Looks great, however the dune-sand shown in picture one doesn't quite blend in perfectly. A smoother transition would be nice.

There are actually 2 transitional terrains for sand dunes included. I did not make the map in the screenshots -- it is from the Titans campaign.

Wow o.0 That's impressive. The terrains simply look much better in my opinion-brighter, with better mixing. I'll defintely be downloading this when it comes out

Great project idea, most people simply make new terrains. Improving existing ones...an excellent goal.

I've already forgotten how some of the original terrains look. lol

Wow!, It really looks like I can even touch these textures, good job!

[This message has been edited by FSprt (edited 11-16-2009 @ 10:24 PM).]

1) How will these work with Scenario Designers such as myself? When I make the terrain in the editor, it wont be the new one will it? It will be the games coded one, but if I have the texture file, it will look different to me right? So tell me about this and with maps for people to download.

2) You are doing every singel one right? I mean, all the ones in TT as well right? I want them all.

OH MY GOD THIS IS EFFING AWESOME!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH THEY LOOK SO GOOD PLEASE MAKE THEM ALL. I expecially want to see the marsh one. I like marsh. DONT GIVE UP EVER FINISH IT THEY LOOK SO GOOD RIGHT NOW.

Dude, this is the kind of user created content that is epic. I mean, the gmae creators left, and now stuff like this is making AoM into a whole new game, completely improved.

Edit: Oh and I see a release date. One month, wow. I thought it would take longer. But personally, please please take your time, all the time you want, ignore the release date, to make these the best you can. I am highly anticipating this.

Also, this makes me very sad. I just am sad that great modders like you can make textures like this that look so good and realistic and I can't. Would you be able to give me any tips and hints on how to make great textures? I really want to be able to make awesome stuff like this. Cause I suck at new ones, its just all one pixel by pixel, and its just impossible for me to make detailed realistic textures. How do you do it? P.S. I have paint.net for my editing program, if that means anything.

[This message has been edited by WinstonShnozwick (edited 11-17-2009 @ 02:07 AM).]

1) How will these work with Scenario Designers such as myself? When I make the terrain in the editor, it wont be the new one will it? It will be the games coded one, but if I have the texture file, it will look different to me right? So tell me about this and with maps for people to download.

These textures will overwrite the old ones, as far as the game session is concerned, so that they will show up in-game and in the map editor as if they were the original terrain textures. They won't really overwrite the original textures, just mask over them. It's complicated. Point is, if you install these they are the textures that will show up in the Map Editor as if they were the original textures.

2) You are doing every singel one right? I mean, all the ones in TT as well right? I want them all.

Yeah, Marsh, Tundra, etc. All of them. A few of them, like the Atlantean citytile terrain and some of the underwater textures, I will leave as they are. There are also some that were in the BAR file, but do not show up in the game, so I will ignore those. So, I guess I am redoing 95% of them and not "all."

Dude, this is the kind of user created content that is epic. I mean, the gmae creators left, and now stuff like this is making AoM into a whole new game, completely improved.

I am really disappointed that no other modder has already done this 5 years ago, let alone me having to do it here at the ass-end of 2009 -- 8 years after the game's release.

Edit: Oh and I see a release date. One month, wow. I thought it would take longer. But personally, please please take your time, all the time you want, ignore the release date, to make these the best you can. I am highly anticipating this.

Well, all the ones in this preview (24 terrains) plus all the ones not in the preview only took me 3 days. I think the month timeframe is giving myself some leeway.

OH MY GOD THIS IS EFFING AWESOME!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH THEY LOOK SO GOOD PLEASE MAKE THEM ALL. I expecially want to see the marsh one. I like marsh. DONT GIVE UP EVER FINISH IT THEY LOOK SO GOOD RIGHT NOW.

Don't worry. Petar, aka "tasev," will be on my ass encouraging me to finish it.

Would you be able to give me any tips and hints on how to make great textures? I really want to be able to make awesome stuff like this. Cause I suck at new ones, its just all one pixel by pixel, and its just impossible for me to make detailed realistic textures. How do you do it?

Well, a vast majority of terrain textures of this nature are 'sourced" from high quality reference images, so they aren't hand painted pixel by pixel. The "artistry" comes in when the texture is required to tile correctly and to blend with other terrains. Mixing and matching, plus color correcting and making the terrains tile correctly is where the rub lies. Most of my source images I get from a GREAT free website called www.cgtextures.com among other places. Someday I might write a few tutorials. We'll see.

BTW - thanks for your interest. The download should be available tomorrow or the day after I'd reckon.

EDIT: There are 158 terrains total that I am going to mod.

[This message has been edited by Mythos_Ruler (edited 11-17-2009 @ 03:28 AM).]

What can I say Michael, this is simply great work, it totally changes the look of the game, perhaps, if you have some free time we can get a retexturing for the units too?, my textures are not as good as yours, but I could gladly help

Perhaps this can be bundled with some of the Greek, Improved Norse, and Egyptian mods out there (and I certainly would like to include a few of my own Hoplite and Greek textures). We'll talk more about this over the coming month. Maybe we can make it a Christmas Eve release or something.

(Here is an old showcase image of a mod I started a couple years ago, but abandoned to focus on 0 A.D.)

(Oh, and kind of unrelated, but here is an awesome map I started like 5 years ago, but never finished.)

[This message has been edited by Mythos_Ruler (edited 11-17-2009 @ 04:09 AM).]

Yes, I still have those spartan textures on my pc

My improved norse only need the shields textures, I already have all the military units. I would glady add also retextures for the myth units; we still have about a month before christmas, I believe that would be a great gift for everyone here!

Perhaps some other modders would want to join the effort?

Wow, it is really great if it works online!
It makes the game better, great job !

This is looking really good mate. Love the sandy look on third screenshot.

Looks good!