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    Hello I'm the leader of Asia Empires mod,this post was originally written by one of our member: dragon-legend who learned architecture in the university and created some of the settlements in the mod(Such as Forbidden city,Indian settlements and so on)

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    Hello,everybody,I am one of the Chinese domod team (which is famous for "The Road to Luoyang","Imjin war of korea" and "Sigh of Empire"),I am pleasure to bring some more detailed pics about the different kinds of buildings of different regions in Asia in mid 17th Century(more infos about the mod: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/s ... n-0-8%26%2365289%3B).
    Regionalization of traditional residence is a kind of obvious characteristic of Asia. If you have been traveling across the Great historic cities in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, India, ancient coutries in Indochina and Western colonies in pacific. You would be shocked by the diversity.If you have never set foot in those mysterious places,never mind,I will show you here.

    The progress in the late September(we decide to finish the first mod which has different settlements for different factions):
    Settlements
    1.Northern China(Qing dynasty,Qin Army,Guanning Army,Shun Dynasty) 100%
    2.Sorthern China(Ming dynasty,House of Zhen,Jianghan Army) 100%
    3.Southwest China (Xi Dynasty,Duke of Qian) 100%
    4.Southeast China (House of Zhen) 5%
    5.Western China (Yakant Khanate) 100%
    6.Tibet area of China (Oirat Khanate) 100%
    7.Mongolian Areas (Khalkha Mongols,Khoshot Khanate) 100%
    8.Kingdom of Joseon 100%
    9.Tokugawa Bakufu 95%
    10.Later Lê dynasty 3%
    11.Mughal Empire 50%
    12.Maratha Confederacy 20%
    13.Kingdom of Ayutthaya 60%
    14.Taungoo Dynasty 40%
    15.Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam,Kingdom of Sulu Darussalam 0%
    16.Russia Empire 0%
    17.Dutch East India Company,Spanish East Indies,Portuguese East Indies 60%

    Places of historic
    1.The Forbbiden City in Beijing 100%
    2.The Forbbiden City in Nanking of the early Ming 100%
    3.The Tenshuokaku of Osaka 100%
    4.The Tenshuokaku of Himeji jo 100%
    5.The Fujiyama 100%
    6.The Dayan Tower in Xian 100%
    7.The Gyeongbokgung Palace of Seoul 100%
    8.The Great Wall of China 40%
    9.The Zeelandia 20%
    10.The Potala Palace in Lhasa,Tibet,China 100%
    11.The Ayutthaya Conurbation 60%
    12.The Taj Mahal and Red Castle in Agra 100%
    13.The Quanzhou harbour 5%
    14.The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa,Tibet,China 100%
    15.The Salad temple in Lhasa,Tibet,China 100%
    16.The Temple of Heaven in Beijing 100%
    17.The Barabudur 0%
    18.The Angkor Wat 0%
    19.The Forbbiden City in Shenyang 10%
    20.Batavia 20%

    Thanks to everyone of our forum for their support and historical resource,especially wolflance and gudkha4050 for their historical informations
    Thanks to All under Heaven mod team for their resources, we will work together in the future
    Thanks to 1648,With Fire and Sword 2 and Shizoku no Sensō mod team for some resources,you can use any part of our mod that we did in your mods
    We use some vegetations from EB2 without explicit consent. But we have not publish this version yet.If the members of EB2 team don't permit us to use these resources,we will delete them when the English version finishes.

    OK,without hesitation,I will show u some screenshots below.
    1.we now come to the show of Chinese cities:
    Almost all the contries in Asia digs city moat around the wall.

    The wall of huge city.

