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Apr 25, 2021 @ 3:32pm
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TNO City Lights & Other Improvements

Description
Have you ever wondered while playing TNO why there has been no (visible) urbanization since 1936? How cities and their lights look the same despite almost 30 years passing since the start of World War 2? Well this mod attempts to fix that by expanding on the urbanization and city lights of nations to fit the 1962 year, among other changes.

Notable Changes in cities:
-The Rhineland is now very bright, and its cities have been expanded greatly along the river.
-Berlin (Germania) has been expanded in both city size and city light reach to reflect its canonical development since WW2
-The capitals and major cities of the Russian warlords (Barring wastelands) have been added and lit up, so small cities now dot the Russian wastes
-Cities in German Russia have been reduced in size greatly due to the unchecked devastation and depopulation from WW2
-Ost Paris is now mostly dark, for there is no hope under the black sun.
-Burgundy in general is dimmer than the rest of Europe, in similar style to North Korea.
-America has been lit up like the beacon of Democracy it is, with the east coast especially becoming very urbanized and full of lights.
-Japanese cities have been expanded along with their lights to reflect the economic growth from having half of Asia under their control.
-Chinese cities have been slightly expanded as have their lights to reflect a slightly more developed China, though still poor in rural regions.
-Certain areas in Adriatica now have city lights to reflect settlement in the "fertile lands" of atlantropa
-Mexico city now exists.
-Madrid and Istanbul have been expanded to reflect what the mod describes as "rapid growth".
-South African cities are now visible since the region is much more important than in the base game
-Minor touch-ups to India, Australia and South America

Other Improvements:
-Fixed the heightmap which is notably not present in the original TNO mod
-Fixed the normalmap as well, which adds shadows

This does not affect gameplay, and is purely for flavor.
7 Comments
Serov TNO Jun 30, 2024 @ 1:48am 
Please Update
ZombieNation Jul 22, 2021 @ 3:40pm 
Not working sadly.
Salty Bananas  [author] Jul 14, 2021 @ 12:42pm 
Does it even work? I never actually tested it so :/
Ukinky Jun 12, 2021 @ 4:33am 
This is much better than the other tno lights mod
Dragnulls Jun 11, 2021 @ 8:14pm 
this is something I didn't knew I needed until now
Swaggy4Sure Jun 4, 2021 @ 9:10pm 
well done mate
Salty Bananas  [author] May 12, 2021 @ 4:33pm 
Oops, turns out a guy released his own version of this mod publicly before I did