Landscaping

[Tom Sawyer]

Hello,

I'm working on a landscaping mod. My aim is a more realistic landscape with detailed textures, but keeping the theme and atmosphere of the original banished. Here are a few first screenshots...

before:


modded:

[Glenn]

Looks good  -- nice shade of green, much more grasslike

[DesoPL]

I like how it looks, maybe alternative for SeasonsFX is coming.

[Fellow Villager]

it looks wonderful.but it makes lags?

[Tom Sawyer]

It makes no lags. Same FPS as unmodded. There are only 2D textures. @Deso: SeasonFX can be used in addition. I did not lay hands on light effects ...
Here is some new stuff. More grass textures. New dirt road and storage yard:



And even more shades of green. Overlapping dirt and grass textures give interesting views.

[Fellow Villager]

it looks awesome

can you make an optimization to reduce vanilla lag?

[Tom Sawyer]

Hi villager, nice that you like it.

The best way to reduce lags are the video options. Shadows and reflections off. Not beautiful but fast. Did you do this? I work on a notebook with Intel HD and a weak nvidia card. When I scroll through a forest, the fps drops down. Especially oak trees are fps-killer for my lame gpu. Lets make a mod to replace the damned oaks to pines.^^

[Fellow Villager]

oh yes thanks....
i read somewhere that luke did not make optimization, so when you use zoom hack it lags a bit

however i can play at 1920 resolutio, with hi option except for shadow, that i disable. i suggest you to do the same, they take a lot of lag

so with the zoom hack i can play without lag

[Tom Sawyer]

I just made a little test. With a screen full of oaks in summer and shadows the fps drop down to 10! Birches 15 and pines 30. So pines are about 3 times faster on my labtop. With this mod you can replace the oaks. Looks like Canada or Siberia. Depending on what you prefer.^^ Unfortunately you have to start a new game. I find no way to make it savegame compatible. Maybe someone has an idea.

[Fellow Villager]

oh good!

[Tom Sawyer]

The new landscape is online. http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=97

Hope you like it.

[Tom Sawyer]

Fixed a reversed grass texture ...

[bubbamcgee]

I really like the textures.  It really makes things look more realistic overall.  But, the grass color is too light.  Could you tone it down so that it is a more natural darker color?

[Tom Sawyer]

That's a good point. I played it for a while and in time became a brighter dry grass for me more pleasant. But you are right. It looks more like prairie. I adjusted it a bit. As you can see in the screenshot, it is not simple. I have to stay in hue with the trees and darker grass would dim the entire scene. Left the vanilla, in center the first version, and right my adjustment. I want to keep the effect of dry grass in classic. In my nordic landcape, the grass will be more green.

[bubbamcgee]

That looks a lot better... by the way, the new textures for the rocks looks great as well.  Much more realistic.