Blue Marble Terrain

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ColdFever of civilized.de has been working on a Blue Marble Terrain set for Civilization IV, based on satellite images of the NASA Blue Marble project.

April 17, 2006:

The Blue Marble terrain has been updated to version 2.00. Special thanks go to Firaxis for the new Civ4 patch that now allows alternative terrain graphics in protected multi-player games under competition conditions. Additions and changes:
  • optionally available low resolution textures for weaker computers
  • darker jungles for better contrast against regular forests
  • drier plains for better contrast against grassland
  • wetter flood plains for better contrast against other terrain
  • preliminary support for the upcoming Warlords-Addon

Download
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=6

BlueMarble Homepage (English):
http://www.civfanatics.net/bluemarble

Screenshot:


 
Woh they look very good.

I can see this becoming a must-have for every Civ game
 
Yeah I was playing around with Blue Marble myself the past few days. The maps NASA produces are incredible. The fullsize map is 2+ gb packed and 10gb unpacked lol.
 
Once this gets released I'll have a new source of maps to play with :)
 
I applaud the effort...however...with a THREE-tile Cuba, it doesn't really make sense to have the Mountain Peak in the East---might I suggest hills? Ditto for the areas of Texas and Mexico that I can see on that 2nd screenshot... Just some thoughts, as in Civ4, mountains are USELESS terrain, so they should be used sparingly.
 
Amazing graphics, kudos to NASA. Good to know we have inflitrated every major Agency in the world. Soon Civ community will take over the whole world and wars and diplomacy will take a new turn. :)
 
I'm really looking forward to this. I hope the terrain textures look nicer (than the originals) when zoomed in.
 
That
looks
fantastic.
 
Mujadaddy said:
with a THREE-tile Cuba, it doesn't really make sense to have the Mountain Peak in the East---might I suggest hills? Ditto for the areas of Texas and Mexico that I can see on that 2nd screenshot... Just some thoughts, as in Civ4, mountains are USELESS terrain, so they should be used sparingly.
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The BlueMarble terrain just results in new graphics, not new maps. The World Map you see here is the one included with Civ4 and AFAIK the author is Rhye. So I suggest to forward your suggestion to him via PM.
 
*faints at the thought of the possibilities*
 
Tunch Khan said:
Amazing graphics, kudos to NASA. Good to know we have inflitrated every major Agency in the world. Soon Civ community will take over the whole world and wars and diplomacy will take a new turn. :)
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Perhaps future wars will be fought by the governments playing Civ IV instead of actually fighting? We can only hope :goodjob:
 
Finally, new terrain graphics!
I can't remember the last time that I played Civ 3 with the original graphic set. Guess I can forget what vanilla Civ4 terrain looks like starting next week. :D
 
ColdFever,

I've read that it's possible to make the terrain change over time, is it possible to get the terrain change in seasons then?

It would just be a simple change of textures every X number of turns.
 
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