This mod replaces the texture for blood and tones down the dirt effects.
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Changes : Added alternative textures with more blood.
burrek's Blood and Dirt v0.91 Readme + a lot of grammar and spelling msitakes
I. Description
II. Changelog
III. Limitations
IV. Installation
V. Deinstallation
VI. Future Work
VII. Credits
I.
This mod changes 2 things: blood overlay and dirt overlay
I really dislike the fact that once a unit gets really blooded up it starts looking like a tomatoe. Unless the knights acctually smeared themselves with blood I find it very unlikely that they would get as much blood on them as they do in vanilla. A stabbing or slashing wound would produce a squirt or spray of blood at best and not a bucketlike outpoor. My new textures try to remedy that by decreasing the overall amount of blood and instead adding a spatter like effect.
The other problem I found in vanilla was that the cavalry units would get dirty within the first minute of a battle even if they did not move. The new dirt texture addreses this by toning down the dirt effect so it is almost imperceptible. On the other hand dirt+blood still looks like dirt+blood.
II. Changelog
- added alternative texture for those who have the 'bloody' trait.
III. Limitations
If you have Horsearchers blood+sky mod these files will voerwrite his textures.
IV. Installation
Note: texture mods won't work in any other directory than the vanilla /data/ directory.
Prerequisites:
- Medieval 2 : Total War (and possibly patched to version 1.1)
Procedure:
- (Optional, recommended if you plan to deinstall) Backup the following directories and their contents in your vanilla MTW2 installation folder:
+ *dataoverlaytextures
- Paste the /data/ folder, and its contents, found with this readme in you MTW2 root directory and click 'yes' when prompted to overwrite.
- If you want a bloodier (unrealistic) looking effects paste the paste the /data/ folder from the /More Blood/ on top of the previous one.
- enable file reading by doing 1 or 2:
1. add the lines
[io]
file_first = true
to the 'medieval2.preference.CFG' file. Note that you will also need to add this line to any mod specific .CFG files if you use a mod-switches (make sure your CFG file is read-only as the game will erase the command otherwise).
2. use the .bat file provided witht he readme to launch the game
- DONE!
V. Deinstallation
If you have backed-up your files simply restore them, else re-unpack the the data packs of the original game or remove the '[io] file_first = true' from your .CFG files.
V. Future Work
I will release a horse barding and generals mod within a week.
I will improve the exising texture packs if anyone posts any good suggestions with PICTURES.
VII. Credits
burrek - texturing
Thanks to alpaca for making the dds-texture converter
Anyone is welcome to use these textures as they please and consider them public domain although it would be nice if the burrek was mentioned.