BG - Removed Lunar Cycle (Patreon)

AKA: Give me back the moon in the Magic Realm

The Lunar Cycle patch is what pushed me from just disliking this game but still finding a way to have fun with it with some occasional bullshit to hating it and wanting to get rid of it for good.

The reason? I really wanted the feature until I saw how they realised it. 

This mod just aims to remove this ugly feature, to get a better quality lunar cycle you can use this or this instead. Neither of them fixes the problem I want fixed, if nothing else they make it more noticeable. This is the problem, and it's never going to get fixed by Maxis...

The Magic Realm used to have a special moon texture:

This was the moon in the Magic Realm before the patch. After the patch, every world uses the same moon texture, this low quality shite:

The Magic Realm disables the lunar cycle so it always only uses the full moon texture. Nothing you can set in game can fix this, because while you can set the moon to be fixed on a phase you can't get the game to use the old textures. The problem is noticeable in Forgotten Hollow too, that used to have a special moon as well:

Before the patch:

After the patch:

This was the price to pay for the gameplay feature, gameplay that consist in the old formula of a bunch of buffs with the completely unnecessary skill gain bonus and that is only really meaningful for those creepy disgusting things they tried to sell as werewolves. I'm not willing to pay this price since I don't even consider the idea of playing werewolves in this game. And I've been looking for a way to save both the lunar cycle and the special moons for a while but given that this isn't possible I decided to give up on the lunar cycle, especially because I can achieve a better result than what's in game with a brush in clip studio if I want different moon phases in the sky.

This mod replaces the new moon texture with Forgotten Hollow moon because that looks good almost everywhere:

In willow creek:

And the full moon texture with the Magic Realm moon so you get back the special moon in the Realm, sadly that one doesn't look good in most other places:

The other moon phases textures are replaced with the other different moons that used to be in game like

Windenburg moon

That used to also be Granite Falls moon and the basegame moon, that used to be also Glimmerbrook moon and is now the default full moon everywhere:

You can potentially decide which moon use as default by fixing the phase on the moon you like, I've set it this way

So the game uses Forgotten Hollow moon everywhere but in the Magic Realm, and the moon will be back to be always full everywhere.