Total War: WARHAMMER III

Total War: WARHAMMER III

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Campaign Weather Overhaul (includes The Old World Map)
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Campaign Weather Overhaul (includes The Old World Map)

Description
Mod is fully compatible with Immortal Empires Expanded, and The Old World map, but place mine first in the load order!

*Screenshots are very outdated, will upload new one soon*

INTRODUCTION
This mod is a complete overhaul of campaign map lighting and weather. I have created and added more than 170 new environments, with more than 60 new weather effects for Realms of Chaos, Immortal Empires, Immortal Empires Expanded and The Old World map. This mod puts visuals and immersion over gameplay, so some areas might not be visually optimal for everyone.

I highly recommend using Improved Campaign Camera mod.

THE OLD WORLD

The Empire
Foggier and gloomier than vanilla (especially Middenland and the Drakwald). Most of the Empire is under light rain. The southern areas are sunnier. The eastern and nothern areas have some light snowfall and a colder feel. The Middle Mountains have stronger snowfall. Grey and Black Mountains are under moderate snowfall.

Sylvania
Gloomy, spooky, foggy, dark and full of bats!

Bretonnia
Carcassonne and River Brionne are sunny. The northern Marches are rainy. Forests of Arden and Chalon have a verdant feel and slight leaf fall. Mousillon is gloomy and rainy. The Coast of Lyonesse is sunny but misty.

Athel Loren
Magical, verdant forest with perpetual and abundant leaf fall and magical spores.

Southern Realms
The Border Princes are generally cloudy or with slight rainfall. Tilea is bright and sunny, Estalia too but it has a more arid feel. Sartosa is shrouded in fog and is rainy. The peaks of the Vaults are ravaged by violent gusts of snow.

Skavenblight
Dark, putrid and bug-ridden, with intermittent heavy rainfall.

Kislev
Under perpetual snowfall. In the south, snowfall is mild. Central areas are under abundant but gentle snowfall. Troll Country is ravaged by violent gusts. The Eastern Oblast is under a more violent snow storm.

Norsca
An inhospitable, violent, frozen wasteland, ravaged by a blizzards or moderate snowfall.

Albion
Heavy perpetual rain, fog and some magical spores.

World's Edge Mountains
The north is under intense snowfall. South, near Karaz-a-Karak, snowfall is milder. In the Badlands area, they have a more arid and/or vulcanic feel.

The Badlands
Scorching bright. The Marshes of Madness are swamps, with fog and plenty of bugs flying around.

THE NEW WORLD

Nehekhara
Dry and arid. The Black Pyramid and the Tower of Arkhan are more haunted.

Araby
Bright, scorching desert.

Southlands Jungles
Steaming jungles. Some areas are under a heavy tropical storm. Zlatlan is hidden by moderate fog. The Cape is misty and with light rain.

Lustria
The Isthmus is brighter and with light rain. Vampire Coast is dark, foggy, with intermittent rains, bats and bugs. Volcanic Isles are vulcanic. Xlanhuapec is covered by a thick mist. The "Amazon" area is under heavy tropical rainfall. The north-west, between the Isthmus and Tlaxtlan, has a swampy, fetid, and bug-ridden feel. Coastal deserts are dry and bright. Culchain Plains are sunny. Turtle isles are foggy and rainless. The Cape is misty and with light rain.

Ulthuan
Nagarythe is dark and barren. Eataine, Tiranoc and Ellyrion are peaceful paradises. Avelorn and Chrace are sunny and verdant. Vauls Anvil is vulcanic. Saphery is sunny and with magical embers. Cothique is misty and with light rain. Yvresse is shrouded by a thick mist.

Naggaroth
Titan Peaks are vulcanic. The coastal and central areas gloomy and under moderate/heavy rainfall. Obsidian peaks are ashy and vulcanic, Iron Mountains are cold and with light snowfall. The western deserts are scorching and bright. The northern tundra is blinding and under heavy snowstorms and blizzards.

THE EAST

Darklands
Hellish feel. North and centre have ember sparks and ash rising. The south is less hellish and more arid, with ashfall. The Mouth of River ruin is putrid.

Nagashizzar
Dark, rainy, with ghostly spirits and bats.

Dragon Isles
Primal and savage, under a violent tropical monsoon.

Mountains of Mourn
The south has slight snowfall. Central Mourn have heavier snowfall and violent gusts of snowstorm. Firemouth is vulcanic. The Great Maw has a putrid feel. The north has a glacial, ice-age feel and under a perpetual blizzard. Down south, the Haunted forest and Gnoblar country are gloomy.

Cathay
Warpstone desert is a corrupted green-tinted wasteland. Gunpowder Road is dull and ashy. Weijin is bright and magical. The Celestial Riverlands are a peaceful paradise. Eastern coast is misty and under moderate rainfall. The Forest of the Moon has a nightly, Yin, lunar feel. The Broken Lands of Tian Li are a frigid plateau with slight snowfall. The Mountains of Heaven have a cold feel and abundant, gentle snowfall. The southern jungles are steaming and rainy.

