Clear Borders mod aims to make the regime and zone borders more readable at all zoom levels without introducing overlapping textures or other visually distracting artifacts.
The mod is designed with these priorities in mind. The latest internal version (v11) achieves these the best. v8 places colors above visibility.
- Zero texture clipping (aside from the bug inflicting highest zoom level)
- Visibility on all zoom levels
- Color support (based on regime relations)
Download: Clear Borders (v1) (released April 13th, 2025)
Thanks to Pymous, mroyer, rjosh and Khanti for inspiration and valuable feedback!
With permission from Pymous, I've included the Pymod Border mod and a modified version of it with color support based on regime relations. A few other border mods found from responses to Any border mods? topic have also been included to make comparisons and your own modifications easier.
The comparison picture includes other mods. I've included the mods I actively use and some recommendations for other mods in a mod pack.
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Installation
- Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Shadow Empire
- (optional) Backup previous graphicsAlt (or just the border folders) if you've used mods previously
- Drop a copy of the graphicsAlt folder from one of the mod versions into the Shadow Empire folder and overwrite any existing files
Release Notes
The versions in the notes include internal versioning from the GIMP file. All fully functional versions are included separately in the download.
Clear Borders v1
- v8 - white with 1px black outline
- v9 - white with 3px black outline
- v9.1 - v9, w small texture 2px horizontal fix
- v10 - v8, w v9 at highest zoom
- v11 - thin white w thick black outline
