Waronmars MODS! --Spain Retexture ALL UNITS!-- PipMod -- Leather UI-- Small horse retexture!-- FRANCE RETEXTURE WIP!--

[waronmars]

edit: Feel free to add any of these mods to your own mods, just give me a credit.

Waronmars's mod house!
PIPMOD

EDIT: pipmod now attached


PIPMOD!!!


PDATE:
-The attached .zip now contains a .pack file, simply put that in you data folder
-The cavalry pips have been changed into circles so there is no confusion about direction.

UPDATE:
-Changed artillery pips to a 'T' shape so you can tell which way they are facing.
-The attached .zip now contains the .pack for the triangle cavalry version AND the circle version. All other pips are the same.

UPDATE:
-Triangle version removed for the sake of simplicity.
-Camera pip changed to V for better visibility.



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MahoganyUI
by waronmars

I KNOW IT IS ACTUALLY WOOD!
I NAMED IT AFTER THE FILE NAME OF THE TEXTURE -_-

This simply changes the campaign UI from white marble to a leather texture used elsewhere. All matches up nicely

UPDATE:
-The attached .zip now contains a .pack, simply put this file in your data folder
-The battle UI is now also changed by this mod to the same leather texture. Destroy the French in style!





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SPAIN RETEXTURE
NOW INCLUDES FLAG SWAP
and Lt.Chambers MOD MANAGER


SPAINMOD DOWNLOAD

now compatible with DarthMod



Probably not that historically accurate in ALL units, but alot prettier than the Vanilla textures -_-



New Lines

General and heavy cavalry/General's bodyguard



Grenadiers





Guard Infantry ---Now Walloon Guard!

Pikemen



Cazadores/Guerillas


Cuirassier


Household Cavalry


Light Dragoons


Regiment of Horse




Militia




Frontiersmen



NEW! Irish Brigade!


Horse Artillery



More Horse Artillery



Army arrayed for battle



In the fray


Ahh that reminds me I have to update Pipmod tooo aughhh~

I haven't really played alot with the campaign map textures, and this pretty much does the late period units you can select in the Play Battle thing, and a few more. I'll do the rest sometime.

If you want to list ones that aren't done that would probably help...I'm trying to block 12 hours straight of retexturing out of my memory. -_-

Tell me what you think

SpainMod.zip 36mb
Now includes flag swap
DOWNLOAD SPAIN MOD

Okay, I fiddled around a bit with the horse textures today, here's what I got...



HorseMod

What this little mod does

-Changes bridles and chest straps to be thinner and more realistic

-you can see the bit rings out the side of the horses mouth.

-changed some horse textures-
-theres now a chestnut horse somewhere
-one of the bay horses has blacker legs
-the grey horse has dapples
-the white horse is a bit lighter
-the black horse has white socks now

-The saddlecloths are now white with a trim of your faction colour
(My SpainMod will make Spain's trim white, so they have white saddlecloths. I don't know if you can have a faction specific horse texture, I'll have to check)




VANILLA



Horsemod



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Vanilla




Horsemod



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Vanilla




Horsemod




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Vanilla



Horsemod







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And a couple more horsemod ones.
Dismounted carabiniers (backwards saddles ??)






Russian cavalry



Er...no download till I find the file again. Thats what I get for neglecting my mods -_-

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Hold your horses,
FRANCE RETEXTURE
is being worked on at the moment!

FRANCE DOWNLOAD

Line Infantry







I forgot their name - Light Infantry



Redone Artillery



Lancers


Horse artiller



EDIT: Some more

Guard Infantry whos French name I forgot...



The army so far



New horse textures - saddlecloths will be all coloured by faction eventually


Elite light infantry


Grenadiers

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Post feedback in this thread! I love feedback! It helps me make better textures!


FRANCE DOWNLOAD

Needs horse mod for now - it will work without it but gloss and normal maps will be weird.


Useful texturing stuff

TARGA thumnail viewer for windows explorer

DDS thumbnail viewer for windows explorer

Photoshop DDS plugin

pack file manager ;p

I hope you enjoy these mods! Have fun playing!

[lesterthenerd]

dude u rule! nice mod. can u by any chance edit the battle ui cause it really is kinda hard seeing the units you have selected.

[Tassen]

Originally Posted by lesterthenerd

dude u rule! nice mod. can u by any chance edit the battle ui cause it really is kinda hard seeing the units you have selected.

This is something a lot of people have asked for, me among them, and if you could do it, I bet you would drown in all the rep coming your way.

Nice job though, very nice. Thank you.

[antares24]

Originally Posted by lesterthenerd

dude u rule! nice mod. can u by any chance edit the battle ui cause it really is kinda hard seeing the units you have selected.

i agree, that would be nice, i often have to check twice to see that i've indeed selected the right unit and that's annoying.
OP nice mod, i'm trying it

[Aykis16]

Hey Waronmars, do you mind re-uploading this as a patch pack so I don't have to unpack my files? Its only because I don't want to use up so much hard drive space having the backup of the actual pack and the unpacked pack as well. Great work though man, wouldn't be asking if I didn't really want it.

[waronmars]

I'm going to make patch files for them today! As soon as I reinstall empire... -_-;

EDIT: Ok, the patch files are up, as well as some small updates

If people like the triangles better than the new cavalry circles then I will upload both, but circles for now.

Also leatherUI now changes the battle UI as well.

edit edit: I may have borked up the unit queue image in leatherUI, let me fiddle and fix it :s
edit edit edit: ok fixed now


I tend to get ideas for mods from people saying things they want, so don't be afraid to make suggestions

I am particularly interested in changin unit textures, flags and UI elements.

[Grimmyke]

Absolutely brilliant!

