Spring RTS Engine

Ok.

I've did some changes to the texture map .... :)


Here is the new look ..

there's no sharpness or cotnrast in the texture, it doesnt map at all onto the heightmap, so ti looks like you've just randomyl splattered a pattern onto a random heightmap.

It still looks worse than your first screenshots with the browny orange terracotta colours, whcih where much better imo but still lacked any sharpness and detail.

Sorry to ask but what are you trying to make?

Good ol' pimply TA hills.

It looks like a zoomed up, ugly lizards hide. Those crystals do look nice.

NOiZE wrote:Sorry to ask but what are you trying to make?

You fail at life.

Also it really does look like a mutated lizard skin thing.

I think the first texture you were using looked best, it was the most realistic, which I can relate to. The last one you posted doesn't resemble any landscape that I know of, and therefore is not as pleasing to me.
Compare it to going to a concert to listen to an artist you never heard before. It definately wont be as nice as listening to an artist you know and love.

Now making textures is difficult, but an important part is having fine details. "What the f*** is he talking about?" Okay, here's an example:
http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/text ... rass-3.jpg (suck)
http://www.mayang.com/textures/perl/pre ... 091054.JPG (good)

So you see random patterns are only aesthetically pleasing when combined with some sort of base texture. In your case, the current texture could use a 50/50 or so Hard light blend with a decent grass texture, to add complexity to it.

I can highly recommend mayang if you are searching for good high-res textures to use in your work. Unfortunately the page only allows you to download 20 textures per day(presumably to keep bandwidth usage down) so don't be too hasty when clicking the thumbs or you'll have to wait it out.

Hope I didn't bore you too much with this long post, suffice to say surf here and fiddle with Photoshop until you get it perfect. Else people are going to bitch and you'll ruin a perfectly good map concept with a poor texturing job.

Thanks for all the input ...

The look I was trying to get out of the last texture should have
been a moulton rock effect with some grassy areas.

Most like I'll put this aside till I can come up with a better
texture for it...


Most likely I'll just start on a new one...

The problem was the grass looked more like molten green plastic.....

The bigger problem with that texture is that the texture is not responsive enough to the terrain. It needs to vary in response to the heightmap.

The first one was the best, IMO.

Genblood, I apologize. I simply thought you were being lazy... I see now that is not the case...

Would you please do me the EXTREME favor of reading my tut using l3dt and rendering it that way? If your comp is kinda slow then use mosaic tiling. That will make the resource strain bearable.

I would really like to see you making high res terrain. It would pretty much butter my bread.... in an not so creepy way...

Genblood, while your work is good, I will have to say that it's about time you start inventing your own heightmaps, and stop porting TA ones. Also try to experiment more with L3dt and try to keep from having sharp transitions between types of textures.

Otherwise your work is great.