[Beta] Better Maps 0.45

[LordKainES]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Wow!!! do you have Himeji castle done??? you are amazing dude hahahaha

Enhorabuena tio te está quedando de puta madre en serio!!!

 

[ProtoBo]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Absolutely beautiful work good sir, I was recommended this mod by someone and I have not been disappointed! Are you planning any updates soon? I'll be making some videos using Fall of the Samurai and I'd love to have your awesome castles feature.

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Absolutely beautiful work good sir, I was recommended this mod by someone and I have not been disappointed! Are you planning any updates soon? I'll be making some videos using Fall of the Samurai and I'd love to have your awesome castles feature.

There will be an update soon, don't worry, but I can't tell you when. Real life, it's very time consuming.

 

[auboy]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Will this work together with cities added to campaign siege maps mod?

 

[ProtoBo]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

There will be an update soon, don't worry, but I can't tell you when. Real life, it's very time consuming.

Awesome, no problem, better not to rush it if you don't have time. Best of luck with development!

Edit: Nice screenshot of the new-look Kyoto at night, very good looking:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=226734524

 

[LordKainES]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Will this work together with cities added to campaign siege maps mod?

I don´t think so... "Cities in Campaign Siege maps" is using Improved Vanilla Castles and "Better Maps" is a new design that changes the entire Castle design... so its impossible to work...

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

I don´t think so... "Cities in Campaign Siege maps" is using Improved Vanilla Castles and "Better Maps" is a new design that changes the entire Castle design... so its impossible to work...

Nop, It's possible.Just depends of the load order to work. I don't remember how, but depending of the load order, you can use his castles, and mine at the same time.

 

[auboy]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Nop, It's possible.Just depends of the load order to work. I don't remember how, but depending of the load order, you can use his castles, and mine at the same time.

Oh crap what is the load order that would make this work that would be awesome!

 

[Black_Nebula]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Awsome work! I just got Shogun 2 package on sale at steam a few weeks ago an have been loving it. The only part of the game I really felt was lacking was the city/forts, then I found this. THIS is what I expected to find. Great mod, really changes the game, I actually want to defend settlements now.

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Ok guys. Finally I have some time, so here is some info:
- At first, sorry for the long time without updates, but I've been since december with problems in my two pc's. Just some days ago I recover my two pcs and now, they are working again (not as good as I want, but they are working). So finally I can continue the development of my mods.
- Second, some info about the future of this mod. I can't show you screenshots right now (give me a couple of days), but I can give you some info about the new version. It will be one map remaked, 3 new maps, and a little thing more. I hope release it soon, but I need some time to finish the last map and that little thing.
- And at last, something I've been working:

Spoiler

A fully new bridge, not available before in any map:

And again, sorry for the long time without info.

And Enjoy!

 

[Bendit]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Great to hear you are back Frodo and your PCs are working. Really looking forward to more of your great work.

 

[Glado]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Nice, I enjoy your maps, looking forward to your updates.

 

[LordKainES]

Re: Better Maps 0.35b

Nice Frodo!!! Your mod will be vital for a future truly overhaul for Shogun 2!!! imagine something as "Ultimate Shogun 2"!!! with the best mods all united!!! and yours must be there!!!

Keep it dude!!! Ánimo tio!!!

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Well, finally, here is the new update, the 0.40 update, or the "town update". The changelist is short:

Version 0.40:
- Modified and heavely detailed the 4 "Level 1" castles of ROTS.
- Enabled the posibility of play all modified maps in a custom battle.

That's mean 3 new modded maps (i'm very proud of them) and an already modded map heavely detailed. The maps are the 4 towns of ROTS, the level 1 castles. You can see screenshots of them in the first post. The other change is the ability to play the maps in skirmish mode. Some of the maps were already in skirmish mode, but now all moded maps are in skirmish mode, with his own name, thumbnail,... and some of the ones that already were in skirmish mode, has new thumbnails, new names, etc... to reflect the new look of the maps.

This last improvement (changing names) involve changing texts of the game. For people with the game in english this means nothing. For all the others, this means the mod require a new pack file, with the new text in other languages (one pack file for spanish, other for french, othe for italian,....). For those who now what I talking about, it's a modded version of UPC-SHO. But don't worry, I already prepared 7 versions (one for every language). You can download it from the link in the first post. Just delete your UPC and install this one. Oh, and this one needs to be activated in mod manager, don't forget it!.

And finally, about the links:
- Non-Steam Version: updated.
- Steam workshop versions: I will update it tomorrow, because they are 200 mb that I must to upload, and I have a very fragile connection of 3mb. It took a lot of time to upload it, and I must to pray for the upload to not be cutted.

So enjoy!

PD: I almost forget it: thanks to Dramabelli and tom.025 for translate the new names to italian and french. I still need someone to translate the names to german, polish and russian. They are around 8-10 names so, if you know one of those languages just send me a PM and I will send you the lines to translate.

EDIT: Steam workshop version updated. I forgot to say it, one of the changes is that in all level 1 castles of ROTS there is no capture point anymore.

