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Special Effects Enhancement Mod v1.6 "Insane Edition"

Special Effects Enhancement Mod v. 1.6 Insane Edition! (For high performant PC's!)

No more sterile battles. The Insane Edition adds dust to marching, running and fighting units. The floor will be covered with dust when units fighting each other. In addition to that i increased the time that blood stays on the floor. These changes needs much more performance, so please be sure you use a powerful machine!

(Changes for Blood DLC) You must own the Blood and Gore DLC to see blood effects!!!:

- better blood textures on bodies and floor - many thanks to LuciferHawk for testing!!
- blood on ground texture changed
- blood on ground stays almost forever (lifetime is heavily increased in comparison with v1.5)
- spraying blood is a little darker now
- added ground blood splatter to spear-hits
- ground blood splatter also for slingshot hits
- made the ground blood a little smaller

Other enhancements with SEEM 1.6 Insane Edition

- dust for marching, running and fighting units (takes a few frames)
- reworked flaming arrows and javelins, more Medieval2 style, looks a litlle crappy, but more is not possible yet without destroying other effects. If you don't like the effect there is an alternative mod version with slightly changed vanilla effect to download.
- reworked torches (see screenshot for comparison)
- deletes now dust effects and change it to blood puffs .
- it enhances all smoke columns in cities and change the smoke color to black
- improves all the smoke trails from Onager projectiles and make the flames more fiery
- improves the explosion effects from onagers a little bit and make it bigger and more fiery
- deletes all the annoying greyish hit dust effects
- adds a little blood puff when units are beeing hit by projectiles
- improves torches with better performance as well


Important note: For long lasting ground splatter it is necessary to set terrain quality to extreme. Otherwise you'll see no blood on the floor! (Thanks to DogSoldierSPQR for the tip!)
To get this mod to work, it is necessary to enable "outdated mods" in the Mod Manager.

Here is a very nice video by DogSoldierSPQR showcasing the blood part of my mod in action (Thanks for that)! If you want see much more of this i recommend to watch his entertaining Rome 2 Let's Plays using his own mod: the "DogSoldier's Combatus Maximus Mod Battle Overhaul" (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?620947-DogSoldier-s-Combatus-Maximus-Mod-Version-1-7-Overhaul-Is-Now-Here!-%2826-10-13%29&highlight=dogsoldierspqr).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSV9AW0c19o


IMPORTANT!!!
With the latest patches, my Vanilla Rome2 doesn't show blood anymore, except on bodies. So it seems something is broken with the latest patches.
My mod fixed this issue.

Without mod - no blood
With mod - normal blood

The entire game behaves strange after the latest patches relating to the blood effects. Someone will have no blood, some have blood, but it stays only a very short time. Another one will have no problems at all.

All i can say is: make sure

- you have Blood&Gore DLC
- your Settings are on Ultra
- you load my mod as movie file format (To do this you'll need the PackFileManager from the TWC-Homepage)
- set my mod to read only

Also after the very latest patch the CA ModManager crash on startup. To prevent this and start the game i click on the launch button as fast as i can and the game will run fine with my mod.

I hope that will help.

See the screenshots for comparison.
Have fun!
Mech