Well doen

thanks very much Benjin 🙂

@Seti
Sure, go ahead

may i borrow some of your battle_banner.dds in my mod ?
(e.g. i made Per-Wadjet have the cobra logo, if i could move your Faiyum to my Buto folder?)
for fixing unchanged logos, i recommended my users to subscribe to your mod.

i'll credit you of course, if you allow.
don't worry if its not okay, just thought i'll ask first :)

Thank you so much.

thanks very much for answering :)
that's a shame, but fair.
hope we cross path with your excellent mods again in the future :')

@Seti
Hmm, haven't saved anything as DXT10 before - I've only ever had to save with DXT1 (no alpha transparency) and DXT5 (alpha transparency), so I'm not sure.

Maybe I'll check the rest of these out, but to be absolutely honest with you, it may be a while before I come back to Pharaoh again - I got kind of disappointed with the game a month ago and am back to Rome 2 / Attila... again. I really want to get off those two Total War games as they're getting quite old and I desperately want to see something new, but the latest games just don't capture the same spark for some reason.

So at present, I'm kinda waiting for what CA has in store next in regards to historical TW. Perhaps I could then do a bronze age total conversion for that game if I have the time, that is if I haven't joined some other non-TW project by that point.

is the issue partly due to CA saved the mon_banner_battle as DXT10, while it should be DXT5?
do i have to do the black background + alpha mask to mon_banner.dds as well? (not mon_banner_battle.dds)
(in same boat as Kendji, i've applied your method to both dds and it works, wondering if i could save time by skipping mon_banner.dds.)

i think you might have masked the egyptian flag_medium_mask.dds incorrectly, green (secondary colour) is now outside the flag, that might cause your screenshots' Ramesses have thick black edge, instead of secondary colour.
besides that, great mod, thanks very much!

Great Mod

I just checked, so far the factions I've tried work, I was a bit worried I might have to redo some of them and there's a lot of them. I don't have the option to save as dxt5, but the default dds settings on Gimp 3 seems to work fine :). Thnx for the advice :)

@Kendji
For the faction icons such as under "flags/phar_main_hattusa" etc, you'll need to basically save your "mon_battle_banner.dds" file in the same way as mine. Basically, you just need to give a black background behind the icon itself, give the icon an alpha mask and then save as a DDS DXT5. In the vanilla game, those battle banner icons had a white background, which is the wrong way to do it as white pixels will start to bleed in to the flag the further away the player's camera is from the object, which is much more obvious than black which looks more like an intentional border outline for the icon and bleeds less into the flag than white. That is what was causing those grey artifacts as shown in the Before & After images.

Other than that, it should be fine - test them both out together. If there are any problems, then compare against their pack files and see what the conflicts are.

flags/phar_main_hattusa etcthen override vanilla with new 2D flag (those include the battle banner 'emblem'), plus 2D loading backgrounds etc.

@Esoteric knowledge enjoyer + Ca_Putt
Glad you guys like it!

I've added two Before & After screenshots to the gallery so people can get a better idea as to how annoying the problem used to be and how the mod fixes it.

Thank you! the lackluster finish on PTW really grinds my gears!

Sick, this looks so much better. The artifacting on the vanilla banners was really heinous, glad you fixed it

@Kendji
Hey, what kind of new flags have you made exactly? New 3DUI flag styles? Or the type of flags that units hold? It's hard to tell as I'm not familiar with this mod you've made.

Hey, they look awsome! I have made new flags for every faction, if I enable this mod, is it something that will work with non vanilla flags as well?