This mod was created in order to increase the level of realism of the original TOAW graphics.


You can find further samples comparing the vanilla graphics with the enhanced ones inside the zip file.

In short, contrast and saturation were adjusted to make things more real and discernible, some new textures (water and deep water) were created from scratch, some others were tweaked and some were taken from my Boardgame Mod. Hills overlay was enhanced in order to prevent the white veil effect of the original one, making them less noticeable when mixed with any vegetation graphics, but noticeable enough; some level of border volume was created in order to prevent the extremely flat appearence of coasts. Colors were also adjusted to allow smoother transitions between terrain types.

1. Download the file from the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gdm1_DqYyvnnWyuUKmWbWYdSwoKtZQgJ/view?usp=sharing
2.Open your “Documents > My Games > The Operational Art Of War IV” folder;
3.Backup your “Graphics Override” folder and your Opart 4 Fonts.ini file;
4.Copy the zip file content to the folder and you are ready to go.

Read the installation instructions inside the zip file if you don't wan't to keep the interface graphics.