Would this interest us?

[Gatr]

I miss the snow....   It was great!!!!... On a hot day put up the snow terrain... I would cool right off.....
But then again we all must move on....
If I had know those were the good old days I would have enjoyed them more...
I guess there is a message there with out getting to cosmic
Salute Gatr
Duxford Wing

[USRanger]

is HiTech accepting MA terrains with altered ground textures now?

Straight from Skuzzy in 2006 of what can be customized for MA terrains (still stickied in the TE forum):

1) editing terrain textures
Yes

2) rearranging the object layout of the default terrain clutter tiles
Yes

3) replacing terrain objects (like trees or forrests) with custom objects on the clutter tiles
No

4) editing default object textures
Depends.  One of the goals of a MA terrain is to keep the size reasonably small.  Changing a lot of textures have the greatest imapct on terrain file size.

5) rearranging the object layout of the bases or strats
No

6) replacing base or strat objects with custom objects
No

7) adding new objects
No

[Motherland]

Ranger; is that one 'tile'? It would be interesting if you have range of tiles going from sandy dunes, to the king of scrub thing you've got going there, to a kind of 'oasis' greenery... then again I'm sure you've already thought of that

It looks great

[USRanger]

Yep, experimenting with different greenery textures for the valleys & such that aren't so green as they become overbearing & don't blend well.  I also want to add some rocky textures for the steep sides of mountains.

Dads, I'll get you a shot of close up tomorrow.  

[rabbidrabbit]

Alright.. I'm game...   why not allow more options but limit the total number of objects or terrain types per map.  For example, replace object a with object b of roughly the same vector count.  You would have an initial download but it should minimal to no impact with use. 

Essentially, why not increase the available library and with each terrain limit the total different object/ elements.  I sincerely doubt people have a problem downloading additional objects and terrain tiles in exchange for some variety.  I can understand trying to minimize performance hits but I don't understand how doing the above limits performance.

Opening it up and setting standards for acceptance opens the doors for community involvement which has many upsides to include lots of free work.

[CAP1]

The Tunisian terrain with the dusty stratus sky was the one I used to use.  I would love to see a similiar terrain in AH.


ack-ack

wait?

you used to use a different terrain? we can load different terrains on a map when we;re flying online??

[Ack-Ack]

wait?

you used to use a different terrain? we can load different terrains on a map when we;re flying online??

In AW.

ack-ack

[bravoa8]

Make it USRanger make a winter too while your at it so I don't have to.

[Sperky]

Looks great Ranger!  Any bases with dirt runway?

[cactuskooler]

If there was one thing I could change in this game, it would be to have different textures in our MA maps.

[USRanger]

If there was one thing I could change in this game, it would be to have different textures in our MA maps.

It's allowed & it shall be done.

Gotta stick with regular runways in the MA Sperky.

For anyone who hasn't seen the terrain Greebo is working on, check it out.  It's really nice & uses some custom textures also:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,277040.0.html

[JunkyII]

Yes!!!

[Kazaa]

Being colour blind, this hurts my eyes.

[TexMurphy]

Honestly Id rather see snow terrain...

[Kazaa]

Honestly Id rather see snow terrain...

+1.