Hi Interkarma:)
I re-checked the winter in Jungle & Swamp throughly. Its different from the report from previous page on the DOS Daggerfall and thats good, because its actually consistent in DFU (Sollrakc post at bottom
http://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic. ... 9&start=10 ) Desert biome does not have any winter variant and thats good, so lets forget those for now.
As it is now in DFU Swamp & Jungle winter both have and use:
- winter terrain texture
- winter version of city walls
- winter textures of buildings with few bugs:
(winter jungle/swamp mages guild exterior tex is missing (435 summer = ok, 436 winter = non existent in archives :X)
(winter variant of texture 410 is not used but exists, uses summer variant 409 during winter - easy fix?)
And both Swamp & Jungle do not have:
- winter nature sprites
So I cant ask more of you Interkarma
Because DFU is using what is available, and thats a job well done. Sorry if I came across as not being appreciative of this. I was also confused with the report from DOS version, and I thought thats how it is in DFU, but thats not the case thanksfully.
What I miss is, to be able to support winter variants of sprites for these biomes (and the missing exterior mages texture if possible) That gets us to different topic I think:
Might it be possible to open modding for this system in a sense, that if ( _winter) sprite/texture variant is found, its used. And if not found, it uses the default?
Example sprite: 500_1-0_winter
Also theres the issue with above mentioned non existent winter texture bug(s)
The same system would dictate to use "435_0-0_winter" or creating texture 436 (which would be normally used if Beth did not mess up) - not sure if thats even possible. It would be useful, if I could also add things like the winter variant of Daggerfall Castle or winter hedge around the cemetery etc by supporting the "_winter" texture variants. Still I feel this texture part is not happening
But forcing the DFU to use tex 410 in winter should happen Id say, its in the archives, and using 409 during winter is a vanilla bug. There are more these issues in other biomes but I dont want to mess this post even more...
Thanks for your time, sry for a long post!