TeTeT Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Any update on the ETA for your terrain mod? Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 16, 2007 Author Posted September 16, 2007 Was a bit busy with RL, but I'm generally free after tommorow morning so it will go faster soon. I saturated the textures a bit, made some nice transitions(forrest-field-grass-etc.), fixed some seams, etc. I also plan to make a whole new forrest tile, found some textures that look better... I'll probably have some new screenies tomorrow or the day after so you guys can tell me if it's better Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 17, 2007 Author Posted September 17, 2007 Ok before I go any further, I want opinion on the change, this image shows what the change is all about nicely I think. Quote
+Stratos Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 It simply looks great!! I'm also bothered in how Vietnam should look in the 60's 70's. Will be cool to have some aerial colour pics. As some draws show Vietnam as lot less lush than I always touhght Quote
+NeverEnough Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Good stuff, Brain! Really appreciate all your artistic efforts. Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 17, 2007 Author Posted September 17, 2007 Thx for the kind words guys So I guess I have a go with the new more saturated textures? I mean you like them better right? I need to know before I continue Quote
+JSF_Aggie Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 I would vote for the "new". Looking forward to your tiles. Quote
SandyC Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Cool work, Brain. Like the new textures. Quote
jodandawg Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Ofcourse I primarly did this for myself but if you guys like it...I'm still messing around with it, as I have some submerged trees on river tiles Also this is the first time I ever messed around with something like that so don't expect miracles The textures are made of satelite imagery and are all taken around(this means quite a lot around) Ho-Shi-Min city area. I do not know how much and if they at all match the general look of Vietnam during the war, but this is how it looks like some 30-40 years later Ok here are the pics so please tell me what do you think, thx. Quote
jodandawg Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 outstanding work!!! this would look great in my WOV!! keep up the outstanding work!! dan Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 21, 2007 Author Posted September 21, 2007 (edited) Well I just had a test ride with new changes, this is generally it, some cosmetic changes and messing with trees and it will be done Thud posing over smaller city. Quick glance from the cockpit does no reveal that there's like 10 SAM launch warnings issued per second :black eye: Two shots showing things don't look bad even down low(20-30m) Again our top model, the F-105 posing over new forrest And in the end, a quick look down from MiG-21MF checking how all this looks like form 5000-6000m Some of it is lost due to *.jpg conversion, but the general feel is still present EDIT: OK the damn *.jpg ate half of it lol, but...you can still see I hope Edited September 21, 2007 by Brain32 Quote
+NeverEnough Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Great job,Brain. I'm really looking forward to these! Quote
+{FL}Hausser Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 The tiles look fantastic. I know how much hard work you are putting into these so I am especially appreciative. I have been reworking the tiles for the Libya map update I am working on. Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 21, 2007 Author Posted September 21, 2007 (edited) Well yeah, it all started pretty smooth, I found some nice textures on GoogleEarth, I saved them, started making layers and stuff, and then...MY worst nightmare was to make "Field"(VietnamGx.bmp) tiles seamless. Now I'm quite handy with Photoshop,GIMP and that stuff, and sure making a seamless texture is easy, but making all 4 sides seamless, AND avoiding creation of some major, un-natural pattern, especially on satelite imagery extracted textures was a freakin' nightmare, and then there's the transition texture, the "field" texure appears on like half of the total tiles, so if you mess it up and correct it, you need to apply it over and over and over again... Anyway I atleast learned a lot, and made some tehniques in the process, if I was to go again at Vietnam, I'm sure it would go faster and end up better, but I had enough of VietnamSEA, maybe I'll go for something else In this terrain there's still one of my earliest tehniques, there are patterns, but they are blended in good enough that one who plays the game and is not into finiding a pattern in the terrain will not notice. Then again maybe I see it because I made it Anyways, I finished the basic painting 30mins ago, now the horrors of planting trees AGAIN Carpal tunnel syndrome avoidance: ON Edited September 21, 2007 by Brain32 Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 25, 2007 Author Posted September 25, 2007 Uploaded about two hours ago, awaiting approval... Quote
+Veltro2k Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 Uploaded about two hours ago, awaiting approval... Quote
Silverbolt Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 :smile: :smile: I want this terrain! Quote
+Brain32 Posted September 25, 2007 Author Posted September 25, 2007 (edited) I don't know what's the procedure, do I need to post in File announcement area first, or do something else??? Or maybe just no mods saw it yet Edited September 25, 2007 by Brain32 1 Quote
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