Grass Paint Tool

[Monkeysaur]

Please could someone make a tool which allows you to paint the grass texture to a nicer brighter green to make parks.

There is a tree brush tool, so brushing is possible, and there is pollution color changes for grass, so I guess this idea is quite possible?

I would like to make open spaces as parks in my city, any size and shape I want (using roads). But I would like to be able to paint the grass a little greener and nicer for this.

Thanks!

OOPS: can someone move this to the Wishlist? Sorry.

[leftbehind]

these any use? http://steamcommunity.com/id/Sooden/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710&p=2

[Monkeysaur]

Thanks I''ll give those a try. Although if a paint tool could be used instead of a prop it might be easier. I really only want to change the colour of the grass as it is, maybe make it a little brighter.

I will try these out though, thanks!

[MouttonNoir]

A very useful function present in SC4 & frustratingly absent in CS- really restricts options/creativity to create larger municipal parkland in game.

[Monkeysaur]

Originally posted by MouttonNoir:

A very useful function present in SC4 & frustratingly absent in CS- really restricts options/creativity to create larger municipal parkland in game.

I would think it's so easy to someone who knows what they are doing, maybe I'm wrong.

All it really needs is to take the purple grass pollution fuction, make it work as a brush tool, and change the color to a slightly brighter green.

I hope someone will have a stab at this at some point, the grass as it is is just a little too bland for my parks.

[grapplehoeker]

This is one of my favourite customisations for the game. So, let me give you a crash course ;)
First of all some assets use their own textures, while others will use the terrain texture for grass. So bear that in mind for parks.
Secondly, The Color Correction option in Options (while in game) will allow you to change the lighting. This has a huge effect on the colour and brightness of all textures. You can also subscribe to different colour correction settings (LUT's) from the Workshop.

Some examples of different lighting
European lighting
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455728168
Clear and Bright lighting (a LUT by Scotland Tom)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455728479
Blockbuster lighting (another LUT)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455728662
As you can see, there is a clear difference in appearance. Maybe this is enough for you. If not, then let's play with different textures and look at those 3 scenes/lighting again ;)

There is a great mod called Terrain Texture Replacer; it's one of my favourites. With it you can swap out the default textures for any texture you want. So, if it's different coloured grass, or sand or water, or gravel....etc. Free textures are readily available everywhere, so you can use whatever you like.
My textures + European lighting
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455729560
My textures + Clear and Bright
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455729359
My textures + Blockbuster
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455729121
'My textures' are different textures I've swapped out using the Terrain Texture replacer for all of the default terrain texture types. I particularly like this water texture, which has much increased transparency.

Hope this gives you some inspiration and I'll leave you with one of the nicest terrain replacements for grass... snow ;)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455732093

[Monkeysaur]

Thanks for the post

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

This is one of my favourite customisations for the game. So, let me give you a crash course ;)
First of all some assets use their own textures, while others will use the terrain texture for grass. So bear that in mind for parks.
Secondly, The Color Correction option in Options (while in game) will allow you to change the lighting. This has a huge effect on the colour and brightness of all textures. You can also subscribe to different colour correction settings (LUT's) from the Workshop.

Some examples of different lighting
European lighting
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455728168
Clear and Bright lighting (a LUT by Scotland Tom)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455728479
Blockbuster lighting (another LUT)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455728662
As you can see, there is a clear difference in appearance. Maybe this is enough for you. If not, then let's play with different textures and look at those 3 scenes/lighting again ;)

There is a great mod called Terrain Texture Replacer; it's one of my favourites. With it you can swap out the default textures for any texture you want. So, if it's different coloured grass, or sand or water, or gravel....etc. Free textures are readily available everywhere, so you can use whatever you like.
My textures + European lighting
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455729560
My textures + Clear and Bright
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455729359
My textures + Blockbuster
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455729121
'My textures' are different textures I've swapped out using the Terrain Texture replacer for all of the default terrain texture types. I particularly like this water texture, which has much increased transparency.

Hope this gives you some inspiration and I'll leave you with one of the nicest terrain replacements for grass... snow ;)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455732093

Thanks for the post, I'll take a look at this.

Is there any way to keep the default grass texture, but change it only in places I want to? Or you have to swap out all the grass?

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by dancjm:

Thanks for the post, I'll take a look at this.

Is there any way to keep the default grass texture, but change it only in places I want to? Or you have to swap out all the grass?

Unfortunately not, the default texture for grass is just grass and not different types of grass, so when you change the grass, it is globally affective. And remember what I said about certain assets that either use or don't use the terrain grass. Some parks do and some don't. Those that don't you could change the texture by re-editing the asset.
I'll use the snow replacement as it clearly shows what has changed and what hasn't as an example.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455731355
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455731594

[Monkeysaur]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by dancjm:

Thanks for the post, I'll take a look at this.

Is there any way to keep the default grass texture, but change it only in places I want to? Or you have to swap out all the grass?

Unfortunately not, the default texture for grass is just grass and not different types of grass, so when you change the grass, it is globally affective. And remember what I said about certain assets that either use or don't use the terrain grass. Some parks do and some don't. Those that don't you could change the texture by re-editing the asset.
I'll use the snow replacement as it clearly shows what has changed and what hasn't as an example.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455731355
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455731594

Wow that snow looks cool.

You see, what I really want is the grass like the football pitch, but I want to be able to paint it where I want it!

Do you think painting on new textures is out of the question?

It would be great to be able to have a snowy town in the mountain and normal summer grass everywhere else!!

[leftbehind]

@grapplehoeker: I hope you can do a guide in the Guides tab at to show how to recreate some of your textures and so on. I think it would be hugely popular.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by aubergine18:

@grapplehoeker: I hope you can do a guide in the Guides tab at to show how to recreate some of your textures and so on. I think it would be hugely popular.

Heh well the above post is almost a tutorial already, but sure I'll think about it ;)
Would be nice if my current 2 guides hadn't been removed from the Guides section without notification or reason given. Until I know why, I'm not submitting anything more.