(yet another SITS mashup)
Default Replacement Terrain + Roads
More pics + Info + DL link under the cut
Fig. 1 - Lot View During Normal Gameplay
Fig. 2 - Hood View During Normal Gameplay
Fig. 3 - Tiling of bare terrain; weird map coding leading to hard seams on mountains in "Lush" version
Fig. 4 - Mountains in "Dirt" Version
Fig. 5 - Lot View - Lot Edge Seam
Fig. 6 - Extreme Closeup of Lot Edge Seam; somewhat pixelated road texture original to Rural Charm road overlays.
"Charming Oblivion" Neighborhood Terrain + Neighborhood Road Default Replacement
brought to you by sufficeittosay aka anachronisims.tumblr.com
What It Is:
A mashup (all I do tbh) of Criquette's Rural Charm roads and the grass texture extracted from Oblivion as a terrain paint by MedinaQuirin, applied to neighborhood terrain as a default replacement
What's Included in the .rar:
A complete folder of full-size screenshots of the mod in action so you can decide whether it suits your aesthetic or not.
A LUSH (temperate) version of the mod. This one has "more" textures included because of the way temperate terrain is, but is not actually "richer" in appearance in any way because of it. See the brightly colored heat-map or cliff view seams in the preview files - the game randomly decides which of the "wet" textures to apply to given squares and often does not correctly blend them. For this reason the included textures are DUPLICATES to minimize the hard seaming that would come from using two different shades of green. I tried, it didn't work, on any of several maps. It just wasn't worth it.
!! RECOMMENDED !! - A DIRT version of the mod. This has fewer textures and is therefore RECOMMENDED. Additionally, the cliff textures have been reduced to 512x512 with no terrible loss of quality. The grass is still green. It just uses the "Dirt" labeled template to achieve the texture savings. Plus… are you really using the Dirt terrain anyway?
BONUS: the rainbow version from my heat map experiment, by request of SadoAlice. The rainbow affects hood view only. Lot view is regular green oblivion grass. You may alter the lot view grass texture images as you desire to the single color of your choice. If you ask very nicely I might do it for you.
For your convenience, the matching terrain paint for Oblivion grass is included, but I don't know why you'd need it. Don't paint over other terrain paint; use control+click to get rid of it same as any other damn thing in build mode.
Again, for your convenience, Criquette's Rural Charm Recolors of CuriousB's lot-view road pieces, which if you've used road DRs before you know is just a thing we have to deal with. (If someone has cracked this piece of the puzzle while I've been out of the game, please let me know!!)
My optional DR cliff textures which are used in an allegedly-but-effectively-not-different way by the game than the "dry" textures that also are cliffy on the map. These also default your neighborhood boulders. If you use my Cliffs of Insanity, you may already have these.
How to install:
1. Locate your existing road and/or terrain default replacements, if any, and remove them from your downloads folder. Depending on which mod you use, they may be a single or separate file.
2. Both the dirt and the lush versions of Charming Oblivion include separate files for the terrain and roads, and BOTH files within the folder are required. Put BOTH files from a single folder into your downloads folder or subfolder of your choosing.
2b. Choose amongst the optional folder items as you please; these also go to your downloads folder
3. If you want to use the Dirt terrain for the reduced texture benefits but are currently playing a Lush hood, never fear! Open the cheat window in hood view. Type "terraintype dirt" and press enter. NOTE: to change back to lush, you actually would type "terraintype temperate" because of course you do. Reference: https://modthesims.info/t/217506
Credits: Criquette Rural Charm - https://criquette-was-here.tumblr.com/ruralcharm Extracted Oblivion Grass - https://medinaquirin.tumblr.com/post/20433784575/a-little-gift-for-the-tumbling-folks-as-it-says Everyone who ever made a hood terrain DR because I probably checked it out before doing this and deciding the shade of green or the shape of the grass just wasn't QUITE what I was looking for.
Download at SFS