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UPDATED 5/5/23: Fixed any problems that the Sublime Porte era patch/update may have caused.

UPDATED (Reconquista): Spent the last 12 hours finishing what the dlc added. Medieval is now fully updated to FoG II terrain. All biomes are covered, Desert, Middle East, Mediterranean, Northern Europe, and Tropical.

ORIGINAL POST: Through a community collaboration between myself, Adebar, Paul59, and mazex, we have finished converting Medieval's terrain to FoG II. As well as completely overhauling the winter textures to better fit with the FoG II art. The summer textures are based on mazex's excellent Texmod, with modifications by Paul and myself to get them to display properly in Medieval. Adebar created some wonderful trees, Marsh and rocky hill contours for the winter maps that look spectacular in game. While I worked on snow, crops, and other odds and ends.

Special thanks to Patrick Ward and Paul for answering my modding questions, and alansaund (on Steam) for pointing me in the right direction.


You'll find that this version works perfectly with all Epic Battles.

NOTE: You should have zero issues using this mod in SP. However, you may want to finish your MP games before installing. It still hasn't been fully tested in MP so your mileage may vary.


INSTALLATION:

UPDATING TO THE RECONQUISTA VERSION If you are updating from the older Base Game version of the mod go to: Field Of Glory II Medieval/Data/objects and delete the "NorthernEurope" folder. Then go to Field Of Glory II Medieval/Data/TILES and delete the "NorthernEurope_Base" and "NorthernEurope_Overlay" folders. Then follow the installation instructions below, minus the backup procedure.



Go to your FoG II Medieval Data folder. For me it's in Drive/Steam/steamapps/common/Field Of Glory II Medieval/Data. Back up your "TILES" and "objects" folders. The simplest way for me is to just create a zip file for both and leave them in the folder. Now extract the two folders ("TILES" and "objects") from the zipped mod into your Data folder and overwrite when prompted. That's it.


Terrain Mod Download (Full Version: Base Game + Reconquista UPDATED 5/5/23):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/2eqg8de5 ... 3.zip/file



Terrain Mod Download (Base Game version ONLY UPDATED 5/5/23):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/2t6eli0f ... 3.zip/file










NEW RECONQUISTA SCREEN SHOTS












Adebar preferred some of the older textures I created, and I had a request on Steam for different crops, so I am providing links for some alternate terrain. Install instructions are in the zips.


Alternate Winter Ground

https://www.mediafire.com/file/735t2226 ... d.zip/file






Alternate Winter Rough

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7im9h53a ... h.zip/file






Alternate Winter Crops

https://www.mediafire.com/file/i5fn8wi1 ... s.zip/file





Alternate Summer Crops FoG II Medieval Mixed

https://www.mediafire.com/file/2kgi7kjh ... d.zip/file









For more info on how this came about see this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=639&t=103938


For more info on mazex's TexMod see this thread (and if you don't already have it for FoG II, get it!):
viewtopic.php?f=492&t=100101



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Have fun!



Mord. AKA: Mordante69

Big thanks to everyone for this great option.

petrus58 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:41 pm Big thanks to everyone for this great option.

You're welcome!

Mord.

I spammed the hell out of Tea Time today, announcing this. LOL.



Mord.

Gosh, there were a LOT of battles in mediaeval model villages...

Seriously, thank you - it looks great. If only the engine would allow more figures per unit.

superian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:42 pm Gosh, there were a LOT of battles in mediaeval model villages...

Seriously, thank you - it looks great. If only the engine would allow more figures per unit.

You're welcome.

You can increase the unit model count. There's a guide a couple threads down. Pretty easy once you do it a few times. I make my light foot 5, cav 8, light cav 4, knights 8, dismounted knights 8, any dismounted cav 8. It's not much but it adds to the atmosphere. It'll be better once they get some more unit types into the game. My Ancient's battles look pretty epic with 3 elephants, 2 hvy chariots, 3 light chariots, 8 cataphracts/camels/cav, 3 light artillery, plus what I stated above for lights.