"Korea"/Khosun (in IEE)
The south is rainy and misty. The north, towards the Wastes, has both rain and ashfall.

Eastern Colonies
Misty but sunny and tropical. Tor Elasor has intermittent rainfall.

Ind
Lush, verdant and sunny.

Kuresh
Darker, fetid and inhospitable. The northern mountains are under a heavy tropical monsoon. All the coast is foggy and with slight rainfall. Inland is rainless, but steaming, fetid and bug-ridden.

Gates of Calith
The far end of the world, under a perpetual, violent monsoon.

Nippon (IEE)
The north is foggy and rainy. The south is bright, verdant and sunny.

Lost Isles of Elithis (IEE)
Remote islands shrouded by mists.

OCEANS

Galleons Graveyard
Under a violent, windy, oceanic storm.

General
Areas of the Great Ocean, Far Sea, and Sea of Dread have varying degrees of mist and rain.

N. CHAOS WASTES

Khorne Themed
Blood Marshes, Bloodfire Falls and Blood Mountain all have very Khorne themed environments with a redder tint, embers, ash, blood rain and some snow (depending on the region)

Tzeentch Themed
Plain of Illusions and the area around the Silvered Tower of Sorcerers have a bluer tint, slight snowfall and magical embers floating about.

Nurgle Themed
Kdatha and Noisome Tumor have a putrid feel, with a greener tint, toxic spores and flies. The former also has maggots crawling on the ground.

Arctic Themed
Eternal Lagoon and the Cold Mire have generic arctic feel and are ravaged by a violent blizzard. The latter has a slight purple tint due to the presence of the Palace of Princes.

S. CHAOS WASTES

Icefire Plains
As the name suggests, a hellish land ravaged by both fire embers and ashes as well as snow.

Southern Wastes, Abyssal Glacier & Daemonium Hills
Chaotic and arctic feel, with both ash fall and violent gusts of snowstorm.

COMPATIBILITY
Compatible with everything that doesn't affect the campaign weather files. Fully compatible with all the Forestry mods

Ultimate Lighting 2.0: it's fully compatible as long as you place my mod before his in the load order (put mine above). This way, both work properly!

SPECIAL THANKS
To CA for creating this massive game.
To Frodo45127 for creating Rusted PackFile Manager.
To Mazisky for his initial tips and for his visual mods that gave me the idea to start exploring the game files myself and discover all their weathery potential.

MY OTHER MODS
Battle Weather Overhaul
Coatl - The Feathered Serpent
738 Comments
JonnycXD 13 Aug @ 1:31am 
I love this mod but the sharp change near Nan-Gau is a bit jarring, the warpstone desert is very cold but then boom it's super bright instantly nearer Nan-Gau. Thanks for an amazing mod
Dark Sun Gwyndolin 5 Aug @ 12:10pm 
Thank you for adding RoC support. It's a small change and the weather isn't perfect (for example, Boris's starting province has snow despite being considered the same wasteland as the adjacent Darklands), but it's still a massive improvement overall.
Louie04k 3 Aug @ 11:10am 
@John Matrix it adds seasonal effects the the game. is it possible to change your weather effects to turns? for example turn 1-4 in reikland its raining, then turn 5-9 its sunny?
John Matrix  [author] 2 Aug @ 2:33am 
@Louie04k Hey there, interesting suggestion! However, i don't use that mod so i'm not really sure what it does specifically. Also i wouldn't really know if its even technically possibile, but if it is i think it's beyond my current capabilities :)
Louie04k 31 Jul @ 5:04pm 
i doubt its possible but your weather mod working with the seasons mod would be incredible https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3244980225 snowing effect in the winter, rain/sunny in spring, sunny in summer and raining in the fall, would be so good
John Matrix  [author] 31 Jul @ 10:00am 
@Ty of Troy No worries! It's a common mistake, if the load order isn't correct my mod simply doesn't work with those new maps!
Ty of Troy 30 Jul @ 11:19pm 
@john matrix my mistake, it has been a while since I was on WH3 and did not realize the description may have been updated
John Matrix  [author] 30 Jul @ 1:18pm 
@Ty of Troy I've been using both for years at this point, IEE also has custom weather for the new areas. Check the first sentence of the mod description, pretty sure that's your issue! :)
Ty of Troy 29 Jul @ 9:25pm 
I have tested this and it seems to not work with Expanded Immortal Empires enabled and I only have these two mods along with Mixue active
John Matrix  [author] 25 Jul @ 6:12am 
@DeadRanger Ahh thats it! I vaguely remembered it was something VFX related. Glad you found it and thanks for the kind words!