RS2 Environments for EB

**Hannibal Smith** · January 03, 2011, 09:49 AM

Like most people as soon as I saw the battlemap environments in RS2 I wanted them in EB. Well the kind people over at RS2 have made the files relating to the battlemap environments open to the community.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=414629

As RS2 is not mod foldered, some modding was needed to make it compatible with EB. So I've done that, and now its as simple as drag and drop

DOWNLOAD

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J2E1MSYS

Firstly I would recommend that you make a back copy of your EB directory as some files will be overwritten.

Then copy the data folder from the download and paste it into the EB folder, you will be asked if you want to merge folders and overwrite files make sure you click yes.

Finally you must delete the EB\data\world\maps\base\map.rwm file this will allow the changes to the map_climates.tga file to take place.

Important - As the campaign map has been changed this is not save game compatible!

So what does it look like (pic on left RS2 environments, pic on right original EB)

Credits (all I have done is make these files compatible with EB the files themselves are the work of the RS2 team, I have not included the strat map models in this download just the environments)

Big thanks again to the RS2 team!

Tone....about 95% of everything.

DVK901...rivers and a few textures here and there.
Prometheus...Roman and Greek strat city models.
Pacco....eastern, Carthaginian and Barbarian strat city models and textures.

Be aware due diligence is expected from the user. I have virus scanned the download, but expect that you would also (as you should with all downloads). Also as I have previously stated make a backup copy of your EB folder. I will not accept responsibility for damaged installs or mess ups if the files are not used correctly.

**Arvenides** · January 03, 2011, 10:12 AM

Thank you very much, Hannibal Smith!

I'll download and test it right away!

Edit:
It's great! The battles are now looking better and it feels much more alive. I'm really thankful for this, becouse I've never really got RS2 to work properly on my computer, although I still play it at times. And the historical and custom battles have also the RS2 enviroments!

I highly recommend people who play EB to install this feature.

Thanks to the RS2 team for releasing this to the community and thank you, Hannibal Smith for making it available in EB!

**nasher168** · January 04, 2011, 09:19 AM

The link doesn't seem to work. It comes up with a message telling me: "Unassigned file limit of 10 downloads reached."

**Hannibal Smith** · January 04, 2011, 10:16 AM

Ive uploaded on megaupload now so should work. I didnt realise that rapidshare only let 10 people download the file. I hope that megaupload isnt the same. Let me know if there are any problems or if there is a better place to upload the file to

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J2E1MSYS

**nasher168** · January 04, 2011, 10:27 AM

Much better, thanks.

**Tar** · January 04, 2011, 05:30 PM

Thank to the RS2 team and Hannibal Smith for making available more goodies for the RTW fans

**Samariten** · January 05, 2011, 07:33 AM

Thank you Hannibal Smith!

**tone** · January 05, 2011, 08:50 AM

Great work Hannibal Smith....just a xmall thing though - this climate doesn't look right....definitely not RS2 trees here, so it looks like there's a little glitch:

(Right hand picture)

this doesn't look quite right either:
(Right hand picture)

**Hannibal Smith** · January 05, 2011, 11:18 AM

Sorry tone should have said in original post the pic on the right is from the original EB Ive tried to show the same scene before and after as it were. Will update original post to clarify

**tone** · January 05, 2011, 12:54 PM

Aaah, that makes sense!!
Enjoy.

Just for the uninitiated, here are a few shots of the environment (from RS2) so you know what you're getting:

**Tellos Athenaios** · January 05, 2011, 05:45 PM

You will want to modify your disclaimer...

Originally Posted by Hannibal Smith

I will accept responsibility for damaged installs or mess ups if the files are not used correctly.

... but in the meantime how do I submit any claims?

Seriously though, great work; to both the RS 2 team for creating & releasing this wonderful mod of the battlefield & Hannibal Smith for integrating it with EB.

A few EB specific things you may want to think about:

The Trivial Script copies various lighting presets around, so if the RS 2 modification included lighting/fog/clouds as well those modifications might come undone when you use the Trivial Script.
If the RS 2 modification also edits the skies you see, you might want to do some additional modding to merge those edits with the original EB skies: those contain some very nice ones indeed.

**tone** · January 06, 2011, 12:46 AM

Just one thing I need to check that you've done, Hannibal Smith. You did change the map_climates so that the altered subarctic climate now covers the eastern mediterranean and parts of north africa didn't you?

**Commandeur Makina** · January 06, 2011, 03:59 AM

Very very very great job EB team, RSII team and Hannibal and thank you for your work

**Requies** · January 06, 2011, 05:50 AM

Thanks for this work Hannibal Smith (and thanks also to Tone hehe)
+rep x2

**Hannibal Smith** · January 06, 2011, 08:39 AM

@ Tellos Athenaios

Well spotted

@ Tone

Yes made changes to the descr_climates.tga file Ive tried to change it as little as possible.

I thinks its kind of inline with the one from RS2 now

**tone** · January 06, 2011, 08:47 AM

Great - one small change I'd suggest making would be to make the area around the Carpathians mainly beech forest (dark orange) rather than oak.

Conversely it'd be worth removing the beech forest from eastern Macedonia and Asia Minor and ideally make the Western part of Gaul fertile grassland.

"Subarctic" with its cedars and Aleppo pines would also be ideal for the areas around the Lebanon/Israel/Syria and for the Atlas mountains.