Artful Terrain Textures

[Rajul]

Description
This mod adds the following improvements:
- A beautiful new fog of war!
- New textures for Grassland,Plains and Desert with regional variations;
- New textures for Marsh, Tundra and Snow without regional variations;
- Recolored rivers and water;
- Re-textured flood plains;


Installation
This Mod comes in the form of a pseudo-DLC, and not as a traditionnal mod. Hence, follow these instructions to properly install it.

1. Delete any mods or pseudo-dlc that provide alternative textures in : "My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Mods" and "steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\Assets\DLC". I cannot ensure the cross compability.
2. Download the archive on CivFanatics.
3. Extract and Move the resource folder to ..\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\Assets\DLC.
4. Navigate to: My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\ and delete the following folders : Cache, Logs, ModUserData
5. The mod is now ready to use. It will be launched for all games you start, regardless of the expansion or other mods installed.

Credits
I have reused the water color palette of Estebanium's Terrain Texture Mod.
All new textures were made using Midjourney.

 

[Jiska]

Just want to say, this looks amazing! Has become my default texture pack. It's a shame it's not on the Wrokshop, are you going to upload it or can I have your permission to do so?

 

[Rajul]

Thanks Jiska!
My first intent was indeed to publish it on the workshop, but the new water color palette doesn't apply when the mod runs as a standard one. However everything else works, so i might do it.
Also there is a bug with one texture not being loaded, i need to release the fixed version ... soon

 

[Remos]

Oh, that's pretty nice. Not a big fan of the blinding fog of war though, so I've edited it to be closer to black.

 

[Rajul]

New version just uploaded.
This update contains:
- New Textures for mountains for each biomes;
- New Textures for the Oasis;
- New texture for generic mine;
- New texture for riverbanks;
- The fog of war texture is now a bit darker.

Also I have restructured the mod in subfolders to make easier to disable textures that you don't like (rename the files or delete them).

 

[epicivfreak]

I've recently installed this and like it, but there are two things that I find bothersome. Despite darkening the "fog of war" I still find it way too white & bright. I also find the grasslands way too bright of a green color.

Specifically, with the fog of war, there seem to be two layers. The uppermost is like a white fog, and I'd change that to seem more like storm clouds, in order to darken that. The lower, "stylized" clouds, IMO, they're just fine, though I would not be opposed to darkening those too.

As for grasslands, it's like the difference between green and neon green, and you're way too far too the neon green side.

 

[epicivfreak]

I've now reached Tundra terrain & I also feel that could use a change. Real-world tundra has lots of plant life, it's not a barren stretch of stark white, except in winter, so maybe add some clumps of plants here and there?