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SyndieNapoleon's Dark & Gloomy GFX [1.9]

This mod changes the political map to be somewhat less cartoonish, and changes night time to actually look dark, instead of the vibrant blue tinge it is in vanilla.

In the far away view, the colour pallete of all countries is now less vibrant and more dreary (more fitting of a war simulator!), especially in the medium-distance mode.

In a close up view, the natural terrain is also much more visible whilst the countries borders are still noticable.
Laid snow is also changed to be less intrusive and fit better with the rest of vanillas terrain pallete.

The Ocean has been darkened to better match its real world colour, and the rediculous grey reflection has been removed, showing the fantastic image of the base games undersea terrain map.

Nights are now far darker and no longer has a bright blue hue to the world. Cities are also brighter and more fitting of a birds eye view. Closer up, the night is as dark as it is on most real world days, adding a lot of extra emersion to the game.

Additionally, the City Lights have been edited to better suit reality (Mostly, a tonne of lights were added to the USA which was very barren in vanilla, and a fair bit in east asia too).

New for 1.6.2:

Made Fog of War actually foggy, and less noticable at higher distances.

New update made the colours all brighten at very close distances, dunno why this is.


For the best experience, I still recommend playing with "Fog of War" off.

Updated for 1.9. It functioned fine on prior versions though.

Made it a little lighter, spread out the zoom to be not as sudden.

Compatibility

This mod should be compatible with all mods that don't modify the graphics of the map, or change the day/night cycle in any way. With other graphics mods, it is possible this or that mods content will be overwritten. If you find this mod not "working" in some aspect, try removing other graphics mods until it works. This mod should be ironman compatible.

Permanent Night

A permanent night version of this mod is available.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1481075534

Changed Screenshots to better represent current mod version. Used Kaiserreich pictures, cant be bothered to take vanilla pictures.