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Mars Theme
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Description
For those of us out there who want a civilisation on Mars, I hope this helps you out.

This theme has realistic Mars temperatures for the Snow Fall DLC. So temperatures can go down to -73C at night and up to only 20C in the daytime. So ye be warned, it's a tad chilly.

I'm making this theme as accurately as I can, with a little artistic liberty thrown in for good measure of course. With that in mind these are the main differences from a typical (Earth) map theme:

- Small Sun (to account for increased distance)
- Two small moons, Deimos and Phobos, instead of our Moon.
- Red skies and blue sunrises/sunsets.
- New textures for the terrain, to give it that Mars feel.
- Temperatures from -73C at night to 20C in the daytime.

Maps I have created using this theme so far:

- Mars Crater Lake http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=629829195
With more maps on the way. Suggestions welcome.

Maps created by other users:

- Olympus Mons https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1563790760 by Valareos.

Please let me know if you use this theme to make a new map, as I would love to see how it's been used.
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Zetnus Jun 21, 2020 @ 12:04pm 
I'm working on a Mars map of my own. Was actually making a custom theme for myself. I'll try yours though and see how it looks.
Which biome is it based on? I'm asking because a lot of the vanilla-themed Mars maps use boreal and just paint sand on the whole map:
Père Tinence Apr 21, 2020 @ 4:19am 
Thank you for your answer!! I will try again this afternnon!
Asone Dec 28, 2018 @ 5:05pm 
I'm glad you used a more rustic color instead of just making the grass blood red and calling it 'mars', good job!
Solarsheep  [author] Nov 12, 2018 @ 4:11pm 
Thanks for using my theme! Olympus Mons looks stunning! I'm always so happy to see people making use of my mod. I've put your map in the description too! I'll take it down if you wish though. Thanks again!
valareos Nov 12, 2018 @ 3:15pm 
Hey there. Letting yiou know ive used your theme for my Real World-Olympus Mons Map located https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1563790760
Stonedmonkeyboy Nov 25, 2016 @ 4:46pm 
this theme really is nice. kinda gave me some insperation cheack out my workshop if your interested in seeing what you inspired me to do if nt thats cool to I just wanted to say thanks for the effort you put in. :-)
Solarsheep  [author] May 5, 2016 @ 7:47am 
Hmm, very strange indeed. Have you tried starting a new game with my Mars map and this theme enabled? does it appear green on that?
TPG2112 May 5, 2016 @ 1:51am 
yeah, going that route. i mean I've played around with the editor, just never themes.
Tried re subcribing and following this advice, and can't seem to get it to show the red rocky terrain. The visibiliity and sun look alright, but everything is still grassy.
Solarsheep  [author] May 4, 2016 @ 4:27pm 
glad to hear you want to try your hand at map making with my theme! Just to check are you going to Tools at the main menu, map editor, new, user themes making sure the "Mars Theme" is centered/selected and pressing create? It should start you off in a map with that as the theme.

here's a link to the official wiki about map making as a helpful little guide to get you going too. http://www.skylineswiki.com/Map_Editor

If it still doesn't work, make sure you've tried re-subscribing to the if you haven't already. Hope that helps.
TPG2112 May 3, 2016 @ 8:42pm 
Alright so question then, if I wanted to make custom maps using this theme, how would I do that? I've subscribed to this and have made sure that it is enabled, as well as when I go to make the map, I select it from the user themes. Anything I'm doing wrong? Sorry, kind of new to the map editing.