marsh (a little Tobacco) and Swamp (a little Sugar) as well.
(That is why I always had "Marsh" in mind.)

Savannah I had also known for sure that is why I had readded it in RaR.

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Summary:

From the Original Colonization Terrains we still miss Marsh and Plains.
I am actually really ashamed that I had forgotten about Plains.

 

[raystuttgart]

I had already opened a thread to brainstorm about further Terrains.

 

[Schmiddie]

Hi Folks,

I have slightly amended the Trapper Hut and Camp. Has a campfire now and fits better into the terrain (this latter change might be hardly noticed - only if camp/hut will be established on a bite more rocky ground.

 

[Schmiddie]

Hi Folks,

I have finished a massive amendment of farms, plantations and crops today.

- Effects and new eye candies (chimney smoke, grinder, racks etc.) have been added
- All farms and plantations have artstyles now (however, mainly only devided Spain/Portugal and all other European countries).
- PlotLSystem has been added or adjusted for all crops which are still in the PlotLSystem (i.e. coca and cocoa needs to be added as a next step).
- Small and big farms and plantations have been adjusted so that they now have ArtStyles, i.e. some of the graphics have changed a little bit.
- Hut has been added as a standard building for small plantations.
- Graphic for working and non working improvements have been adjusted.
- Farm fields have been improved.
- Plantations and farms not use ContourGeometry and fit better to the ground - or they should, the system has its failings.

 

[raystuttgart]

Wow, this also looks cool:

 

[Schmiddie]

Yep, he did a good job when getting the unit graphic from Civ 5.

 

[Schmiddie]

Hi Folks,

I will again post pictures from the graphic development:

There is a new Master Weaver in town. Ms. Weaver left the workshop for a better job... she will hire as a milk maid...

 

[Schmiddie]

These two guys will help our colony grow - if you hire them in Africa...

 

[Raubwuerger]

Very nice ...

 

[Schmiddie]

A new household goods trader made it into the New World...

 

[Raubwuerger]

Very nice. The glasses and the hair remind me of my former boss, a studied physicist ...

 

[Schmiddie]

The Master Leather Taylor will open his shop soon...

 

[Schmiddie]

The new "Dyer" has started his business after the last one retired....

 

[raystuttgart]

The new "Dyer" has started his business after the last one retired....

Looks great.

Is the "Vanilla Weaver" graphic not used at all anymore?
Or do you plan to still use it for another Unit?

 

[Schmiddie]

The Vanilla graphic is used for the Master Tailor now

 

[Schmiddie]

The Master Confectioner will provide sweet bakery products...