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Blue Marble Design for Civilization IV
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| This program allows the installation of a new graphic design for Sid Meier's Civilization IV™, based on images of the NASA projects Blue Marble and Hubble, supplemented with a graphically modernized and harmonized user interface. Individual components are selectable in the setup program. Optionally available is a small scaling tool, allowing to adjust the dimensions of many 3D objects and texts. You are free to distribute, install and use this software for non-commercial purposes as long as it is kept 100% free of charge and unmodified in any way.
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Author |
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Date |
Size |
Download |
| Blue Marble Terrain |
Kai Fiebach |
3.00 |
2007-JUL-22 |
55.7 MB |
CivBlueMarble.zip |
| Graphics Scaling Tool |
Kai Fiebach |
3.00 |
2007-JUL-22 |
1.7 MB |
CivScale.zip |
| Screenshot Comparison |
Comparison Original/Blue Marble |
0.5 MB |
800x3000 |
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These programs are compatible to the CD/DVD-versions of the Civ4 basic version and the expansions 'Warlords' and 'Beyond the Sword'. If one of these extensions is installed afterwards, the 'Blue Marble' programs simply have to be started once more again.
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| The Blue Marble Project |
NASA's Blue Marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps
of our planet Earth. Since the seventies earth observation satellites have
recorded data of our atmosphere, the oceans and the land surface to improve
our understanding of the Earth as a system. These datasets are usually
not publicly accessible and they are only available as scientific file types.
Therefore the Blue Marble project produces high resolution maps in false-color
and true-color formats from the scientific satellite data. This allows the user
to become a discoverer and to investigate our planet from space. With these
products we would like to stimulate the public interest for matters of
the environment and also express the importance of unmanned satellite missions
carried out by the NASA and other space organizations.
The Blue Marble "Next generation" is the latest product of the series, showing
a cloudless Earth in 12 monthly variations: the beginning of spring, dry spells,
snow cover changes, vegetation coloring and rainy seasons all are dynamic processes
in our climate system. The monthly satellite maps are available under
bluemarble.nasa.gov.
The Civilization IV users now can discover their Worlds with a special Blue Marble
texture set modelled from this material. Have a lot of fun with it!
The NASA Blue Marble Team
NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
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| Credits |
Blue Marble Graphics for Civilization IV
by Kai Fiebach (kai@civilized.de)
with help from Firaxis Games
Civilization IV Graphics
www.firaxis.com
Satellite Graphics
bluemarble.nasa.gov
Image Processing
www.gimp.org
Programming Language
www.perl.org
Perl for Win32
www.activestate.com
Perl GUI Toolkit
www.prima.eu.org
Special Thanks
Barry Caudill, Matthias Fischer, Soren Johnson, Dmitry Karasik,
Sakis Milonas, Steve Ogden, Jon Shafer, Jesse Smith
Reto Stöckli, Mustafa Thamer, Thunderfall, Andreas Traxler
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| Preserve our history, our earth, our future. |
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