Melbourne Theme

Hi everyone,

Here’s my Melbourne Theme.

No Theme Mixer mod required.

Please read the description – it’ll help you make the most of it!

I created this theme specifically for a Melbourne map I’m working on.

The idea was to recreate the colours and textures found in and around Melbourne, Australia.

Will I ever finish the map? Maybe. If not, you got a beautiful theme you can use for your Australian builds, as well as other similar regions such parts of New Zealand, Southern Chile, Central California, Southern Europe and South Africa.

This theme is ideal if you’re looking for a versatile colour range typically found in temperate regions.

The green grass and fertile colours recreate the countryside east of Melbourne, Gippsland and Southern Victoria, particularly in winter.

Field, gravel, oil and ore textures recreate the more arid tones found north-west of the city along the Calder Freeway, specially in summer.

Sand and water textures attempt to recreate the dark blue and green tones found around Port Phillip Bay, with inspiration taken specifically from Williamstown, St Kilda and Mornington.

Ruined surfaces recreate the Yarra River banks and the many creeks in Melbourne.

Finally, footpaths and roads were inspired by newer suburb developments and the most common bitumen colour in the city.

The theme is for temperate maps, with temperatures ranging within historical highs and lows (46.4°C / 115.52°F down to -2.8°C / 26.96°F).

Weather probabilities:

• Rain probability 10%.
• Fog probability 5 to 10%.
• Northern Lights probability 0% – well, technically Southern Lights. Even though they are visible from parts of Southern Victoria, once they appear in game they appear every night, which is highly unrealistic. It was therefore set to 0%.

Disaster probabilities for those with Natural Disasters DLC:

• Forest fire probability 6%.
• Thunderstorm probability 6%.
• Earthquake probability 2%.
• Sinkhole probability 2%.
• Tornado probability 2%.
• Tsunami probability 2%.
• Meteor strike probability 1%.

The theme has no required items and will work just fine without mods or in Vanilla maps.

However, if you want improved visuals, more realistic colours and location, I’d suggest that you:

1. Subscribe to the Ultimate Eye Candy mod: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=672248733.
2. Select the European LUT.
3. Set the latitude to -37.585°, and longitude to -90°. Even though the longitude is far from accurate, it’s the only way to make the sunrise and sunset appear in the correct locations for Melbourne.
4. Set the Global light intensity to 6.318501.
5. Set the Ambient light intensity to 0.6975001.

I do not own any of the textures used in this theme.

All textures have been made by far more skilled creators, namely:

• Cliff Diffuse – Realistic V1.4.5 European by Captain Soap.
• Cliff and Sand Normal – Australia Coast HD map theme by pdelmo.
• Road Diffuse – Starburg Map Theme by Ronyx69.
• Grass – Realistic V1.4.5 European by Captain Soap.
• Gravel – Laviante 2.0 by Arnold J.Rimmer & notDONEyet.
• Oil – SCT-ROCKYSHORE by Raffa.
• Ore – Farmland Europe by Avanya.
• Pavement – Cedar Valley 4K by Strictoaster & Mark Fire.
• Ruined – Laviante 2.0 by Arnold J.Rimmer & notDONEyet.
• Sand Diffuse – Australia Coast HD map theme by pdelmo.
• Water Foam – Grassland theme by tete.
• Water Normal – Seenu (Official Map Theme) by Strictoaster.

If you are one of these creators and want me to remove your texture just let me know, as my intention was not to copy but simply to create a more realistic theme for the map I’m building.

Don’t forget to rate and leave feedback so I can keep improving the theme.

If you run into any issues, just leave a comment before rating so I can fix it.

Enjoy!