Where are the textures surrounding battlefields?

[Myrddraal]

My impression is that the surrounding area does not use textures at all, but simple colours. When you have lots of small textures seen from a distance, not only might it cause lag, but you get unrealistic repeating patterns. I think that the textures simply fade into colour values...

[Duke John]

It seems like the textures are blown up so there is no real pattern to see. I think it would be not very practical to hardcode the colours as ground texture might change and then the coders need to change the code to make the seam less visible. But I'll look further.

[Myrddraal]

perhaps it uses the average colour of the texture? There is certainly no patern to the terrain in the distance...

[Duke John]

I am expexting such a thing, so I'm making all textures blue to see wether the distant textures also become blue.

[SigniferOne]

The only problem with this theory is that there are rivers that extend far in the distance. So one probable explanation is: the ground heights are derived from real data, whereas the texture is probably somehow derived either from camp. map, or from the current tile's ground textures.

[Myrddraal]

The heights are certainly derived from the campaign map. We know this, but its the textures I'm wondering about...

[Duke John]

As far as I know I changed all campaign/battlefield textures to blue and still surrounding textures are as originally. It seems that its either hardcoded or there is a hidden texture. I will just accept it, but keep it mind when you want to change the battlefield textures.