Modding Medieval's Terrain

[Adebar]

@ Richard: Thanks!

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The modded FOG2M swamp vegetation also works in FOG2 (FOG2M BushesTileEdge.s4f replaces FOG2 BushesTile.s4f).

Mediterranean Marshy:



North European Marshy (NorthernEurope swamp overlay textures replaced by SouthernEurope ones):



Middle-Eastern Marshy:



Tropical Marshy:



All textures shown here are based on Mazex's great TexMod: viewtopic.php?f=492&t=100101

Only changes to The TexMod's original files are slightly recoloured MiddleEast tiles and objects. Apart from that the swamp overlay textures and vegetation could be released as a small sub mod for TexMod.

[Mord]

New Winter Farmland Texture.






Mord.

[toska]

They look great! Don't forget to update the mod.

[Mord]

They look great! Don't forget to update the mod.

No worries. Once we have it all done, we'll release the entire updated mod.


Mord.

[Mord]

Man, I have learned a lot since Medieval came out. Been working on this for about five hours at least.

New Farmland.








CAN'T SEEM TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!!!! I don't want to abandon this texture.




Mord.

[Mord]

Got a better texture for the other Winter Crops. Created a smaller texture set for the Rough Ground to better align with the rest of the new textures.

I think it looks pretty kickass! Last two pics are awesome.

















We are getting there.



Mord.

[kronenblatt]

Got a better texture for the other Winter Crops. Created a smaller texture set for the Rough Ground to better align with the rest of the new textures.

I think it looks pretty kickass! Last two pics are awesome.

We are getting there.

Mord.

I agree: Looks great! Thanks, Mord. Could this winter landscape be applied in FoG2:Ancients as well? And if yes, how?

[Mord]

I agree: Looks great! Thanks, Mord. Could this winter landscape be applied in FoG2:Ancients as well? And if yes, how?

Thanks. Glad you like what you see.

You would put the files in the appropriate folders in your data/TILES data/options, Northern European, part of FoG II. I haven't really thought about it, but I doubt it would work decent without a lot of editing.


Mord.

[Adebar]

I could need some help with a texture related problem:

Overlay textures (TEX2.dds) for rocky hill slopes are showing dark gaps between their elements in game.

Zoomed out - all seems fine:



Zoomed in - the gaps:



Checked TEX2 over and over again, corrected several errors; Mord has examined it too - we cannot find the cause for the bug.

If anyone has an idea which causes the problem, please drop a line. Thanks in advance!

[Mord]

Adebar, see my last email. I misunderstood the email the other night. A couple of the hill contours aren't lined up perfectly.


Mord.

[kronenblatt]

I agree: Looks great! Thanks, Mord. Could this winter landscape be applied in FoG2:Ancients as well? And if yes, how?

Thanks. Glad you like what you see.

You would put the files in the appropriate folders in your data/TILES data/options, Northern European, part of FoG II. I haven't really thought about it, but I doubt it would work decent without a lot of editing.


Mord.

Too bad: I'm not really good at all with graphics. Hopefully a patch or DLC for Ancients will add that winter landscape then. Because it's nothing that you're looking at doing, Mord? (keeping my fingers crossed... )

[Mord]

Because it's nothing that you're looking at doing, Mord? (keeping my fingers crossed... )

I doubt any time soon. I've got 80 hours logged "in game" on Steam so far (doesn't included all the time I've put in outside the game), and I have yet to play a battle in Medieval. I've been modding this whole time. Trying to figure out what would be needed and not needed in Ancients, to get all the Winter stuff to work, depresses me LOL.


Mord.

[Paul59]

Because it's nothing that you're looking at doing, Mord? (keeping my fingers crossed... )

I doubt any time soon. I've got 80 hours logged "in game" on Steam so far (doesn't included all the time I've put in outside the game), and I have yet to play a battle in Medieval. I've been modding this whole time. Trying to figure out what would be needed and not needed in Ancients, to get all the Winter stuff to work, depresses me LOL.


Mord.

Putting the Frozen terrain into a FOG2 Ancients scenario to create a new Epic Battle scenario using the new terrain would be easy.

But I guess what you really want would be to add it to the base games terrain folders so that Custom Battles and Campaigns could use it. That would be much harder, not because of any graphic work, but you would have to do a lot of scripting to get the game to use the Frozen terrain in those game modes.

[mazex]

Glad to see that my TexMod got "transferred" to Medieval with improvements!

I was thinking of doing it myself but now I can use this instead - thanks!

[kronenblatt]

Because it's nothing that you're looking at doing, Mord? (keeping my fingers crossed... )

I doubt any time soon. I've got 80 hours logged "in game" on Steam so far (doesn't included all the time I've put in outside the game), and I have yet to play a battle in Medieval. I've been modding this whole time. Trying to figure out what would be needed and not needed in Ancients, to get all the Winter stuff to work, depresses me LOL.


Mord.

But I guess what you really want would be to add it to the base games terrain folders so that Custom Battles and Campaigns could use it.

Yes, exactly.

[Mord]

Glad to see that my TexMod got "transferred" to Medieval with improvements!

I was thinking of doing it myself but now I can use this instead - thanks!

Hey, we've been waiting for you. Yes, we want to incorporate it into the mod and you will of course be credited along with everyone else involved.




Mord.

[mazex]

Glad to see that my TexMod got "transferred" to Medieval with improvements!

I was thinking of doing it myself but now I can use this instead - thanks!

Hey, we've been waiting for you. Yes, we want to incorporate it into the mod and you will of course be credited along with everyone else involved.

Mord.

Glad to see that my modded textures for Ancients where appreciated and can be used as a base for part of your work!

Been working too much lately unfortunately. I bought Medieval on release to support the devs but only have 2 hours logged so far. It seems great and I actually liked the base textures / coloring / saturation a lot better than vanilla Ancient. But there is always room for improvement to suit different individual tastes for us that get get annoyed by some shade of green that is a tiny bit off our personal preferences

[kronenblatt]

Because it's nothing that you're looking at doing, Mord? (keeping my fingers crossed... )

I doubt any time soon. I've got 80 hours logged "in game" on Steam so far (doesn't included all the time I've put in outside the game), and I have yet to play a battle in Medieval. I've been modding this whole time. Trying to figure out what would be needed and not needed in Ancients, to get all the Winter stuff to work, depresses me LOL.


Mord.

I know the feeling...! I've actually got 22 000 (!) hours logged on Europa Universalis 4, with the vast majority (really; almost all) of it testing my mods and having the game run hands-off over-night and over days to test dynamics. Can't really say how few hours I've actually played Europa Universalis 4, but not many at all...

[Adebar]

I've actually got 22 000 (!) hours logged on Europa Universalis 4

[Mord]

That's over two years LOL.


Adebar, just sent you the corrected Tex2.



Mord.