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Visually Distinctive Terrains - Arid Biome
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Nov 1, 2014 @ 3:38am
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Visually Distinctive Terrains - Arid Biome

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Description
I had a problem of seeing what terrain type a tile is without looking on the tooltip, so I decided to create this mod. It retextures the games terrain so that all the terrain types are more distinctive and easier to distinguish between.

This particular instance fixes only the Arid biome, with the other biomes soon to follow.

To everyone who wants to play this mod in normal singleplayer and multiplayer - There is a way to make this possible by forcing C:BE to load loose asset files instead of FPK files. Unfortunately, i haven't figured out how to make that work yet. If you can help, leave a comment :)

Thanks to Nutty from the CivFanatcis forum with helping me understand how the mod tools work. Enjoy your colonizing :)

Here's a download link for those of you who have problems using Steam Workshop: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=13584257#post13584257

Update #1
- Made the grass tiles darker
- Grass bushels on grass tiles are now a darker colour than their terrain
- Made the undergrowth in forests darker and more visible
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Odette Tacker Oct 2, 2024 @ 1:44pm 
Highly recommed mod. I had a problem with visibility and clear picture. This fix this
cruisnk Oct 22, 2021 @ 3:33am 
Buzzerker, what mods do you use
Buzzerker Oct 21, 2021 @ 5:38pm 
This mod doesn't work but there are some that still do, I use about 5 of them all the time, every game I play. There is no normal level in this game, Vostok is the middle of the road level, actually it's one notch above that and all that difficulty levels do is make your AI opponents better than you. It gives them an edge in bonuses and I think it might give you penalties. It's not the greatest game but it's far from what Rayki is saying, this game has some really cool concepts, graphics aren't bad, tech tree isn't bad, combat is fun, units are cool, diplomacy is pretentious but it should be, it's about survival of the fittest on a hostile alien world after the fall of earth.
Buzzerker Oct 21, 2021 @ 5:35pm 
a quick comment on what Rayki's comment. This mod is trash, I don't know what the author even made it for because he indicates that if you want to use it for 'normal' multiplayer or singleplayer, then you have some hoops to jump through. Use RESHADE instead, it works and there are a handful of other mods that make this an excellent game. Rising Tide is awesome, Rayki didn't know what he was talking about, I play this game all the time, it's the best damn Sci Fi Civ game ever made, better than that ancient old mess that needs a serious new version the god-like legendary Alpha Centauri. I can't bring myself to play that game it's so damn old. The UI is like trying to figure out Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Rayki Nov 14, 2020 @ 5:25pm 
@Everyone Most mods for this game have been abandoned since 2014, they don't work properly because Firaxis essentially fucked the game up at a code level and it became a nightmare for modders. That was when Firaxis essentially abandoned the game, face with trying to fix the abortion that was Rising Tide they instead threw in the towel and left you all with a broken product.

This game will never run right on it's own, let alone with mods, I'd give up and get something else.
Believe And You Will Be Saved Oct 15, 2019 @ 3:12pm 
i got the dlc and the game, but each time i make a game or custom game i get error message saying it fail to install texture so i'm frusrtated the mod not works for me... for any visual mod it not works, fail to load textures ...
Doctor G Oct 3, 2019 @ 1:16pm 
if it does not work, then push the flag and report it as so
Ryan Gosling Feb 22, 2018 @ 8:30pm 
Why would you create and then release a mod that doesn't work?
mr_mellow3 Aug 14, 2017 @ 12:02pm 
"To everyone who wants to play this mod in normal singleplayer and multiplayer - There is a way to make this possible by forcing C:BE to load loose asset files instead of FPK files. Unfortunately, i haven't figured out how to make that work yet. If you can help, leave a comment :)"

If you can't make it work in single player what was the point? Can't recommend this collection. Didn't work for me at all.
SeriousApache May 26, 2017 @ 11:42am 
Yeah, in BE one type of terrain can have many models, it is realy confusing (moreever if you play always with random map).
But thanks God we always have small window with information about current tile, which exists all time.
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