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Author Topic: What's the purpose of SideWood?  (Read 282 times)

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genXgamer

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What's the purpose of SideWood?
« on: July 04, 2024, 08:58:22 PM »

So I wanted to see where/how this is used in-game, I made the texture all red.
I couldn't see it being used anywhere in-game.
Does anyone know more about this texture?


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Re: What's the purpose of SideWood?
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2024, 03:25:50 AM »

Many years ago I wondered the same. Then while playing with the layered forest texturing on a map in which the ForestFar.tga had a much lighter tone than the forest itself, I noticed these odd, darker, straight line segments zig-zagging across the forest at a certain intermediate distance (8 or 10 km?) It occurred to me that these lines were probably the sidewood texture in use.

But why they only show up only at such a useless distance made me wonder if they are some old feature since largely discarded or never fully implemented.

Well, those are my provisional thoughts based on a non exhaustive look into it.
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