More distinctive terrains mod

[Cousken]

Another cool find.

alfa_plain_s.dds At first appears to be just a blue texture, but when you look at the red and green channel separately, you can clrealy see a monochromatic terrain texture. The red channel is used as i think a specular map for the arid plains. It's what makes the light bounce off textures when they are not in the middle of the screen. I'm attaching a screenshot of that effect with some test lines i drew on it to help investigate.

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[Cousken]

And there we go, my first release!

Please tell me what you think

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=334918551

 

[The_Reckoning]

Looks good!

Your terrain already makes it 10x easier to identify miasma.

Can you change how miasma looks to something super obvious?

 

[Cousken]

Looks good!

Your terrain already makes it 10x easier to identify miasma.

Can you change how miasma looks to something super obvious?

Yeah i'm gonna attack that next. Optimally, i want to decrease it's transparency and if possible, make it appear higher up above the terrain. I'll create a sparate mod for that, so that people can pick and choose what material they use as much as possible.

 

[A Space Ostrich]

S is almost certainly specular. Though I haven't the foggiest what the others are. I'd probably be able to tell if I had a look though.

 

[Lord Shadow]

This has great potential, though if you don't mind some criticism, try to respect the general palette of the biomes. That green is too green for Arid: you can probably make it distinctive enough without saturating the colours too much. Same with the trees: how about experimenting and making them more along the lines of orange/red if the base yellow doesn't stand out enough?

Purple is fine for the Fungal colour scheme, but it'd be best without eye-searing saturation.

 

[Cousken]

Thanks, i agree. I actually desaturated the green and made it blend in more in the most recent update. Don't have screenshots of that unfortunately so you have to try it out in game.