Improved Graphics for CIV
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ripple01
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I agree that it might not look quite as realistic, but it is very easy to differentiate between the two at a glance. I, personally, am willing to sacrifice some realism for functionality in this case, but it is your mod, so it is ultimately your call. But that would work for my purposes...
Cheers,
ripple01
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ripple01
ruff_hi
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can you tone down the white caps on the ocean? Technically, the shallower the water, the more white caps. Is that possible?
Zerver
CIV4 Unit-Maker
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I love this mod and I want to DL it, but FileFront says me about problems with downloading
I love this mod and I want to DL it, but FileFront says me about problems with downloading
Lord Tirian
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Looking at the ocean, I think it looks too busy and a bit to much like random noise, especially larger areas.
Anhu's alternate watertexture is, I think, a bit closer to the Colonization effect and looks less distracting, mainly because it looks a bit more like the ridges of waves - though I like your ocean colours more.
I don't know what you think of it, Chuggi, but I think there's still room for improvement, water-wise.
Anyway, great mod, I like it a lot!
Cheers, LT.
Anhu's alternate watertexture is, I think, a bit closer to the Colonization effect and looks less distracting, mainly because it looks a bit more like the ridges of waves - though I like your ocean colours more.
I don't know what you think of it, Chuggi, but I think there's still room for improvement, water-wise.
Anyway, great mod, I like it a lot!
Cheers, LT.
My post here,
I love this mod and I want to DL it, but FileFront says me about problems with downloading
I see we have somebody else here from our little town in the middle of nowhere!
Anyway, what you should do is torture the download icon until it finally lets you download it. Just press "download" until you get it, it worked for me more than once.
Udachi!
It looks good. I personally, didn't mind about the water, but my father was complaining... So, it is good you did it!
What do you mean? less ice, or not such a bright white colour?
My post here,
I love this mod and I want to DL it, but FileFront says me about problems with downloading
I would upload it here,
but CivFanatics only allows small 10MB uploads (this mod is 40MB), the filefront link works most of the time, for most countries I think. Before Colonization was released, the ocean was based off Anhu's and looked like this:
But with Anhu's original I thought that was really distracting.
Which is why I toned it down so much in the screenshot.
GeoModder
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I think he means not such a bright white colour.
Can't speak of my own experience yet, I'm a bit waiting until you finalize this.
No, the ice is almost exactly the same as vanilla in the current download, I think.
Also, I've found another bug, this time with the grid textures. So if you hit the grid button (
) above the minimap it could cause a CTD. I'm going to get a new version up with a fix for it soon.
Also, I've found another bug, this time with the grid textures. So if you hit the grid button (
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Also, I've found another bug, this time with the grid textures. So if you hit the grid button () above the minimap it could cause a CTD. I'm going to get a new version up with a fix for it soon.
Ah, probably no textures for the terrain+grid feature for at least one terrain type.
Nope, if that was it then it would just use the default grid textures. 
I managed to fix it by making all the grid textures from scratch, I think it was something to do with the textures being different, like the grass in the grid texture was a lot brighter than the grass in the blend file, etc.
The grid feature wasn't created very well by Firaxis, instead of using a grid overlay (which would be the sensible thing to do) they require that you have doubles of every terrain texture, just one with a grid painted on it.
I managed to fix it by making all the grid textures from scratch, I think it was something to do with the textures being different, like the grass in the grid texture was a lot brighter than the grass in the blend file, etc.
The grid feature wasn't created very well by Firaxis, instead of using a grid overlay (which would be the sensible thing to do) they require that you have doubles of every terrain texture, just one with a grid painted on it.
Lord Tirian
Erratic Poster
Oh well, different taste, I guess! But since it's not hard to change it to anhu's water.dds, I have no problems with that! Just keep the rest coming!But with Anhu's original I thought that was really distracting.
EDIT: By the way, do you still have the water.dds from the toned-down screenshot somewhere? I like it!
Cheers, LT.
ruff_hi
Live 4ever! Or die trying
Let me try and illustrate what I mean. First off, let me tell you a secret ... "I suck big time at graphics". If it doesn't have a straight line and it isn't a solid color - then I am in all sorts of trouble.
Anyhoo - I took your aztec man-o-war into GIMP and zoomed in on the ocean. There are lots of blue shades there. To me, when you zoom out (ie see it in game) the lighter blue pixels appear as white-tops (froth kicked up by the wind or the top of waves). Waves are much more common when the water is shallow (ie near the coast) than they are in deep water (ie ocean).
So, I tried to select some of the white pixels and convert them to the darker blue pixel colors - thus reducing the mixture of pixel shades within the ocean. I was trying to make the picture mix of colors more uniform and have less detail. It didn't turn out too good - the color I got when I swapped the lighter pixels to darker pixels was actually too dark.
I'm not sure if it's possible to do what you mean.
There's three water/ocean textures, one is the coast colour, one is the ocean colour, and the third is the overlay texture, which has the waves. So if I removed the white on the overlay then it would remove it on the ocean squares and the coast squares.
However it may just be possible to do it by darkening the alpha channel in the ocean texture, so I'll try this and post the results.
EDIT: Nope, the alpha channel is just used to blend the ocean into the coast.
I usually overwrite files, but it may be still on my old computer so I'll have a look after I load it up.
EDIT: I found this water texture (attached) I'm not sure if it's exactly the same as the one in the other screenshot.
There's three water/ocean textures, one is the coast colour, one is the ocean colour, and the third is the overlay texture, which has the waves. So if I removed the white on the overlay then it would remove it on the ocean squares and the coast squares.
However it may just be possible to do it by darkening the alpha channel in the ocean texture, so I'll try this and post the results.
EDIT: Nope, the alpha channel is just used to blend the ocean into the coast.
Lord Tirian said:
I usually overwrite files, but it may be still on my old computer so I'll have a look after I load it up.
EDIT: I found this water texture (attached) I'm not sure if it's exactly the same as the one in the other screenshot.
