[WIP] Ground texture mod

One should consider that the colour of the sea is depending very much on light condition, what is inside the sea (algae), how shallow or deep it is or if it is real clear water or if there is much plankton or dirt in it and water temperature and the ground composition. I guess also the air may alter the appearance of water.

I remember having visited an Island just short south of Brittany in France (Atlantic ocean) so quite north and nothing that should look too different from the Channel.

Well, it did. It looked on this particular day as if I had been in the Carribean with locally turquoise cristal clear waters. The same water may look completely different on a rainy day.

Some images of the Blautopf, a location in Southern Germany that translates roughly into Blue Pot called this way for some good reason as you immediately will see in the pictures. As I have seen it with my own eyes: it is definitely and really very blue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blautopf

lovely pictures !.

[Buzpilot]

Maybe too many colors, from plants they didn't use back then?
And also seems a bit overwhelming, like colors from spring,summer,autumn mixed?

[Letum]

That's all a bit psychedelic. not right at all.
I'm sorry I don't have the knowlage or words to provide anything more constructive than that.

[Aggro]

Alifish I think you are getting there, but so far its all been too much, something inbetween yours and the original would be much better. Just find the sweetspot. you are not there yet, its waay too much in all of your own screenshots. Just some input. Looking forward to the results, Good luck

[pupaxx]

yes...last pict posted by Ali is too much psychedelic, but the intention of adding more contrast is the right way..
4me (if looked at distance) CloD terrain appears to much washed-out.
I just played 2min with Photoshop on a previous posted pict in lunchtime break...

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..and the trees should be more contrasted, in these pict they look to much merged in landscape, they disappear and don't cast shadows

Cheers

[gwpc]

Ali, I think your earlier efforts were much better. It seems to me you've been a bit derailed by the plethora of photos people have posted.

This shot, for me, was definitely the closest to what I see here in the U.K.
The most recent ones look surreal.



Cheers, gwpc

[philip.ed]

Hmmm, to me that looks far too green.
I actually think that there are too many fields in CloD which are 'funky' colours. By this I mean that some are almost pastel in colour, whilst others are really dark and murky. Throughout a season, most fields in a given area would suffer the same weather affects, so consequently, although the colours will differ, the actual weathering (or, should we say, burnishing (as it is summer)) will be largely universal.

I think CloD needs a large number of fields which are grass-green (not luminous green) and then others which are able to reflect the colour of the crop.
Obviously, when I say a large number which are grass green, this will all depend on what the weather has been like, so if it has been really warm, then the colour will look more washed out and dry.

I think the photos posted in this thread: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=22249 give a fairly good representation of what I mean

I mean, look at this WoP shot. It's very green, but the green itself doesn't look too bad IMHO



Although the colours look nice in this CloD picture (which looks edited)

Clearly the trees need darkening. Looking at CloD, the texture for the terrain under the trees is quite a sickly colour. Maybe if it was darkened to almost black it would give a much better impression?

And obviously this is an edited photo, but IMHO these colours are quite nice



(maybe the green needs to be washed out a bit more. The photo is clearly edited)