New Landscape Colors vs Old

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

When I said even, I should have said organic. The regions are, largely, a mixture of crop fields on top of grassland. At the end of the day, grass will always vary slightly in colour, but not as drastically as shown in CloD. The crop fields...colours and positioning are anyones guess, but largely, there will be lots of grass-areas together in fairly large areas, with the crop fields in-between. CloD shows a mixture of each together like a chequerboard (a chequerboard made up of lots of lots of varying shades of white and black/grey). Does this make sense? I submit to your superiority in this department, fruitbat

So sorry, misunderstanding on my part, but I feel that we are both suggesting towards a similar conclusion?

irl, rule of thumb, anything thats not to steep to cultivate, will be cultivated, everything else thats not woodland will be pasture for livestock. If lands of to poor quality for crops again pasture for livestock.

I do agree with you the colours are off, i look at them and can't actually guess whats supposed to be represented in half the fields, lol.

for SE Kent, can't really speak for anywhere else, more land is used for crops than anything else, its good ground, its not called the garden of england for no reason.

your very right that the grass should be pretty uniform, it is what it is.....

If i was designing the textures, i would of picked august as the month to represent in the map as its in the middle of the battle, and you can kinda represent both july and sept with that look as well, and the textures would of been placed with the grass pastures on all of the contours, with ripe wheat colours for the fields, which could be all sorts of things, oats rye barley etc (and a cut stubble field will look just the same colour as a ripe crop field from the air)... much the same colour as some of the textures on the slovakia map in il2, interspersed with woodland, and with some fields of darker greens to represent a few of the other types of crops (root crops).

Oh, and there would be lots of sheaf's of wheat in the fields, as it was before combines, and it would of been cut and bundled into sheaf's in the fields for a while, again like you see in the slovakia map in il2.

But thats me.