Cori's Water Shoppe

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

Cori's Water Shoppe  by CorinaMarie@Simtropolis

A picture catalogue of every known Water Mod for SimCity 4

Note: I did not create any of these mods. This thread is simply to display each water mod using the same city tile for easy comparison. If you find this useful feel free to use your browser's Save As function and do a Save Complete Web Page. This will give you an offline copy with all the pictures. My content is freely available for use by anyone. You can even make a duplicate thread on any other site if you like. Please, just be sure to give me credit for the original creation.

For peeps with 16:9 (or other wide screen) monitors you could open this thread in two separate windows side by side.  This would allow you to have independent scroll bars to compare specific mods. It would also work if you have dual monitors tho there may be some slight color difference between the two.

Other Threads in Cori's Shoppe Series:

• Cori's Side Water Shoppe   NEW! – March 2022   (Pictures and in topic Downloads of the Water's Edge for every Water Mod)
• Cori's Rock Shoppe   (Linkys to and Pictures of every Rock Mod)
• Cori's Beach Shoppe   (Linkys to and Pictures of every Beach Mod)
• Cori's Terrain Shoppe   (Linkys to and Pictures of every Terrain Mod)
• Cori's Jolteon's Ferrians's Tree Shoppe   (Linkys to and Pictures of almost every Tree Mod)

And see: C.O.R.I.M.A.P.S. - A Tutorial for SimCity 4   (Quick alternative realistic map making method)

 

New Information

Many of the water mods have Maxis nuclear blue sides. I've now written a tutorial showing how to fix those.

See here:

 

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Note: If you download a mod and have any difficulty with it and when all else fails, read the ReadMe instructions that comes with it.

I do have Ennedi's HD Sandstone1 Brown Rock Mod installed, but otherwise my game is vanilla.

 

Let's start with the default Maxis blue water:

 

And here I'm showing the underwater view. I hope I've designed this so all aspects of the water mods will show their various colors based on elevations.

 

Water Mods by dogfight contains 3

Cold Blue:

 

Marshy:

 

Muddy Lake:

 

Joergs Water Mod 2 contains 10

Black Sea:

 

Bloody Nile:

 

Caribbean Dream:

 

Emerald Isles:

 

Icy Arctic:

 

Mediterranean:

 

Muddy River:

 

Northern Pacific:

 

Rivers of Lava:

 

Yellow Puke:

 

Mas71 Water MODs (v1.0) contains 5

Waters_100:

 

Waters_200:

 

Waters_300:

 

Waters_400:

 

Waters_500:

 

PEG WATER MOD Brigantine:

 

SHK Brigantine 2.0 contains 8

BluGrn:

 

ClrBlue:

 

DkBlue:

 

Emerald:

 

LtBlue:

 

Orig:

 

Silt:

 

Teal:

 

PEG WATER MOD Clipper:

 

PEG WATER MOD Windjammer:

 

PEG WATER MOD Hawaiian Holiday:

 

PEG WATER MOD Crystal Lagoon:

 

SMP Teal Water Mod:

 

SMP Paradise Blue Water Mod:

 

Runamuck's HD Water MOD v1:

 

ELSHA WATERMOD:

^ This one looks vastly different depending on zoom.

 

Realistic Water v1 by Joerg and Teirusu:

 

Drunken Water Mods, The Blues and Greys. In HD! contains 6

Blue1:

 

Blue2:

 

Blue5:

 

Grey:

 

Grey1:

 

Grey3:

 

Ocean River MOD final 1.1 contains 6 with 4 variations each

This one goes beyond the typical single .dat file. Be sure to check out the Readme.html file in the download. For the following pics I did install the TerrainProperties.dat and the WaterSurface_256.dat. There are also 4 other files for blending. I skipped those in favor of brevity.

DeepSea_5F5F00:

 

DeepSea_669966:

 

DeepSea_669999:

 

ShallowWater_5F5F00:

 

ShallowWater_669966:

 

ShallowWater_669999:

 

Gobias HD Water Pack 1 (v1.0) contains 3

All 3 of the Gobias Water Mod Packs have two variations tweaked for use with either Lowkee or Gobias Terrain Mods. There's also a Berner Oberland Shore Patch for two different altitudes. Check out the Readme files in the download. For the following pics I used the GB version.

