Central Florida Map Theme w Cloud Reflections in Water – Theme Park Pavement

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Author: MrMiyagi

Last revision: 15 May, 2018 at 22:36 UTC

File size: 21.34 MB

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Description:

Reflections in water?? Why yes, we can! You can even customize them! This is theme makes sense if your map has small lakes rather than an ocean or very large lake. See "PROS and CONS" section below for other current information on the functions and limitations of this theme. It isn’t made to please everyone, so please read!

HOW TO MAKE CLOUD REFLECTIONS

In order for Cubebox Mod and Daylight Classic to be able to display the cloud reflections, you will need a copy of Daylight Classic that is from before Parklife. Unsubscribe from the workshop Daylight Classic. https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6i2lupfuif4ch7/DaylightClassic.zip?dl=0 Place it in a folder you create called DaylightClassic here: C:UsersYOURUSERNAMEAppDataLocalColossal OrderCities_SkylinesAddonsModsDaylightClassic
In content manager in the main menu, go activate Daylight Classic and make sure "Classic Fog effect" is on, activate Cubebox Mod as well. Load your game, hit the Cubebox mod button, enjoy sky reflections in any theme that has calm waters!

If you like the textures but don’t want this smooth water with reflections, I can easily publish a regular version of this theme for all users, which can be used without the use of anyl mods and allows for all functions of the game.

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THE THEME – This is a map theme for my upcoming real-life, to scale map of Walt Disney World in Buena Vista, Florida. The choice of map location is meant to go thematically with the upcoming Park Life DLC. Walt Disney World is essentially its own autonomous county, proviiding all essential services over its very large area. In fact, the property fits perfectly into the true to scale 25 squares of the Cities Skylines map.

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THE MAP: Map release will be shortly after DLC release. I will place anything new and interesting from the free update into the map, and publish it for you all to play with all the new content we get! If applicable, there will be a special DLC version and a No DLC version (like I do for all updates 🙂 )

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PROS
– EYE CANDY! A bit more realism in the way water looks
– Lakeside / marsh / fjord cities will look great with the calm waters
– Very nice looking tropical-base theme (that’s not easy to do with Tropical lighting 😀 )
– VERY good for players with lower performance compouters while still having nice looking textures. I saved all that memory because the cliff and ruined texture do not have to be a large size (those are usually the largest in my themes ) cliff is only intended to only show up in small areas, and is sized so that it has nice, sharp details on the small scale.
– "Full Grass" lawns with no ruined texture showing make this a very realistic looking map theme for Florida. Better have a green yard in Florida or watch out for the homeowner’s association!!!
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CONS
– Must use Daylight Classic with Classic Fog Effect activated
– Must deactivate Dynamic Weather
– Cannot use Day/Night cycle until Daylight Classic Classic Fog is developed to be able to work wth Day/Night cycle. It was planned but may or may not be developed in the future
– Eye candy purposes only – reflections are static and of the clouds only, so it does not reflect dynamic things like ships nor city reflections.
– Does not look good on maps with waterfalls and exposed cliffsides. The textures I had to use to make this theme’s special appearance cause waterfalls and cliffsides to look too smooth.

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Want to do this for your map theme? No magic required! It’s just a totally smooth water normal combined with a great water foam normal, the one here was kindly shared with me by MarkFire.

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If you’d like to treat me to a hot cocoa or book of maps, you can do so here at Paypal 🙂
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