The (previously) un-advertised beauty of the Floris Basic Mod Pack is that you can add it to other base mods besides Native. Since it essentially is a compilation of items, textures, scenes, and music, this doesn't interfere with Diplomatic/tactical/game-feature mods in the slightest.
Doing this, you can essentially create a Floris Basic Mod Pack PLUS or a Floris Expanded Pack LITE, which a few people have expressed some interest in.
Notably, this will in effect remove the following from the Floris Expanded Mod Pack: the high-end graphical modifications (Polished Buildings and Landscapes, Expanded Horizons, etc), the Combat Animation Enhancement, the nice report presentations, the Floris companion, the new troop tree (and thus any troops using the many new items), and the core gameplay features of whatever "base" mods aren't included (Custom Commander, Diplomacy, and/or Pre-Battle Orders & Deployment).
You will have the vast majority of the mods from the packs--all of the new items--and the core gameplay features of whatever "base" mod you install the Floris Basic Pack on top of (Custom Commander, Diplomacy, and/or Pre-Battle Orders & Deployment).
Installation Directions:
1) Download and follow the instructions to install one of the following mods:
2) Once you have one of the above mods installed, download the Floris Basic Mod Pack.
3) Follow the instructions in the "add to module.ini" and the "add to item_kinds1" files, adding them to files in the module folder for the "base" mod.
4) Copy everything within the Native folder inside the Basic Pack folder into the module folder for the "base" mod, overwriting all textures, scenes, sounds and resources. Don't overwrite the module.ini or item_kinds1.txt files that you've just edited before you copied from the Native folder. Skip the music.txt file if you choose not to download the music component.
Doing this, you can essentially create a Floris Basic Mod Pack PLUS or a Floris Expanded Pack LITE, which a few people have expressed some interest in.
Notably, this will in effect remove the following from the Floris Expanded Mod Pack: the high-end graphical modifications (Polished Buildings and Landscapes, Expanded Horizons, etc), the Combat Animation Enhancement, the nice report presentations, the Floris companion, the new troop tree (and thus any troops using the many new items), and the core gameplay features of whatever "base" mods aren't included (Custom Commander, Diplomacy, and/or Pre-Battle Orders & Deployment).
You will have the vast majority of the mods from the packs--all of the new items--and the core gameplay features of whatever "base" mod you install the Floris Basic Pack on top of (Custom Commander, Diplomacy, and/or Pre-Battle Orders & Deployment).
Installation Directions:
1) Download and follow the instructions to install one of the following mods:
- Custom Commander
- Diplomacy
- Pre-Battle Orders & Deployment
- Diplomacy + PBOD (or + Pike & Blade, or + Pike&Blade + PBOD)
- Native Mod Compilation (older versions of Diplo+Custom Commander+entrenchment+pavise, and soon +PBOD and others)
2) Once you have one of the above mods installed, download the Floris Basic Mod Pack.
3) Follow the instructions in the "add to module.ini" and the "add to item_kinds1" files, adding them to files in the module folder for the "base" mod.
4) Copy everything within the Native folder inside the Basic Pack folder into the module folder for the "base" mod, overwriting all textures, scenes, sounds and resources. Don't overwrite the module.ini or item_kinds1.txt files that you've just edited before you copied from the Native folder. Skip the music.txt file if you choose not to download the music component.