OK, i took one more stab at a mechanized Iconia.

I like that one better than the first 'tubes' version. Up to you which you use (plain or this), I could go with either one.

Again no clouds so you can see the texture better. Kryo, everyone, opinions? This one or the first?

I like that one. Might make the 'shallows' a bit darker, at first glance it's not obvious which part is the water and which is the land!

Kryo, out of curiosity, is there any way currently to designate a planet in CustomPlanets.xml as one of non-standard types of colonizable worlds (I.E. Toxic, or Aquatic.)?

Yep. Use the <PlanetType> </PlanetType> tag with one of the following values:

HabitableByAll
HeavyGravity
Aquatic
Toxic
Barren
Radioactive

I like that one. Might make the 'shallows' a bit darker, at first glance it's not obvious which part is the water and which is the land!

You mean lighter? Darker would make the ocean almost all black... I take it you mean make the shallow (less black) areas of the ocean brighter, so you can tell the color more?

I think i'll release the plain Iconia texture in the main pack, and the pipe version as an "add-on".

And thanks for the planettype tags!

You mean lighter? Darker would make the ocean almost all black... I take it you mean make the shallow (less black) areas of the ocean brighter, so you can tell the color more?

It's not a matter of seeing the color, but being better able to distinguish the land from the sea. Right now the shallows are about the same color as the high-altitute land, so it can be a bit confusing. But my head-cold probably isn't helping me with that

It's not a matter of seeing the color, but being better able to distinguish the land from the sea. Right now the shallows are about the same color as the high-altitute land, so it can be a bit confusing. But my head-cold probably isn't helping me with that

OOOOOOOK i getcha. I'll work on that.

And to round out The Solar System:

Mars


Terraformed Mars (Will be a seperate release)


Jupiter


Saturn



Venus (Replaces Mercury, will be a seperate release)


Terraformed Venus (Replaces Mercury, will be a seperate release)

Looks good.

Me likey!

These terraformed versions of Mars and Venus, will they show up when you terraform those planets in game?

OK, i took one more stab at a mechanized Iconia. I removied the clouds for a better view. Yea? Nea?

cool i like it.

i have been trying to do planets too the raw colors are a PITA like you said'
I fell you here.

but compare to yours planets i have no talent.

here is my Earth


as you can see I have a custom moon




here is the raw shot i need to work on the water more





here is my first planet BETA SIX



here is the raw shot of BETA SIX

I had enough when i got this close but it still need work


this shot is after a globe war

Me likey! These terraformed versions of Mars and Venus, will they show up when you terraform those planets in game?

Currently No. Unless Kryo has something up his sleeve he'd like to divulge?? I.E. A way to make that happen, because i'd love for it to. But no, as of right now, if you want to switch them mid-game, you have to replace the texture in the game's gfx directory, and that will do squat to change the terrain color scheme (the map of the planet in the planetary view screen).

Kryo i might put in a request for modders, maybe just some quick tag to define a second/third image map and color scheme for planets after the terraform techs are researched.

No???

Currently No. Unless Kryo has something up his sleeve he'd like to divulge?? I.E. A way to make that happen, because i'd love for it to.

Nope.

Kryo i might put in a request for modders

I'm not the one to ask, but I'll relay that with my own requests to Cari for moddability enhancements

I'm not the one to ask, but I'll relay that with my own requests to Cari for moddability enhancements

Gracias mi amigo


ALSO KRYO, can you confirm for me that the Class_14.png <-> Class_27.png images are no longer used?

I don't know how it was done for the original game (only earth actually got a custom RAW map--everything else was random, so those didn't really need any special work). But when I did my 'Real Mars' map I did it the trial and error way and yeah it was a real pain. I've since found it a lot less painful to just use the curves tool in PSP to isolate certain grey levels to see where they cover. Every 25 or 26 units of brightness (0-255) corresponds to 0.1 (0.0-1.0) in the TerrainColorSchemes.

By curves tool in paint shop pro, i take it you mean the "magic wand" tool? Or another tool altogether?

Ok, i tried using PSP to select the greyscale variants ahead of time to see where they would be. I decided to give Mars a go first. This was what i ended up with in the game. I don't know how i like it tho, what do you think Kryo, everyone?