Steph's next great project announcement

[Steph]

I have another idea, but it may be a bit complicated. Rivers should always be on top of forest, or they will be to difficult to spot. However, we could use some canyon graphics when the river is crossing a hill

 

[Sir John]

YAY!! that would be so neat if u managed to implent that... this is going to be such a cool game

btw: How far have u come with the coding of the game?

 

[Steph]

The map engine and editor is working for terrain, but it uses to much memory, so I need to optimize it.

I need also to add resources, units, etc on the map, so still lots of work.

If everything runs well, I plan to release a beta editor at the end of the month, so volunteer can start making real world map.

 

[Steph]

This update main not seem really important, but it is...

Here is a view of the map, with the global view (which by the way does not become "blank" from time to time anymore)

 

[Steph]

Now with the right click you can change the interpolation mode of the global view.

Here it's low

 

[Steph]

Here it's high

 

[Steph]

And here there's none
So with this you can select wether you want something easy to read, but uglier, or something nicer but not no clear.

Oh, BTW, I've reduced memory usage by 60%

 

[aaminion00]

Looking good. What's the ETA of the map editor?

 

[Steph]

Please read 5 posts above... It's on the same page...
I understand that some people may miss a post which is days old, and burried in the first pages.
But if every two posts I have the same question, I'm not sure I will answer every time.

 

[Sir John]

nice... that will espically be good for those with slower computers I guess..

antyway.. whats up with those hills on that tundra.. im pretty sure its not supposed to be like that..

BTW: Will u make it possible to use "special" terrain tiles so we can have natural landsmarks like that rock in australia and cedars of lebanon and nstuff like in C3C??

 

[Steph]

Originally posted by Sir John
antyway.. whats up with those hills on that tundra.. im pretty sure its not supposed to be like that..

Never eard of fjord, with mountains / hills steeply going into the sea ?

Originally posted by Sir John
BTW: Will u make it possible to use "special" terrain tiles so we can have natural landsmarks like that rock in australia and cedars of lebanon and nstuff like in C3C??

Hmm.. Interesting idea. I hadn't think of it yet. But why not? I will think about it.

 

[Jimmyh]

Dude, check your PM's.

J.

 

[Sir John]

Ive heard of fjords (i live in norway ) but I think u went wrong somewhere... Fjords are supposed to go INTO the water not ONTO the water

 

[Steph]

But my hill is also going INTO the water, you simply cannot see it, as it is undersea.

 

[LouLong]

I volunteer to do the world map once the map editor is ready (and you are sure of it). I have always wanted to have elevation and terrain separated !!!

 

[Sir John]

steph: Well u hsould still fix it.. it doesnt look good..

 

[Sir John]

btw: how big will this be?? will the game be as big as civ3??

 

[Steph]

What do you mean by big?

 

[Sir John]

as in megabytes...

 

[Steph]

No idea. To soon to tell. The map gfx are less than 5 Mb for now.

But when I'll start to add units, it will probably increase a lot.