Improved Graphics for CIV

[ruff_hi]

I'm not sure if it's possible to do what you mean.

stupid system. Oh well, thx for trying .

 

[Lord Tirian]

EDIT: I found this water texture (attached) I'm not sure if it's exactly the same as the one in the other screenshot.

Ah, thanks! Works!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Kao'chai]

Job well done

But no servers?it annoys me a lot. can you provide another link

 

[Chuggi]

Thanks.

I'm going to upload a new version tomorrow, with the different ocean/coast, some nicer unit textures, and a couple of bug fixes.

Does anyone know a good place to upload to, that's free and doesn't delete your files? I'm using filefront atm but it seems to only work half the time, depending on the servers there.

 

[asioasioasio]

check mediafire (imo filefront and mediafire are the best file storage places) - you need to register to keep and manage files - if you don't login on the account in 60 days the files might be deleted.
The minus is that free account allows to upload files only < 100mb - wich is sometimes not enough,

http://www.mediafire.com/

 

[Chuggi]

Thanks asio, I registered at mediafire.

 

[Headlock]

VERY VERY nice work. Perfect upgrade to Blue Marble, and the viewport enhancements are excellent.

HDK

 

[DWOLF]

Brilliant!

 

[GeoModder]

Downloaded and tested this. At first I had the dreaded CTD because of the tundrablend.dds. Replacing it with the fixed file solved that, and it shows nice.

One question though: is it normal there's a tone difference when playing with the grid overlay and without? Without grids the graphics look definitely lower in tone on my screen.

 

[Chuggi]

When I turned the grid on with that version it crashed for me. Yes, the grid textures are out of date, I've already fixed them so a new version will be coming soon.

 

[GeoModder]

Oh.
Do you have a version in which the non-grid texture color-tone uses the grid color-tone? Kinda like that one better. Brighter, you see...

 

[Chuggi]

Well I did at some point, but it's been long overwritten. But you could easily go into all the files and turn the saturation up.

 

[GeoModder]

Erm... I don't speak graphinese...

 

[Chuggi]

Ok I thought you were a graphics person? Well anyway, if you have photoshop you would simply press CRTL-U and turn the saturation slider up to the desired level, or if you use GIMP then it's in one of the drop down menus (might have to google it) and of course you would need the DDS plugins or a converter.

 

[IgorS]

What about the ocean tiles. Did you finish work on that? What else is going to be in the next patch besides the water graphics improvement?

 

[Chuggi]

Next version will have:

• All previous patches.

• Bugfix - New tundrablend.dds. The current one causes a crash for some people. (completed)

• Bugfix - All new grid textures as clicking the grid button (
  
  ) can sometimes cause a crash. (completed)

• New coast and ocean textures that are easy to distinguish. (completed)

• Ice has been toned down a little, so it's not as bright. (completed)

• Improved textures/models for more units, buildings and leaderheads.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Chuggi, you said you based the Ocean/Sea textures of from colonization. By any chance did you edit them from the original colo ocean?

 

[Chuggi]

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but the ocean textures from Civ IV : Colonization helped me make the new ones for Civ IV, but I had to modify them a lot as using the textures straight from Colonization wouldn't have looked very good (they're made to be used with the new shaders).

 

[TheLastOne36]

oh ok. No worries i understand.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Could you re-upload the new Gandhi screeny? It's just a red x now.