War Ox Riders

>>>*This mod is part of the Zerg Collection Volume I, DO NOT use this mod along said collection or you’ll crash. Choose one.*<<<

*Please consult the Known Issues and QA sections before commenting, thanks.*

*NOTICE* All of my screenshots are taken with my certified potato pc™.
This means (at least in theory) that my custom units will look better on your high-end machine (if you do have one).
So don’t be scared off by my horrible screenshots, thanks.

*NOTICEX2* All of these custom models are LOD 0 only.
This means that (aside from the units’ impostor models generated at long distances) these custom units will not lose details when zooming out.
This may result in a minor or moderate impact on your FPS.

Please notice that the units’ stats screenshot was taken with the unit size setting set to large, so expect more HP if you are playing on Ultra.

This mod adds the following units for Cathay, respectively:
-War Ox Riders
-The Emperor’s Might (War Ox Riders) [ROR unit unlockable at level 20 in the ROR pool]

You’ll find them through the Cathay main cavalry building chain.

Ok, presentation over: let’s dive into the technical stuff!

*COMPATIBILITY*

As far as I know this mod works with pretty much everything that do not mess too much with vanilla units.
Should be usable with an ongoing campaign but in my opinion You should not take any chances and use this mod on a brand new campaign to avoid any problems.

*KNOWN ISSUES*
-Those custom ox mounts were modified and remapped to use vanilla Horse animations.
While everything is working as it should some visual glitches may happen every now and then.
-Had to disable the custom mount’s jump attack animation by setting the jump attack chance to 0 because of a visual glitch between mount and rider while performing said attacks.
-Custom oxens’ necks will stretch to unnatural degrees while performing certain animations.
That’s probably due to the fact that the custom Ox’s head is not on the same height level of a vanilla Horse’s head.
Sadly I can’t fix this in anyway since if I do resize the Ox to match said height, then the rider will clip into the mount.
-Some armour clipping.
-Had to replace the custom Jade warrior rider’s lower half with another lower half due to visual glitches, which is why you don’t have full Jade Warrior models as riders.
-Had to remap the custom Jade warrior rider’s models to use Empire Knights animations instead of Jade Lancers animations because said animation (after SEVERAL tries) just refused to put the custom riders on the custom mounts while the Empire Knights animation instantly worked with no problem whatsoever.
-If you are experiencing weird glowing effects on the units then please use this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2922534576 until CA officially fixes that issue.
-Missing textures with certain graphic settings/while looking from certain angles: LOD issues/missing textures issues can be caused by low settings, LOD mods, Immortal Empires bugs and/or even some faulty version of H3ro asset editor.
Translated= I generally can’t do anything about that.
If you are experiencing low poly models+missing textures there isn’t a common solution that works for everyone, but I managed to fix that by doing the following:
-Disable Sharpening
-Enable FXAA
-Enable Unlimited video memory

*UPDATES POLICY*

Let me be straight with you…when the mod status change from updated to outdated….if you start to spam in the comment section things like "update pls, OMG UPDATE, can we have an update my good sir?, UpDaTe!1!1!1" and similar stuff….know that https://media.giphy.com/media/e3URFlLQywEPC/giphy.gif

…But jokes aside: please don’t do that.
When it becomes necessary, and when I can, I will update my stuff, do not worry.

*QA*

-"Lord’s Red line?Tech buffs?"
I gave them generic Cathay cavalry unit sets, so they should get buffs related to those sets.

-"SFO/Radious ecc. ?"
As a matter of fact I’m officially retired from SFO/Overhaul related mods.
As always: If you already have previous experience in SFO submodding feel free to make an SFO version out of any of my mods that are currently missing one, I will link your submods if you provide me with a link.

-"Your mods are ugly and janky, why? just why?"
Here’s a friendly reminder: I’m just an amateur and nothing more.
If you want beautiful stuff with no jank then stick with CA and/or professional modders and avoid my mods, simple as that really.

And that’s all I guess!
Credits time!

Thanks to Phazer for RME editor!
Thanks to H3ro and his great tool!
Any of this would not have been possible without Frodo45127’s RPFM which is still updated to this very day, thank you!
I would also like to thank Sebidee and Caligula for their great modding guides!
And I would like to thank you!
Whatever you liked my mod or not thanks a bunch for giving it a try!

Let’s be brutally honest now: there are countless modders that are WAY more talented than me and that would deserve your money more than me.
That said, If you have grown to like my works so much to the point that you want to express your appreciation or just put a smile on my face…well: I will not stop you 😉 .
You have my gratitude for all the support you can throw at me, independently by the donation’s sum: you are all equals to me and I do thank you all.
From my part I can assure you that your donations will not be wasted, in fact I would mainly use them to:
-complete the Total War Warhammer DLC collection and thus expand my modding possibilities
-PC related things

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