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    The wall of large city in northern China
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    The city gate
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    After Song Dynasty,people in China can sell stuff on the streets(Before Song Dynasty,governors prohibit citizens from walking on the streets freely.)
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    Bell tower(The one with green roof) was used for timing in ancient China.(Based on Bell tower in Xian)
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    Drum-tower(The one with grey roof on the left side) was used for calling the public in ancient China.(Based on Drum-tower in Xian).
    The Zongdu Yamen(The entrance with a red wall on the right side) is the administration building of 2 or 3 provinces in Ming Dynasty.
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    Siheyaun is a kind of courtyard Dwelling in northern China.(Which is famous for old Beijing Siheyuan.)
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    Xitai was the cinema to ancient Chinese,actors played Opera(such as the famous Peking Opera) on the stage in the middle.
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    The tower was common in the temple.(Based on Dayan tower in Xian)
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    The Jiulong wall and stone lion were the symbol of power in ancient China,9 dragons could only be used by brothers of the emperor.
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    The blue glazed tile was also the symbol of power in ancient China.
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    The stone bridge to the entrance of Ningyuan Fortress.(Ningyuan Fortress was built in early 17th century,which was used to prevent the centre of Ming from invasion of Manchu)
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    The Ningyuan Fortress is the only city which can allow you to put the cannons on the wall.(U see the slope?)
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    The Shanhai Pass was called the greatest pass in China.It means an extended enclosure with wall for defence outside a city gate.
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    The holes on the wall were used for shooting.
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    Now let us have a glance at the large city in southern China.
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    Gardeners plants beautiful trees beside the road since slave society in China.
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    Living in the bustling metropolis like Nanking,Hangzhou,Suzhou and Yangzhou,people often settled in the riveside of city moat,because there was less wars.(we had found some evidences in the old drawing by Chouying, a famous painter in Ming Dynasy)
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    Towers,bridges,rockery are important elements of classical Chinese garden.
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    Paifang(honorific arch) was build for commemorating important things.(Based on torii in Nanking.)
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    The river passes through the cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.(You can see the scenery in Wuzhen,Xitang today in China.)And citizens here lived on the bank of river.
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    A small wooden boat could be better than a horse in a water city.The same as Gondola to Venice.
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    Towers,temples,dyeing factory,silk workshop and brothels were here and there in a prosperous city in southern China.
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    The Xunfu Yamen is the administration building of the province in Ming Dynasty.
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    A typical garden of rich person in southern China.(Literatus loved lotus flowers.)
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    This is the entrance of the city.(typical style of Song)
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    Houses of citizens were constructed by the wood and brick.Bamboo was also a symbol of respectable morality to Chinese intellectuals.
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    Farmers prefered to live out of the wall because of the short distance from their fields.
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    The pass
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    Here we come to the southwest of China(many models are from World Of Tanks) :

    On the top of mountain we can see the city.(large town)
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    Village of aboriginal in southwest China.(Minority like the Yi,Tujia,Miao and Dong.)
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    Thatched cottages of aboriginal.
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    "Diaojiaolou" is a kind of house which is build near the moutains and rivers,there is a distance between the first floor slab of Diaojiaolou and the ground in case of snakes and vermins.
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    Wetland.
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    Tower of Dong minority.
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    Wind and rain bridge is a bridge covered by a roof in case of the sudden rain.
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    At last, I will show you some more details about the Fobbiden City in Beijing.

    Chinese emperor started to construct the Fobbiden City since 15th century.The Fobbiden City is the royal palace of both Ming and Qing Dynasty.There are more than 8600 houses in the huge palace.
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    There are 5 stone bridges in the middle of the square between Wu Gate and Huangji Gate(renamed Taihe Gate by Qing dynasty).We call them "Golden Water Bridge"
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    Huangji Palace(Renamed Taihe Palace by Qing dynasty) was the conference hall for emperor and ministers discussing the important policies.
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    Qianqing Gate(up) and Qianqing Palace(down) were the emperor's resting places.
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    Mei Mountain located behind the back of the Fobbiden City,In 1644 AC, the last emperor of Ming,Youjian Zhu,committed suicide on a pagoda tree here.
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    In the south of Fobbiden City,you can see the famous Temple of Heaven.
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    2.OK,let us come to the settlements of Mongolia.

    The gate.
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    The watch tower.
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    The tents (the 3 yellow ones) of Khan.
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    The dawn on the grassland is very charming!
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    Last edited by againster; October 12, 2015 at 09:34 AM.

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    3.OK,here we come to the mysterious Tibet:

    The most important station is Lhasa.
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    The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.(you may have seen it in the film 2012)
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    The famous Potala Palace.
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    The tower is used for religious purposes.
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    The Salad temple in Lhasa.
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    4.The trip to Japan.

    A wooden tenshuokaku in Japanese town.
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    The Tenshuokaku of Himeji jo.
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    The huge city of Japan.
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    The Mount Fuji.(we move it from Tokyo to Osaka.)
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    Tower in the Shiten'no-ji Temple.
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    OK,now we come to the Tenshuokaku of Osaka.
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    The Castle Town was common in Japan in 17th Century.(called "城下町")
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    We have the other 2 settlements(city and large town) finished for the version 0.8.

    4.It is time to go to the Korea!

