Civ4 Blue Marble v4.50 Gold 2016-10-05

This program allows the installation of a new graphic design for Sid Meier's Civilization IV™, based on images of the NASA projects Blue Marble and Hubble, supplemented with a graphically modernized and harmonized user interface. Individual components are selectable in the setup program.

This program is compatible only with the PC CD/DVD-versions of the Civ4 basic version and the expansions 'Warlords' and 'Beyond the Sword'. If such an expansion is installed afterwards, the 'Blue Marble' program simply has to be started once again.

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For the STEAM version of Civ IV BTS, please note the following instructions for
installing Blue Marble, per @Bibor :

To install this on the Steam version of the game, go to the steam folder ".../steams/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the sword/". In there create a copy of any file and rename it to civilization4.exe
now launch the Blue marble installer and lead him to this folder and click on the "civilization4.exe" and it will install normally.

Click to expand...

Note that you can also just simply copy the actual civilzation4.exe file from a copy
of vanilla Civ IV and place in the mentioned folder. The installer needs to see
this file, but with the Steam version BTS is a completely standalone installation.
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homepage:
http://www.civfanatics.net/bluemarble

forum thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=295876

Note: A version of Blue Marble for CivIV Colonization™ is available here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10752

user interface screenshot:


terrain screenshot:


leaderhead screenshot comparison (color adapted and "aged")


The Blue Marble Project

NASA's Blue Marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps of our planet Earth. Since the seventies earth observation satellites have recorded data of our atmosphere, the oceans and the land surface to improve our understanding of the Earth as a system. These datasets are usually not publicly accessible and they are only available as scientific file types. Therefore the Blue Marble project produces high resolution maps in false-color and true-color formats from the scientific satellite data. This allows the user to become a discoverer and to investigate our planet from space. With these products we would like to stimulate the public interest for matters of the environment and also express the importance of unmanned satellite missions carried out by the NASA and other space organizations.

The Blue Marble "Next generation" is the latest product of the series, showing a cloudless Earth in 12 monthly variations: the beginning of spring, dry spells, snow cover changes, vegetation coloring and rainy seasons all are dynamic processes in our climate system. The monthly satellite maps are available under bluemarble.nasa.gov.

The Civilization IV users now can discover their Worlds with a special Blue Marble texture set modelled from this material. Have a lot of fun with it!


Blue Marble Design for Civilization IV
by Kai Fiebach (kai@civilized.de)
with help from Firaxis Games

Civilization IV Graphics
http://www.firaxis.com

Satellite Graphics
http://bluemarble.nasa.gov

Image Processing
http://www.gimp.org

Programming Language
http://www.perl.org

Perl for Win32
http://www.activestate.com

Perl GUI Toolkit
http://www.prima.eu.org

Special Thanks
Mike Bates
Barry Caudill
Matthias Fischer
Soren Johnson
Dmitry Karasik
Sakis Milonas
Steve Ogden
Jon Shafer
Jesse Smith
Reto Stöckli
Mustafa Thamer
Thunderfall
Andreas Traxler