Natural Environments - by Max Tael (m_tael@yahoo.com) This mod is just too awsome and was probably the biggest display of modding excelency that the community has seen so far. It is a successful effort to make the game look more realistic and beautiful (yes it can be done!) and it comes in 4 parts. Natural Weather - changes the lighting in the game, the wheather system, the sky and the clouds. Subtle hue and color changes of the lighting will make a sunset look breathtaking and will make the whole game scenery look more vivid and colorful. Changes to the weather system add seasons and weather types to the game, so winter is cold and snowy, summer is hot and sunny, and you get all the nice weather effects that you wanted like deep misty fog, rainbows, real looking rain, thunderstorms and more. In fact 44 new weather types have been added. It also changes the default sky and clouds, with much improved versions. The new clouds look amazing ! Natural Vegetation - changes the size of all the plants and trees in the game. It's subtle, yet very effective and adds greatly to the immersivness of the game. Finaly a big tree looks like a BIG_FREAKING_TREE... plus that now you can really get lost in the woods (you wanted that right ?:) Natural Habitat - adds birds and insects. If you ever wondered why the birds and insects that you keep hearing in the woods are nowhere to be found, this is for you. 20 types of birds and insects added. Natural Water - modifies the water to look like water. Actually we also have on the list another water mod that we think is even better than this one, but it's a matter of taste. It should be noted that we included in the download package a patch for the Natural Weather module that fixes some bugs in Maxs' version. Credits go to Morbus, and we highly recommend using the patched version.
