Roma Surrectum II: New Battlemap Environment (2)

[Beetlecat]

There's way more we could do to make it better, but just lack the manpower to pull off really.

RSII is going to give RTW modding many more years of life. I can see spin-offs from this mod alone. Somebody will take on the settlements, I'm sure of it. Has anybody seen what they're doing with M2TW settlements? *drool*

[dmesa]

wow i love those new trees, they look very realistic

[tone]

Elendil has been working on some changes to the lighting and fog settings:

[rsslcs]

That looks amazing!

[Beetlecat]

indeed. Holy Cow....

[dmesa]

:O...thats what i call a realistic Celtic army...the fog and everything seemst to blend perfectly. Can you tell me which other aspects of the weather can you modify besides the fog?

Maybe the rain, dust or something else??

[tone]

Most things to do with lighting with certain weather conditions, sky and lighting colour and so on. You could tweak happily for years!

Here's how the deep forest looks in the fog - also some updates to the rock textures:

[izanagi11]

Awesome screenshots!

[Brusilov]

Most things to do with lighting with certain weather conditions, sky and lighting colour and so on. You could tweak happily for years!

Here's how the deep forest looks in the fog - also some updates to the rock textures:

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That's a scary sight!

[algorath]

is it possible to have deep powder snow ?? that´d be gr8

[Ybbon]

I like the last one, quite the nasty standard he's got there!

[tone]

is it possible to have deep powder snow ?? that´d be gr8

By deep powder snow, do you mean that people's feet sink into?
No, there's no way of creating that or deep sand within the limitations of the engine.

[algorath]

thats a very big downside in snowy environments i think. Just looks neat watching them slaughter each other in grassy surroundings

[Taelok]

Will there be any forests / woodland areas in the game that are any thicker than those we're currently being shown?

Also keen to see how the arid eastern / south eastern mediterraneum environments look!

[tone]

At the moment the Alpine forest is the thickest.

I've yet to start tweaking the semi-arid environments further, although this is how the semi-arid one looks at present (this particular environment is largely for the moutainous parts of Asia Minor and Persia - Taurus and Zagros mountain ranges, in particular - that get snow in winter).....it needs more shrubs and trees. Trees will largely be Quercus cerris (Turkey Oak), pines like the Aleppo pine, olive and almond trees. We've also converted the subalpine climate into one that covers the south-eastern mediterranean borders - this have those plus a few palms and cedars.....ground textures are pretty similar to the semi-arid.

I'm not quite sure what Carthaginians are doing that far east!!!

[saxdude]

could you show us the forest at night???

[Killerbee]

tone , stop posting pics that are to awesome to see in such a short time. It could cause certain cases of mental illness and/or extreme enjoyment ~ Eventually resulting in death, as he gets hit by a bus when he starts dancing on the street !

[Theoroshia]

tone just threw in an extra surprise with those images - I wonder if anyone will notice.

[Pat89]

tone just threw in an extra surprise with those images - I wonder if anyone will notice.

Perhaps that the cavalry in the top right of this image is horse-less?

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Looks very good anyway

[Mirionis9]

Awesomw. Looking forward to crushing those barbarians and bringing civilisation.