Imperial Splendour 2.1

[louis1066]

version 2.1.4

Complete Overview can be found here


IS 2.1.4 Link




[fs="Summary"]Imperial Splendour 2.1.3 adds many features to Imperial Splendour 2.0. and even to 2.1b We are continuing to rework all the factions. A complete overhaul has been given to Spain, United Provinces, Prussia, Morocco, Italy and the Native Americans. Large revamps have met Prussia, the United Provinces, and Russia. Along with this, we are this time first including Reskins in the mod. As starters, we have Spain, the United Provinces, Morocco, Russia and Denmark reskinned[/fs]
[fs="Features"]

Main Features

• Reskinned and Reworked UP (Skins by Jarnomiedema)
• Reskinned and Reworked Spain (Skins largely by HellFell)
• Reskinned and Reworked Native Americans (Skins by CA)
• Reskinned and Reworked Morocco (Skins by Sir Digby Chicken Caesar #)
• Reskinned and Reworked Russia (Skins by HellFell)
• Reworked Italy
• Reworked Prussia
• Minor rework and reskin of Persia (skins by Sir Digby Chicken Caesar #)
• Naval combat completely overhauled
• Many campaign map changes (buildings changed / added / removed)
• Included cavalry standard bearers
• Reworked Artillery for the United Provinces, Sweden, Denmark and Norway:

Spoiler:

Artillery Revamp

Imperial Splendour 2.1 offers the first stage of an on-going Artillery Revamp, that will when finished encompass every nation in the game.

The factions completed for 2.1: The United Provinces, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The next faction group planned is Prussia and all minors associated with it.

What the Artillery Revamp entails is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that casual players may not even notice. What may be immediately noticeable, however, is that three artillery technologies (Standardization of Calibers, Professionalization of Artillery, and Liechtenstein Reforms) are no longer linked to buildings. This was necessary in order to remove them from/introduce new technologies for the factions that have received the revamp.

Another large aspect (besides the behind-the-scenes work that nobody except me really cares about) is that 2.1 and the Artillery Revamp is the first time that unit obsolescence through scripting has been a part of the mod. What this means is that as the player/faction researches a technology (in this case, Artillery techs) new units become available and old units become unavailable. Previously, this was accomplished only through buildings. Now, however, it is entirely possible to keep 17th-Century Cannons all the way through the game if you so desire.

Additionally, there has been a change to explosion graphics. Howitzers no longer cause that funny-looking fountain effect but rather are simple large explosions.

Aside from this, we have many minor changes (from 2.1b level)

Spoiler:

Units

• colonial and south American Militia and Russian life guard yegers model bug fixed
• Russians troops now have Russian names
• pirates limited to sloops, brigs, race-built galleons
• the AI now properly recruits generals. They are available at all government buildings now.
• cavalry spacing now in line with 1.5 changes to mob formation
• fixed Swedish unit crash
• prize money for ship cut in half

Other

• technology trading disabled to allow unique technologies
• technology tables now proper again
• more recruitment options in trading ports
• fixed some recruitment areas (e.g. "Americas")

2.1.1 Changelog

Spoiler:

• Fixed several bugs regarding northern artillery
• Fixed some formation depths and unit spacing bugs
• Fixed Maratha general bug
• Fixed ship pricing for easy campaign Difficulty

2.1.2 Changelog

Spoiler:

• Fixed issue regarding Minor Nations not receiving enough extra income. This was especially apparent with the Native American factions, who could not afford to recruit very many units.
• Fixed ship pricing issue.
• Fixed Native American ranges. They should be a little better now.
• Fixed Native American generals costing too much upkeep.
• Tweaked various Campaign Difficulty settings. There should now be more of a difference between them.

2.1.3 Changelog

Spoiler:

• Added Bavaria, Saxony and Hannover as playable nations
• updated Naval stats

• fixed Genoa crash
• fixed several bugs regarding recruitability of guards (Britain and Denmark) and generals (persia)
• fixed some small issues with swedish unit stats (andra guard and life brigade sharpshooters)
• Fixed some mortars
• Fixed pueblo Crash (hopefully)

• We now have an installer (thanks to Cinnead). It places the files where they belong. You can still do that manually though.
• Polish units now have Polish Names (thanks to Dziupski)
• Added nation description for Savoy

2.1.4 Changelog

Spoiler:

• fixed missing Unit Name for United States Marine Corps
• several Balancing changes for Maratha units and regions

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[fs="Future Plans"]Planned are first revamps of the left factions. We have not yet reworked the minor German states, the caucasus states and Mysore. All of the artillery will be reworked as well, and we're looking to personalize navies for the various factions. High on the list are also a further rework of battle-mechanics and a revamp of the non-military game-play aspects.[/fs]

[fs="Download and Installation"]

Gamefront combined (Mod + Patch) link

IS 2.1.4

Megaupload/TWC link

IS 2.1
+
Patch 2.1.4


You need to install IS 2.1 + patch 2.1.4 and only these 2 files.
You can find detailed installation Instructions under the download links.
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[fs="Installation instructions"]

Spoiler:

DETAILED INSTALLATIONS INSTRUCTIONS

• Before starting, make sure you got a vanilla game and no traces of unsupported mods.
• Download the last version of the mod and any other patch additional featured on the post:
  • IS 2.1
  • Patch 2.1.4
    
  
  
  

• Before verifying the integrity of game cache you need to:
  • Don't delete anything without knowing if the file is an ETW (vanilla) file or a mod.
  • Delete all mods inside C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data.
  • Now you are ready to verify integrity of game cache. Remember to take backup of your mods like Blood and Smoke ect. You can put them back in the data folder when you know you got Imperial Splendour working correctly.
  
