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Well Well... This idea is insane!

Added 2022-07-07 19:23:04 +0000 UTC

Get ready OldSunset's next step is relatively ambitious! And it's going to be a lot of work for me, but if it works... Can you identify what it is in this image?

Let me explain: Sometimes on my walks, I dream of the perfect world in The Sims 3, and it includes raised grass! This will be a big challenge to incorporate into the map, not only because plants can't be moved on the vertical and diagonal axis, but mainly because depending on the point of view, it's not at all attractive.

I'm doing some tests throughout the day to see how viable it is to incorporate this into the map. Even if it's around lots in the flat regions. I would love to, because the visual result is incredible. I'm making minute adjustments to color, saturation, contrast, brightness, to achieve the same hue as the world's standard grass. And it just keeps getting better!

How it started:

How its going: (With reshade and ansel filters)

You know I love using ansel and reshade filters, so the result needs to look good whether I'm using filters or not, as there will still be tons of people who will play on this map without ansel or reshade filters (unfortunately) and in that case, I'd like to ensure they had pleasing visual results as well.

The Same, but without reshade and ansel filters:

Balancing all this is difficult. Unfortunately it is very saturated without filters or reshade, but if I change the original color with filters and reshade it will be very pale. Either way, the mix between terrain and grass is conveniently more uniform now than when I started.

So to work we need to make sure it looks good with filters or without. Regarding performance, I don't think there's much to fear, because CAW merges samples of the same plants within the quadrants, so I imagine that for example, 500 samples after merged will be interpreted by the game as just one plant. The advantage of The Sims 3 over the others is this!