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Text in the first post has been updated.

Please note that starting a new game may be necessary in order to load the changes to the bat.-file I made.

ORIGINAL: overkill01

Text in the first post has been updated.

Please note that starting a new game may be necessary in order to load the changes to the bat.-file I made.

Thanks! Will install and will provide feedback. It would be great if you would look into deserts, like these scenarios. I noticed that Sicily has become quite green now, not sure if it would be possible to make it look more arid.

ORIGINAL: RealChuckB


Thanks! Will install and will provide feedback. It would be great if you would look into deserts, like these scenarios. I noticed that Sicily has become quite green now, not sure if it would be possible to make it look more arid.

Thank you Chuck.
About Sicily and the deserts.
It is possible but it will require a lot of work if I want to do it right.
I may do it, I really want to, but i'm not making any promises and don't expect it any time soon.

I started up a new scenario just to see the changes and wanted to let you know I enjoyed them. The fields are a nice touch and the way you've implemented them is not intrusive IMO. Great work.

ORIGINAL: overkill01

ORIGINAL: RealChuckB


Thanks! Will install and will provide feedback. It would be great if you would look into deserts, like these scenarios. I noticed that Sicily has become quite green now, not sure if it would be possible to make it look more arid.

Thank you Chuck.
About Sicily and the deserts.
It is possible but it will require a lot of work if I want to do it right.
I may do it, I really want to, but i'm not making any promises and don't expect it any time soon.

I understand - and no worries, we really appreciate your work on this and the games already looks much better now. I wish I would have some talent for this but my modding experience is limited to making some minor changes to Jison's counters for WitE and that took me a loooooong time ... [:D]

Hey Guys,

Another preview of what i'm working on atm. Update 0.5.
Please note that this update will be big and there's still a lot of work.
I have some bad and good news.

The good news is, its gonna be big and i'm trying to edit everything so that I wont need to make changes on the .bat files in the updates after 0.5, hopefully. Then a new game wont be needed after 0.5 updates.
In this update i'm focusing on the desert and sicily. see screenshot below.

The bad news is , .... in order to load all the changes in 0.5 you will need to start a new game again .... sorry .... .

Please let me know what you think, sicily will be kinda like the same colors as in the screen.
Do you like the color ?

Also note, I dont have operation torch so I can't tell if its gonna look good in the DLC

Hello overkill,

I won´t call this "bad news", you work is excellent [:)] I like the colors, could be the trees a bit more defined? The transition between desert hexes and grass hexes looks good, it must be hard to mix so different colors.

Looking great!
Love your work and really appreciate it!

If I was the change anything at all I would probably say if the trees could be made a little more defined as well. They kinda look smudged as is in that screenshot but that is the only thing I can think if since you are asking.
Great job though and don't take that as a slight in any way. You are doing something for the community that none of us wanted to tackle so bravo!

Patch 0.5 is up.

Changelog:

- Desert and Sicily: new colors and new costum art. screenshot in attachement
- snow and dirt revised so that they blend in better
- new shadows/hills on clean hexes.
- few fixes on coastlines


I highly recommend starting a new game ... .
Any changes to the dat file in future updates will be minor.

If someone needs a previous version I can upload it.

nofieldspatch has been removed, If anyone wants it anyway i can make a new one. new game wont be required.
shadows in the clean hexes to dark ? I think i'll make a patch for making them less obvious.
Another idea on my checklist is giving an alternative to the green colors, I expect that it won't require a restart.
stay tuned

another screen from desert and sicily in 0.5, click for it on attachment

Looks great!

Thank you for your hard work.

Hi overkill01.

I think version 0.5 looks fantastic - I really like the structure you gave the hexes, they look like rolling hills and sand dunes doe the desert hexes. The escarpment hexes look especially good with the 3D effect you created.

Again, thanks a lot for your work. I have now a fully modded "Dat" folder for WitW with your mod and some other great mods that change the unit flags/logos and the leaders and new UI and can easily copy that over each new installation of WitW and instantly have a great looking game!

Thanks for the new map. I tried it last night on my laptop and I liked it so much I decided to use it on my main PC.

Great work! [:)]

I'm glad you like it.

It's been a while since i've updated the mod though.
For the moment I'm working on an other project, but in time I expect to revisit this mod.

wicked thank you for your great work

As a reminder, if you install the latest update you should reinstall the mod. Actualy you only need to paste in the wfhexart.dat file again. Or else the game won't load all the art from the mod.
As far as I can tell the update doesn't change anything in this file so it wont backtrack anything from the update.

Thanks for the map its really good.

Oh my god. I never thought I would see this - looks incredible. All these details! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Help. Why does this file download as an Adobe Acrobat file and not as a zip file? It happens both as a direct download and as a Dropbox download.

ORIGINAL: tverse

Help. Why does this file download as an Adobe Acrobat file and not as a zip file? It happens both as a direct download and as a Dropbox download.

It looks like a .dat file to me I have just downloaded it.