Colonial Charter 1.7 Dev Blog #1

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8 hours ago, Discrepancy said:




I think with some clever texturing and using all those arches and cross beams, and the curves, most of the glass is broken up anyway. To simulate, I'd use a single plane with a semi transparent dirty/hazy/cracked etc texture behind all the iron work. We wouldn't have reflections though, so not really glass. But early glass was far from being perfect anyway. [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png[/img]/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20" /> I'd give it a go if I didn't already have enough to do.

Reflective isn't really the issue, it's transparency or semi-transparency. I asked Kralyerg about his glasshouse and he said he tried to make the glass partially transparent but the glass texture went from being totally opaque to totally transparent. There was no middle ground, it was one extreme or the other. Ideally you'd want a texture that is mostly transparent so you can see plants and workers inside, but you also want the glass to get some snow cover in winter.




There are two greenhouse mods. Kral's is totally opaque and Red's is totally transparent. For it to really look good you need something in between but it seems that it can't be done. I don't know if materials can help, but I'm guessing they can't, because if they could then someone would have used them to make water that isn't opaque. But maybe I'm wrong?




Imagine how good one of these would look in the game. [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/rolleyes.gif[/img]/emoticons/rolleyes@2x.png 2x" title="9_9" width="20" />


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