Religion Lens, UI Fixes and more to come...

[Craimasjien]

Hey all,

I've created a mod that brings back the Religion Lens and I fixed a big annoyance of mine: seeing which yields will be lost when converting a tile to urban. I've put it in the downloads. While it's getting manually approved by Civfanatics you can head over to the mod's GitHub page to download it as well.

Overview​

This pack is my on-going attempt to fix all the things I don't like about the vanilla Civilization VII experience. Feel free to request features and I will attempt to implement them as best I can.

I encourage you to checkout the mod's GitHub page and give me feedback or feature requests as you see fit.

• Added an overview of a tile’s base yields, which are lost when upgrading the tile to an urban district. This is especially useful when removing an existing rural improvement, such as a farm.
• Added a lens for Religion. This lens will show you on the world map which towns have been converted to which religion based on a default set of colors.
• Automatically enable the Religion lens when selecting a Missionary unit.

Roadmap / Wishlist​

• Religion lens improvements
  • Like the on Continents layer, I want to show a panel of the available religions (a legend) and their corresponding colors, so it's easier to recognize the religion.

Special thanks​

• I want to thank this community for all the exceptional mods and examples, it made developing this mod so much easier.
• I want to specifically thank, since their mods solved some of the challenges I had in specific or had inspiration for my approach
  • @thecrazyscot
  • @sukritact
  • @wltk

Installation instructions​

1. Download the latest release
2. Open the corresponding mods folder:
   1. Windows: %localappdata%\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Mods
   2. MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Civilization VII/Mods
3. Extract the zip file and move the folder into the Mods folder.

Please let me know what you think!

 

[Craimasjien]

Thanks to outstanding work and collaboration from the people in the official Discord (Shoutout @RealityMeltdown and @RogueAustralian ), we were able to find a non-destructive way to alter the behaviour and the UI of the mini-map panel. What this essentially means is that my Religion Lens should work with future other lenses created by Firaxis, but also other mods that add lenses.

I highly encourage people to take the same approach this mod takes so lenses (and potentially other UI adjustments) can work together seamlessly in the future.