"Texture Fiddling" Version 1.0
~ A Warband Mod by lucky lancer ~
2010-12-21
This is Open Source - use as you please. - Credit would be appreciated nevertheless.
DESCRIPTION:
As much as I always liked M&B, I always thought most of the vanilla M&B textures were too colorful, all too cheerful - in a land torn by war. Some others were just too plain, lacking quality, definition, sharpness.
Of course Warband brought a lot of textures a big step forward. But not enough for my taste - or at least not entirely into the right direction.
That's why I started to review, play around with and finally remix the color, saturation, brightness and contrast of numerous vanilla textures, one by one, to achieve a sharper, dirtier, darker, overall more "used" look - which in my eyes appears just a lot more REALISTIC and natural.
In other words: I tried to get the best out of the vanilla textures.
Of course this is a matter of personal taste and perspective.
If you share mine, then this might be the mod for you!
I altered almost every single armor, clothing, boots, gloves, hat, helmet, shield, body and weapon texture, along with some horse/horse armor and map icons, plains and steppe map textures.
I left out the Sarranid Mamluke Mail, because I never liked it and even removed it from my personal Native.
This is the first time I edited textures - so this modification is far from perfect. Some things might well be over-accentuated. But I believe it is well enough to share.
SOME IMPRESSIONS:
Important note:
The environmental textures on those screens are the awesome work of:
- Gutekfiutek, from his famous "Polished Landscapes" mod (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,122423.0.html) combined with
- Lucke189's also awesome "Realistic Colors 1.22 + Taller Grass" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,120098.0.html)
The no less awesome facial textures shown are my personal selection consisting of textures taken primarily from
- "Prophesy of Pendor" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,119.0.html)
- one female face from "Thel's Facepack" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,109488.0.html)
- and one male face texture from SendMeSmile's "Smiley stuff OSP" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,138478.0.html/)
None of the above mentioned authors' textures are included in this mod of course!
NO IMPACT ON GAME PERFORMANCE !
Since these are no new textures, but just reworked/remixed vanilla ones, there is NO impact on the game's performance! In fact, they are just the same size as before - or even smaller. Sometimes drastically smaller. That's because of saving procedures of the reworked .dds-files.
THE FILE:
http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2448
INSTALLATION:
Couldn't be easier!
Just put the texture files into your desired module's "Textures" folder.
Done and enjoy!
Should you decide you do NOT like my reworked plains and steppe textures (as I just decided for myself recently), simply delete "plain.dds" and "map_steppe.dds".
I will remove them from the next version.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
This mod looks especially well with "Polished Landscapes" by Gutekfiutek!
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,122423.0.html
OTHER MODS BY ME:
CREDITS:
1.) Taleworlds:
For creating such a great, fun game - and making it editable so exceptionally easy! Even for noobs like me!
2.) Paint.net:
A truly great, powerful, extremely comfortable, freeware picture editing software!
3.) The great M&B forum/modding community:
For just keeping making a great game even better!
~ A Warband Mod by lucky lancer ~
2010-12-21
This is Open Source - use as you please. - Credit would be appreciated nevertheless.
DESCRIPTION:
As much as I always liked M&B, I always thought most of the vanilla M&B textures were too colorful, all too cheerful - in a land torn by war. Some others were just too plain, lacking quality, definition, sharpness.
Of course Warband brought a lot of textures a big step forward. But not enough for my taste - or at least not entirely into the right direction.
That's why I started to review, play around with and finally remix the color, saturation, brightness and contrast of numerous vanilla textures, one by one, to achieve a sharper, dirtier, darker, overall more "used" look - which in my eyes appears just a lot more REALISTIC and natural.
In other words: I tried to get the best out of the vanilla textures.
Of course this is a matter of personal taste and perspective.
If you share mine, then this might be the mod for you!
I altered almost every single armor, clothing, boots, gloves, hat, helmet, shield, body and weapon texture, along with some horse/horse armor and map icons, plains and steppe map textures.
I left out the Sarranid Mamluke Mail, because I never liked it and even removed it from my personal Native.
This is the first time I edited textures - so this modification is far from perfect. Some things might well be over-accentuated. But I believe it is well enough to share.
SOME IMPRESSIONS:
Important note:
The environmental textures on those screens are the awesome work of:
- Gutekfiutek, from his famous "Polished Landscapes" mod (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,122423.0.html) combined with
- Lucke189's also awesome "Realistic Colors 1.22 + Taller Grass" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,120098.0.html)
The no less awesome facial textures shown are my personal selection consisting of textures taken primarily from
- "Prophesy of Pendor" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,119.0.html)
- one female face from "Thel's Facepack" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,109488.0.html)
- and one male face texture from SendMeSmile's "Smiley stuff OSP" (http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,138478.0.html/)
None of the above mentioned authors' textures are included in this mod of course!
NO IMPACT ON GAME PERFORMANCE !
Since these are no new textures, but just reworked/remixed vanilla ones, there is NO impact on the game's performance! In fact, they are just the same size as before - or even smaller. Sometimes drastically smaller. That's because of saving procedures of the reworked .dds-files.
THE FILE:
http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2448
INSTALLATION:
Couldn't be easier!
Just put the texture files into your desired module's "Textures" folder.
Done and enjoy!
Should you decide you do NOT like my reworked plains and steppe textures (as I just decided for myself recently), simply delete "plain.dds" and "map_steppe.dds".
I will remove them from the next version.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
This mod looks especially well with "Polished Landscapes" by Gutekfiutek!
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,122423.0.html
OTHER MODS BY ME:
"Training Fields"
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,144466.0.html
"Arena Revamp Deluxe - OSP"
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,173647.0.html
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,144466.0.html
"Arena Revamp Deluxe - OSP"
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,173647.0.html
CREDITS:
1.) Taleworlds:
For creating such a great, fun game - and making it editable so exceptionally easy! Even for noobs like me!
2.) Paint.net:
A truly great, powerful, extremely comfortable, freeware picture editing software!
3.) The great M&B forum/modding community:
For just keeping making a great game even better!