Alpha Centauri 2

Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: gwillybj on September 30, 2013, 11:15:52 PM

Title: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: gwillybj on September 30, 2013, 11:15:52 PM

Tomorrow We Go Fishing

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 30, 2013, 11:38:40 PM

;b;

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: ariete on October 01, 2013, 12:04:02 PM

cool, i'm already breathing xenofungos essence

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 01:39:15 AM

I hear a low humming, quiet singing (where are the razorbeaks?),  like a choir almost... dreamy... AAAUGH!

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Geo on October 02, 2013, 09:24:04 AM

Quote from: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 01:39:15 AM

(where are the razorbeaks?)

In the water? ;)

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 03:21:09 PM

That's the Sporefish. The Razorbeaks were birds, "tending" the fungal stalks, collecting pollen from the many-colored flowers.

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 02, 2013, 03:24:59 PM

Firaxis concept art:

(http://alphacentauri2.info/official/razorbeak.gif)

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 08:28:28 PM

Looks like a cricket - too much like what a locust would be.

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 02, 2013, 08:29:42 PM

[shrugs]

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 09:01:02 PM

Just a snippet from the blurbs, why my thinking is razorbeaks are like a hummingbird. Also introducing the glowmite, which brings to my mind a picture of a small dung beetle or a tiny bee.

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##Centauri Empathy
#TECH58
Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms;
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink.
Follow the Glow Mites as they gather and organize the fallen spores.
What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something
is {managing} the ecology of this planet.
^
^        -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^           "Planet Dreams"

(Which reminds me - I left out the yellow in the fungus...)

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Geo on October 02, 2013, 09:09:00 PM

Quote from: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 03:21:09 PM

That's the Sporefish. The Razorbeaks were birds, "tending" the fungal stalks, collecting pollen from the many-colored flowers.

Ah. Mixed 'm up with Svensgaard's Razorsharks.

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 02, 2013, 09:10:18 PM

I always took it as more birdlike based on the same quote, but it doesn't actually preclude an insect-like appearance at all.  Still, a concept that didn't make it into the game is hardly binding.



I've fungused up many a landscape shot to make diplomacy landscapes for custom factions - I think the last time I did it was for an MP banner page.  Let's poke around a little...

This one started as a snowscape, so the challenge was in getting small bits of the white to select.  I probably should have done more stippling to mix colors...

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: gwillybj on October 02, 2013, 09:16:11 PM

;b;

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 03, 2013, 09:44:34 PM

Here's a Planetfall landscape - all I actually did to this was add scanlines...

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: ariete on October 04, 2013, 12:45:51 PM

i don't understand why there are a lot of wind blades ???

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Geo on October 04, 2013, 03:03:16 PM

Quote from: ariete on October 04, 2013, 12:45:51 PM

i don't understand why there are a lot of wind blades ???

That's because the Civ4 Planetfall mod uses wind turbines instead of solar panels for early energy gathering. ;)

Title: Re: Chiron Landscapes
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 04, 2013, 03:12:57 PM

They run the pumps.  How would I know?