02.07.2009, 19:21
You make it sound like central and east Texas is a desert dust bowl which it is not. Maybe you're thinking more of west Texas. Central TX has some of the most fertile blackland soil in the US. Yes, we do have droughts and summers do get hot and dry but there are no dust storms like in west Texas where the land was over-grazed by cattle and farmers used bad methods back then.
And much of east Texas is of pine forests and is a little more green due to storms from the Gulf.
Like you said, the land is more like the steppe of Russia with large open grasslands before the colonization. Really the only colonizing done by the Spanish (and Mexicans) was at San Antonio and some other towns in the south. They were here in "name only." The settling was done by American immigrants so much of the state has an "American" influence rather than Spanish.
You'll be hard pressed to find an adobe building around here. Houses (especially WW2 time) have a western-European/American look to them with white being the most common color. A large portion of the population is of immigrant families from Germany and the Czech lands and buildings show this. These types of buildings can be found in the custom objects we already have.
New textures might have to be made for the farms so we'll see how it goes. Cotton fields were more abundant at that time so that might need a special texture.
And much of east Texas is of pine forests and is a little more green due to storms from the Gulf.
Like you said, the land is more like the steppe of Russia with large open grasslands before the colonization. Really the only colonizing done by the Spanish (and Mexicans) was at San Antonio and some other towns in the south. They were here in "name only." The settling was done by American immigrants so much of the state has an "American" influence rather than Spanish.
You'll be hard pressed to find an adobe building around here. Houses (especially WW2 time) have a western-European/American look to them with white being the most common color. A large portion of the population is of immigrant families from Germany and the Czech lands and buildings show this. These types of buildings can be found in the custom objects we already have.
New textures might have to be made for the farms so we'll see how it goes. Cotton fields were more abundant at that time so that might need a special texture.
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