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Re: Third tutorial map

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:15:35 +0200, Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 02.06.2005 21:59, Andrej Krivulčík wrote:
I'll start working on this map probably during the weekend so don't hold
your breath (I've got some work again...). Wouldn't it be time to release
a new version (after including the second map)? 

Probably, yes. I'd like to give a few days to translators to catch up,
though. (Tutorial2 is now in CVS.)


Guess what have I done :-). Patch for Slovak translation attached.


And then there's the mountains. Matthias, you proposed new mountains a
while ago which I haven't added, yet. Back then I said it would be better
if you replaced all of the old ones. Have you worked on them some more,
maybe added another one to replace the current image?

It's good that we have some new graphics :-). But I think that we don't have to generate perfect satellite photos of battlefield. We can afford to be a little bit inaccurate and have the hills & mountains "from the side". I think that they would look a little bit better. Also I propose we don't have three hills of different size but more single-square hills that can be assembled to make bigger mountain ranges. Right now, we can have an old style small mountain, a new style small mountain (which is quite nice), a 4-hex mountain (which would IMHO look better "from the side") and a 7-hex mountain (which is quite nice). If there's one piece of mountain, it's quite acceptable. But placing more of them next to each other looks... well, let's say strange. (Also the way it is now.)

If we had more 1-hex mountain centres which would nicely fit to each other and some mountain edges, the mountains would look *much* better. I wanted to give it a try but even now I work on CF only because I do it instead of sleeping :-). Maybe later (after completing the tutorial campaign?? Definitely not any time soon :-( ). I just threw in my ideas, I wonder if anyone picks up anything.

I also noticed that the tiles from Matthias are somewhat noisy, I don't think that was an intent or am I wrong?

Andrej

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