My Terrain (Mine!)

[tekelili]

I am currently using Ds^Esd as beach embellishment. Almost all my random generated maps have about 10% of beachs next to ocean becoming Ds^Esd. I think it looks quite better than a plain beach fully done with Ds. Your new terrain doesnt look so good for that task, so I would ask for not a remplacement if is going to be added to mainline.

[vultraz]

Wait, apologies, nevermind, it is a mainline terrain. I totally forgot about it.

[doofus-01]

I noticed there are only two igloos, and one of them looks like crap. There were more versions, but they weren't realistic enough, so only two were committed, and I guess I didn't pay enough attention to igloo2.png. In any case, here's more variety in a small tar-bomb that can just be opened to the images/terrain/village folder, no new WML needed.

igloos.tgz

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The ramshackle version, igloo4.png, looks nice to me, but may be too goofy.

EDIT:
While I'm at it, how about a new impassable terrain for the frozen group (which doesn't have many terrains)? This would be sharp ice-shards, probably not natural.

[Jarom]

Ice barrier looks nice, I'll probably use them... some day.

[Jetrel]

The igloos are great.

The ice shards have a really bad gamma curve - the midrange luminosities are far too dark. This makes them look right now like they're made out of steel. Other than that, they're quite nice.

It also may help to give them a tad more blue, though their hue is definitely in the right direction.

[zookeeper]

The igloos are in now.

EDIT: And the sand drifts from the last page, too.

[doofus-01]

I was poking at the desert mountains, used the desert villages in the editor, and realized they were kind of blurry and off-kilter. I think these are an improvement, but similar enough to not disturb anything:

The old villages are to the south-east. There are seven images, so either the best can be picked or the NEW:VILLAGE macro can be updated. The .tgz can be unpacked directly in the core/images/terrain/village/.

village_desert.tgz

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(I haven't given up on the ice-shards, by the way.)

[doofus-01]

I got ruined versions too, I think they would at least fit in UtBS, if nowhere else.

[Gyra_Solune]

Oooooh, those are all so nice! I tend to be a fan of ruined villages, I make a weirdly large amount of really desolate smoldering maps.

[zookeeper]

Wonderful; they're in. I did alter the offset of all of them slightly so they sit a bit higher in the hex.

P.S. I'm still working on the mountains.

[doofus-01]

There are basically two "underground" walls: cave and castle.
Two possible intermediates occurred to me: crude stone walls or wood-reinforced mine walls. For whatever reason, I went with the mine walls.
This is should be a cave-wall alternative, like the "hewn" wall, and similar macros should work. There are a few cave-mine transitions that may be a problem however (red arrows in JPG), and will probably need some special rules. The NEW:WALL macros does support variations, so details on the wooden beams don't need to be perfect clones, once the design & color is final.

This TGZ is a tarbomb that can be opened in images/terrain/cave. The images aren't final, but I include them in case there is something to test. Transitions to chasm etc would be nice, but we'll worry about it later.
EDIT: Removed TGZ file, see below for updated file.

[beetlenaut]

That's very nice. I have a scenario that it would be perfect for too. (I understand why the black color doesn't always fill in the whole hex for the three north edges, but I think it would look better if it did.)

[zookeeper]

Yeah, those are very good.

[vultraz]

Niiiiice Will probably commit them when you finish.

[doofus-01]

Thanks. I made the rocks less grey and did a few other touch-ups and variations. This archive has the new (final?) images. I think the regular cave wall transitions cover most cases (water, chasm, other caves, etc.), but it's possible I missed something.