Me likey!

These terraformed versions of Mars and Venus, will they show up when you terraform those planets in game?

here is my Earth


as you can see I have a custom moon




here is the raw shot i need to work on the water more





here is my first planet BETA SIX



here is the raw shot of BETA SIX

I had enough when i got this close but it still need work


this shot is after a globe war

No???

I'm not the one to ask, but I'll relay that with my own requests to Cari for moddability enhancements

Gracias mi amigo


ALSO KRYO, can you confirm for me that the Class_14.png <-> Class_27.png images are no longer used?

Ok, i tried using PSP to select the greyscale variants ahead of time to see where they would be. I decided to give Mars a go first. This was what i ended up with in the game. I don't know how i like it tho, what do you think Kryo, everyone?

Here's Altaria's terrain map:

cool keep up the good work man

ALSO KRYO, can you confirm for me that the Class_14.png <-> Class_27.png images are no longer used?

They are not that I'm aware of, since anything over 9 is random. Classes 9 and below use a small set of pregenerated heightmaps though, at least in standard GC2.

Altaria looks about as good as it can given what you've got to work with (Mars is easier since it's all shades of the same color--My RAW for Iconia didn't look any better than that Altaria map).

Ah, well no wonder i can't find it anywhere. I'm using Paint Shop Pro X (10). That tool appears not to exist any more, at least not in the same manner. You can do a brightness/contrast adjust by curves, but that just alters the brightness/contrast of the image. Unless that's exactly what you're doing? What i did was make a 10 color greyscale palette, increasing by 25/26 each time. Then using the magic wand tool to select one of the palette colors with a 10% tolerance along the whole image. I.E. selecting 0,0,0 with a 10% tolerance selected all colors 0,0,0 <-> 25,25,25 throughout the whole image.

So long as you figured something out that makes it easier for you, then you're ok. If you want to try it, Photoshop has a curves tool too but it's not as easy to spike a certain level while leaving everything else untouched like I did with PSP there, at least as far as I can see.

Hmm, so which mars do you think looks best? I could try to match the coloring in yours, but it looks a little too orange to me, and mine looks to contrasted. Maybe i should post the actual mars and altaria planet textures for comparison?

I was trying to match mine to the game's default mars texture, and that's about as close as I could get without totally pulling my hair out. The dark areas are not quite as dark and a bit less detailed since I did just use shades of orange picked from the original image by dropper and had to adjust the brightness and contrast in the RAW several times to get a good enough spread to peg the colors to. But aside from the dark areas being lighter than they should and the whole thing being basically monotone (not very easy to do otherwise with that part the way it's set up), it looks pretty close to me

and mine looks to contrasted. Maybe i should post the actual mars and altaria planet textures for comparison?

As far as Mars goes for yours, there's not much need for our input. I'd say just keep tweaking until you get it as close to the texture as you can stand to do, since that's all it has to do, really--match the texture.

Looks like you could probably just fiddle with the RAW map's contrast then, and/or use lighter colors for the low-end in TerrainColorSchemes.

I know my input don`t count much. but it looks pretty good to me. it`s usable.

Thanks





I know i said i wasn't going to keep posting Raw Terrains, and i'm not. But i was rather pleased with how Drengi's came out, that i thought i better get your opinions, b/c if you all say it looks like crap, then i'm heading in the wrong direction making these altogether .

LoL yes the sick greenish is the lowlands, and the reds are the higher altitudes and mountains. The yellowish/blackish soup is the beautiful Drengi Ocean. One of the most breathtaking sights on Drengi, the Great Ocean is only slightly radioactive, and the sludge layer is only 3 feet deep in some remote resort areas! Some of the fabulous activities offered in these resort areas include "Spot the fish mutation," "Sludge treasure hunt," "Pollution Skiing," and "Acid bathing." Be sure to book your reservations early and you'll receive a free beating at the famous Aladrengi Spa!