GB Bodensee:

 

GB Seto Inland Sea:

 

GB Staten Island:

 

Gobias HD Water Pack 2 (v1.0) contains 3 (see comments under pack 1 above)

GB Cape Cod Bay:

 

GB Caribbean:

 

GB Mississippi River:

 

Gobias HD Water Pack 3 (v1.0) contains 3 (see comments under pack 1 above)

GB Chicago River:

 

GB Inside Passage:

 

GB Loch Lomond:

 

LK_StarterSet (v1.0)

 

Coastal Modd

Ok, so this one contains:

• 10 Offshore Textures
• 14 Inshore Textures
• 9 Foreshore Textures
• 6 Beaches

Be sure to check out the Readme file included in the download. Since this could yield a zillion combinations I simply picked the Offshore and Inshore .dats which have corresponding color names to illustrate here.

DkBlue:

 

DkCyan:

 

Emerald:

 

Green:

 

Ice:

 

Overcast:

 

Steel:

 

Tropic:

 

Turbid:

 

Ultramarine:

 

Sudden Valley Terrain Mod (v1.0)

SV Water.dat only:

 

Berner Oberland Terrain Mod (v1.0)

BO Water and Shore Mod.dat only:

 

Tobermory Style Water VERII:

 

Edmonton Water Texture VERII:

 

Sharp Teal Water Texture:

 

Tobermory Style Water VERI:

 

Minnetonka Style Water:

 

Pennsylvania Style Water:

 

BBlue Water Texture:

 

Tropical Style Water Modd:

 

PEG Stream Kit Water:

 

Oppie Canal Water:

 

Green Water:

 

Auckland Water Texture:

 

Purple Water Texture:

 

Bright Blue Water v2:

 

Japan Water Pack contains 5

blendedjapan:

 

japan01:

 

japan02:

 

japan03:

 

japan04:

 

Barbados Water Pack contains 8

barbados01:

 

barbados02:

 

barbados03:

 

barbados04:

 

barbados05:

 

barbadosblend2:

 

barbadosblend:

 

barbadosblendblur:

 

Water Pack 2 contains 13

Baltimore:

 

Blood:

 

Chesapeake:

 

Fiery-Darker:

 

Fiery-Lighter:

 

Flamesrock:

 

Medium Blue:

 

Metallic Grey:

 

Navy Blue:

 

Tropical:

 

Venice:

 

Wintry:

 

Yellow:

 

Edmonton Style Water:

 

Port Huron Style Water:

 

Muddy Grey Water:

 

Dark Green Water:

 

Bright Blue Water:

 

San Fransisco Style Water:

 

Rocky Bottom Water Texture:

 

Timotheus4 Water Pack contains 12

algae:

^ Same as: Algae Water

 

drkmud:

^ Same as: Dark Mud Water

 

embrx02:

^ Same as: Emerald Brownish Try Two

 

emerald brownish:

^ Same as: Emerald Brownish Try One

 

Fadedblue:

^ Same as: Faded Blue Water

 

hotpink:

^ Same as: Hot Pink Water

 

muddy:

^ Same as: Muddy Water

 

natu-rals:

^ Same as: Natural Water

 

reddx01:

^ Same as: Reddish Water

 

richblu02:

^ Same as: Rich Blue Water

 

ukwx01:

^ Same as: UK Water X01

 

ukwx02:

^ Same as: UK Water X02

 

The following is HD so you will need to have Hardware Rendering or you will get CTD.

Water Mod contained in VIP Terrain Mod by Cédric. (Attached to this post on Devotion.)

Note: In addition to the Water Mod there are also Beach, Rock, and Terrain mods. The following pic has all 4 installed:

^ Thanks to @Indiana Joe for mentioning this one.

 

So, when peeps ask: Which water mod should I get?, show them this thread so they can compare and decide.

