thanks it looks great!

@LordGood ohh makes sense! Awesome touch, thanks for the reply!

@meboosta, those are galleries for plunging fire, it makes it so that defenders can pour any number of deterring materials, or shoot at soldiers who would otherwise be safe at the base of the wall, from inside the castle. Think of them as the japanese castle equivalent to machicolations.
Glad you like it!

@LordGood Just a quick question regarding the edges of the castle where the wooden structure meets the stone base -- is the wood supposed to stick out past the stone like that (particularly at the corners)? Or was the stone base supposed to be flush with the wood? Not a criticism of your work by any means, this is by far my favorite Japanese castle out of all the mods I've ever seen, just genuinely curious.

Are you planning to make a Byzantines Castle as well?

This looks great. You're doing a great job!

I don't hate IA, I like the concept behind it. I'm not going to dedicate that much time to a data mod I dont even use though. These castles alone take me upwards of 12 hours to make, there's no way I'm overhauling whole civilizations

I noticed you hate IA, but I think I'd like to ask. Could you edentually do an IA total conversion for Japanease in this style?

Most of the architecture style in Age 2 are king of fallacy... Maybe because of Age 3 or other games, vanilla castle always reminded me Japanese... Thanks for information :D

@Hordigo this one is japanese, the original is a fallacy. There are much better designs for Korean and Chinese castles, ones based Suwon Hwaseong and Jiayuguon pass fortress respectively come to mind first, personally.

really good mate keep it up

I think the stone and overgrown foliage could do with some work. They look extremely blurry compared to the rest of the building. Solid work otherwise, though.

I don't see the problem with off-angles, since buildings, especially in this time period, aren't perfect. It adds charm, in my view.

http://aok.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=26,42291,,10

Looks good. But just like your other excellent buildings, the angle is off:

https://imgur.com/a/9CzFrzF

You can ask around on AokHeaven for the rendering set up.

i really like your mods but it'd be great if you could add before and after screenshots so we can compare them with the vanilla buildings.

Yakko's and Abejin's castles and other mods, though great, don't always mix well with vanilla structures. I'm not a huge fan of IA, I have to say. too many discrepancies between artists make it sloppy in practice, and the fact that it's a data mod limits modified gameplay.

My mods are both artistically challenging and architecturally exploratory; they address issues I have with the vanilla sprites, as well as challenges I'd like to try my hand at.

If overlap is used with credit that's fine, but I have no interest in IA at this time.

bro it will be nice to see you working on things that no one had work before, or things that really need a impovement, like the paladise you made, brilliant by the way, but the castles of germans or japanese have already be done before by some other great designers like yakko or abejin, dont get my wrong your desings are amazing, but it will be nice to see your job on thing that needs to be done or improved

cool bro, try the independent architecture mod please, maybe you will be able to design the missing pieces like persian, frankish, or a better korean architecture, etc

Nice work again mate.

Fantastic castle!! Do you have plans to work on the other East Asian buildings as well?