Help for a urban terrain

[MaisseArsouye]

I'd like to make a urban terrain based on european cities. I can make buildings, but I never created terrain graphics. So I would give pictures of cities and a specialist would make it a terrain graphic.

Anybody interested ?

 

[WildWeazel]

I'll give it a try. I've been working on a complete urban terrain set for BfNY.

 

[MaisseArsouye]

Thanks !

I'll design buildings and then give some pcx to you.

I wanted to make graphics based on old european cities.

What about this ?
Hills -> old center ( Renaissance )
Mountain -> later buildings ( XX century )
Desert-> roads
Plains -> square with stone pavement
Grassland -> square with grass
Forest -> square with trees

 

[Mirc]

Be careful not to make the roads too "perfect". All the urban terrain sets I've seen have impossible roads. The roads in a city are not straight.

 

[LMR]

they are in adelaide

in the city, at least...

 

[Plotinus]

Not in any European city, though!

Personally I find New World towns with roads laid out in grids to be impossible to navigate around. Everywhere looks the same!

 

[Yoda Power]

I suggest you use jungle for square with trees instead. The forest can be used for something else that can be found both on squares with stone pavement and sqaures with grass.

 

[conquer_dude]

Grassland and Forest together would make like a park??

 

[WildWeazel]

I agree with YP about the jungles. It leaves another spot open.
I'll start working on the base terrains, and you can send me the buildings when they're ready.

This was on the second page already! C&C is coming back to life.

 

[MaisseArsouye]

I'll give you the pictures ASAP. But it probably won't happen before june. I'm way too busy at the moment.

When you get it, you'll be free to convert it to terrain the way you want.

 

[WildWeazel]

I've started on the base terrains and have a few questions:

Do you want the stone pavement to look like cobblestones or concrete?

Would you prefer distinct borders between squares and grass, or something more gradual like the standard terrain?


I made some new roads... 2-lane or 4-lane?

 

[MaisseArsouye]

I wanted cobblestone, something really "old Europe", something completely different from existing urban terrain.

I've no time to design it at the moment. But I'll have much after june the 20th.

 

[WilliamOfOrange]

Those roads look great. I might like to use them!

 

[WildWeazel]

I almost forgot about this... MA, any news on the building graphics?

 

[MaisseArsouye]

I'm designing the basic pcx : houses, church, roads, town square,... I'll post it here ASAP.

 

[MaisseArsouye]

Here's a preview :

This is a jpg, thefile you'll receive will be a pcx !



I can change colours and size. I'll design more buildings. This is not the most important at the moment.

The question is : is this the kind of view you need ?

 

[WildWeazel]

It doesn't appear to be isometric... maybe it would be better to get a separate image of each building and then paste them all together. I can use the raw textures without them being laid out like tiles (in fact it's easier that way).

Do you use instant messaging?

 

[MaisseArsouye]

I can easily make it isometric. No problem.

I'll make some more buildings and then give you the pcx.

 

[WildWeazel]

Ok, great. If you want to give me those ground textures now, I can go ahead and start working on the base terrains. I also have a few other textures you might prefer. I'll post some previews of them later.