BUG/BAT Terrain

Love the mod, so to all the folks who have put forth effort so that freeloaders such as myself can enjoy the fruits of their labor, you have my deep appreciation.

When I orignally installed BUG/BAT, I also installed Blue Marble. I found the terrain looking fantastic but it was really dark. In regards to the oceans, I found it almost impossible to tell what I had already explored.

The newest version uses new terrain. I can now tell what I've explored in the oceans. Zoomed in, the terrain and water looks excellent. However I tend to play zoomed out a bit and the new terrain looks very bad to me out at even medium zoom. Very pixel-ish. The plains and grasslands are difficult for me to distinguish. Perhaps it is my old eyes but it is a problem for me.

How would I go about removing the use of the new terrain and just go back to the default? Do I uninstall Blue Marble or are there files in the mod folder I can just delete so it uses the original CIV IV terrain?

I appreciate any guidance in this matter.

I haven't tried this yet, but I supposed the easiest way would be to delete the file from the assets folder called IG_v2.0.7.FPK. If that doesn't work, maybe just try reinstalling BlueMarble. That's strange that it would look pixelated to you. I believe the Ocean is the same as is used in Colonization.

Think you could take a screen shot and let us see?

alerum68 said:

I haven't tried this yet, but I supposed the easiest way would be to delete the file from the assets folder called IG_v2.0.7.FPK.

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Deleting that file worked, thank you very much for the guidance.

I am really glad that this was posted as I too had some difficulty with the way that the terrain looked, very pixelated indeed and difficult to distinguish between the terrain types, for me at least.

Deleting the file IG_v2.0.7.fpk as now returned me to glorious Technicolour and all is aesthetically pleasing

Would I be right in understanding that the above deleted file does not compromise any other aspect of the wonderfully crafted mod than the terrain graphics..?

It looks (close-up) like the ocean in Col but it is not.
This is how it looks on my screen:

Col:


Civ/bat:


Edit:
Blue Marble:

Civ4 doesn't have shader support for water like that. If you lower one of the graphics settings in Colonization you'll get something that does look like what was added to BAT, but I don't know if it's the same. Personally, I renamed IG_v2.0.7.FPK because all of the artwork is grainy and distracting. The water looks like risotto in blue Kool-Aid. :\ Blue Marble finally has an option for less darkened terrain, so that what I'm using now.

OnmyojiOmn said:

Blue Marble finally has an option for less darkened terrain, so that what I'm using now.

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I missed that option, where would I locate it?

Bluestew0 said:

I missed that option, where would I locate it?

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The latest version has an option in the installer for bright/standard/darker. Standard seems closest to the default Civ4 terrain in terms of brightness.

Bluestew0 said:

I missed that option, where would I locate it?

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It's in Blue Marble Gold (which is newer than the Blue Marble Aqua).

Thanks for the answer guys. I too had this problem. The terrain looks pretty yuck to be honest. Everything else in BAT seems great though.