here is a link to the unit graphics,

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8knnqkvtcg8t55q/AACsKtJDYrbuiiYwGR81l6LDa?dl=0

it's not in "mod" format.. I forgot how to make a mod file..... so I've just been throwing these into the 1984 mod, it doesnt over write anything

Very intresting

Spent today playing around with the map, with the idea of making look less "realistic" and more like a metallic decorative table-top map... something you might find surrounded by generals on a nice desk. or soemting. I wanted to try and make it look more like a table-top boardgame map. just an idea, playing around to see if it works.

brought a good book to read before work on Saturday, it was a collection of essays on nuclear war put together by Carl Sagan called "The Long Darkness" really good stuff, becasue I was thinking that maybe the world would look more grim with a nice nuclear winter.

so, I used the "both sides in a short thermonuclear war use 10,000 megatons on 1600 targets across the globe, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere" case model Carl put together.

so it doesn't change any gameplay... but I wanted to de-nude the Earth of lots of its forests, make it darker, dirtier and more full of war and craters.

I did find the files to play with the duration and severety of weather, but I decided not to play around with them or do anything that might effect game balance..

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1137996723

my home town, I made sure to nuke it well.

the mountains are supposed to be "stylized" and not representative or anythng. the gameengine knows where the mountains are, any good general should know too.

hard edges, I was going for something like that Soviet futurist deconstructionist art movemnt, what ever they called it.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1137996709

below is the Vanilla game heightmap and normals, in my opinion, you just cnt really tell from the map what are high regions and what are low-lands. which is what I's like to try out a more stylized map.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1138269984

still just testing out how the textures work. I want to decrease all the diversity on the map, very much Nuclear Winter in the North and burnt out cites and warzones and bombed out cities, fewer forests, the Southern Hemisphere has much fewer changes than in the North where most of the nuclear stuff happened.

I had a wierd glith, where the map was super-specular. took me a while to figure out how to solve that... turns out I was accidently erasing the atlas files alpha channels.

That looks quite nice the post-apocalypse board game feel does make it feel diffrent stylisticly

to get the "nuked out" areas. I took that very nice "Earth at night wth City Lights" image, just selected all the "yellowy" bits in photoshop. Turned that into an image-mask, and used that to colour in all the bombed out areas... so the cratering would be, you know, where the major cities are.

London was spared being nuked, for some reason in the book.

the HOI4 map is pretty heavily distorted, so ... Moscow's bomb damage is way way off-set and needs to be fixed, lots of little adjustments like that.(actually I should feel pretty good about my Geo-Politiks, since I was only off my 40 miles or so with Moscow)

Also, not sure about the craters... maybe just blackened-Earth would look better?

and here is Atlanta, with the vanilla heightmap and normals.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1138269966

Looks like it truly brings the feel of 1984