I just wanted to share with you guys the mod I am working on. It's called Civilization IV Remaster. It is mostly focused on improving the visuals of the game and keeping the gameplay vanilla. The mayor features are:
- changed the fog of war from black to animated clouds
- new vivid terrain textures similar to those in Civ6
- new modern city bar colored with team color
- interface recolour (less transparency)
- reworked some icons to look more clear
- smaller units
- larger world wonders by vincentz
- cultural citystyles by GeoModder
- Taurus (aka BULL/BUG - BtS Unaltered Gameplay DLL) by f1rpo
How to install:
1. Unzip the archive using 7Zip
2. Copy the "Civ IV Remaster" folder into C:/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods/ folder where other mods are placed
3. Run the game
4. In the main menu click ADVANCED -> LOAD A MOD
5. From the mods list select Civ IV Remaster and click OK
6. Once the mod has been loaded you can play the game
To install clouds of war shader you need to:
1. Find shaders folder of your Beyond the Sword installation. For steam users it's usually
C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\Beyond the Sword\Shaders
2. Backup original FXO folder inside folder from point 1
3. Copy FXO folder from Civ IV Remaster.7z archive (modded FXO is located in /Shaders folder) into folder from point 1 (override existing files)
4. Play the game
Note that you need to override shaders in "Beyond the Sword" folder, not the vanilla Civ4 folder.
Link to video.
- changed the fog of war from black to animated clouds
- new vivid terrain textures similar to those in Civ6
- new modern city bar colored with team color
- interface recolour (less transparency)
- reworked some icons to look more clear
- smaller units
- larger world wonders by vincentz
- cultural citystyles by GeoModder
- Taurus (aka BULL/BUG - BtS Unaltered Gameplay DLL) by f1rpo
How to install:
1. Unzip the archive using 7Zip
2. Copy the "Civ IV Remaster" folder into C:/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/Mods/ folder where other mods are placed
3. Run the game
4. In the main menu click ADVANCED -> LOAD A MOD
5. From the mods list select Civ IV Remaster and click OK
6. Once the mod has been loaded you can play the game
To install clouds of war shader you need to:
1. Find shaders folder of your Beyond the Sword installation. For steam users it's usually
C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\Beyond the Sword\Shaders
2. Backup original FXO folder inside folder from point 1
3. Copy FXO folder from Civ IV Remaster.7z archive (modded FXO is located in /Shaders folder) into folder from point 1 (override existing files)
4. Play the game
Note that you need to override shaders in "Beyond the Sword" folder, not the vanilla Civ4 folder.
Link to video.