  
  

• How to verify integrity of game cache:

Run Steam and right click on "Empire Total War" and select "Properties". Select the tab "Local Files" and click the "Verify integrity of game cache" option.

Installing the mod

Spoiler:

1. Download the lastest version (& / or hot-fixes) of Imperial Splendour.

2. Use 7zip and open the compressed file or exe. You should see a folder called data and a file called user.empire-script.txt. Select the folder data and click "Extract" and point it to C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\ (You should not be asked to overwrite anything)

3. Locate C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data folder. Inside there you should now have 3 additional files to your vanilla files. They are called "Imperial Splendour DB.pack", "Imperial Splendour Media.pack" and "patch_is_text.pack".

4. Locate C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data\campaigns\ folder. Inside there you should now have a folder called "imperial_splendour". In addition to the vanilla folders listed in the spoiler. Inside the "imperial_splendour" folder there you should have 25 files including "scripting.lua" and "startpos.esf".

Spoiler:

Vanilla folders inside \data\campaigns folder:

episodic_1
episodic_3
episodic_5
main
main_2
natives - if you got Warpath Expansion

5. Select the file user.empire-script.txt and click "Extract" and point it to C:\Documents and Settings\(Your User Name Here)\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts (The folder called Application Data may be hidden so go here to make it visible and if you haven't deleted user.empire-script.txt located in the script folder you may need to overwrite it.)

Now you are ready to play or you can add some optional files...


Optional: Blood and Smoke Mo

1. If you want to use the Blood and Smoke Mod for Imperial Splendour download that from here.

2. Open the zip you downloaded called "BSM for IS 2.x.rar". Unzip the content which is 5 file called "mod_BSM_4_Full - IS2.pack", "mod_BSM_4_Light - IS2.pack", "mod_BSM_4_Medium - IS2.pack", "mod_NoTrails.pack" and "read-me BSM for Imperial Splendour 2.04.txt" to your desktop or a place of your choosing.

3. Open "read-me BSM for Imperial Splendour 2.04.txt" and decide what version you would like to run. Then locate and copy/cut the file you choose into C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data

4. If you want to have a game where you do not see the trails of the bullets also copy/cut "mod_NoTrails.pack" into C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data

5. Once you have done that you need to go into C:\Documents and Settings\(Your User Name Here)\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts and open "user.empire-script.txt" with notepad and add this lines mod "mod_BSM_4_Light - IS2.pack"; and mod "mod_NoTrails.pack"; so it looks like this:

Spoiler:

user.empire-script.txt

mod "mod_NoTrails.pack"; //Only if you actually use "NoTrails"
mod "mod_BSM_4_Light - IS2.pack"; //If you are using Full or Medium replace with the correct filename
mod "Imperial Splendour DB.pack";
mod "Imperial Splendour Media.pack";


now close that file and save it. You are ready to play.

• The easiest way of knowing if the mod have been loaded is looking at the main menu screen: it will appear a title, "Imperial II Splendour", on the screen with the version just below to the right.

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[fs="Credits"]The Imperial Splendour 2.0 Team

• Ahiga - Lead Creative Designer
• The Vicar - Creative Designer and explosives expert
• Lazy Knight - Administration and bugfixing
• Dogmeat - FX, mod-architecture
• gomer_pyle - artworks and mapping

Contributors

• HellFell: Russians, Spanish
  
• Erasmus777: Danish
• Sir Caesar: Moroccans, Persians Barbary Pirates, Hajduks, Hungarian Line, Grenzers, British Rangers, KTKG units
  
• Danova/Ornamentum: Hungarian Hussars, Albanian Warriors (Bashi Bazouks), French Colonial Marines, Spanish Carabineros, Hungarian Grenadiers, Trabant Guard, Spanish Marines
  
• Spanky: Proper Militia (used for our levy line grade troops & Minutemen)
• Jarnomiedema: Dutch
• ToonTotalWar Team: ToonTotalWar (Creator), gary, kave-In, Officerpuppy, Newman55f9, MorganH, Major, tiyafeh, carricanta, nigelnire:
  2nd Catalonians & British Royal American Line
• Ottoman Total Realism Team: Cairo Janissaries & Sekban Janissaries
• somerandomMinja: Cavalry Standards
• Tariq: patch 2.1.3
• If we have not listed you and you've contributed textures or models to the mod, please tell us.

thanks to our betatesters

• Gomer_Pyle
• Cinnead
• Bucefalo
• Notees
• Lucan
• Society
• Tariq
• Erunion Telecontar (Betatesting and PR)

Special thanks to
Quixote07, without whom none of this could have been possible.
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Imperial Splendour 3

Preview- The New Great Campaign:

[YOUTUBE]CWDoKm9Np_8[/YOUTUBE]
Credit: Thank you Nax for your awesome video!

