I haven't tested it with the latest version of Victoria 3 so I don't know.

still work?

yes black borders!

every modder keeps leaving and not letting anyone else try and maintaining it

Oh no the latest ver is so interesting......

Hey all

I don't plan on updating SGO (that includes addons and dark mode) for the latest patch or future ones. I simply don't play the game anymore and the new update doesn't interest me.

Is there a way to bring back the flatmap noise? Looks dull without it, I like everything else. To the guy below, agreed.

There are things i like about this mod, such as borders and water but some of the colors are very ugly and map looks overall much more flat and boring. Especially bad are the greens (Russia, Mexico, Brazil) and Canadian pink. Overall - do not recommend :(

The size of the mod has increased dramatically (~90mb to ~200mb), this is because I am now shipping an uncompressed texture for the water bathymetry. I couldn't eliminate some major banding in it and because it is featured so prominently (thus under more scrutiny) while playing I opted to treat it similar to the games papermap which is also not compressed. It still has some artifacts but they are not nearly as bad as the compression artifacts.

Hello everyone. 1.6 for Vic3 just released and seems to work fine with the current version of SGO. Please let me know if there are any issues!

I'm going to reinstall the game and remove all the other mods, maybe there's a conflict between them.
Thank you very much for the response and keep up the great work

Hey xlBoolx!

I just tested this mod along with the optional non-papermap addon and I don't experience the issues you are describing. Are you only using SGO and the non-papermap addon when this happens?

The primary mod (the mod on this page) should work with the latest version, the papermap addons haven't been updated for the latest version of the game but in my tests they still seem to run (with some issues, not ones you mentioned though).

Fronts may be difficult to see on the non-papermap addons since they weren't really designed to be viewed from high zoom levels without the papermap. I used to ship shader files to address this but they were cumbersome for me to keep up-to-date.

Hi, first I want to say what a wonderful mod. It gives the game a new look, much cleaner and more pleasant.

I would like to know if the mod works with the current version of the game, because I tested playing your mod + Non-papermap and the units and fronts do not appear on the map.


(I apologize for any mistakes in English, I'm using Google Translate)

Sneaking in another update to address some pretty jarring color banding on the new watercolor_rgb_waterspec_a texture (usually where the water transitions from blue to cyan). It's not perfect still but a visible improvement from the previous version of the texture.

Thank you TECC!

I've pushed forward another update also! I'm including a new normal map texture with this update that should make water look different. I used Blender to make this texture which I'm not experienced with, so please let me know if there are issues with this new texture or if anyone has suggestions to improve it!

Great work! Thanks!

I have pushed forward an update for SGO! Sorry for the long wait! I have raised the strength of the ocean bathymetry some more with this update, so it should be even more visible than before. I'm iterating quite a lot on the water due to the various zoom levels, it's tricky to get the water to look good in every levels of zoom, but I think I have found a good balance now.

Thanks for the response! I'll play around with those settings a bit. I'm also playing around with the cyan levels in the watercolor file, with the imagery map from ArcGIS at various resolutions
(https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html) as a reference to find something between realistic and to my taste aesthetically.

Thanks for the feedback diji! I believe I tried to mimic the effect you mentioned on the diffuse texture that handles the ocean, so it is possible to simply raise the strength of the new ocean texture so that it is less subtle (it blends several HSV values with a texture that has details such as bathymetry, the idea would be to give the latter priority) in the water.settings file.

I still need to work on the custom ocean diffuse texture some more so while I'm doing that I'll also tweak the water settings.

I like the mod in general, though I do feel that the oceans are a bit plain now since they seem to lack the blue-green that's characteristic of shallower waters, like is shown on NASA's ocean Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/nasaocean)

Hey! I am not experiencing the same issue on my end. Could you provide more info about the crash? Is the crash occurring with just this mod active? Are you using any DLC that might alter the map? If so try disabling those and see if the crashing persists.

Good mod but always i get crash after minute of play. Last version

Updated for 1.5.

Note that I have restored clouds and fog of war for this update. They are a bit more subtle than vanilla and are thus less distracting. If these effects are undesired you can download this mod: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3051171083

I've pushed forward an update for version 1.4 of Victoria 3. I have removed some files for this update, including all shader files as maintaining them was a bit too cumbersome. The visuals should remain mostly the same as before though.

I recommend unsubscribing and resubscribing as I'm not sure if Steam will properly update the mod.

Hey Toast. I don't accept friend invites on Steam. If you want to talk privately send me a friend request on Discord (gotaa formerly gotaa#8317).

Hey! I praised your work a couple months ago, and you mentioned looking into modding. Can I add you and DM for guidance with map modding?

You Sir, are a genius! Thanks for this awesome mod!
Finaly the game is playable!

Thanks for using the mod! I've also just now updated the mod, it tries to address the issues we discussed (including the brightness).

You may have to unsubscribe and subscribe for this update to download correctly since I noticed that it didn't start downloading automatically until I did that.

是的，我发现有一个“dark”版本的mod，但是却没有一个“bright”版本。希望可以让地图更加色彩鲜明，明亮一点，非常感谢你的工作

Hey. I used Google Translate for your message and if I understand correctly you want the map to be a bit brighter? Sure I can look into that.

I haven't been working on the mod for a while now but one thing I want to do is tweak the changes I did to some post processing and water graphics since I agree that it looks a bit 'faded out' at the moment.

用了这个mod之后感觉地图变得没有那么亮了，太暗了。请问可以调节亮度吗

Is there a mod that keeps the paper map even when zoomed in? I get more fps while the game is in paper map mode.

Thank you so much!!!!!

No problem and thank you also! I do still recommend that you check out the files of this mod to learn a bit more about modding map visuals, if you're interested in that stuff.

Thank you so much for this mod and your effort into updating it so quickly. I was legitimately about to learn how to make mods just to fix the ugly native colors and ocean.

Another update uploaded (for 1.3.1, the hotfix).

This latest update makes the download a lot larger. This is because I've migrated a lot of the 3D map (and other) changes from the non-paper addons to the main mods. So the 3D map of the main mods now resemble the addons while also retaining the paper map.

Hey! I have uploaded an update for the mod (Dark mode updated too). The non-paper map addons still have issues but I am working on resolving those.

Note that I have not tested this with the new DLCs, as I don't own them (hesitant to buy them). But I'm guessing that they should technically work, however I don't know how the map looks with them enabled.

Update plss, its such a goated mod

Thank you, super kind of you to say <3

this is such an nice mod, it should be vanilla

Thank you <3

best map mod

Thank you!

it looks awesome! great work!

Omg Thanks bro you are daddy

I've uploaded a dark mode version! I put a link to it at the top of the description above.

Cool thanks bro

Sounds good! I tested a few mods that darkened the water but I found that the difference in brightness between the land and water to be too much. The water mods I tested also only modified the paper map.

I'll start to work on a 'dark mode' version of the mod that is overall less bright and with darker oceans, that affects both the paper map and the regular map. I'll update this mod page with a link to it when it's up!

I would say like either a really dark grey or blue but Black also looks really good

Hey! I can take a look at it for sure. How dark should the water be though? TNO-style dark?