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eleazar:
Rather than attempting a photographic view of the earth from orbit, i think it would be more useful (and more interesting) to create an view such as a commander might use to plan global strategy, such as the roughly done attached image.

The various national blocks each have their own color with slightly glowing borders, and population centers are indicated by white dots.  I think it looks more appropriately science-fictiony, while also being more useful.

I can more carefully produce such a texture at double the resolution of the current one if desired.  Currently the game crashes for me if i give it a 4096x 2048 texture, but there may be a way to avoid that.

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Winter:

--- Quote from: eleazar on January 28, 2008, 02:51:12 am ---Rather than attempting a photographic view of the earth from orbit, i think it would be more useful (and more interesting) to create an view such as a commander might use to plan global strategy, such as the roughly done attached image.

The various national blocks each have their own color with slightly glowing borders, and population centers are indicated by white dots.  I think it looks more appropriately science-fictiony, while also being more useful.

I can more carefully produce such a texture at double the resolution of the current one if desired.  Currently the game crashes for me if i give it a 4096x 2048 texture, but there may be a way to avoid that.

--- End quote ---

Rather than replacing the geoscape texture, we would like to use semi-transparent overlays to allow the player to get a more informative map. I.E. political overlay (what you've done here), radar overlay, aircraft range overlay, alien activity overlay, etc. etc.

All of these would be activated by the click of a button on the geoscape interface.

If we have all the graphics for these options, I'm sure the coders would be persuaded to include them in version 2.3. ;)

Regards,
Winter

eleazar:
Ok, here's a semi-transparent national boundary overlay.  It doesn't quite match the one included in 2.2

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eleazar:
Also attached is a matching higher res version of the controlling image: "map_earth_nations".  I've added a color to indicate the polar ice caps incase anyone ever wants to distinguish between that and open sea.

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BTAxis:
You don't seem to realize that we don't have any polar ice caps (well, Antarctica is still there). In 2084, they've melted.

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