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These are really cool, Ravs!
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It's 'Comic Relief week' in the UK. This is where money is raised for all sorts of good causes for poor people.
One of the areas they have been in is Kibera, which is a slum in Nairobi. I have to confess that I broke down when I saw the conditions that people there lived in. One of the documentaries was about a family of five children who are looked after by the eldest lad (aged 15) and who saw their parents shot dead and then had to fend for themselves. They were living in a shack which housed an open sewer doing what they could do to make ends meet when they were met by Lenny Henry (a British comedian who stopped being funny many years ago, but is still something of a national treasure). Lenny couldn't take it, and bought them a new place to live rather than waiting for the donation money to do it.
Anyway, it struck me that I've been posting up textures of slums for our maps. So here is one of Kibera. There is also a button for giving to Comic relief. If you use the texture (or even if you don't) please make a donation. They made the slums. The least we could do is to give them a bit of money for the textures we use.
cheers
Ravs
A Youtube video about life in Kibera
Comic Relief Donation Here.
Rav you are awesome. Period.
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Here is one which might make a good scattered forest texture.
Spot on, Ravi. Snagged 'cuz I know I'm gonna play with it.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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And here is a 2048 tiling field texture (always handy).
Oh man. I could have used this a month ago when I was designing a stained glass window of Kilkenny castle and surrounds in landscape...had to draw the fields by hand.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Here is a quick texture I created (free to use) for making wheat fields. Looks best when scaled down
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