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Any chance the mud and snow could be optionally dimmed in some way? The map's real nice, but the weather overlays are a little ugly. They're fine from four feet, but when you're trying to read the detail on the map they make it a squint-fest.

under preferences you can select do not show weather.

or shift d

Oh good. Thanks.

ORIGINAL: cookie monster

under preferences you can select do not show weather.

But what if you want to see the snow, but not go snow blind?

I find the weather graphics a little over done as well, and think that not having them on is also a detriment. So with a little digging, I discovered the map overlay graphics in the DAT folder for Zoom2. With a little fiddling I got this for mud.




It shows a smattering of mud which shows up well on the map, still allowing you to see the terrain underneath. I am going to see what I can do for blizzard/snow. That will be tougher as you will have to tell the difference between the two.

Here is what I got snow to look like..just a light dusting.

As opposed to a Blizzard, which I changed to look like this:

Looks good. Please upload the mod when finished.

Uploaded in the mod forum.

Excellent and just the right touch!

Much better. Ta.