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@wc_sumpton You need to see them in direct comparison on the map.
The new set has a darker outline that will match the new unit Stack #'s more closely.
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@hepps yea got it working. Must have had to much performance enhancer going on : )
thanks again
looks cool brother : )
yea ! looks way better ! Sweet !
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@beelee I thought I was your performance enhancer.
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@hepps heh heh McCormicks got the best of me today.
Good stuff Hepps. Thanks again
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@Hepps Is it ok for me to use the land and sea patterns from your work on the Middle Earth - Battle For Arda. If so can I bother you to post samples here. To be clear not terrain patterns although they are nice. Just the main background patterns (texture and waves).
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@general_zod Only because you are such a sexy beast.
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@hepps I'm too sexy for the catwalk, too sexy....
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@general_zod I'll hunt them down.
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@hepps Thank you.
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@hepps Really do like that water texture for some reason. Just kind of nice and subtle.
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@redrum Yah it took me a while to tweek, resize and play with the transparency to get the finished product in BFA. Glad you like it.
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@Hepps said in Map Maker Resources:
@cernel Although if you want to make these the default terrain effects icons for Triple A I am also fine with that.
The next release hopefully coming soon, I just proposed most of them for this purpose at this issue:
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/5104
Besides, of course, better large images (tho it might be good keeping them monochrome and fairly basic), the only minor item I see is a better normal image for representing the non-sandy desert (that is the kind of desert where virtually all operations in the desert were actually made, during World War II, since the sand seas, as well as the salt marshes, were virtually completely impassable). -
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@prastle Jungles are forests. So, if you are trained to fight in jungles, that means that you are indeed trained to fight in a particular kind of forest.
Plural or singular is just a matter of territory dimensions. A territory can be as small as to comprise only part of a steppe, or to comprise a series of steppes. Just like it can be as small as to comprise only a forest, or part of it, or several forests. Or it can be as small as comprising just a portion of a hill, or as large as comprising many hills. Since these are the TripleA assets, I considered more consistent to go with the plural in all cases. If "steppes" sound too uncommon, it can be called "grasslands" or "prairies" (slightly different concepts, arguably, of course).
http://www.barrameda.com.ar/ecology/the-steppes.htm -
@Cernel I can safely say that fighting in jungles is nothing like fighting in the Canadian woods
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@Cernel Jungles and forests could be considered two very different environments and units or divisions trained in forests may not be equipped or prepared for the reality of jungle fighting (something the Americans found out the hard way in vietnam).
In truth I don't understand why you are compelled to change things unnecessarily. If you built a map you could always just rename things to suit your tastes... but things like "frosty", "rivery", "woody" "tundras" are not terms I have ever heard uttered by another person.
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@Hepps What between parenthesis is not actually used, as you can see (as I anticipated that those would have been particularly uncommon).
Actually, in my mind, having a "mountains" territory effect for a territory doesn't necessarily mean that there are several mountains in that specific territory, but it may mean that that territory is where the mountains are, while it could be that the territory itself is only representing a section of a single mountain.
I know that territories like "steppe" are often used interchangeably with "steppes", so that you can say either "steppe" or "steppes", to refer to a same object, and, as I said, it is just mostly a personal preference to go with the plural in all cases, but it is not too important.
However, if the developer prefer to rename some of the terrains as singular, go ahead, I've no problems with it. Possibly better doing it in a way that anything that is given as singular has no terrains given as plural that are usually more extensive. I hope to have been clear.
The only one thing that I'm strongly against is having both "forests" and "jungles" (or "forest" and "jungle", if preferred), as that would really make no sense. I already stated several times that a jungle is a forest. This is just the current meaning of those terms.
As said, the only thing that it would be nice to have is an image for the not-sandy desert (I've used the one made for the savanna).
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@Hepps A minor detail may be that I would have the "swamp" image having that soil "cliff like" section too, like all the land terrains but "island" have. Otherwise it seems that the "swamp" is like the "sea" or "coastal-shallows", thus another effect for sea zones, instead of for land ones.
I mean something like this (just simply cut and pasted together the swamp and the plains):
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Do we want a repository where all these assets can be located in the correct folders and viewed from a central location, with a link to download a zip of it all, or should assets just be posted to this thread?
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