Warband and the usage of assets of Viking Conquest, Napoleonic Wars or With Fire and Sword
When you look at the game Warband and it's DLCs you could get the idea to use some assets from one of these games in a mod to enhance the other. For example, you could see some nice cathedral in WFaS and get the idea that it would greatly enhance the Calradian city of Praven from Warband. Or you could try to implement some features from Warband into VC. The question is now: Are you allowed to do so?
Only that it is reverse, so the short answer is a no. To understand this answer, you'd have to know that Warband and it's DLCs are produced by different companies:
- Mount & Blade and Mount & Blade: Warband -> TaleWorlds
- Viking Conquest -> Brytenwalda Studios
- Napoleonic Wars -> FlyingSquirrelEntertainment
- With Fire and Sword -> SiCh
What kind of consequences does this 'no' have?
- Some minimods for Warband might work without any problems in one of the DLCs. But any larger mod that uses native assets might not run on the other game without implementing all kinds of native assets into the mod. This is not allowed, so unless you create your own replacements, you can't make your Warband mod compatible for VC, NW or WFaS, and vice versa.
- Features that are present in Warband but are absent in one of the DLCs can't just be brought over, unless you write your own code.
- Assets you might like from one of the DLCs (specific buildings, armouries, map icons, code improvements, bug fixes etc) may not be used in Warband mods.
Viking Conquest:
Only Viking Conquest Mod/Shader Source may be used in non-Viking Conquest mods. Do not use Viking Conquest binary files such as textures, models, animations, sounds, music, and scenes. You need to credit Viking Conquest when Viking Conquest Mod/Shader Source is used for non-Viking Conquest mods.
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Napoleonic Wars:
You are not allowed to backport (transfer) any Napoleonic Wars expansion content (including, but not limited to, Models, Textures, Scripts, Shaders, Sounds)
to Mount & Blade, Mount & Blade: Warband, With Fire and Sword or Viking Conquest unless you add a CD Key check for the Napoleonic Wars CD key in your mod installer.
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With Fire and Sword:
No informations given. Even tough you can't just do it, you could therefore try to ask the devs for the use of certain assets.
Alexander Souslov, [email protected]
TL,DR Overview table
| VC | NW | WFaS | |
| Scripts |  |  |  |
| Shader Source | | | |
| Shaders | ☑ | | |
| Textures | | | |
| Models | | | |
| Animations | | | |
| Sounds | | | |
| Music | | | |
| Scenes | | | |
Yes, ☑ Can be regarded as yes, No, You need to ask for permissions
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