Western terrain Mod Version 2

Hello everyone.

As my previous ground texture mod was pretty popular with some people they requested an version including all the seasons and having the textures in CDDS file format. I have basically completed the first beta of the summer textures and im working on the autumn textures. There are a few problems though and to make this mod work in need some help from the public.

For autumn textures I have combined my own new ground textures together with the Simmod autumn textures, just replacing the files I have edited. But when I try and make a CDDS file of TGA files straight out of photoshop it wont work. The only way i got it to work was to use IrFanView and batch process all the TGA files and then combile a CDDS file. But then the alpha channel for trees wont work "see the last image" . Another problem is the borders between roads , fields, sea, streams, lakes etc is too big. But if i place those files directly in the Temp Textures folder there is no problem and they are normal size. So that is the biggest problems i have encounterd. Another side problem can bee seen in the next to last screensoot showing some round shimering stuff. It seemes like Lock On has some other textures covering up some parts of the maps so i would need to edit those to get rid of this. But i have no idea what file "files" it is.

With that said ... here are some prewview screens and i hope to have made all the seasons finished this week.

NOTE! everything you see here is BETA so its not the final Production.

Best Wishes

Shaggy

OMG !:shocking::cheer3nc::thumbsup::bounce:

Problems Fixed !!!!!!!!!! Thanks Deadman you are the man:thumbup:

Merzifon?

Shaggy, would it be possible to upgrade the Merzifon textures too. I would be pleased just to see some roads in the town. Maybe that could be another project. don't know how hard it would be to combine it with what you are doing as Merzifon is a seperate mod. Would be appreciated though if you could find the time to take a look at that part of the sim. ground texture. Cheers. Your new textures are looking great. Fantastic work.:thumbup:

Now thats what I call Going Green.:megalol:

Very nice job there shaggy. I like the darker textures the best. Looking forward to taking some screenshots with it.:thumbup:

Thats nice!

Shaggy No problem, Glad I could Help you out. Great work on the project!!!

Wow, that's stunning! Could we get a screenshot of how in the mountains and hills?

Nice!! What Region should this be ? Looks a bit like Europe.

Lookin Good Shaggy, well done and thanks for your hard work:)

Really nice Shaggy!

Looks great m8!

Can't wait!

That will look fantastic in this game nicejob.

waoooooo. great stuff shaggy.

do you have an idea about the release?

cheers

If you can finish that good quality....then this is some serious stuff :smilewink:

Shaggy's work is always HQ

Looks really good Shaggy!:thumbup: Thanx for letting me test the beta:D

Wow! Impressive work! Have been flying Falcon 4.0 AF for a few months now and totally forgot Lock On. Then I thought, why not visit the forum and see if there is something going on! Then I see this! :thumbup: Do we need to remove RELOADED mod before applying this mod? Modman compatible?

Time for an update.

everything is going ok in the making of the graphics. So The summer textures are completely done now and i only have to do conersions for the other seasons. Though Lock On have some buggs, "see the last images posted with red lines". Im not sure of what it is, but my guess is that Lock On uses a form of texture overlay to amek the very few ground textures look different at different places. An example is if you look at the ground from an higher altitude, you will et weird shimmering on the ground aswell as complete areas coverd in different colours. But if you go down close it will look normal with a slight Hue colour change. This is a very annoying problem and if anyone has any tips of files to edit to get rid of it i would appreciate that very much. Now....

This mod will be compatible with any terrain mod you have and it will be in cdds files. I use the reaload mod aswell as the simmod ground mod with this one. Just overlaying my cdds files in the graphics cfg so they will load first. Works perfect. So yes theis mod will be modman compatible, but you may need to put in the graphics cfg entries yourself. And now some images. More to come soon, and if you can help me with my problems i would be very happy. BW Shaggy :)

Thanks for the update Shaggy, looking good as always, can't wait till it's out :):):)

not are reale look's

not are reale loock's

I have no idea what you mean.

But here is a little spring texture update.

yeeez, looking at your screenies makes me feel like taken in some dubious substances.

I guess, these parcels of land are way to small for european conditions. It looks like 500 sqm for corn, 300 sqm for wheat and for the farmers delight 100 sqm of weed. :D

and i think the colours are a bit too much contrasty.

just my 2c

Google earth most of Europe and you will see how the land is divided up, as I used to live in England it looks fine to me,

PS Lookin Good Shaggy

Isn't a little bit a too flashy green color ?... In France, we have those green tints only near a nuclerar central or on the button to light on the Xbox :D

Yes, a little saturate... ;)