Blood and Steel 1.6 ALPHA- Testers wanted!

[xenoargh]

Hey, all. 

Blood and Steel's giant Warband Engine graphics overhaul is pretty close to complete. 

I would like a lot of testers to check things out and report any problems with the new shaders. 

I don't normally advertise goings-on with the mod beyond the mod's sub-forum, but this one is special, so I've decided to let people know about it here.

For people who aren't aware of what Blood and Steel is, it's described at massive length here.  Basically, think "Low Fantasy meets brutal realism", with a much more violent, large-scale approach to the warfare in Mount and Blade.  Armies are huge, combat is fast and deadly; I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, but it's reasonably fun.

For people who just want to see screenshots and videos before deciding whether to try out something new, here are some screens and videos, showcasing various elements of the advanced graphics technology in the mod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMuk3AE5cVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdJFfHNgXg

Spoiler: screens

Anyhow, anybody who wants to try this out, you'll be able to find the 1.6 ALPHA build here when the file's done uploading.  Give it about 30 minutes from the time of this post.  Make sure to download the 1.6 ALPHA if you want to see all the snazzy new tech.

Download Link

 

[RalliX]

This looks pretty.

 

[DrTomas]

Looks impresive, xenoargh. I'll give it a swing

 

[Freighttrain4]

All I said when I saw this was.. "wow, this is gorgeous"

 

[Willhelm]

I will try it 

 

[OmegaWolfy]

testing it out too

 

[ProdigyMaster]

Mirror of Nexus,Please Mates.

 

[Sayd Ûthman]

Looks awesome

 

[Temuzu]

Spoiler: screens

Fabulous.

 

[ProdigyMaster]

Sounds great for my 7 year old brother, I'll give the tester is a great

 

[xenoargh]

Testing's going fairly well; looks like I have a few bugs to sort out, but nothing really crippling.  I'll take a look at these things and issue a patch for them asap

 

[xenoargh]

First patch is up; this should address:

1.  Certain objects not showing up in stores.
2.  "Odd Blanket" water / wind bug.
3.  Aleph pay cannot be taken out if player doesn't own Aleph yet but attempts to siege.
4.  Fixed horse-archer behavior to provide a little better compatibility with standard commands.
5.  Changed hair shader a bit to work better in situations with high dark / light differences between sun / specular / ambient light.
6.  Horses take normal damage (note that this does not necessarily address the specific issue with couched-lance damage, that requires a bit more thought).
7.  Sisters of Mercy are no longer "archers".

Anyhow, that's it; to install the patch, just drop the contents of the zip file into whatever directory you have 1.6 Alpha installed.

Thanks to everybody who's given feedback thus far

 

[xenoargh]

New patch is up; resolves most of the outstanding issues with the new shaders, fixes lots of the small gameplay bugs. 

Thanks very much to testers who've contributed to this project thus far

Another quick shot of lighting, in this case, a night scene. 

 

[OmegaWolfy]

heads for the swadian swordsmen seem to disapear for me

 

[xenoargh]

Have you installed the current patch?

 

[OmegaWolfy]

yes but they are still invisible

 

[Cavinano]

can you make the women look better? to look more like women than a big mouth-ed being?

 

[Battery Acid]

Agreed, women look pretty retarded. Would be fine if you went back to vanilla.

 

[Cavinano]

here is a good face compilation: http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=3105

 

[[XIX] Overlord]

Simply Beautiful The shading is So good it could compete with Li'agle maybe even win