Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Telumar

This is what i am currently working on. It's not yet fully finished, but almost:

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ORIGINAL: Telumar
I still have all the files.. though it has evolved into this (if there is need i can compile all the files and make them available):

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ORIGINAL: Telumar

Letraset dry transfer decal - had to google this.

You will have to wait a few days as the IV graphics engine is kind of giving me a headache with hills and mountain terrain. When I use the files in IV the mountains are not visible when hill terrain is in the same hex. Has something to do with the transparency in tiles_hills_overlay which I still have to figure out. The above screenshot is from TOAW III.

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ORIGINAL: larrybush
Remind me a lot of SPI maps too.

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ORIGINAL: Nicholas Bell

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ORIGINAL: Telumar

Letraset dry transfer decal - had to google this.

You will have to wait a few days as the IV graphics engine is kind of giving me a headache with hills and mountain terrain. When I use the files in IV the mountains are not visible when hill terrain is in the same hex. Has something to do with the transparency in tiles_hills_overlay which I still have to figure out. The above screenshot is from TOAW III.

Understood, the transparencies are a pain.

Here's a very reduced size image of that decal. Purchased it over 30 years ago when I was making my own maps for board wargames.

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ORIGINAL: Rasputitsa

Very nice looking map, I would certainly use it, if it became available.

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ORIGINAL: gliz2

Telumar is this available through your mod?

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ORIGINAL: gliz2

My only gripe with the development of TAOW4 is that the graphic solutions are actually worse then before. I had high hopes for customizable counters and unit display panels but unfortunatelly it never came to be

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ORIGINAL: jmlima

The graphic performance is also pretty atrocious when compared to the previous game.

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

Try hitting 'Ctrl +R'.

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ORIGINAL: Telumar
I have found that tiles_hills_overlay (tiles_hills ist still there but does nothing), tiles_mountainous and tiles_impassable work as a kind of overlay with hard coded transparency settings. That works somehow ok with the standard graphics, but if one wants to use a kind of terrain graphics that is more like a sort of 'area fill' as in the above mod this just does not look good. I. e. when i combine hills with mountains it gives a different shading than mountains alone.

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ORIGINAL: Nicholas Bell

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ORIGINAL: Telumar
I have found that tiles_hills_overlay (tiles_hills ist still there but does nothing), tiles_mountainous and tiles_impassable work as a kind of overlay with hard coded transparency settings. That works somehow ok with the standard graphics, but if one wants to use a kind of terrain graphics that is more like a sort of 'area fill' as in the above mod this just does not look good. I. e. when i combine hills with mountains it gives a different shading than mountains alone.

Solution: Delete the hill files with "overlay" in the file name. I deleted them and then dumped your Classic Redux 2 files in the program folder Graphics folder, overwriting everything. No more hills on top of everything. In TOAW 4:

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ORIGINAL: Gandalf

When these map graphics are released are they going to able to be applied "generically" to TOAW IV as a whole or will they require individual scenario modifications?

edit> Yes they do remind one of SPI game maps. I've been wargaming since 1971 and I really admire the look of these graphics.