Mediterranean Tile Set Testing and Topo Testing. II

[bustr]

Once more into the breach.

I've defined two super large airfields per country as the uncapturable. And I will place a single 2x2 vBase at the top of the center feeder river that will allow for a circle of spawns capture path around the map. It can service fields below it against base captures with M3. And I may still ring the city with a static road, then run a road out from there 5-8 miles long. Then place a spawn near it if a country can fight their way this far in and capture that vbase. Resupply will be faster by c47, the static road is for those intrepid souls who want to drive to the strat and shoot at them or the resupply trains.

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How to transition something shoe horned in that you had to wait until you get there to decide where to place it...... PITA has a cousin named pooty.....and Hitech and his supply paths......

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It's getting there.....

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Beginning the foundation painting after spending the day finishing the canyon land and creating all the elevations in the second half of Country-1. At least now I can create mountain ranges and Highlands in my sleep. It's the planning of how they will run that never gets easier. Now I got to get all artsy on this puppy.

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Country-1, weeeeeeeeeee................. ...

[Mister Fork]

Looks great bustr!

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A nibble at a time.

This is getting to be like painting 20-30 small landscape paintings at a time after spending the first half of the day sculpting the same places on a table top in clay.

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It's amazing how fast you can throw in large blocks of terrain if you first map where the water runs off the ridges on a water shed. Then the bulldozer tool just connects the dots. Then you come back later and apply a texture to the surfaces with the raise hill tool and paint it.

If you cross section any geo formation on this planet you will see there is a geometric foundation block shape to the cross section. Then the surface is just texturing that is semi predictable based on the structure of the rocks and the forces that placed those rocks where they could be eroded. So I'm constructing a lot of long triangular shapes and blocks that I then sculpt a bit and paint. Because I elevation stepped this terrain in large rings of 12000, 5000 3000, 2000, 1000, 500, 20ft down to the pond in the center. I never have to guess at what the scale for highland areas or low land hills should be. 

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Just another day in the neighborhood.

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Getting there with Country-2, those canyons.....Ugggh.....

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Sometimes this is fun making it work.