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[SAS~Tom2]

Escellent shots, Mr agracier! Very immersive and well placed looking.

Tom

[congo]

Ag,

 Wonderful work but may I make a suggestion, most of the desert cities and villages were usually built on quite fertile ground, in otherwords more green than the surrounding desert. Just google image search places like Cairo, Tunis, Tripoli and you will see what I mean. Or try Sfax or Bizerte. Sfax is in the Tunisian desert and Bizerte in on the Med coast.  Usually these places have an extensive growth of trees other than just palms. It would look quite realistic if you could incorporate this into your maps. Just a suggestion but again beautiful work keep it up. Once you get into the heart of the desert this changes somewhat but again most of the desert cities and villages that I have visited were usually at Wadis or Oases read this as close to wells or water supply. Of course there are exceptions, look at Tamarrasset in Southern Algeria for it resembles your present cities and textures, but then google a couple pics of Niamey in Niger and its quite green.

[congo]

Uufflakke,


  What is the origin of the photo are they Touaregs or Bedouin anyway great photo.

[Mick]

We're not disclosing the location yet, just for the fun of it, but it's very obvious that it will be of a mainly desert/semi-arid location. It is of a place that has not been done yet and will be in the time honored tradition of being remote, obscure and all but forgotten.

   ... what a hot X'Mas present this is going to be ...!!

[Uufflakke]

Uufflakke,

  What is the origin of the photo are they Touaregs or Bedouin anyway great photo.

The image was from a book I downloaded yesterday: 'Luftwaffe Secret Projects, Ground Attack &Special Purpose Aircraft'
The caption of that photo is: 'Messerschmitt Bf110 in North Africa'
That's all...

[agracier]

Ag,

 Wonderful work but may I make a suggestion, most of the desert cities and villages were usually built on quite fertile ground, in otherwords more green than the surrounding desert. Just google image search places like Cairo, Tunis, Tripoli and you will see what I mean. Or try Sfax or Bizerte. Sfax is in the Tunisian desert and Bizerte in on the Med coast.  Usually these places have an extensive growth of trees other than just palms. It would look quite realistic if you could incorporate this into your maps. Just a suggestion but again beautiful work keep it up. Once you get into the heart of the desert this changes somewhat but again most of the desert cities and villages that I have visited were usually at Wadis or Oases read this as close to wells or water supply. Of course there are exceptions, look at Tamarrasset in Southern Algeria for it resembles your present cities and textures, but then google a couple pics of Niamey in Niger and its quite green.

You beat me to it and you are quite right. The screenshots I posted were just too nice to pass up showing. I still have to place (a multitude of) cultivated fields around the inhabited areas. I'll be doing that by hand mostly, since account has be to be taken not to place them on hillsides or on mountains ... ha ha. And I still have to make dozens and dozens of villages and towns as well. And I'll try to make them all somewhat different from each other, with maybe 3 or 4 copies of each type spread around the map max ... and the map will be mostly empty space ... it is a desert after all ...

I've been busy tonight doing just what you suggest - placing cultivated fields around villages and towns and doing my best to populate the fields to a degree - adding trees and some habitations here and there ... placing orchards and farms and ruins ...

But it will be a somewhat slow work perhaps ... hopefully worth it ...

[agracier]

What is the origin of the photo are they Touaregs or Bedouin anyway great photo.

Looks like a typical color photo one would have found in war-time magazines like 'Signal' - smiling locals supposedly happy at the presence of an army/air force using their country as a battlefield ... ha ha.

It still is a colorful photo ...

[redko]

You should be payed for that.

all this is looking very promising, very nice textures and perfect integration of objects with the texture. Another desert to add to my collection.

Would you be interrested on making a map of argentina's pampa? another type of desert. 

anyway, can't wait for this new map and i 'll follow this thread with many attention

[agracier]

You should be payed for that.
Would you be interrested on making a map of argentina's pampa? another type of desert. 

Drop a note to Oleg perhaps? ... ha ha

Argentina would indeed be a great location ... but I've got so many maps in play and it is so hard to decide which to (try and) finish. Uffllakke and I were first going to finish a map of the Dodecanese and he already made some great templates for it, but I got stuck on textures for the Turkish mainland. And somehow this desert map seemed to go forward on its own accord. I have to admit that making desert maps is certainly not effortless, but somehow easier than doing a European map ... maybe because there are so many possibilities for building combinations, maybe because buildings and palm trees contrast so nicely with desert textures, maybe because there are few places of habitation to begin with in the first place ... ha ha

But Argentina does sound nice. It reminds me of Chaco, my first map I posted (I think). And while it's already been retextured once, it could use a good update too. But maybe Argentina might be a good idea to start on a basic map ... give some ideas if you wish, suggest some areas ... something might come of it ...

[_AUS_Salmo]

When I was young I saw Lawrence of Arabia and it blew my mind I suppose. In any case, just to show what's in the make, ...

Lawrence of Arabia was filmed partly in the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan. Here's some pictures ...
https://www.mediafire.com/?9ly119ck4xslmot
https://www.mediafire.com/?k738a4i32b7jooy
https://www.mediafire.com/?36802u1c9uwp3lp
https://www.mediafire.com/?4012ou1wcn1ghw1
https://www.mediafire.com/?atr2v3dpr0aanuu
https://www.mediafire.com/?ledijc7a2yp3pcl
https://www.mediafire.com/?xr5rs1n4m04zi33
https://www.mediafire.com/?l8u3m8t82zehsp8
https://www.mediafire.com/?kj3o17btsb1obq2
https://www.mediafire.com/?3zntkefvatlf2z4

[Uufflakke]

The camel picture I posted on the previous page brought me to the idea to reskin the camel we have right now.
You can get it here (readme included) :
 
https://www.mediafire.com/download.php?95efzjfg9huv7rk

It will not overwrite the original ones, no need to edit or add entries in the static.ini or anything.

[Riptide_One]

agracier,

Wow, another masterpiece and so soon. Great work!

Cheers,

Riptide