Texture Fiddling

"Texture Fiddling" Version 1. 0 ~ A Warband Mod by lucky lancer ~ 2010-12-21 This is Open Source - use as you please. - Credit would be appreciated nevertheless. DESCRIPTION: As much as I always liked M&B, I always thought most of the vanilla M&B textures were too colorful, all too cheerful - in a land torn by war. Some others were just too plain, lacking quality, definition, sharpness. Of course Warband brought a lot of textures a big step forward. But not enough for my taste - or at least not entirely into the right direction. That's why I started to review, play around with and finally remix the color, saturation, brightness and contrast of numerous vanilla textures, one by one, to achieve a sharper, dirtier, darker, overall more "used" look - which in my eyes appears just a lot more REALISTIC and natural. In other words: I tried to get the best out of the vanilla textures. Of course this is a matter of personal taste and perspective. If you share mine, then this might be the mod for you! I altered almost every single armor, clothing, boots, gloves, hat, helmet, shield, body and weapon texture, along with some horse/horse armor and map icons, plains and steppe map textures. I left out the Sarranid Mamluke Mail, because I never liked it and even removed it from my personal Native. This is the first time I edited textures - so this modification is far from perfect. Some things might well be over-accentuated. But I believe it is well enough to share. NO IMPACT ON GAME PERFORMANCE ! Since these are no new textures, but just reworked/remixed vanilla ones, there is NO impact on the game's performance! In fact, they are just the same size as before - or even smaller. Sometimes drastically smaller. That's because of saving procedures of the reworked .dds-files. INSTALLATION: Couldn't be easier! Just put the texture files into your desired module's "Textures" folder. Done and enjoy! RECOMMENDATIONS: This mod looks especially well with "Polished Landscapes" by Gutekfiutek! http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,122423. 0.html OTHER MODS BY ME: "Training Fields" http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,144466. 0.html CREDITS: 1.) Taleworlds: For creating such a great, fun game - and making it editable so exceptionally easy! Even for noobs like me! 2.) Paint.net: A truly great, powerful, extremely comfortable, freeware picture editing software! 3.) The great M&B forum/modding community: For just keeping making a great game even better!