Mord.

Mord wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:52 amYou can increase the unit model count.

Mmm, yes, but not to units having hundreds of people (unless you want them to die/look disordered in small clumps).

It is what it is. The engine is locked at 16 models (which sucks). The best that can be done is to boost the numbers on a few of the smaller units to make the battles feel a bit more populated.The best part is when you see an elephant corpse (or destroyed chariot) on the battlefield, you won't ever see that in a vanilla game.

Mord.

Bump for the update.

Mord.

Wow that was quick - and once again many thanks for doing this.

Mord wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:34 am Bump for the update.

Mord.

Hi Mord,

Why haven't you used the Ancients Southern European Mountains in the mod, do you prefer the new ones?

Also, I much prefer the new Medieval Southern European trees and forests. I have added them back in for my personal copy of the mod.

cheers

Paul

It would be great if some of this can make it into the base game like with the TT mod units. Good work from all! Thanks!

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 12:58 pm Hi Mord,

Why haven't you used the Ancients Southern European Mountains in the mod, do you prefer the new ones?

I did. I just forgot to remove the DDS files for the Mediterranean mountains. It doesn't effect what's displayed in game though.



Did you test them? They show up for me.

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 12:58 pmAlso, I much prefer the new Medieval Southern European trees and forests. I have added them back in for my personal copy of the mod.

Yeah, of course. I fully expect people to tweak it however they like. I left some Medieval textures in, here and there, myself.

Mord.

petrus58 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 10:22 am Wow that was quick - and once again many thanks for doing this.

SLancaster wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 1:13 pm Good work from all! Thanks!

You are welcome. I hope it enhances your experience.

Mord.

Mord wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 4:25 pm

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 12:58 pm Hi Mord,

Why haven't you used the Ancients Southern European Mountains in the mod, do you prefer the new ones?

I did. I just forgot to remove the DDS files for the Mediterranean mountains. It doesn't effect what's displayed in game though.



Did you test them? They show up for me.

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 12:58 pmAlso, I much prefer the new Medieval Southern European trees and forests. I have added them back in for my personal copy of the mod.

Yeah, of course. I fully expect people to tweak it however they like. I left some Medieval textures in, here and there, myself.

Mord.

After I downloaded and installed the mod, I had the Medieval Southern European mountains. I had to paste in the Ancient Southern European mountains myself.

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:07 pm After I downloaded and installed the mod, I had the Medieval Southern European mountains. I had to paste in the Ancient Southern European mountains myself.

Huh. I just installed a fresh objects folder from the zip and they are showing. I don't get it. There should be MountA and MountB files in the SouthernEurope objects folder both dated 2/20/21.

petrus58 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 10:22 am .....

SLancaster wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 1:13 pm ......

Can one of you guys check and see if the mountains in the pic are showing up, please?

Mord.

Just run a custom battle, med. mountains, and they do show up.

petrus58 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:36 pm Just run a custom battle, med. mountains, and they do show up.

Thanks! Must've just been a glitch with Paul's install.


Mord.

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:07 pm
After I downloaded and installed the mod, I had the Medieval Southern European mountains. I had to paste in the Ancient Southern European mountains myself.

My OCD wouldn't leave me alone so I removed the superfluous files and re-uploaded. If you have time at some point, give them a test, and see if you encounter the same problem.


Mord.

Mord wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 5:42 am

Paul59 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 6:07 pm
After I downloaded and installed the mod, I had the Medieval Southern European mountains. I had to paste in the Ancient Southern European mountains myself.

My OCD wouldn't leave me alone so I removed the superfluous files and re-uploaded. If you have time at some point, give them a test, and see if you encounter the same problem.


Mord.

I reloaded your original mod into another Medieval installation, and it worked fine. I have no idea what went wrong before, but it was definitely showing the new Southern European mountains, and not the Mod's Ancients versions. Maybe I didn't copy and paste the Objects folder, but I was seeing the Mod's Ancient Southern European trees, so God knows what was going on!