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[Meph]

Hey guys,

I had a strange mood and thought that I could restrict grasses to specific biomes and use them to give them a unique look each. I can never tell ingame if something is grassland, savanna, shrubland... it all looks quite similar. So I changed that.

Now I need to improve what I have and I'd be very happy to get second opinions on it. It looks rather busy in tropical/savanna regions for example, but I guess that's the point.

I couldnt work much with color schemes, because plants, crops and trees still have to fit into every biome.

Here the biomes:

Spoiler: Badlands (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Broadleaf forest (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Conifer forest (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Moist tropical forest (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Dry tropical forest (bamboo) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Desert (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Grassland (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Glacier (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Savanna (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Mountain (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Tundra (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Marsh (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Swamp (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Ocean (with driftwood) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Rocky wasteland (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Taiga (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Shrubland (click to show/hide)

Technically there are more, like distinctions between saltwater/freshwater swamps/marshes, or temperate/tropical grassland/shrubland/savanna. Ocean, pool, lake and river biomes I left out too, since there is no grass underwater anyway.

Good, evil, cavern 1, 2 and 3 biomes also have their unique style, but that's pretty standard.

So, any suggestions on how I could improve them?

[TomiTapio]

These look brilliant!
On the glacier there could be one tile that is a large splitting Y-shape crack, and white snow accumulations.
Badlands: more brown on the edges of gray stone tiles, perhaps.
Tundra, way less rocks I guess.
Marsh looks like it needs something quite different.

[Meph]

These look brilliant! Thank you!

On the glacier there could be one tile that is a large splitting Y-shape crack, and white snow accumulations. Glaciers only allow me to use a single sprite, it's all "ice".

Badlands: more brown on the edges of gray stone tiles, perhaps. It takes on the color of the floor material, this one happens to be gray. If it were clay or loam or sandstone, it would have been brown.

Tundra, way less rocks I guess. Sadly I can't affect that. I add the graphics with grass; Tundras often only have a "scarce" or "none" vegetation. The rocks are just normal floor without grass.

Marsh looks like it needs something quite different. Suggestions? I wanted to do cattails/reeds at first, but I can't force them to grow on river/pool edges, so I went with thorns/thistles instead. Vanilla DF marsh thistles, to be exact.

[TomiTapio]

Marsh grass, maybe try the pine needle tiles you have on top image's bottomrow 2nd image. Indicate uneven, hard to walk terrain.

[Meph]

Something like this?

[Dahrk]

I really like it! If I was being really picky, the only thing I'd point out are that the conifer leaf texture is a bit grainy and the shading on the edges of the stone floors disrupt the rhythm somewhat.

[Sver]

If I understand correctly, the exact color of foliage in determined by the raws, but maybe make the conifer foliage a bit darker than broadleaf in general, if that's possible?