New mod graphics Thread - Totaler Krieg: 1939-45 mod for Battle of Empires : 1914-1918

As some may know, I have been lately focusing on improving the graphics of the game, something which I would like to share with Totaler Krieg.

It is both MoW and MoWAS compatible, so there will be no problem when the mod is ported to mowas.

Lets get on to business!

Realism has arrived.

Please comment below with your opinions on whether or not you would be interested in a separate download being made available to improve the visual presentation as seen above.

Sturm.

MoW - slight lag (depending on the PC, mine is not ace right now)

MoWAS - No change.

Looks fantastic, the atmosphere is more real. Can you do anything with the borders of the maps? The white fog make the map looks unreal.

Edited by: BRIPAC

np. I can handle that. The fog is quite bright and dense. However this is a minor environment setting option.

Looks wonderful. Sturm.

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Sturm has two accounts O.0?

Lol sorry JG54_cule. The graphics look great.

I noticed watching a lot of WW2 footage of German panzer movements on the Eastern Front how much the Tanks destroyed the ground and created almost man sized Ruts in the ground that then froze solid in the winter. In Company of Heroes II I saw where they had put a lot of detail in things like Mud, Snow, frost, etc. Is it possible that In men of war (Totaler Kreig) these modifications can be done and how much money would it take donation wise to make this happen. I feel Sturm and JG54_cule and others helping on the modification have done a fantastic job on maps, graphis, models, etc. And I think with all that great stuff needs some great detailed environment overhauls. Ex. 60tonTiger tanks tearing up the ground and troops advancing through thick mud and also more weather effects like cold, heat, and saturating rain. This makes the game come alive and If Totaler Kreig had that in the game, I believe it will be the best and most realistic WWII game ever.

Please e mail me back for Donation funds. Thank you

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COLOR FAIL !

I have to put the obvious in words.

Well I can post my true opinion here ( without it getting deleted / buried on his "WW2 Chronicles" mod comments )
about this crazy claim of "realism".

This so called "Realism has arrived" is COLOR FAIL !

You don't have to be a game player to see this, you can just see the colors are wrong; desaturated color & too much red.
So obvious !

BTW I am a veteran of the "Men of War" series since "Faces of War" and a current veteran of Assault Squad.

JG54_cule may be color-blind or have the wrong set-up on his monitor or something because his images stick out like that.
They reminded me of faded color prints of the 70's.

Never in the History of Men of War series or any photography have I seen such bad color technique claiming it to be realism.

He is the only one doing this type of desaturated color and upping the red to the point of unnatural !

I am just talking about the color aspect,
not the detail, understand ?

I have played JG54_cule's first release "Chronicles of WW2 - Balaton 1944" and I liked it.
I did not notice any bad colors in it like seen here and his other images.
Maybe the colors will be different in his actual new mod ?
Maybe it is just these presentation photos he is doing ?

Anyway this addon may be all for nothing if the announcement at about July 26 from DMS and 1C
is about maybe new Assault Squad 2 and new game texture & rendering enhancements.

Edited by: O()O

Dear Blakeclucy

The new patch for AS will contain parallax mapping. This means that flat land textures are actually tweaked to look 3D. If there is dynamic parallax, then we will be able to change the height and appearance of the ground as tanks pass by, in other words, to dig in the track marks and create mud effects.

Dear O()O

That is your opinion. I have modified the shaders to get the above image, to match Sturm's specifications. Thankfully, the nature of this addon means you can simply delete the shader files and not have any code disruption. The detail comes with the mod. The shader comes with this. I have also been a veteran of this sereis of games, and I always found them too colourful. By the way there is no GRB red enhencement, so that might be just an optic illusion.

Dear. JG54-cule

I thank you very much for replying back to me on the situation. Im happy to here that AS will have this addded to it and Maybe Totaler Kreig Mod by Sturm.
I think your mapping looks really well and I look forward to the Updates. Thank you.

Blake.

Will the New Graphics include weather conditions. Ex. Heat haze, dust, bitter cold, heavy rain.