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Parrot Presents

Add a little more foreign spice to your Imperial dishes with the brand new Blood and Iron enhancement! Fully compatible with the new update!!

"What does this mod add to an already fantastic game?" I hear some dribbling fellows ponder. Well, don't let me hold you up, so here's a nice little list of changes that I've made:

 - Fixed the grass
 - New vegetation
 - Palm trees make a comeback in desert maps
 - Fixed the rain
 - Added panoramic skyboxes
 - New gun and cannon sounds
 - New British female shouts (including "medic" shout!)
 - New UI
 - New music (35 new songs to listen to!)
 - Adds over 200 new sounds!

Palm trees make deserts less boring
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So now you might wish to download this little package and improve your Blood and Iron experience, hmm? Don't let me get in your way any longer my frivolous friend, here it is... And it's all wrapped up in a nice little installer for your comfort (just make sure it's pointing to your Blood and Iron module folder)...

Download here:
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- Version 1.0
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Quite a few things in this pack were taken from my NW Enhancement mod, but I've also added a whole load of new things that fit in with Blood and Iron for your enjoyment. There are also quite a few things in this pack that are in my enhancement mod but haven't been released (as of this post), such as the grass, Polished Landscapes by Gutekfiutek, and the new female voices. The UI is similar to that of the one used in my enhancement, but it has been altered to address some issues in that one and to fit Blood and Iron.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

What should my game settings be to get it looking so good?
- Antialisasing: x2
- Shadow Quality: High
- Texture detail: 100%
- Shader Quality: High
- HDR Mode: Low
- Use high contrast tonemap: Yes
- Use depth effects: Yes
- Grass density: 54%
- Realistic shadows on plants: Full
- Tree detail: High
- Tree degreade distrance: 50%
- Character detail: High
- Character shadow detail: High
- Number of corpses: 150
- Number of rag dolls: Unlimited
- Blood stains: On
- Dynamic Lighting: Yes
- Character shadows: Yes
- Environment shadows: Yes
- High detail particle systems: Yes
- Anisotropic filtering: Yes
- Fast water reflections: No

I recommend that you use these settings or higher if your PC can handle it, it makes the game look so much better than what you might be used to. Bear in mind that I run these settings on a two year old laptop, and I get over 50% performance.
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Re: Blood and Iron - Mini Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2013, 05:17:49 pm »
The grass look really good! I'll download it soon :)

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Re: Blood and Iron - Mini Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2013, 05:48:09 pm »
I don't suppose you can add those soldier and officer idle animations? Those look good in any firearms related mod!

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Re: Blood and Iron - Mini Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2013, 06:27:39 pm »
Congratulations on a song i do not know which is, but it's epic. I love it.

All songs are epic :D
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Re: Blood and Iron - Mini Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2013, 07:13:08 pm »
Congratulations on a song i do not know which is, but it's epic. I love it.

All songs are epic :D

I included a folder that gets unpacked to the Blood and Iron music folder which has all of the songs and their original names for you to sift through ;D
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Re: Blood and Iron - Mini Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2013, 03:42:37 pm »
I don't suppose you can add those soldier and officer idle animations? Those look good in any firearms related mod!

When I get all the female voices sorted out I'll add them in an update for this, I'll include some more animations, like the death ones and I'll add the multiple animations thing to the officers since the normal ones in there are pretty goo, and if people want the option I'll do a pack that adds the multiple animations to the soldiers as well. I also want to try and fix the voices for the micro factions, so I'll put some time into seeing if that's possible.

Anything else that you guys feel could be added?
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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2013, 03:50:18 am »
So for the next update for parrots mod I added the backpack to the Italian Line Inf. 2 Variations. I gave mine to parrot and he edited it a bit.

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Or Parrots

Main difference is the blue sheet is wrapped around the torso on mine and its on the backpack on parrots what do you guys think it better we would love to know.

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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2013, 03:58:44 am »
Also what do you guys think about this

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I added a backpack to the US infantry on micro Factions.


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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2013, 04:03:04 am »
So for the next update for parrots mod I added the backpack to the Italian Line Inf. 2 Variations. I gave mine to parrot and he edited it a bit.

Mine

Or Parrots

Main difference is the blue sheet is wrapped around the torso on mine and its on the backpack on parrots what do you guys think it better we would love to know.
Parrots. Yours to fluffy and blue fits in more I think.

Also what do you guys think about this

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Looks good :)

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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2013, 11:31:22 am »
Does this have the same ground textures as your NW version?

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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2013, 02:14:47 pm »
Does this have the same ground textures as your NW version?

More or less, for my NW one I managed to get the main features (and more) of Polished Landscapes working. I had to edit quite a few texture and flora kinds to get everything perfect. For this, it was a lot less work as I had most of the stuff already done, and Willhelm has already added some of the textures from PL, which saved a load of time. My additions here fix the grass, change some bushes, and a couple of textures here and there.

DevMC: I wish the Italians had the variations on the uniform options that some of the units in NW do XD that way we could have both...
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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2013, 02:40:36 pm »
Is it possible for me to use the NW textures in this then?

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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2013, 03:38:21 pm »
Is it possible for me to use the NW textures in this then?

Do you mean the vanilla NW ones? I think that they'd look out of place with the uniforms, but it should be possible, as long as you copy all the environment textures over. If you're using the normal Blood and Iron I'd imagine that that would be relatively easy as Willhelm didn't change any of the meshes...
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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2013, 03:39:39 pm »
I ment your NW overhaul.

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Re: Blood and Iron - Client-Side Enhancement [Making the best mod better]
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2013, 03:43:48 pm »
I meant your NW overhaul.

Yes, with a little tweaking here and there. Although the changes would be very small. I'm thinking of adding the plant textures from my NW mod which aren't quite as harsh...
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