Sorry, perhaps I didn't express myself clearly. What I mean is, could you create illustrations for the newly added Eastern nation units? There's no need to alter your art style—I greatly admire your artistic approach.

@Bjerke Thanks, i hope i will! :)

@SalahadDin Thank you :3
Unfortunately, I don't know what changes Halfdan made to his localization files, and I don't have time to find out rn. So in the near future, I will remove them so that the mod can work, but for a while it will only be pictures, without flavor propper names, and descriptions

@MetaMasterpiece Are oriental-style illustrations like the Japanese paintings we see on the Internet? I think I could, but I strive for a classic style in all my images so that they look natural in the game, and I have no interest in changing the style, sorry

Can you create oriental-style illustrations?

I love this mod so much. Could the you update it to version 1.8?

Genuinly amazing use of ai and human willpower, not just slop. Keep it up!

@Frem74 Thanks!

@The Red Bandit I can understand the sentiment that people feel towards ai now, i dont really mind tho, as stated earlier i do it as an exercise and simply share results of it. Appreciate the support :3

god bless ai

People here just hating on AI because it's AI is pretty stupid, as the illustrations are pretty decent and don't look AI at all. Just continue the work you're doing here, even if people are hating on something as minimal as that

booo ai boooooooooo

Nice work

@ys Sounds cool! I'd like to discuss the details. This project is mainly about how I learn to interact with AI and share the results, and if your “tasks” interest me, I'd be happy to help.

ai slop

hello, the artworks look pretty fitting to the vanilla art. very solid compositions and nice use of colours & atmosphere. i gather you are using a local ai and edit the outputs very carefully. which is a pretty time consuming job. but they do look great and great effort by you. would you consider doing similiar artworks for my mod?

@Psalm 73:25 The best compliment i can get!

@Hundevakt Thanks. For all of them I used Gemini.

I would never have even assumed you used AI if you didn't mention it. It looks incredible, nice work.

looking good! which ai did you use to make these?

@CS-HS if you mean the german knight on the left with the three symbols, that is not giberish, it is the coat of arms of the noble House of Württemberg. It is three Antlers. His visor looks very strange though...

@Willelmus Thanks, bud! That's exactly what I thought when I came across the Halfdans maa mod. I always imagined AI as Obama with eight fingers eating an elder monster with tentacles resembling macaroni, but in reality it can be very helpful and speed up processes that would otherwise take days. Maybe it's not perfect and not what I imagined, but it's quite acceptable and a good compromise.

@.R1BA Спасибо!

@Guvenoren Thanks!

@CS-HS not a big fan of either of them, they are my very first works, ritter is the first, fanti is the second. The giberish on the shield should resemble the lion of Flanders. As for fanti, I can send you several versions with eyes if you want, but I think the one where his eyes are hidden by shadows is better. You can replace it manually in the mod folder.

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If you look at your screenshots you can see that the Italian pikemen (I think) the one in front doesn't have eyes and the German cavalier has giberish on his shield instead of the COA

Great use of AI in your own art pipeline. Looks 200% better than any other AI art mod out there, this proves that AI is great in the hands of good artists as an aid.

wow looks sick

@Spaceracer thanks ;3

pretty

ipad with crossbow is sick

@Rektmanner as stated in the decribtion, its a mix of both, however most of the job did ai. i would say about 60 percent. Most of my work consisted of shading, cutting, and other minor situational tasks, while the main part involved combining everything into a collage. For each illustration, I have a folder with 30–35 versions that I created, so these pictures are real Frankenstein monsters.

did you draw them yourself or did you use AI?

Württemberg coat of arms on the Ritter, LETS GOOOOO!

@outlander7 Let me know if anything still broken

Grazie!

@outlander7 my bad, will fix it

Love the update!

I've noticed, however, that this mod seems to break quite a bit of the localisation from the original mod? The cultural innovations all get broken text and some men-at-arms in Africa (at least) get missing flavor text, like the "Mabala" or the "Tonbolon"

@outlander7 Thank you! <3
But I wouldn't compare them. I spent about 6~ hours on each illustration. If Halfdan did the same for each of his maa, the updated mod will likely be released next year at best xD

THANK YOU, these look much nicer!