Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Time for some updates

Hello everybody,

A lot of time has passed since the release of my newest models back in March, and I feel it's about time to give some updates.

I recently spent some time experimenting with Reshade and post-processing to give our beloved game a much more modern look. Here comes one comparison of the vanilla game and my current Reshade preset—it even features some kind of fake ray tracing. Doesn't it look nice? The new models really shine with all those lighting effects and shadows and without any aliasing. I will publish my preset here once I am fully happy with it.



Thanks to the Empire Earth community on Discord, I also finally managed to fulfill one of my oldest dreams of modding CotN. I now know how to add effects to buildings that weren't part of them. Want some idea of what that means? Take a look at the picture: Finally, we will see fires burning in our temples to hail the goods and to light all those torches and whatever more!


I hope you are all doing well and keep visiting here from time to time. In the next few days, I will upload a new model for you all as a little Christmas present. The next bigger update with all new models since March will come next year—stay tuned :)

Best Regards, Horus