@Echo

I mean it's rather a quite simple mod, it's highly compatible because it literally replaces only a single file (or two? I can't remember):

The tree map (trees.bmp)

And *maybe* the rivers map and terrain brushes(?)

These things are literally never changed during updates, or if they are they're overwritten by this mod. The fundamental shape of the world map never changes so as a result the mod always works.

I'm kind of surprised this mod keeps working despite every expansion changing the map.

you what

bro added jungle in the steppes. Waiting for tundra in Sahara to make game more realistic

I've always felt that terrain mapmode got uglier since I started playing but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. This is why, thanks for bringing back old terrain :)

Works fine

Does this mod still work on the current version. Looks like a nice visual mod.

This is interesting to see because I have been around since the beginning of Europa Universalis IV, and this change was made by Wiz because so many people complained about combat in provinces with trees that do not have woods or forest as a terrain; and it was considered a popular change at the time. However, I felt it was an arbitrary fix.

God be praised.

Yes, there's no reason it shouldn't. It changes only one file ingame.

does this work with Graphical map improvments mod?

Probably changed it when they made it so every province had only one terrain type, at one point every province had a chance to be any terrain from a list of terrains defined for the province with manoeuvre generals slightly shifting those odds. Having varying amounts of different terrains in each province in the terrain mapmode helped reflect those varying odds, generally the more trees, the more likely you were to fight in woods, it was a very annoying system though as terrain was pure chance and you could get bad luck and end up with the 1% chance of mountains when attacking and get destroyed. when they changed how terrain worked to have only one terrain per province, they likely also updated the terrain map to reflect that, as they did not have the simplified terrain mapmode yet and players needed a way to visually find defensible terrain.

thanks

@"Perhaps they did this to fix the end game lag that some players had :/"

Late game lag is caused by memory and CPU bottlenecks: too many in-game variables being stored and checked; not GPU bottlenecks. If rendering trees aren't causing you lag at the start of the game they're not gonna cause anymore at the end.

Perhaps they did this to fix the end game lag that some players had :/

This was the worst change they ever did, glad someone finally reverted it.

@see two It's impossible due to how terrain works, thanks to paradox.

does this change checksum? If not, could you make a version with just the visual changes?

@Mistyk07 Oh? I have to look into this. I'll see if I can restore this function.

@Mistyk07, I'm sorry I'm not quite sure what you mean.

@uxhy Thank Paradox for making "trees.bmp" change checksum for some reason.

I love this. Just a shame it doesn't work with achievements.

Can't believe Paradox ruined their own terrain map for no reason. There's even a Simple Terrain Map Mode if you really want to know terrain based off of just looking, it was so pointless.

THANK YOU. Been waiting years for this lol

This is great thanks!

i dont even play on the terrain map mode, but i love this mod

I didn't know I wanted this, but now I do! It always bugged me a bit that trees would just stop at province borders!

@Patlichan go ahead! :)

Hey, can I integrate this into my mod? I was bugged that Circassia did not have proper forests. I will of course give you credit.