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Legacy_The Mad Poet

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« Reply #210 on: July 27, 2015, 07:22:24 pm »


               

It looks fantastic. Do you plan on adding more than just this wonderful terrain? Buildings, tents, etc etc...



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #211 on: July 27, 2015, 07:42:39 pm »


               

Well actually, if I keep it just the terrain, other people can get in on making those things, or converting certain tiles from say rural or forest over to the same textures as this. I don't want to get into making a huge variety of buildings I might never use, and that the majority of users will never use, especially if they can just as easily make their own conversions from rural or forest.


For instance, I have heard that Spain has some badlands regions, and I would bet that at one time the locals put up some stone buildings in the area, or the Romans even put up non-local-made buildings. So you might consider taking some of the spectacular building designs from something like TNO city and porting them to the badlands, and even paint them to make them fit in with the rock texture.


 


I tend to keep 3 stone henge, a few dolmen, some grave stones, worn roads, some world-specific bridges, and some teleport circles around and move them from tileset to tileset, so you might end up with those in the first release, but probably not. I'm actually thinking to stop that process and just make them creature placeables anyway (ever since I did those gem-holding creature placeable tables a few months back).


 


Overall, I think that stuff makes great expansion content, especially if many of the additions are similarly themed across a few tilesets.


 


Basically the only thing these tilesets will release with initially will be the terrain, with more flowers, rocks, and vegetation, and a kit of placeable additional vegetation and matching rocks for thickening up the tile variation. I have no intentions to make bridges or roads for these regions at this time. I do have a few placeables in mind for the badlands, like dragon bones and just lots of randomly placed bone piles of recently slain creatures.


Once I get a basic granite tileset produced, I do intend to fill it with mining variations. Human mines like those from the 1800's, as well as more advanced mine-dwellings like Dwarves would make, will be the goal.


 



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #212 on: July 28, 2015, 12:49:10 am »


               

Last bit for today. Got the river bed and dry rubble area texture figured out.


 


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Now I just need to wrap the texture edges and clean up some shadow and seam messes. This thing is starting to look like a golf course. All we need is some buffalo chips and a stick and we're good to go.



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #213 on: July 28, 2015, 02:04:24 am »


               

Being in the UK I have to ask is "buffalo chips" a euphemism for what comes out of a buffalo's rear end? ':sick:'


 


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« Reply #214 on: July 28, 2015, 02:56:59 am »


               

Actually... yes! Sort of. Cow chips. I've heard they have competitions on who can throw it the farthest in some places.



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #215 on: July 28, 2015, 03:18:10 am »


               

If you've seen an actual buffalo chip, when it dries it looks like a foot-across checkerboard piece. If sculpted correctly, it would make a great disc golf accessory... when used with the proper glove. And as always, somebody has photographed their dumb child holding crap for us to amuse ourselves with:


 


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Oh, I almost forgot, you can pick up buffalo chip Frisbees at the Sylvan Lake gift shop!



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #216 on: July 28, 2015, 03:22:08 am »


               

I can almost beat you. Florida sells beach sand in a bottle to tourists. You may have literally kicked the **** out of beach sand though. '<img'>



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #217 on: July 28, 2015, 03:30:00 am »


               

Never purchased beach sand, but I do have a collection. Here in michigan, we have a black stripe you can find many places along lake michigan. It seems iron rich, so I picked up bunch of it. We've also got white, and common brown beach sand. I hear you can get green olivine sand on Oahu somewhere. They've actually got some for sale in Keystone SD made from some olivine junk they found tons of in Arkansas. It forms in this dark basalt looking shell. I have had a chunk for years and didn't know where it came from, but now I see my piece matches exactly those from the Arkansas stash.


 


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I almost picked up some of the blasting sand from Ingersol Mine when I was up there. Its just white blasting sand, but it has small amounts of other minerals throughout. Mostly white feldspar, silver mica, and black tourmaline. But still it would have been cool if I had a bottle to grab some.


 


I did grab a bag of garnet rich sand from the campground. Full of little red garnets up to 2 mm, mixed with ash and mica powder.



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #218 on: July 28, 2015, 04:01:12 am »


               

You have a lot of sand knowledge. The only thing I know in Florida sand is seagull droppings and tourist shame. Those tourists leave that all over the beach.



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #219 on: July 28, 2015, 05:41:36 am »


               

I like the terrain and color texture on your last image. I know it's more Medieval Rural than your Black Hills, but still. I hadn't noticed you were so small and feminine, though. Must be you're shaved in this one.





               
               

               
            

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« Reply #220 on: July 28, 2015, 06:48:06 am »


               

Buffalo Chip bingo! You square a field and bet on a square. If the Buffalo sh*t in your square you win! Someone need to script this! .)


...oh, it looks great Dad!



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #221 on: July 28, 2015, 11:06:26 am »


               

There is a place on the Isle of Wight called Alum Bay with multi-coloured cliffs that produce multi-coloured sands that has been sold to tourists in variously shaped glass containers since at least Victorian times.


 


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« Reply #222 on: July 28, 2015, 03:21:49 pm »


               

Interesting place. Looks like even the oldest layers of that formation are younger than the south dakota layers from top to bottom in the badlands. I think I read that the Brule top layer is only like 22myo or some such. The tip of the Isle of Wight is like 35myo. I bet that isle has some interesting fossils. The badlands of SD are full of pig-dogs and camel-things.


 


Well my boy had his ear surgery today, so it is another laid back day for me. I might work on badlands formations, or I might just work on compiling some grass textures and wildflowers for placement. Still haven't heard if anybody has the exact details on that grass flex value I was looking for. Maybe I have time to study that today.


 


While driving into the surgery center, I was watching fog, and might have a new method for displaying fog which moves as you pass through it. We'll see.



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #223 on: July 28, 2015, 06:16:54 pm »


               

Here's the kind of stuff I intend to add to the tiles and deliver as placeables.


 


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This Echinacea took me about 30 minutes, and can be broken down into three flowers. Since they grow about the same no matter how you raise them, I can just scale these three up or down and then cap the size of the flower head to the one on the top. Should make some good feels for the area. I've got resources ready to do about 10 species of flower for the plains and hills. I think I will just add a very simple shadow block since I decided to go fully poly with these.


 


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And here's a few varieties you can do with the same texture file.



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #224 on: July 28, 2015, 11:58:21 pm »


               

As you seem interested in fossils here's 3 links. Firstly the isle of wight. Next the world heritage Jurassic Coast most of which is in the county of dorset and lies just west of the IoW. BTW if you want old rocks try the Lizard in cornwall. Some of the rocks found there are around 500 million years old.


 


But enough of that. Any chance of purple prairie clover?


 


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