Snowfall THEME I – Snowy Mountains
Please note: this is just a temporary band-aid. In order to make a truly custom theme, the map theme editor requires someone who knows texture mapping and all that stuff, so.. that wouldn’t be me I made this just to tide me over. By the way, if you don’t like totally whilte mountains (totally reasonable), there are quite a few snowy map themes out now that also take the yellow! Have fun shopping, pick what you like!
How to paint the two snowy textures and paint the ice: BloodyPenguin’s More Landscaping Tools gives you pretty much anything you would want from resource painting to a tree brush to a terrain editing brush… it’s astounding. Check it out here, works great. Sand, Oil and Ore (the three “paints” in this pack) can be drawn on your map using the resource brush of this mod:
This pack is for Snowfall maps / cities. You can change to this map theme when you load a new map or load your existing game or start a new one.
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– Nighttime looks more like TPB’s proof of concept Skyscape:
– Brilliant, beautiful universe effect (visible milky way and nebula)
– Stars are much brighter
– Bluey tint as close as I could get to Skyscape
– Lowered Fog events, Increased Snow events.
– Moved to a higher latitude so the sun runs a little lower on the horizon.
– Increased Aurora incidence
– Water colors (under and clean) have been changed to closer match the glacier ice color
– Fertile has no color effect at all, farm fields are white snow
– Oil has a very rough snowy texture that has an extremely subtle hint of dormant grass underneath rough broken up snow. You can use mod mentioned below to paint this just like the glacier ice!
– Cliff (mountainside) is based off of the oil texture above. Any hint of green whatsoever was taken out, and the result is pretty decent. A cliff texture that really looks nice and seamless, and has a distinct roughness to it. Snowy, but hints of grey rock, too, visible in the shadows
– Grass is a fluffy texture whose little sparkles hopefully show up, but doesn’t matter if not
– Ore is a very muted (transparency) crackled bluish tint to the snow. It works pretty well I think
– Sand as ice – As before, you can use sand to paint ice in a muted, more natural glacier ice color than you see in photos (I dunno, is it really that amazingly blue?) It looks great along the shoreline, or underwater near the shore is nice, it will deepen the icy color it already is, sort of gives it a shinier look (kinda like ice ? )
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PROGRESS NOTES:
21 Feb: I really dislike the current colors of sunrise sunset. Will be fixing that. This is a slow process even just for a minor changing theme pack like this one.
Map theme Fully snowy mountains, bluish glacier ice (snow) and absolutely no yellow snow!
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