Greetings fellow knights of mouse and keyboard! Allow me to present my graphic submod for the excellent Italian Wars!
Renaissance is one of my favorite times in history and I was very delighted to find this wonderful mod, so big thanks of course to the creators of it!
This little submod changes all the portraits- from vanilla to paintings done by the old masters. Almost every character at the start of the game gets a custom portrait, most of them are authentic images of the historic figures.
It also changes portraits for all the generals and family members. Artists range from early to high Renaissance and in some cases of the later periods.
Northern European culture- paintings by masters of Northern Renaissance.
Southern European culture- paintings by Italian masters.
Middle-Eastern culture- mostly portraits of various sultans by different artists.
Eastern European culture- due to the lack of portraits from the time period, I had to improvise. Different artists from old to modern, from Hungary as well as other countries.
A couple of funny surprises mixed in... cultural and religious icons too,.. if you're lucky enough to find them.
Downloads:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3S...ew?usp=sharing
(Updated version for 5.0 by superfatwombat)
Previous Version:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/92...ffq41s5/IW.rar
Examples:
Instructions:
Drop the folders in- Medieval Total War Kingdoms/mods/Italian_Wars/data/ui - and merge them.
Drop the file descr_strat in- Medieval Total War Kingdoms/mods/Italian_Wars/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign - overwrite the existing one.
Drop the file descr_cultures in- Medieval Total War Kingdoms/mods/Italian_Wars/data - overwrite the existing one.
Also go to- Medieval Total War Kingdoms/mods/Italian_Wars folder and open in notepad DIK cfg file, add these lines to it:
[io]
file_first = true
disable_file_cache = true
That's about it I think, should work fine, hope you'll enjoy it.
PS:
My PS skills are very basic, so anyone willing to improve on my humble efforts- please do so.