M&B: Graphical Enhancement - OLD THREAD - see new thread in Pioneer's Guild

Maybe try these as well:
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/terrain_lush/index.htm?16#anchor
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/terrain_lush/index.htm?13#anchor
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/terrain_desert_barren/index.htm?0#anchor

these map shots look really nice

Looks pretty!  I would surly want these textures in my game. I don't care about the 'bland map' problem.

Servitor

SWEET. I wanna use those in my mod.

Hey good work! very nice. 

If you want them to really stand out, you should take a picture of the normal texture's compared to those.

Very nice!  For lower end machines would there be a performance hit?

DOWNLOAD LINK!!!!!!
Man that map looks neat and GREAT

i wish that was the native map

woah, this could work very nicely on Legions mod

This looks realy cool! I'll try it now,

Is it ok if I put this in my mod?  You will be credited of course.

I'll try this out on my med-low end machine. I'll see what kind of performance hit I get over native, and report back if you like.

I'm using this in my mod, giving you credit, of course.

OK, I tested it out and immediately ran into some issues. With the same settings as I always use, I get results that are somewhat counter-intuitive.

On the campaign map, I load up the game and all is well. Then I try and pan the camera. It *inches* over to the right, my FPS hovering around 8-10 (normal is 40-60.) OK... Well, it's annoying, and it takes *forever* to rotate, pan, or zoom the camera to be able to select a position to go to.

I entered a battle, with just me and 4 river pirates. It loads up, and the battle scene is actually much more stable than the map. I'm getting anywhere from 12-24 FPS on a grassy plain with few trees and hills (normal is 20-30) which is about what I get in a forest scene (this is why I stay away from forests and get annoyed at mods that are very liberal with forests :p) At this point, I can conjecture that in a forest scene my FPS would likely drop below 10 consistently.

My M&B settings:

Character shadows ON, Infinite ragdolls/corpses, all other in-game options OFF
Bump Mapping ON
Fast Water Reflections ON (I actually have no idea what these last two do)
Texture Detail @ 50
Anti-Aliasing OFF
Resolution 1280x800
Shadow Quality LOW
Render Method: DirectX 7

My Computer's specs:

Processor: Intel 1.4 GHz
GFX Card: GeForce FX 5200 32MB
RAM: 512 MB

If you need more info, do tell.

I'll get back to ya tomorrow, it's late here and I have class tomorrow morning...

Quick note though: You may want to include an extremely obvious note about backing up the textures folder so you can revert if the performance hit is too much. :p I had the foresight to do it, but others might not.

Excellent textures,  Downloading.

What mod are you playing?

Great stuff. You don't see many mods like this, even though it does provide a great feel to the game  .

I like the new version better("low res"). Looks the same as the other version of this, the large textures, but less lag.

Mind if I use this in my mod?  Full credit, of course