 

P.S. If I've missed any water mods, feel free to post a linky to their download and I'll get them screenshotted and edit them into this post. I plan to make similar threads for Beach, Terrain, and Tree mods. You can already get your rocks off here. (I might take a bit of a break tho. This is a tedious and boring task I've set for myself.) I hope everyone makes good use of my reference threads.

 

Attached is the medium size city tile I've used for these pics that way you can make your own with the exact same location.

City - Water Mods.sc4

 

Return to SimCity 4 Ultimate Guide: https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/762954-SimCity-4-ultimate-guide/

[ScottFTL 29]

This is an incredibly helpful reference. Thanks! 

[matias93 7,535]

Cori, this one is a classic:

 

[APSMS 1,892]

Yeah, it would be remiss to forget about RVT's stuff, even if I can't use it in HD terrain due to tiling. I used it for so long, too... :'-/

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

15 hours ago, matias93 said:

Cori, this one is a classic:

 

 

11 hours ago, APSMS said:

Yeah, it would be remiss to forget about RVT's stuff, even if I can't use it in HD terrain due to tiling. I used it for so long, too... :'-/

 

Got them added along with the LK StarterSet I'd forgotten.

[Aleister 13]

This is a nice contribution, very nice.  Thank you!  It had to be a lot of work to put all those various views together, but you've done quite well. . . Well done indeed!   I've tried many of these myself through the years, working to find "the one" - hahahaha.

The only addition I'd humble suggest would perhaps be showing the mods at another closer zoom.  It would double the work, but from hard experience I know that the various zoom levels do effect some of these water mods rather dramatically.

My only real "contribution" to the information in this thread would be to add that I never found the "the one" - the perfect water for the look I wanted - at least not "straight from the box".  Many were close but not quite perfect.   Then I found that I could adjust some settings in the terrain mod I use to create exactly what I wanted.  Changing the "Water Min Alpha" setting and the "Water Depth for Max Alpha" can make a great water mod even better . . . 

 

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

On 12/09/2016 at 12:46 AM, Aleister said:

The only addition I'd humble suggest would perhaps be showing the mods at another closer zoom.  It would double the work, but from hard experience I know that the various zoom levels do effect some of these water mods rather dramatically.

It did not even occur to me to check various zoom levels until I got to the ELSHA mod. I noticed the files zoomdistant.jpg and zoomier.jpg and took a look at them. I added text under my pic about there being a difference.

It goes from:

To:

And while I do like the extra ripples and each color separately, I personally don't care for the inconsistent, dramatic color change within the mod.

As you aptly noted it would double my workload. Instead of the current 72 pics it would become 144. While I don't mind this boring, tedious task for a once thru, I just can't motivate myself to go that extra step. If you'd like to take on that task and make a thread with them zoomiered, I'd be happy to include a linky to yours in my first post. I feel what I've presented here is sufficiently better than what we didn't have before.  

[citycowboy 183]

Northern Pacific FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Cori, that's another invaluable resource! Thanks for tackling such a huge project for the benefit of the community.

As for missing mods: timotheus4 has made a bunch of separate water mods. [Linkie]

[fredinno 54]

I'm surprised there's no "toliet water" and "puke green" textures... lol

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

13 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

As for missing mods: timotheus4 has made a bunch of separate water mods. [Linkie]

OMG! There's a treasure trove of water mods there. Like 37 downloads later and I've got them all. That @timotheus4 was one prolific water modder.

As I have time I'll get them screenshot and edited into post 1. In other news, I have all the pics for my upcoming Beach Shoppe. I'll put it on hold while I catch up here.

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

Outstanding job again Cori, you're a star!

[T Wrecks 10,209]

10 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

OMG! There's a treasure trove of water mods there. Like 37 downloads later and I've got them all. That @timotheus4 was one prolific water modder.

As I have time I'll get them screenshot and edited into post 1. In other news, I have all the pics for my upcoming Beach Shoppe. I'll put it on hold while I catch up here.

Sounds great! Jeez, we can hardly thank you enough - have another Like from me as a token of my gratitude at least. And a duckie!

I remember I once spent many, many days trying to choose a water mod that would look good...

