Levant Coast – Daylight Classic or Relight Required
Map themes change the looks of the environment around you. This means everything about the sky, like brightness, sunrise and sunset colors, etc. All the colors and images of the grass, mountainsides, water colors, etc etc.
This map theme requires the mod Daylight Classic, with classic sun intensity enabled. It is a harmless visual mod, so have no fear in using it 🙂 If you know what you’re doing, or carefully read how to use Relight mod (it’s well worth it!), then you can use Relight etc instead of Daylight Classic.
This theme is modeled to simulate the Mediterranean-temperate climate zone with red clay soil found on the Mediterranean shores of the Levant (Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Although it’s geared towards that place, there are also other places in the world might also have a similar look.
The grass is drier in color, but becomes standard grass color in areas with lots of trees and bushes, and also where ground is fertile. Essentially, wherever grass is more likely to turn lush and green in reality, the grass of this map theme does as well.
It is not meant to look right for a map with tall mountains (on very large exposed cliff sides, the fine rock details will look smooth from afar). For small exposed areas it looks just fine, or you can also use Avanya’s Arid Cliff pack, which you can see in some of the images above. ^
Why do I need a mod? I tried my best to make this in vanilla for you, folks; however, the default visual environment makes this kind of bright, sunny, warm map theme very, very harsh. I tried but it simply looked horrid.
Option 1: Daylight Classic, classic sunlight intensity activated is required, otherwise your eyes will scorch out of your head.
Option 2: If Daylight Classic no longer works, or you are able to use more complex visual mods, you can certainly use those. Relight + Ultimate Eyecandy is a great example. You can fine tune the brightness and shadows to a great degree.
: All images are without any LUT. Theme was designed without an LUT active on purpose – so that you get to choose what LUT you like. Clarity LUT is a really nice choice. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=424053830&searchtext=clarity
Thanks goes to pdelmo for sharing many of his map theme textures! They were essential in putting together this theme. They and textures from Textures(dot)com were used, all of them have been endlessly fiddled with to produce this theme.
This map theme was specifically designed to coordinate with the Arid Rocks and Cliffs by Avanya
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1200176035
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682609919
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685724805
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1196984922
And goes great with Ronyx69’s Coastal decal pack
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1594402774
# tags: Levant Lebanon Israel Palestine Gaza Sinai Egypt Jordan Syria Beirut Haifa Tyre Canaan red clay Australia
