Hi Rome Fans!
Special Effects Enhancement Mod v. 1.6 Insane Edition! (For high performant PC's!)
No more sterile battles. The Insane Edition adds dust to marching, running and fighting units. The floor will be covered with dust when units fighting each other. In addition to that i increased the time that blood stays on the floor. These changes needs much more performance, so please be sure you use a powerful machine!
Special Effects Enhancement Mod v. 1.5 Blood & More Blood (for Blood & Gore DLC)
plus SEEM v1.3 with vanilla flaming arrow effect working with blood-dlc
All versions has been updated to work with the current version of the game (Patch 9.1)
(Important note: For long lasting ground splatter it is necessary to set terrain quality to extreme. Otherwise you'll see no blood on ground!!!)
Thanks to DogSoldierSPQR for the tip!
Here is a very nice video by DogSoldierSPQR showcasing the blood part of my mod in action (Thanks for that)! If you want see much more of this i recommend to watch his entertaining Rome 2 Let's Plays using his own mod: the "DogSoldier's Combatus Maximus Mod Battle Overhaul" (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...dogsoldierspqr).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSV9AW0c19o
Enjoy!
Changelog:
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Description
Here is a quick SFX Mod for Rome 2. Aim was to enhance a little that awful (sorry to say, CA ) special effects. Especially in comparison with Shogun 2 the SFX are very bad. So i try to enhance smoke, fire and explosion effects on my own - and i failed hard.
All i can is just alter existing effects, but not add some new. Unfortunatly many projectiles, etc uses the same effects library. To add a new library ends up in awful texture glitches and errors. Same happens when i try to add new effects to a existing library. I don't figured out how to succeed. Also db files doesn't help in this case. Sorry.
Also adding new nice textures is harder than in Shogun 2. I failed in getting textures aligned in position. I haven't found a string to fix a texture in alignment or better in orientation. So i have to work with the exististing bad textures.
But with this limited posibilities i made a small GFX-mod wich alters the smoke and fire trails of artillery, explosions and adds a little blood plume effect. This mod is not comaptible with Radious dust mod.
For me it is nevertheless a little enhancement.
What does this mod do?
- it enhances all smoke columns in cities and change the smoke color to black
- improves all the smoke trails from Onager projectiles and make the flames more fiery
- improves the explosion effects from onagers a little bit and make it bigger and more fiery
- deletes all the annoying greyish hit dust effects
- adds a little blood puff when units are beeing hit by projectiles
- rimproves flaming arrows and javelins, more Medieval2 style
- improves torches with better performance as well
Screenshots SEEM 1.3:Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Screenshots for my Blood Enhancements:
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Screenshots from the Insane Edition showcasing dust effects:
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- SEEM 1.5 BLOOD with Vanilla flaming arrow effect (only for Blood-DLC): http://www.mediafire.com/download/46...od_afa_P9_1.7z
- SEEM 1.5 MORE BLOOD with Vanilla flaming arrow effect (only for Blood-DLC): http://www.mediafire.com/download/9h...od_afa_P9_1.7z
- SEEM 1.6 Insane Edition: http://www.mediafire.com/download/rr...Insane_P9_1.7z
- SEEM 1.6 Insane Edition with less blood on bodies (may look more realistic in someones opinion): http://www.mediafire.com/download/nh...Insane_P9_1.7z
- SEEM 1.6 Insane Edition with Vanilla flaming arrow effect: http://www.mediafire.com/download/uy...ne_afa_P9_1.7z
- SEEM 1.6 Insane Edition with Vanilla flaming arrow effect and less blood on bodies (may look more realistic in someones opinion): http://www.mediafire.com/download/uy...ne_afa_P9_1.7z
To install just extract the file to your Rome2\data\ directory and you are good to go.
In future i will completely rework every effect, when it's possible. At the moment there are no decent changes possible. Sorry.
Best regards
Mech_Donald