Good call! Perhaps reducing the vertical cracks helps with that (I realized that there are too many). A light stone variant will definitely find its use for the non-sedimentary ranges i.e. Eyrie, Iron Islands and North where I want to try my hand at metamorphous or igneous rock. For the sandstones, I wanna keep the horizontal layers.
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Would happily take an article on frescoes for the Rookery!I also would be happy to provide an article on frescoe's for on here or in the rookery
Yeah I'm using random since it is so much easier to get right than repeat. You may remember that I tried repeat for the Iron Islands a few years ago and failed miserably in scaling it right: weeks of meticulous shading were in vain. I also thought since we've essentially been using repeat I could get away with that
I’ll take a look at the textures in-game when I get a chance and see if the tiling is really that jarring or if I’m just focusing in too much on the image.
Looks more like sand then rock.Limestone-based sets for Westerlands and Reach:
To try them replace the folders that have the same name in your resource pack at .westeroscraft ▸ instances ▸ WesterosCraft-1.11.2 ▸ resourcepacks ▸ WesterosCraft.zip ▸ assets ▸ minecraft ▸ mcpatcher ▸ ctm
These are prototypes so feedback is welcome. They take some getting used to since they are more homogenous than our previous terrain sets:
So obviously, this is just a suggestion. I just go off on Art History Tangents.
But currently, our paintings are very out of the era. Two paintins appears to be Jan Van Eycks, who is the believed inventor of our beloved oil paint. However, Jan Van Eyck is a solid Northern Renaissance painter, and Oil Paint furthermore makes his works unacceptable for the era. Some are also simply just enlarged images of illuminated manuscript illustrations. One even appear to be a Venetian genre scene, which I would pin to be during the popularity of the grand tour which was 17th century stuff. (We shouldn't even have genre scenes, period.)
Rather, wall hanging paintings in generall were pretty uncommon, unless on a small scale, until the introduction of oil paints. Wooden panels, using hide glue gessos and nailed in structures for altarpieces were more common, in addition to this Frescoes also were dominant, as they were cheap. So cheap in fact that the Vatican commissioned artists to paint faux marble in place of buying real marble. Many churches also did this, where their pillars would be 1/4-1/2 marble and the rest painted in.
Frescoes and altarpieces are unfortunately underrepresented on the server. And even more a shame, we have no guilded works! How dare we not represent the trendiest of trends during the Medieval times of Tempera (Egg yolk and pigment) and Gold guild altarpieces and panels?
Essentially, to be historically accurate and create some awesome new septs, new frescoes blocks/paintings (borderless) would be cool. If we were willing to add it, or in the least find some actual medieval images, which would, unfortunately, be all iconographic.
OR, for anyone tossing paintings around their castle, be warned ... you're probably wrong. Unless you're using tapestries or a small 1 by 1 ... eh.
I'm not a medieval expert, but I do know my Renaissance well, and so I know the "this was new at the time" information. And take note there is some overlap of the middle ages and the renaissance. And our server fluctuates in what we deam to be it's date. Some historians claim different dates for the end of each era and region, and Subject. So of course this is debatable. My preference is to claim anything after the late 14th-century is Renaissance, especially anything after the introduction of oil point and one-point perspective.
I would also be happy to provide an article on the process of frescoes from the Arriccio to Giornata. I've learned this process 3 times as it seems every art history professor is obsessed with it. It's actually weirdly complicated and multiple processes too that it we could represent.
TL;DR Our Paintings are Renaissance and inaccurate for most of the dark ages (in terms of art history) We need more frescoes, as we're lacking on that no matter what (a dominate medium for a large portion of history completely unrepresented) So I am proposing fresco blocks. I also would be happy to provide an article on frescoe's for on here or in the rookery
Just generally FYI (Not in direct response to you Otty, but perhaps triggered by your write up)!
There is a burden of activating energy for me in making any texture which is the amount of time I need to spend to identify and find the right source material. So from now on, suggestions for new textures should come with a folder of appropriately selected example images or at least a set of links to fitting material.
I'm happy to try my hand at anything, but I'm less inclined to do so if it means hours of research before I can even get started.