[fs="Introduction"]Hi there guys!

As you probably know Imperial Splendour is back with a new team for the next final release Imperial splendour 3.0.

The mod was, for now, stopped at the 2.1.4 release, also seeing that the team does not count too much members, the work advances slowly, that is why we take the decision to release the IS III step by step, part to part, thanks to patch and complements.

It will be a long way so as to attain the 3.0 (final) version, and so as to reach this goal, we will start where Imperial Splendour stopped, starting with a 2.2 Version, which will be mostly composed by the 2.1.4 release with the first innovation from IS III.

To conclude, the release will be gradually made and each version will have its specificity. [/fs]

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[Clemci]

Le Mod Manager, tu le trouveras facilement sur les forum de modding ETW sur TWcenter (flemme de te donner le lien ) , tous les mods doivent ?tre d?compress?s dans:

C:/Programs Files/Steam/Steamapps/common/empire total war/data

Ou

D:/Programs Files/Steam/Steamapps/common/empire total war/data

Ou

C:/Programmes/Steam/Steamapps/common/empire total war/data

Ou

D:/Programmes/Steam/Steamapps/common/empire total war/data

Etc. Tout d?pend d'o? tu l'as install?, cherche le manuellement

[louis1066]

Ok merci
Mais est ce que le mod manager est indispensable si je n'installe qu'un seul mod?
EDIT : j'ai d?compr?ss? l'archive correctement mais le jeu ne se lance plus (premier ?cran de chargement puis retour au bureau)! J'essaye d'installer le mod manager 1.5 mais pas moyen de trouver le bon r?pertoire. Est ce quelqu'un ? une id?e?

[jeronaton]

[ETW]Imperial Splendour

Je voudrais t?l?charger "imp?rial splendour" mais je ne le trouve nulle part.
Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider?
Et me fournir par la m?me occasion les explications d'installation si elles
sont particuli?res.Merci d'avance!

[DoubleSquall]

Tout est Ici

[lepicrouge]

Installation sous vista

vérifie que ta mise à jour a été faite en 1.5

extrait le dossier I.S.2.1 dans C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common

Installe "Imperial Splendour DB.pack", "Imperial Splendour Media.pack" "patch_is_text.pack" dans C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data

Dans le dossier campaign que tu viens d'extraire installe le dossier imperial splendour dans C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\empire total war\data\campaigns

Puis installe le fichier suivant user.empire-script.txt dans C:\Users\C:\Users\(nom d'utilisateur)guillaume\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts
pour le trouver tape dans recherche %appdata%...


Voili voilou.

en subMod j'ai mis Le BSM pour IS 2.

Il se peut qu'il y ai quelques plantages. Mais ce n'est pas récurrent, il est assez stable.

Si tu as des questions, n'hésite pas.

[jeronaton]

Putain!(Oh pardon!)!C'est fichtrement compliqu?! Merci quand m?me mais, comme il ne reste plus que quelques jours,je me demande si je ne vais pas attendre le "NAPOLEON"!

[Stilgar]

Jeronaton, tu n'utilises pas le compte que je t'ai cr?? ?

[Stilgar]

Imperial Splendour continue son avancement. Voici une vidéo de mise en bouche pour la version 3 :
[YOUTUBE]CWDoKm9Np_8[/YOUTUBE]

[Rem]

Les unités sont vraiment très belles

[Flikitos]

Merci pour les compliments, pensez à mettre à jour le Thread, une nouvelle release est sortie.

Ici pour la seconde vidéo (merci Nax!)
[YOUTUBE]kKG7TPXzIw8[/YOUTUBE]

Et voila pour les liens:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21960...+Beta+Part1.7z
http://www.gamefront.com/files/21960...+Beta+Part2.7z

[Elanion]

Waw, super vidéo, pour je pense un super mod.

Cette release va peut être me faire réinstaller ETW

OMG le carton sur les cavaliers

[Ltn McClane]

salut, je suis pas très doué en informatique, et j'arrive pas à l'installer j'ai windows 7 et je ne sais pas comment trouver les endroits où installer le mod autant dire que je comprend rien, vous pouvez m'aider SVP sa serait cool parce que sa a l'air vraiment pas mal ....


Ltn

[FOR GONDOR]

Bon le sujet a l'ai un peu mort , aucune réponse depuis le 25/10 ... Je peut pas t'aider ltn mcclane (ou plutôt Renaud )
qqun peut-il vérifier les liens sa me met l'erreur 403 quand je tente de télécharger ?
sa me dirige de cette page (http://www.gamefront.com/files/servi...ou?id=20056708) a celle-ci (http://media1.gamefront.com/guploads...11a1c654cc0f2c) pendant le téléchargement.

[Ltn McClane]

merci, je n'arrive pas à télécharger non plus