can you give an approximate release date for the 3V?

Thanks for your work on this, the developers seemingly deliberately made the game gray and desaturated.

@porkypants - I"m making a V3 which has biome textures and brighter night

I love the daytime clarity but at night everything becomes purple and not so nice. Hope you can tweak the night settings to a bright clear night.

@kevin.grube92 Works just fine with Proton-GE. Maybe try a different Proton version. Since your on Mint it may also just be that your drivers are too old and you'd need to use a more up to date distro, e.g. Fedora.

Oh heck, you make it look so much better, outstanding job, Sir. Thank you (for both mods, this and the UI). (I feel like you need to be an engineer or at least a car mechanic irl to play Automation though, lol)

I tried integrating the whole thing into my Linux Mint, but unfortunately, it didn't work. After the map loading screen, the game quits. Does anyone have experience with this and managed to get it to work? I think it's due to Direct X compatibility.

I've got your mod in my game, and it's great. https://youtu.be/TQcW1FyVngs?si=frYXl7uV_yNk4oGw

This ♥♥♥♥ pisses me off the file name 784150 dosent exist in my thing and now im wondering where this file goes when its downloaded what the ♥♥♥♥

Astonishing looks and great improvement from the base graphics but i think the water reflects the skybox and the clouds a bit too much and simply looks like a mirror and not water.

just found the mod thanks to reddit and i find out in the desc that you're a dev of one of my favourite games that's awesome keep up the great work.

in-game daytime: absolutely stunning. during in-game nighttime: everything looks purple-ish and hurts my eyes (it's not literally purple but has a purple tint and doesn't look real as well)

Super bright during winter and black sky

Fairly beautiful even with uncompatible GTX 700 thingy except black sky and being little over bright lol

Since the texture or asphalt road and asphalt road with sidewalks is a bit of different tone, the intersections of the two types look not great. Maybe you could make it of the same inner texture?

Absoluteiy beautiful, couldn't play without anymore!
I only wish the factory connections were a little more subtle.

great mod, tbh i prefer it 100 times more than pings ultima textures.

Probably a too old GPU, or you're using Win7 mode

my sky is black. what's wrong?

@ladeia - Probably when I get a chance yeah

Will the new cobblestone road be patched?

Yeah, all the lighting and colour correction related stuff is in ini files in the weathers folder :)

So everything can be tweaked through the INI? That makes things much easier. Thanks for the reply!

Does it look as bright in your game as the screenshots on the Steam listing? Because I think in the screenshots (and in my game) that day time is quite a bit brighter than the default game lighting personally.

Not sure I could turn it up much more without stuff just being glowingly bright.

If you want to play with it you could adjust things in day.ini

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but would it be possible to slightly increase the brightness of the daylight? The new lighting looks beautiful, but daytime often feels more like evening because everything is quite dim. That’s the only thing holding me back from fully enjoying this otherwise amazing mod.

That's very odd, that's the default folder that steam creates for your games.

Try googling 'how to find your steam library" or something like that.

some how i dont have the folder steamapp. can somebody help me?

According to TechPowerUP, on the 940m: "Even though it supports DirectX 12, the feature level is only 11_0, which can be problematic with newer DirectX 12 titles."

So looks like the black sky is caused by old GPUs not supporting DX 11_1 features.

Black Sky Nvidia 940M DirectX 12 ((

@OOGA BOOGA - I suspect it might be because your card only supports DirectX "Feature Level" 11.0, where the skyboxes use features from 11.1 (See https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-M2000M.151581.0.html)

On quadro m2000m i have black sky, but only on windows, on linux everything works fine

no problem in Early Start for me so far

Updated for Early Start!

Had a look at the sky textures and there is nothing special about Day1.ddsx compared to any others, although they do use some new and fancy DXT compression (all of the skies)

Wondering if people with black sky issues either have old GPUs, or out of date drivers for them? Maybe? Hard to know as I've never been able to replicate the problem (besides by selecting DX10 compatibility mode)

Comrade, good man! Please add support for an Early start, I will be immensely grateful, thank you for your work, comrade!

I've been playing 700+ hrs with no mods but my eyes litelarlly hurt during winter and i couldn't do anything. This mod is a lifie saver. Thank you!

Guess I'd better get the Early Start DLC and start troubleshooting then...

I crash with the new early start DLC everytime when I start a steam train. No crashes when uninstalling the mod by verifying file integrity, but when I reinstall the mod, I crash instantly when starting a steam train.

i recently began having some crashes during some gameplay sessions. i believe i managed to track down the issue to the "weathers" folder. the issue is bizarrely triggered when i have transferred only the "weathers" folder and then heading into the building editor. Then after placing down one random prefab, I click on the particles tab to trigger a crash. this ONLY happens when the weather folder has been brought in.

I also ran into the black sky error, so I tried overwriting files multiple times to figure out the issue.

In my case, everything was fine to overwrite except for 'weathers\day1.ddsx'. But when I overwrote 'day1.ddsx', the error showed up. So I recommend others to overwrite the files but leave that one alone.

Hope this helps!

Just like your other mod, this one is such a massive step up from the original game. Suddenly now the game doesn't look like a budget title from 2010 anymore.

Unfortunately I'm not sure how to help folks with the black sky issue.. I just tried a fresh install of the current version of the game + this mod, and it worked fine.

I could put out a seperate mod with versions of the skies in a more compatible (but much uglier) texture format, which might help though?


I'm wondering if those of you that are having trouble have a specific graphics card or old drivers or something? Any info would be good :)

Hi, same problem here... the sky is black.

Mod dont work, installed using guide

слишком темно ночью, ничего не видно

совсем по другому играется,мне нравится )))

I've changed branch to main, made some screenshots with different graphic settings https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3454096221 https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3454097295

Might not get a chance to look at it for a few weeks, in the meantime it'd be very helpful if you could try it on the test branch and see if it's fine there or not.

Hope you look for problem, because your graphic mod very beutiful. Much better than origin. Thx

I'm on main

That's weird, still fine on mine, are you folks on the public test version or the main version?

(I'm running it on the public test version right now not sure if that matters)