Climate Change

[makanyane]

Thread for climate related stuff...

this would be going faster if I could make up my mind exactly how many climates were going to have frost in winter or just stay autumny... and how many can be used for special things! Have 90% made a decision that highland, which was in the Cornwall area for 'chalk geology' anyway is going to get used a bit more specifically to make the cliffy bits. I can't get M2 battle-maps to make a true cliff (without using the editor for each tile) - but have done a bit of a bodge by using 'deep sea' and 'beach' ground_types in highland climate with slightly silly settings

The bits that look a bit rocky on coast in strat map:




Look like this at the edges of the map in the inaccessible bit (needs work on textures and removing large vegetation):




and the playable area like:




making sure the playable area stays playable is the difficult bit with silly geography.db settings

[_TotalWar_]

Good work on that coastline!

[MingledSession]

Wow! That's a great piece of work! Impressive!

[AnthoniusII]

How did you made that smooth coast lines on the strat_map?
We have ours lower that the sea level in 90% of the map!

[makanyane]

How did you made that smooth coast lines on the strat_map?
We have ours lower that the sea level in 90% of the map!

Wilddog did the coastlines ages ago - you have to manually adjust the depth of the sea (by changing the RGB value of the 'blue' in map_heights) to counteract the height of the land properly and avoid triangles. There's competing theories about how to do it...

I've reduced the white surf and beach strip effect quite a lot which helps in not look like such a hard edge.

[Jurand of Cracow]

Nice, Makanyane.

Do you know which mods do have nice resource map pics?
I'm redoing them for the SSHIP and still need a few (I think in your pic there's something like Cornwall peninsula with tin)

JoC