Total War: WARHAMMER III

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Fay Folk of Athel Loren (Wood Elves)
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Jul 26, 2024 @ 6:21pm
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Fay Folk of Athel Loren (Wood Elves)

Description
INTRODUCTION
This mod is a faction visual overhaul where wood elf infantry, monsters, and mounts have been adjusted to appear better armored with more variance.

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HIGHLIGHTS
  • Wood elves have a much more armored and camouflaged appearance displaying their harmony and protection of Athel Loren.
  • Zoats, stags, eagles, and dragons have more variation and/or armored appearance.
  • Wood elf faction colors are universally green and utilize small ribbon trinkets to represent specific wood elf faction colors. Gone are the days of highlighter neon green armies.
  • Custom hero/lord variants with associated portholes and 4K roster unit cards.
  • Spellsinger/Spellweaver units adjusted to not have troll doll hair appearance.
  • Unique glowing eyes for Regiments of Renown.
  • Longer spears with greater weapon variation.
  • Wildwood Rangers have animations adjusted to utilize the Swordmasters of Hoeth animation set which is better suited for their weapon set.
  • Corrected dragon mount seated position to not clip half of the body into the saddle.

COMPATIBILITY
Manually put this at the top of your load order if experiencing issues.

This is simply a reskin for most of the vanilla wood elf roster. Should be compatible with just about anything except other obvious wood elf reskins.

I recommend to be used in conjunction with GunKing's Wargrove of Woe for an entire wood elf roster overhaul.

PERFORMANCE
I play with this mod personally and do not experience performance issues, however, this mod adds an incredible amount of detail along with removing low-poly models that are used when zoomed out. If you are playing with doubled unit counts, or 40+ unit battles, then it is a reasonable assumption that there will be a performance hit. As a result, I have proactively created 2 optional sub mods that should help. Only one is needed.

SUBMODS

CREDITS
A massive thank you to the modders below for volunteering their time and effort to this project. My gratitude cannot be expressed enough.
  • Cipher for providing screenshots, valuable feedback, and modding support.
  • Frank for the exceptional 4K unit cards.
  • Driblex for texture work to create new Zoat and Forest Dragon variants.

MODS OF INSPIRATION
Thank you to all authors below for permission to incorporate their work, and all the tools/community support provided by Da Modding Den. This mod would not have been possible without both their inspiration and assets to deliver a complete wood elf faction visual overhaul.

Asrai Unit Pack (Wood Elves) - Cipher
Various assets utilized.

Eternal Wood Elves - Dietrich
Various assets utilized such as armored assets for zoats. This mod was slated to be my spiritual successor to their work prior to the most recent update.

Fantasy Up-Armoured: Reskin & Officers - The Sirly Hunter
Inspiration and assets utilized.

Tabletop Touches for Elves Reskin - GunKing
Elven Animals 4K Reskin Compilation - GunKing
Various custom textures and assets utilized.

Forest dragon reskin - lacamaca
Dragon model utilized as template for additional customization.

Dany's eagle variants - Dany_shady
Variations for both eagle and hawk units.

Hooveric Overhaul (HVO) 1.9 - Hooveric
Custom made wooden masks.

ADDITIONAL MODS OF INSPIRATION
I reached out to the following authors to incorporate their assets into this mod, but I did not hear a response. As a result, I will remove assets upon request, however, I sincerely hope they do not mind. Their work is both greatly appreciated and recommended.

Colourless' Wood Elves HD Texture Pack - ColourlessAmoeba
HD textures used as baseline for custom texture colors

Mixu's Shadowdancer - Mixu
Adjusted the body of the shadowdancer to have more foliage consistent with the rest of the roster in this visual overhaul. This mod also applies the universal green colors to his faction unlocker.

ISSUES
Wood elf firing animations appear to have been adjusted in patch 5.1, however, they are still messed up as the wrong bow is often shown during the firing animation. As a result, this mod normalizes most wood elf bow firing animations to the glade lord bow. Fixing animation sets would require substantial compatibility efforts. Please let me know if CA corrects these issues so that I can update as required.

PERMISSIONS
Because this mod incorporates many other users' work, please reach out to me on discord for permission to incorporate any/all assets into your mod so that I may refer you to the correct author if applicable.

rileysan8056

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
  • Legendary Lord Reskin
  • Wood Elf Unit Pack
  • Wood Elf Hero Rework

TAGS
Wood Elf / Wood Elves / Asrai / Athel Loren / Reskin / Overhaul / Custom Textures / Graphical
233 Comments
Inerael 16 hours ago 
am i the only one who's glade guard didn't stop puting up and down their shield ? Think its a vanilla game bug x(
Mora Apr 23 @ 6:45am 
Eternal guard gear looks a tad too expensive considering their stats, cost and the fact that they're tier 1
Cipher  [author] Apr 19 @ 3:04am 
@Daelin - Not all of the screenshots are mine, but for my ones I used Reshade with colour and sharpness tweaks plus the big aDOF setting for the focused images. Admittedly, these shots have also had some tweaks in Photoshop to make contrast and colours pop better, but they still look amazing in-game before any editing with the reshade settings.

Check out 'Matthew's Reshade Preset' for a good preset configuration that I used as the baseline :steamthumbsup:

@蓉城朱员外 - Check out the 'SUBMODS' section for performance improving sub mods, they should help your PC out a bit.
蓉城朱员外 Apr 19 @ 2:26am 
The precision is too high, and the computer is a bit laggy. It's uncomfortable
Daelin Mar 31 @ 3:45pm 
I love the Screenshots man, may I ask is it GemFX or ReShade or what? Thx man! Great mod!
Vékell the Shape-Shifting Mar 18 @ 9:36am 
Thank you very much for the best retexture of the Wood Elves, Athel Loren is in good hands.
CatCanBawl  [author] Mar 14 @ 3:03pm 
@Mavil

Thank you for the kind words. I don't plan on doing reskins for SFO or other modders unit packs as I think it degrades their vision of the unit. My adjustment to Mixu's shadowdancer is very minor as it mostly just adds additional foliage to her outfit and her general design is not compromised.

With that said, I have a Wood Elf unit pack in development and while I don't plan on doing SFO content specifically, anyone will be welcome to balance and port that content over to SFO.
Mavil Mar 14 @ 12:07pm 
First of all wow, these look gorgeous, both the ingame models, and the unit cards. You probably got this question a lot before but would you ever be willing to cover the new wood elves units from the SFO mod? Regardless, awesome work, having a blast using it.
Clopperz Mar 14 @ 5:21am 
Great, very happy to hear this:steamhappy: thank you for your aswers
CatCanBawl  [author] Mar 14 @ 5:15am 
@Clopperz

I understand there is a language barrier. I appreciate you trying your best to clarify the request.

I think those mods look pretty good as is and don't really require any reskin. I am glad you're enjoying the mod, so keep a look out for my unit pack coming out soon. It expands on both male and female units rosters and it currently includes a total of 14 units or so. I hope you will be a massive fan of that as well.