Supported
About This File
Take your SimCity 4 Experience to a whole new level with my lighting mod! With this mod, the sun shines brighter, the skies look bluer and the shadows are animated! After many hours of looking through the SimCity_1.dat file and messing with exemplar settings, I have managed to make this game look more like real life! I even modeled a realistic atmosphere in 3Ds max and figured out how to make shadows move!
Fully animated shadows! (Cheetah Mode)
Features:
- Realistic atmospheric lighting in-game both in day and night
- Realistic Clouds in both region and mayor view!
- Realistic Weather including rain and snow!
- Fully animated moving shadows! (These took the longest to make)
- Realistic rain showers and thunderstorms that spawn randomly throughout the sim day! Roads will get wet like real life!
- Randomly spawning tornadoes! During particularly bad thunderstorms you may get a tornado that's EF1 to EF5!
- Regional View clouds are much more realistic!
- Realistic Fires too! With full 3D smoke!
Minor Bugs and Issues
- Realistic day/night mod is very CPU intensive since it features moving shadows
- Regional clouds tend to be glitchy on Nvidia machines. Recommend downgrading to older 355 or earlier drivers
- Shadows will freeze sometimes in cheetah mode unless you have a decent PC
- Rainwater may not be wet enough
- Graphics combined with other mods may make this game look better than real life.
- Might make SimCity 4 addictive
- Game crashes every 5-10 minutes on 90% of all attempts of running it with this mod
- Game crashes every 20-57 minutes on 66% of all attempts
- Screenshots using F10 will crash the game
- Taking a screenshot with your android or iphone will crash both the phone and the game
- Saving while exiting to region view crashes the game
- Exiting the game during a thunderstorm might cause both your computer and internet to crash
- Exiting the game during tornado will cause permanent corruption to your city and all of its backups on the computer. Beware!
- Tornadoes sometimes spawn and are so realistic that they'll make your bedroom and house messy
- EF5 tornadoes are very RAM intensive and will use up over 60 GB of RAM. If you don't have enough RAM, your PC will explode
- U-Drive it mode doesn't work
- Sim-Mode doesn't work
- Realistic 3D fires may burn your PC and house down
- Mod is fully compatible with my 3D SimCity 4 mod, but will crash 9/10 times
- Snow storms might freeze your game and occasionally your PC as well
- If the power goes out in your game that's because the snow storm or tornado knocked it out. If the power goes out in your home, just take the mod out of your plugins and it should be fine
- May cause minor frustration
- There's been a huge inflation in Sim Nation so prices of buildings has increased 1000 fold.
- Sometimes the music will skip like a broken record in a blender
- Cities take a very long time to recover from the EF3 and above tornadoes
- The brighter sunlight may cause skin cancer. Sun glasses and sun screen is recommended before installing this mod
- Shadows might be purple at first but that's okay, that means the mod is working!
Aside from those issues everything works great! If you still have any problems, just keep this quote in mind:
'As Perfection Rises It Like Falls On Over Leny's Sock...before settling for only the first letter found for which it stands; and therefore conceives only the true meaning, and intention, of the greatest mod ever made.'
What's New 1.0.1
Released
- 3D Fires will only burn your PC down 3/5 times and not your house
- Got crashing down all the way to 96% every 10 attempts
-
21
-
1
-
1
-
2
-
2