• in the individual map (no too obvious tiling, no garish or unsuitable colour)
• in region view
• in combination with the canal set and ploppable water I was using at that time

The last point was the hardest task, as plop water / in-game water transitions are terribly hard to get right in game. Depending on which ploppable water / canal / river set you use (Oppie's canals, SimGoober's canal set, callagrafx' retake on SG's set, PEG or Diggis' streams, ...), it's still a lot of work, but an overview like the one you kindly provided makes it so much easier to sort out the ones that won't work for sure and focus on the promising candidates instead.

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

Whew! I got them all opened and pics shot. Turns out to be 59 more images. Some of those contain multiples like Japan has 5 and Barbados has 8 and so on. Tis my bedtime now, but I'll upload and update post 1 as I get time.

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

@Cyclone Boom

HELP! I've added 27 more pics but the 99^th one just doesn't want to resolve itself into an image. (I pasted it. Waited and waited. Deleted it. Pasted it. Waited a while. And I tried this like 5 times. When I've had this before it usually works on the 2nd or 3rd try.) Have I hit some sort of per post limit? I still have 32 more to add. I'll hold off on them cause if they won't show up there's no point in posting them.

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

No worries, I've fixed it now.

Looks like it didn't convert for some reason, with it just being a link to the image:
 

Before (as a link)

<a href="https://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p184/CorinaPics/39h_zpsvlkzeklr.jpg" rel="external nofollow">https://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p184/CorinaPics/39h_zpsvlkzeklr.jpg</a>

After (as an image)

<img alt="39h_zpsvlkzeklr.jpg" class="ipsImage" src="https://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p184/CorinaPics/39h_zpsvlkzeklr.jpg">

 

I guess when re-pasting the URL in the editor, it still didn't resolve into an image because the editor still saw it as a formatted link. If this happens again, try removing it, then copy & paste the URL as a plain link again (from Photobucket). Or alternatively, add it using the "Insert other media" option in the bottom right of the editor.

With a post length limit, I know some forums restrict this. But I don't believe one exists here, and I've yet to personally notice it even when testing with very lengthy formatting (e.g. challenge leaderboards). Even if there is, you'd think it'd be based on the size/length of the HTML, not the visible height of the post.

As a quick test, I tried duplicating your post and it still accepted the save. So there should be room for at least another 99 pics...

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

6 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

No worries, I've fixed it now.

TNQ!  I was losing heart when it wasn't working for me.

6 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

So there should be room for at least another 99 pics...

Ok, it's up to 131 pics in post 1 now. That's vanilla water and 129 other choices. (Yes, the math is right. There's also that underwater view.)

 

But, if there are more water mods out there, let me know.

[jaredh 195]

It seems clear the color and texture of water has never been a highly agreed upon thing in the mod community....131 different choices.  

[rsc204 21,804]

1 hour ago, jaredh said:

It seems clear the color and texture of water has never been a highly agreed upon thing in the mod community....131 different choices.  

Or to put it another way, people like choice . Perhaps the fact that the water textures are a relatively easy mod to create helps here. Compared to terrain mods for example, which are vastly more complex to make something that looks good. I'm sure otherwise there would be many more options for the other terrain-altering mods too.

Still 131! Who knew, that only makes Corina's work here even more impressive.

Shame we can't display two sets of images side by side, both with independent scroll bars. So you could compare two images next to each other. That's some pretty basic/archaic HTML code right there to achieve that (frames). But if you fancy an off-line version (for download) in HTML format, I'm thinking that could be very doable.

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

1 hour ago, rsc204 said:

Still 131!

Btw, the 131 I mentioned is the number of pics in my first post. One, however, is vanilla and that's not really a choice. And another one is the underwater view without any water to show the terrain down there.

 

1 hour ago, rsc204 said:

Shame we can't display two sets of images side by side, both with independent scroll bars.

Well, what's wrong with opening this thread in two separate windows and have them side by side? Peeps with 16:9 ratio monitors could prolly do it well or, like me, with dual square-ish monitors just have each window on it's own screen.

 

1 hour ago, rsc204 said:

But if you fancy an off-line version (for download) in HTML format, I'm thinking that could be very doable.

