#Empire total war map mods
Overhaul mods keep the basic structures in place but seek to improve upon them in a variety of ways. Total conversion mods tend to change everything from the ground up, often letting players experience new and fantastical realms. The ones that are the most fun to experiment with are the total conversion and overhaul mods. Plenty of great mods exist for many of the franchise's best titles. RELATED: Hearts Of Iron IV: Best Total Conversion Mods Even then, the fun of experiencing Total War doesn't have to end there. The collections of various campaigns and historical battles can easily take hours for the player to sift through on their way to ultimate victory. The rest was "just" eyecandy afterwards, tweaking opacities, color display options, smoothing edges, adding title and signature line etc.Players have visited many different battlegrounds over the years with the Total War series. By using them, it's a piece of cake even for people who only have MS Paint level-knowledge to change colors of provinces quickly. In order to assign the nations' colors to these provinces, I then decided to use the "empty black space" to fit in the national color reference table, where I made small squares filling them with the RGB color codes I searched from the ETW data pack files. Then, I created vector layers for every single province and painted each province individually by hand (mostly, as the autofill-tools never are that refined, sadly, and yes, this took some hours). The background map images are the one from the minimaps, though I enlarged them by about 200%.then, I redraw all border and coast lines manually with my handy graphic tablet (still took quite a while and was quite difficult, as the borders on the regular minimap are only drawn very very subtle (they mostly are visible because the provinces get colored by the game.). Here you also can recolor the color layer as I layer-masked it or change the layer option (standard is Linear Light).įeedback very welcome, if I made some mistakes in drawing the borders or provinces are named wrong or whatever, just give a note. If you are unhappy with the water layer, you can find it in the "mapwork" group. Here you also can try some other settings like Color Burn or Vivid Light. The overall opacity of the province coloring can be set by selecting the "provinces" group and changing its opacity level (currently it's set to 60%). I think this method is rather easy to use once you got the concept and also easily allows to paint emergent/re-emerging factions that might pop up during a campaign, as the color reference is always avaible. Info on usage: If you want to change the ownership of a province, just search the province in the "Provinces" group and select it (make sure you have not selected the layer mask), then pick the nation color by using the pipette tool (or press&holding Alt-Key) on the national color reference tabs, then use the "Fill"-Tool and recolor the whole province layer this way.
#Empire total war map free
Įveryone is free to use it as they wish, though it would be nice if you gave me small credit if you use it in an AAR or any other form of publication as it was quite tedious and time-consuming to get this done (a small note in the AAR or a small "by Senshi" in the corner on the map you post is enough.
I see I forgot to upload the psd file, I have it now attached to this post. ĮDIT2: Take a look at post 4, I whipped up my own maps now and you are free to use to them. But something simple like that would be totally sufficient for my purpose!Īs I kinda suck at painting "creative" I'd rather not paint a map myself and hope some skillful guy already has done this task.ĮDIT: If I was just too stupid to search properly and there maps posted already somewhere, feel free to bash me. Something like this is what I had in mind, that's the map they made for Europa Barbarorum.īut that's only some fanmap that was made prior to the release of ETW. And if one colors them, they kinda look really crappy. The maps one can find in Empire Total War\data\campaign_maps\global_map are better, but kind of featureless/poor contrast and still small. So I hoped that somewhere someone might have done a good and complete map of the ETW world, showing the regions and borders. Now, the ingame minimap would be ok, but has the problem of being "mini".
I love maps, and I think every AAR should have them every now and then. I'm preparing an AAR and I'd like to include some map screens every now and then, showing the current distribution of land among the powers. Perhaps a stupid question, but I searched and googled for about half an hour and wasn't able to find anything satisfactory.
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