[Iaius Statius Laurentius]

Err, the ui is wood, not leather. :p

[waronmars]

Okay, I really want to get into messing with the textures simply because there's soo many of them to play with and I'm still waiting for the tools to mess with models and animation.

One thing people seem to be really vocal about is the colour of uniforms for Spain, so I am going to try and fix these up a bit


Here's Vanilla Spanish linesmen

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I'm posting a bit of my process here, probably more to keep it straight in my own head, but other texture artists might be interested too.

First I want to establish what the channels in the .dds file are doing.

I pretty much erased an obvious part of both the blue and alpha channels and them checked in game. The blue channel doesn't do anything for spain, the alpha decides where the faction colour will go.

Here's 2 recolours of the spanish linesmen, with images showing what I based them off.

First - a quick one to see if I can do it. The colour was a bit different, I wanted to use the gloss map mask for this one. A bit of a nod to CA loving the yellow Spain, I guess ;p

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And now the actual historical one -_-

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Based on the chap to the left.

EDIT: Ok, I like this one the best

I am very happy with it. Certainly better than the fugly Vanilla Spaniards -_-

------- I have uploaded this Spanish Linesmen texture so you can have a look if you like. I intend to keep working on all the units, but you can have just one fixed if you like

¿Qué?

based on

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Reference threads - Spanish uniforms
http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/42282/t/Justice-for-Spain.html?page=1

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=118991

Originally Posted by Iaius Statius Laurentius

Err, the ui is wood, not leather. :p

The texture was called leather_tile.jpg or something, that's why I called it leather. :B

I dunno what you guys think of these textures, tell me what you want changed etc.

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I am wondering what is going on with this. There seems to be textures for 2 legs in all the infantry texture files. This is unusual as for something like that, usually you would just use the same UV space for both legs, rather than taking up twice as much space with the same thing. SOOO I put some purdy colours on the legs and checked it out ingame. I put different colours on the tops and bottoms cause one side seemed to have dirty trousers and clean shoes, and vice versa. They are, however, used on the same side, but only one set of legs is used at a time. I thought this could be to do with soldiers' leggs getting muddy on the battlefield, but I have been unable to get the other side to show up ingame. I'd like to hear what other people think.



edit ad nauseum: Now that I look at the texture maps after a good sleep -_-, the entire image is repeated twice, not just legs but body and hat as well. I wonder what it's for?


---EDIT--- There is an updated download in my next picture bloated post!!!----

[schoenkoenig]

Looks great! The only thing I would proffer is that the last unit probably should not have gloves - only the officers would.

[Dux Eboracum]

Great work.

Last unit (one with gloves) is based on a cavalryman though.

[waronmars]

Lol fail. I noticed he wasn't carrying a musket after I had finished the texture... back to the drawing board. Maybe I can use this texture for cavalry

Is the second retexture more accurate?

Also I will get rid of the gloves for the troops

[Pallantides]

Just get rid of the white gloves and those units would be awesome.

[Takeda Shingen]

Wow, even more stuff, Waronmars!!!

Great!!!

[Pukin]

Great very good jot the i love the spanish units!
Thanks!

[waronmars]

Thanks doods, ok this post will be todays fiddlings, as you can see I have too much time of my hands

Here is the soldiers from above with no gloves as requested. Also I saw people in this thread didn't like Spain's flag, so I switched it with the New Spain flag, which is probably a bit more historically accurate. It took me a while to figure out that you need to alter a file in the official patch.pack to change the agents' flags. -_-


--The download included in this post has NO GLOVES



Anyway, starting to shape up...

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Look behind you, guys!

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Someone kill that sprite...

The download for the flags is like 11mb, which is a bit silly because all it does is change the names of files. Even if you do download it you have to mess with patch.pack because there is a couple of files in there that override my .packs .

Anyway the big size is just because there is a folder full of targas that the folder names are swapped for. Maybe if someone makes a .pack file merger the installation would be a bit easier too -_-

YOU NEED THIS UNPACKER TO INSTALL THIS MOD
DOWNLOAD FLAG SWAP (11mb)


I forgot to include .dds file you need to replace in the patch.pack file, so if you downloaded this and are getting the old flags on your agents, download it again :p

[Gigamacdaddy]

great mod, never liked the white on white UI

[Iaius Statius Laurentius]

Ah, well, I guess whoëver named the file is silly, then.

At any rate, do you take requests? If so, could you retexture the bearskin grenadier to have red lapels, cuffs, and tails like the American regular grenadier has? If I knew how to recolor things I'd do it myself, but my photoshop talents are severely limited...

[♔ST0MPA♔]

If they had red cuffs and collars not blue, they would be perfect, also they need white pants and red for the Officer. The skins you have would be more suited for the Cavalry, with the proper Cavalry gloves. Still after saying that, your skin mod does look very good, and is a far sight better than the urine colour CA gave the Spanish.

[waronmars]

Phew... ALOT of retextures today

Probably not that historically accurate in ALL units, but alot prettier than the Vanilla textures -_-

General and heavy cavalry/General's bodyguard



Grenadiers





Guard Infantry


Pikemen



Cazadores/Guerillas


Cuirassier


Household Cavalry


Light Dragoons


Regiment of Horse




Militia




Frontiersmen



Horse Artillery



More Horse Artillery



Army arrayed for battle



In the fray


Ahh that reminds me I have to update Pipmod tooo aughhh~

I haven't really played alot with the campaign map textures, and this pretty much does the late period units you can select in the Play Battle thing, and a few more. I'll do the rest sometime.

If you want to list ones that aren't done that would probably help...I'm trying to block 12 hours straight of retexturing out of my memory. -_-

Tell me what you think

36mb, includes Lt.Chambers mod manager
DOWNLOAD
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