How to replace the texture of the water maxis by the other one ?

[yd01 0]

Hello has all, I shall like to know how to replace the texture of the water maxis, by a texture of water of etang, either swamp, is it possible?

Can use me please

Thank you in advance for your reponse, link, tutoriel

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Welcome to the conversation.

With water mods, you simply install the new one in your plugins folder in the usual way.  If you render a new region after that, the new mod will be in effect.  With existing regions, the new mod goes into effect when you open each city and save it.  You can do this city by city as you play.  No rush.

I installed a new water mod after I had rendered one of my big maps.  It is slowly being converted as I play.  Here is a screen shot.

The dark areas are the new water mod.

[yd01 0]

That I shall want to make precisement it is to remove the texture maxis and to replace it by the texture that I have to creer, but I do not know how to replace textures...

[astronelson 339]

Just install the mod. It should automatically override the Maxis one.

If you want to make your own, I'm sorry, that is beyond my knowledge.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

If you want to learn how to mod, try this thread.

[yd01 0]

I think you will not understand that I am looking to do ...

I want my mod to create the texture of water replaced maxis, extracted by the texture of a photograph of a pond near my house

So put my texture instead of the maxis texture

look the picture :

but I do not how to do it. Is it possible to have the procedure to be I'm looking for, thank you

[heitomat 156]

This topic is beyond my knowledge, but still I want to know if I understand you correctly - in order for others to help you.

What you want is to change the appearance of the water in region view, correct?

As A Nonny Moose pointed out, the appearance of the water in region view is a result of the render of the water in each and every city tile. E.g. if you install a darker water mod, like Nonny did, you have to load every tile for the change to take effect in the entire region.

There are many different water mods that look realistic when viewed in a city, but look rather dull and boring in region view. This is of course because the mod textures aren't made to look detailed and realistic (other than colourwise) in region view. Considering the view altitude in region mode, you can't expect to see many waves or such anyway.

Based on my understanding of your question, you want a more realistic looking body of water in region view (similar to what's shown on your picture). As stated, this is beyond my knowledge, but based on what's mentioned above, this is not possible as there are no separate files to be modded for the view of the water in region view only (There are no "Region View Water Mod" in addition to the regular water mods).

The only way to achieve what I believe you want, would be to make a water mod with "big" textures. This water mod would look horrible, undetailed, pixelated and not even close to realistic in city view, though.

Again: This is beyond my knowledge, and please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[yd01 0]

Yes! I won, I made a success because i have made my new water texture ^^