Landscape Colours need adjusting IMHO. I just saw pics from a BOB TV Program.

[unreasonable]

As someone who has lived most of his life in the south of England I can assure you that the landscape is not always a lush green garden. It can look totally different in August from its appearance in June, when it is mostly green.

The events of the BoB take place around harvest time. The predominant crop is wheat. Wheatfields at harvest time (and the stubble fields that are left afterwards) are some hue of gold/sand/brown, not green.

Even pasture land will look gold/brown after a couple of weeks in the summer without rain. Contrary to what some people seem to think, it does not rain every day in England.

Having said all or that I agree that the specific colour palette was poorly chosen.

[Skoshi Tiger]

If you do a quick search on grass you probably find a few hundred pages of arguments about land scape colouring.

It will, most likely be broken down into
a) Grass is too green
b) grass is not green enough
c) Summer of 1940 was exceptionally hot and dry
d) various post from trolls.

I think after the first year or so of reading these arguments the developers looked elsewhere for authentic landscape colouring data, though I could be wrong.

cheers!

[Catseye]

Originally Posted by unreasonable

snip . . . . . Contrary to what some people seem to think, it does not rain every day in England.

Oki, ok, but my cousin thinks it rains at least every 2 days until November then . . . . hoar frost, scotch mist and gails.

cheers,

[xnomad]

I posted this in the SimHQ forum a while back. It's not proof of anything but I just want to stimulate some debate.

You can argue that the colours aren't right in this picture as well. I'm pretty certain at this altitude that Google use aircraft and not satellite footage.

Lime Green Kent:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...75781&t=h&z=13

I'm guessing this is rape; someone will be here in a minute to say they didn't plant rape in 1940......

Originally Posted by xnomad

I'm pretty certain at this altitude that Google use aircraft and not satellite footage.

I'm guessing this is rape; someone will be here in a minute to say they didn't plant rape in 1940......

Yep all google maps/earth is photography !.I am positive ive seen the light aircraft flying the patterns. Seems theres is a strong common myth that its all satellite based images. Not the fist time ive discussed that very theory. satellite imagery is used but not at the close visual level.

Yeh no rape seed in 1940. the difference it makes to the image is quite incredible.

Ive ripped the scenery apart many times and without a complete makeover there isnt much you can do to change these colours portrayed. Try and you'll be back at square 1 unfortunatly. and for what its worth what we have is actually better than we think given what it takes to change it to somthing else.

there has been quite a few posts about this topic, but no one is discussing or asking the correct questions. what does it take to make it better etc etc ? the topic is between a rock and another hard place. not much room for manoever artisticly. The construct of the scenery dictates the final outcome. Many dont appreciate that to some degree. thereafter were left with the expectation that it can be changed. which it can ! but not from our level just yet and atleast untill the SDK arrives. 1C has in fact performed a remarkable job on the scenery, untill we see 3rd party addons we may not as a whole community appreciate just how good it is in all honesty.

[unreasonable]

Memorable song about the english weather:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eT40eV7OiI