And this I personally encourage. Any (and every) one ought to do a Save As ... Complete Web Page in case my free Photobucket account ever borks the pics.

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

WOW Cori, the effort you put in here is just amazing. This is a really nice resource. 

 

I am using the Tropic Water , I thought I had the Coastal mod but it doesn't seem to be showing up , need to look into when I get around to it. 

[SimPimple 7]

Agreed- thank you for all the work! I've checked out all of your posts on these terrain and rock and water mods out there- lots of work you did for the rest of us. Thank you!

[AsimPika3172 1,129]

Best water mods ever! I like it!   

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

1 minute ago, AsimPika3172 said:

Best water mods ever! I like it!   

Keep in mind I didn't create any of the mods. All I did was load them, grab pics, and post them here with the linkys.

[Toby66 155]

Nice with a forum thread for them all. Easily over viewed but i still can't decide on which one to pick for my little piece of heaven\hell.

I'll try PEG WATER MOD and hope it's what i want.

Cheers

Edit:

Alright, done and tested it.

Only thing with this, (and i think i remember it was the same drill 16 years ago when i probably used PEG's water mod then as well), is that you'll have to load each city area individually for the color to show on the region screen.

One thing i noticed was this little color change where the old Maxis color is still there:

Otherwise it looks really nice on a map where that underwater view doesnt show.

Uhm, right. It does show but much better with that darker color overall.

And below how it looks like in the regional view with not all of it colored the same way yet.

Too bad now that it's not colored with that dark blue all over on the city map view, darn it.

Oh well!

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

2 hours ago, Toby66 said:

One thing i noticed was this little color change where the old Maxis color is still there.

There are a few water mods previewed above such as from the "Drunken Water Mods" and "Gobias HD Water" packs which have custom textured sides. Try using the Find tool in browser (Ctrl+F) for jumping up to these grouped above with individual previews. The reason these have edges (and not all) is because the author took extra effort in overriding those default colours down the sides. I suspect it would be possible for editing any other water mod and adding this in, though I've not personally explored that yet.

 

2 hours ago, Toby66 said:

And below how it looks like in the regional view with not all of it colored the same way yet.

I'm afraid it will require individually saving each city tile for the region view to update. This is because all tiles are represented by a snapshot preview, having one for the Satellite and another for the Transportation view. Both of these only get updated upon save, and I don't believe there's any quicker way to do this.

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

8 hours ago, Toby66 said:

One thing i noticed was this little color change where the old Maxis color is still there:

In addition to the info CB mentioned, there's this post by @rivit where he figured out exactly what controls the side color of the water so it could be fixed for the ones who didn't take that extra step.

[Toby66 155]

Rivit wrote:

" I'll leave it to you to figure out how to make it yourself".

Now i'm disappointed with this community.

And it's RUDE to ask of me to..

(Don't take me seriously, i always try to post in a good tone and i take nothing really seriously. I will say "now" when i put on my serious face, if ever again, just to be honest and straight with my intentions).

OK, thanks for the info at least Corina.

[CorinaMarie 29,556]

2 minutes ago, Toby66 said:

" I'll leave it to you to figure out how to make it yourself".

I see that as a challenge to be taken on should I wish to. And the post provides enough information I could do it. However, since I already use one of Drunken's mods I've no need to.

 

4 minutes ago, Toby66 said:

Now i'm disappointed with this community.

And it's RUDE to ask of me to..

While I've already learned of your style of humor, this might be just a wee bit too much.

[Toby66 155]

I clarified and yeah, it's all over my posts already.

Oh well.

Edit: To anybody putting in any water mod and who's as dumb as me, remember to load the city parts again individually to get rid of the installed water mod color.

I just went into the region view and was like, "HEY! That color is still there". Can you believe it?

I will try to fix this mismatch in the deep water so it matches the surface color but don't count on it.

Mind you, (here comes boosting), i was the first to make a lot with traffic running through it, no input required.

It's if i get around to do it and to THEN have the mod makers make it a part of their mod's cause that's what counts for the community.

Would be nice to do it for other's but for myself only, i don't know.

Good day

  Edited May 2, 2019 by Toby66  
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