 

[Consvl Plebian Maximvs Major]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

This mod looks very, very good. I will download & REP ASAP

 

[Bendit]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Fantastic work again Frodo. Really nice surprise to see 0.40 out so soon after 0.35. I love the new FotS maps. Thanks. +rep

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Well guys, I have a good notice and a bad notice:
- The bad one: in the next update there will be no new castles.
- The good one: in the next update, almost all the already modded castles (except the 4 rots castles) will be tweaked, remodeled, fixed, and finished. This means say goodbye to almost all pathfinding bugs, and say hello to a more live and detailed castles. Here you have some previews:

Spoiler

The reason of this is that now in the mod you have some beautiful maps like himeji castles, and others like one of the mountain castles, that looks ridiculous compared to himeji. So I decided to make an update only to improve all castles to a high level of detail, and to fix all those pathfinding bugs that you can found in some maps, specially in kyoto. So, after this update, I can make more castles without worry myself for bugs or details of the maps I already modded.

So... Enjoy!

 

[ProtoBo]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Awesomeness, it was a good idea to get everything up to scratch before continuing, now you focus only on making the new ones amazing. When do you think these modified maps will be ready for release?

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Awesomeness, it was a good idea to get everything up to scratch before continuing, now you focus only on making the new ones amazing. When do you think these modified maps will be ready for release?

Thye will be released when I finish fixing kyoto, and one of the mountain castle. All other castles are finished already.

 

[DramaBelli]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

If you need other translations don't hesitate to ask!

 

[Steforian]

Re: Better Maps 0.15

I'm a bit confused. You said no expansions are needed, but keep posting screenshots from the ROTS and FOTS. Is this mod only for those 2 expansions? Because i've not seen any screenshots for regular Shogun 2.

 

[weirdoascensor]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

No, it works for anything, whether its RoTS, FoTS, or SJ of S2TW - They all basically uses the same siege map battleconfiguration. Its just happened that the author of this mod didn't took any screenshot of SJ campaign, no more, no less.

 

[Carl Jung was right]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Does this mod work with the Expanded Campaign Map, the one which adds many new territories to the Shogun 2 campaign? While I'm using the two without any technical issues, I'm finding that the castle forts are all mostly identical. I end up besieging the exact same map over and over again. The ai doesn't seem to do too well on it either, usually leaving stretches of space undefended. It would be a very tough decision disabling either of these mods to run the other, since both the expanded campaign map and the improved castle maps are a massive enhancement to the game-play experience.

 

[Mr. Os]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Getting crashes with the latest mod when seiging in campaign. The last version didnt have this problem.

 

[Junaidi83 de Bodemloze]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Well guys, I have a good notice and a bad notice:
- The bad one: in the next update there will be no new castles.
- The good one: in the next update, almost all the already modded castles (except the 4 rots castles) will be tweaked, remodeled, fixed, and finished. This means say goodbye to almost all pathfinding bugs, and say hello to a more live and detailed castles. Here you have some previews:

Spoiler

The reason of this is that now in the mod you have some beautiful maps like himeji castles, and others like one of the mountain castles, that looks ridiculous compared to himeji. So I decided to make an update only to improve all castles to a high level of detail, and to fix all those pathfinding bugs that you can found in some maps, specially in kyoto. So, after this update, I can make more castles without worry myself for bugs or details of the maps I already modded.

So... Enjoy!

enjoyed your work, very nice and detailed, hope the release will come sooner will be waiting +rep from me

 

[projectmerry]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

I love you.

 

[dorinson10]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Getting crashes with the latest mod when seiging in campaign. The last version didnt have this problem.

I also have problems with this mod. I play also with Expanded Japan Mod (101 provinces). At some sieges the game crashes to desktop. Now I am playing with Otomo and my capital is under siege and when I want to fight on battle map it crashes when loading the map (map name: Fu'nai). I can auto-resolve it and get a phyric victory but I know that I can crush completely that army. Also I have this crash in province of North Chikuzen (Chikuzen in vanilla) in a simple field battle.

 

[dorinson10]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

I also have problems with this mod. I play also with Expanded Japan Mod (101 provinces). At some sieges the game crashes to desktop. Now I am playing with Otomo and my capital is under siege and when I want to fight on battle map it crashes when loading the map (map name: Fu'nai). I can auto-resolve it and get a phyric victory but I know that I can crush completely that army. Also I have this crash in province of North Chikuzen (Chikuzen in vanilla) in a simple field battle.
View attachment 309558

Sorry for a mistake. The name of the battle was Fu'nai but the name of the map is Yashima Castle.

 

[Frodo45127]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Sorry for a mistake. The name of the battle was Fu'nai but the name of the map is Yashima Castle.

I didn't have any crash in the test of the last version, but I will check it when I finish to prepare the new PC.

 

[dorinson10]

Re: Better Maps 0.40

Maybe the problem is not in the Better Maps Mod. I started a new campaign only with Extended Japan Mod and the same error occurred at the same map and in the same region at this siege battle showed in the screenshot already posted in my last reply.