The tiling looks odd because there isn't any. The engine doesn't use bitmap tiles, instead it paints the terrain by blending texture samples (grass/rock/sand etc) together according to a rule-set (height/slope etc). It means that most features need to be hand-painted but there's no tile repetition.



We can add a sat map underlay but at a resolution of 1 pixel per 10M square meters it doesn't have the desired effect. It just adds noise and minor colour variation.

Without sat-map underlay:


With sat-map underlay set to blend at 50%:



The benefits in low lying areas are quite promising.




Cheers

i think the sat map underlay adds more variation and looks more organic. like in the lower right hand corner it looks like the dirt is a different shade.

I hope you guys don't mind yet another random "good work fella's" comment but, erm, good work fella's.

I stumbled across the CH blogspot site by pure accident and I've spent the last few days reading through every entry.
I can really only reitterate what others have been saying for over a year; This is a game that's been crying out to be made for almost a decade and it's criminal that there's no big studio paying you to do it.
Still, at least you're free to create a game that people really want rather than a glorified shoot-em-up for the console generation.

Looking forward to it.