This pack includes 4 custom Beach Mods styled to resemble real world locales: Cape Cod, Nantucket, Vancouver Island and St. Lucia.  Each beach comes in two different scale variations: choose the version that matches the terrain mod you may be using (see INFORMATION below for further details).

Beach Mods by Gobias

• HD Terrain Mod: Requires DirectX Hardware Rendering Mode for Graphics. Will CTD with Software Rendering Mode and/or on macOS.

Information:

This mod contains the following installable components:

Required:  Choose ONE of the following Mod Files and unzip to your Plugins folder:

• Cape Cod Beach Mod
• Nantucket Beach Mod
• Vancouver Island Beach Mod
• St. Lucia Beach Mod

For use with Gobias' Terrain Mod/s:  choose the "GB" file version.
For use with Lowkee's Terrain Mod:  choose the "LK" file version.


REGARDING "GB" and "LK" file versions:

Various terrain mods available on the LEX and STEX utilize different "Terrain Texture Tiling Factors" which is a parameter that controls the zoom or scale with which a terrain texture will display in-game.

The Gobias Berner Oberland Terrain Mod - and all future Gobias Terrain Mods - utilizes a .0976x tiling factor.  This allows the game to tile a texture at roughly twice the size of the original MAXIS default.  When used in conjunction with HD textures this setting allows higher resolution of terrain.  It allows the modder to create more variety in detail while reducing texture-repetition but still preserves the sharpness of the original texture.

The Lowkee Appalachian Terrain Mod utilizes a .0488x tiling factor.  At this setting a texture will appear at twice the size as it would with the Gobias .0976 setting (or 4x larger than the MAXIS default).

Since changes to this setting dramatically affects the appearance of scale I have included two different versions of each mod compatible with either Lowkee's tiling factor (.048) or Gobias' tiling factor (.097).

Installation:

Installation: Choose ONE mod file for the beach/tiling version you wish to install and unzip to your plugins folder.

Un-Installing: To un-install the files simply delete the files from the plugins folder.

Dependencies:

To ensure the proper functionality, make sure the files mentioned below are installed in the plugins folder:

• No Dependencies Required
• RECOMMENDED for proper scale:  use either Lowkee's Appalachian Terrain Mod, Gobias' Berner Oberland Terrain Mod or any future Gobias Terrain Mod release.  User may also use with any custom terrain mod which uses the tiling factors described above.

Credits:

Created by Gobias