    Some pics about the town.
    The walls around the ancient Korea cities were often constructed by the huge stone,and the height of the wall was not too high.
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    Houses in Korea look the same as Chinese? Yeah,altough they had something in common,they were even shorter.
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    The jugs were used to make pickled cabbage.(Have you ever eaten the famous Koreapickled cabbage?)
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    Villiages in Korea were really backward places.(because of the damage in the Imjin War.)
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    City of Korea.
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    The Great Gyeongbokgung Palace of Seoul.
    The Great Gyeongbokgung Palace is the palace of Joseon Dynasty.[size=13.333333969116211px]Joseon Dynasty was avassal state of China before 20th century.So you can see many common styles in the palace,but the scale is much more smaller.
    Do not be amazing about the Chinese characters in the plaque.The modern Korean characters were used officially after WWⅡ.
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    Looks like the Fobbiden CIty?Right?
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    The gate to the palace.
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    The Qinzheng Palace was the conference hall for emperor and ministers discussing the important policies.
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    The Qing Hui Palace is one of the most famous landmark buildings in the Gyeongbokgung Palace.
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    Awesome,right?



    The Gyeongbokgung Palace is a little empty today,because of the lack of reliable historical documents, we can not konw what it looked like in 17th century.
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    Outside the Gyeongbokgung Palace,you can see the ancient Seoul,Kyongsong.
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    5.Now let us go to the Turpan basin in west China.

    Yeah,maybe you have found that the settlements of Yarkland are just the Middle Eastern ones with different textures.That is right,because they are very similar.
    Quite few introductions for them,just see these pics.
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    6.Now we will have a good trip to the Indo China.

    White walls around the palaces of Ayuttaya.
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    Entrance of the palaces of Ayuttaya.(If you have travelled to Thailand,I am sure that you would be addicted to the rich architectural decoration art.)
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    The palaza were captured by the elephants.
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    The monkey statues.
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    See the details on the handrails?
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    Up to now,the settlements of Indo China are still in developing.When we finishes them,we will show you more.

    7.At the last stations,we come to India,the greatest civilization beside the Ganges River.

    We build the India cities based on the Middle eastern settlements.
    The red wall was a symbol of Mughal Empire.
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    OK,here we could see the red fort in Agra.
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    Some details were not so good as before because the lack of time,we all have jobs and families now.When will we stop,who knows?
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    Here are some pics about the Taj Mahal.
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    The Taj Mahal is a white marblemausoleum located on the southern bank of the Yamuna River in theIndian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–1658) to house the tomb of his favorite wife of three, Mumtaz Mahal.(From Wiki)
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    The huge city of Mughal Empire.
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    The others of India (town,large town,city,large city) are in a plan,but not for now.

    At the end of the show,2 more pics about western colonies for everyone,thank you for your support!
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    That is all
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    Last edited by againster; October 12, 2015 at 09:04 AM.

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    Great job!Thank you for the post instead of me.

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    Holy St those are fantastic city models didn'tknow you can edit those models so much.Anyways great work.

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    beautifull buildings!very detail in it.

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    These buildings are truly amazing!

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    Beautiful! Thank you!
    (I'm hungarian. My english is not so good. Sorry.)

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    These beautiful settlements can already be seen in the Falcon mod since your team allowed them to be shared. The mod looks great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RubiconDecision View Post
    These beautiful settlements can already be seen in the Falcon mod since your team allowed them to be shared. The mod looks great.
    I am sorry,those the Falcon mod had used were not the newest ones,they might pause the program in recent days,we have developed 2 different kinds of settlements for China and the pics we showed were better.

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    Beautiful!

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    Marvelous cities, pure awesomeness.


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    Beautiful cities, mountains and vegetation!

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    up

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    Incredible, waiting for final release of this mod. I hope we will have english version, too.

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    I dare say there not a more beautiful mod in development.
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    WOW, awesome stuff here! Keep going guys

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    OH...MY...GOD...

    Is it true or am i dreaming?

    This gotta to be most beautiful thing ever done for Medieval 2. The most beautiful...thing...ever... And it's actually the mod i always wanted to be made. When i play this, i'll probably lose all the battles, since i'll be looking at the intricate and absolutely incredible designs of those cities.

    You guys deserve an award for that...

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    We use some vegetations from EB2 without explicit consent. But we have not publish this version yet.If the members of EB2 team don't permit us to use these resources,we will delete them when the English version finishes.
    I'll ask alin to stop by and answer this in full detail but as far as I the textures do not belong to us. We had purchased the textures for exclusive use in EBII and do not have the right or ability to give anyone else permission to use the textures unfortunately.

    Good luck with your mod which is shaping up nicely, hopefully the English version comes out as well.
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    We have bought most of the resources from our own pocket thus allowing us to use various artists work only in our project.
    Sharing this with various other projects would be a breach of the copyright agreement and the only way to use the EB2 vegetation would be to buy the resources before using them, despite them being modified by us(i.e. me).

    However there are some free resources we used where you only have to credit the original author and EB2(if you use the one directly from EB2) such as this:
    http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...el-tree/731135
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    Looks amazing. Can't wait to play it.
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