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Archaeology Aesthetic Adjustments

A simple graphics mod that changes the way archeology sites appear across the world. While normal and hidden archeology sites already differ in the resource icons they use, this mod is meant to extend their visible differences to include the way archeological sites appear on the map itself.

-Recolors the 3D art for Hidden Archeology Sites to appear distinct from their normal counterparts.


Over the past ~3 years since I last published a mod, I've constantly found it difficult to try to keep track of which archeology sites are normal and which are hidden, especially across very large maps. While the two flavors do differ in their 2D resource icons, I prefer not to play with these icons on since I find they can clutter the map. Eventually (while playing around with resource and improvement graphics for other mods-in-progress) I realized it was actually relatively straightforward to just assign hidden sites their own unique appearance.

With this mod, normal archeology sites use the same 3D art that we're all used to (light stone, red pots). Only hidden sites have been changed (dark stone, green pots), using a color scheme based on their funkadelic 2D icon.

As this mod makes only aesthetic changes, it is not set to affect saved games. This means that it can be used immediately with existing saves, while games saved whilst using this mod can be used later with or without the mod.


Tools Used:
-Nexus Buddy 2 beta 9
-Blender 2.49
-GIMP 2.8.10

Special Thanks!:
-Deliverator (Nexus Buddy 2[forums.civfanatics.com])
-Pazyryk (SQL tutorial for Improvements[forums.civfanatics.com])
-Gedemon (More SQL tutorial[forums.civfanatics.com])
-Danrell (Tutorial for Nexus Buddy/Blender pipeline for Improvements[forums.civfanatics.com])

**Requires Brave New World**