State of the mod news - Age of Empires: HD Edition mod for Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties

I will not have much time to work on this for the next two months due to changes going on in my life. But don't worry, I will still work on bringing AoE1 into AoE3.

It is still very hard to mod due to things like lingering artifacts on images, if I erase all of an image, it can still be there, making new texturing units very hard to do. But I have learned how to create playercolor and transparent textures. I am now going back and improving some old models appearances, and reducing their counts of polygons to have the game running smoother.

The next set of civilizations will be using the Egyptian building set from AoE1, although the Egyptians will not be added. I plan on adding in the Assyrians and Hittites, and possibly Akkadians (they were not a civilization in AoE1, but found in some campaigns and nevertheless relevant to the games time period). As seen in version 0.3, the units take some changes, such as the direct line from clubman to legions, as not to have un-upgraded units sitting around. There are also unique units for each civilization to add more variety, and heavy units for ones that were not in original (chariot archer, slinger) to make each unit viable until late game. And some units will be getting different looks.

I've worked on a new random map for the game, although it is frustrating to work with these files. There will be more images for you to see the work I am doing, I'm looking forward to releasing a new version to play. If there's anyone who could do some RM scripting, AI, or design a new logo, I would appreciate the help.