Questions about development and the plains biome

[Adam the Waster]

Okay so from what I remember joel saying that the reason why the plans AND maple forest were removed (he forgot to mention the maple forest but its okay I remember you)

"Programmer says we only get so many terrain textures, so the farming got nuked and we lost the plains biome. Noone wanted it not even us, but we weren't about to throw away the new shader after months of work to make everything look 5000 times better so we were faced with deleting content to make it work." -madmole

My understanding of it is basicly there's only so many special ground textures the game can have. I believe we only have like 8 ground textures and adding the 5 ores then it would be 13. My meth might be wrong though. Yes I said meth

But in terms of some off the missing textures the ones we use to have were clay, silver, gold, diamonds, farmland, plains topsoil and maple forest top soil

In terms of the 2 biome soils, couldn't they just reuse the pine forest soil but tint it a different color? It's not a unique texture just recolored. I dont know if that would classify as a new texture cuz mu knowledge of development is limited for now is kinda low.

Same for the grass, I mean we got recolored grass so I dont see if it isn't possible.

While i miss the rich clay soil in wouldnt loose sleep that its gone but most people aren't going to study the ground texture to a Tea they just care about color.

The maple and plains really added alot to the world and more biomes to add progression through the better.

TLDR:
In terms of the 2 biome soils, couldn't they just reuse the pine forest soil but tint it a different color? It's not a unique texture just recolored.

 

[Gamida]

I tell you something I wouldn't miss...that short ■■■■ grass.
The stuff you can't see when you are trying to dig.
Every single time I play, I use a mod that removes it.
I hate it with a passion.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

It is one of the caveats of Microsplat by Jason Booth. Textures use to be rendered using
a texture atlas. The benefit of Microsplat outweighs the atlas though. Gpu rendering and
Cpu access to the textures, Layered and masked textures meaning the terrain textures you see
now vs then, is more efficient picturesque and faster. I think it also lowers the ram necessary.

Atlas was a single huge sheet of jointed tiles, of individual images, that had .xml coordinates.
Texture2darray is like a deck of cards but to the Gpu it is like one image. Maybe later either
Jason may rewrite microsplat to include more texture depth, or TFP may try Megasplat.

 

[Roland]

the farming got nuked and we lost the plains biome. Noone wanted it not even us,

I think this says it all. If there was an easy fix that could be handled with tinting they would have done it.