Another wc3 "HD" mod... But this one is different... We plan to replace all of the wc3 models, spells, textures with new custom made ones, and after that remaster the campaign of wc3 with new terrain and doodads... And even maybe make a custom campaign
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Thanks to Nekki1 we updated the terrain to look less blury
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finally, thanks guys for the great patch.
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Without the originals files, it is hard to make much improvement, but the terrain textures look way better than before. The zip file includes a couple of screenshots comparison. The only downside is the shimmering when you zoom in due to the low or lack of anisotropic filtering of the War3 engine.
I'll be working on the undead blight next.
I was happy the day guys, I can not wait to get to my house and try it. Will it solve the same problem of the textures in the units?
Nope,most of them are fine but I had to reduce texture quality otherwise game would not run.
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I see you compiled mine tiles in 1 folder , from mine wcu thread , thats nice :)
Will blight be mine tile too?
Yo, btw do you know make tiles,and are you interested to do so if someone teach you?
kantarion this tiles patch that your work with nekki1? It interesting teamwork good job
LoL, no giga its my tiles , he either compile them in 1 folder from my wcu thread .
Or he sharpen 25% quality to stop being blury and convert to tga.
Its best he answers. He seems he will upload my blight too if yourarthas find in skype.
Anyway, i wish i finished dalaran ruins (cant blend colors good,kinda finished), and new ruins is kinda finished but bored to do tehnical stuff damn...
Hi Kantarion. The answer is no, I did not compile your textures which by the way, are excellent!
My workflow is the following:
I extracted the original BLP files in eges96 release (fourth release) from the TerrainArt folder, then I converted to TGA to preserve transparencies (any MPQ viewer will do this task). And then I did some photoshop magic: I increased the texture size 6x, then I applied a robust smart sharpening (on the 6x image to create some data), then denoised to remove imperfections, then resized down to the original resolution (1x), and finally, I put the TGA files in the TerrainArt folder along with the original BLP files. Finally, the War3 engine made the magic; it seems it picks TGA files over BLP.
Certainly, you will have a little degradation in performance since War3 is handling 4x higher resolution terrain textures (the TGA files), but the performance drop is minimum and only noticeable when zooming in. I'm on mac and I can play perfectly Rebirth.
I'm planning to do the same with the undead Blight, but the textures are too dark and little can do to create data/enhance the texture.
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Wow great. Could you do the same but for the elven, human, and not dead units, which have the texture problem?
You need to understand that the War3 engine has limitations. It is a 2003 engine designed for those years requirements (1gb at the most of ram, single core, low res screens, etc) in mind. The engine was updated to be compatible with current OSs, but not that much has been done in that regard. Thus, the issue of low res textures is inherent and you cannot raise the resolution of the models, otherwise, the engine will crash. The engine has a memory budget that needs to comply with (and I don't think the engine can stream textures on-the-fly as current engines. Keep in mind that technology was invented in the Xbox360 era.
If you are talking about the pixelated model issues, play with your setting, reinstall or update to the current version of War3. It can even be a drivers issues. On my end, the game runs fine (on mac) and I don't see why for some people have those issues (i expect more issues on the mac than windows, which seems not to be the case)
Wow man ,but why didnt you just download tiles from my thread and thats it xD?
Its to reduce memory size from 220 mb to 150 mb right?
Anyway, nice tehnics for reducing size and keep quality - if i am correct!
Since you know work in photoshop would you like me to teach you to make tilesets , so you be Rebirth tileset maker ? I would rly like someone inherrit me.
I promise its 1 day tutorial .
If i find strenght ill finishe dalaran ruins,sunken ruuins, and compile chinese lordaeron
And about blight,i ll send you original, but i overdose with sharpnes...
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can you replace abbadon with lich king arthas like the main story of frozen throne?
This is an Hd mod not a custom lore mod, but you can change it yourself if you wish
i dont know how to replace it how to put it
Am i the only one who have the cliff's bug? The game don't recognize these textures
I have no problem with it, can someone else comment about it?
Not on my end. Can you specify what map(s)/terrain are having the issue?
So i'm the problem, nevermind
I'm going try to fix it for myself, great work guys!
Can you fix blade-massters' dissipate animation?
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Sadly I couldn't do it for unkown reasons
when i installed this mod, the terrain is not completely changed. there are still some old terrain on the edge of the cliffs, and other places that near the high ground. But then i saw a video on youtube, the terrain is correctly changed, there are not some old terrain left. So how did you do that? have i did something wrong with the installing progress or some terrain file is missing?
Could you tell me what YouTube video did you see?
It shows red boxes on the sunken ruins where the cliff's should be any help i have 1.27 is that the problem?
copy CliffTypes.slk and .DS_Store in TerrainArt.rar onto war3mod.mpq folder
Hi, Did you solve the problem?
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I did exactly that, but the problem continues
remove .DS_Store and clifftypes.slk in TerrainArt folder.
please fix ice canopy tree error.
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Do you know which specific map it is?
maps\frozenthrone\campaign\undeadx04.w3x
I noticed it in campaign too but I don't know why it is bugged out, in melee games or custom maps they are alright I fixed them specially back then
if you remove the ReplaceableTextures\AshenvaleTree\Ice_Tree.blp
you fix it but ice tree have problem.
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Please help, i do not understand how to install
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the cliffs are missing, pls can u upload the cliffs (?)