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Bring new life to your coastal areas with these innovative foreshore, inshore and offshore textures.

 

The Coastal Modd consists of 10 colours of rippled sea texture, 12 inshore colours, 5 sandy foreshore and

beach colors,  4 rock foreshore colours and a transparent beach texture.

 

The sea is rippled at all scales (a light breeze), cleanly tiles, and gives new realism to the surf,

whitecaps/glints and boats in the game. Colours are based on mods previously done and so should meet most requirements, but keep in mind that your monitor affects the colours you see. 

 

To apply: choose

 

     Zero or One .dat file from each of

        /Foreshore

        /Inshore

        /Offshore

 

    groups and put into Plugins.

 

If you pick a Sandy Foreshore choose the corresponding beach texture too.

If you pick a Rocky Foreshore you may want to make the beaches Transparent (or not).

 

Tech note: SimCity  combines the three textures at the coastal margins depending on the depth - deeper=darker.

The game defaults are brown sand, mauve inshore and light blue flat sea. Foreshore starts at 4m elevation, and the Inshore texture disappears at 50m deepth. A sun texture is also applied over the top of the scene. You can optionally choose waves (surf and whitecap highlights) from the graphics options

 

  Ron Aug 2009

 

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Extremely realistic and detailed! Great Job! Another thing the Maxis forgot to do.

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Someone asked earlier and I don't see an answer...does this work with other water mods??by the way Excellent work

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Thankyou all for your kind comments - very happy to see this found a spot. For those asking about other water mods - this one (like the others) only works on its own. ie. does not work with other water mods.

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How can I get such soft beach edges, such smooth beach-water transition? When I make I coastline, it has a very edgy, triangular coastline, it doesn't go over to water fluently, without seeing a clear triangular edge? [img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Jarmo/Mijn%20documenten/Mijn%20afbeeldingen/SC4_Coastline.bmp[/img]

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How can I get such soft beach edges, such smooth beach-water transitions? When I make I coastline, it has a very edgy, triangular coastline, it doesn't go over to water fluently, without seeing a clear triangular edge. Great mod by the way! ;)[img]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7193/sc4coastline.png[/img]

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I have had a lot of fun with this, and it was easy for me as a beginner to apply. Thank you so much! :)

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[quote name='L1lM4y0r' timestamp='1306061885']
How can I get such soft beach edges, such smooth beach-water transitions? When I make I coastline, it has a very edgy, triangular coastline, it doesn't go over to water fluently, without seeing a clear triangular edge. Great mod by the way! ;)[img]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7193/sc4coastline.png[/img]
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I've just seen your comment here (dont check this ver often obviously) and would suggest the following - choose a different colour for the inshore colour - as it looks to me you have dk cyan for both inshore and offshore - SC4 blends the colours to produce a colour gradient - if they're the same it looks solid.
cheers Ron

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