ERA MODS

[Salamandre]

ERA thread and download LINK

LIST of MODS:

Covenant Town (21.7 MB)
(Author: Kegolo. Introduces new town from Halo series as the optional replacement for Conflux)
Thread


Heroes Chronicles (RUS, 4.77 MB)
(Author: AKUHAK. Official 3DO campaignes)

Human Castle (5.69 MB)
(Author: Bisik. Modified Castle town)


New Interface Mod (10.8 MB)
(Author: FCst1 and NI team. New-style interface)
Thread


New Interface Mod: Rampart (3.92 MB)
(Author: FCst1, Morn and NI team. Modified Rampart screens, heroes and 1 creature)


Original Interface (89 KB)
(Author: AKUHAK. Brings back SoD/Complete original interface and campaignes)

Original Scripts (475 KB)
(Author: WoG Team. Original and in some degree stable 3.58f scripts)

Phoenix Mod 3.61 (17.1 MB)
(Author: Berserker and Bes. Complex mod with a lot of gameplay changes)
Thread


Portraits Manager (0.97 MB)
(Author: Bes. Left click on hero portrait to change the portrait. Free collection of more than 100 portraits)


The Dragon Slaughter (636 KB)
(Author: Woodmelon and Yunings. Translated by: Jim Vogan and Valery. Complex map with a lot of new features)
The Dragon Slaughter: JV Edition (1.06 MB)
(Author: Jim Vogan. Introduced some radical changes to the original map)
Thread


The EMPIRE of the WORLD IV (10 MB)
(Author: Valery. The first and the only first-class ERM-driven XXL map)
Thread


Star Gates: Atlantis (135 MB)
(Author: Valery and Jim Vogan. XXL rpg map/mod on Star Gates thematics with totally new world/towns/heroes and abilities, recreating the atmosphere of original series)
Era thread
Thread


Halflings (202 KB)
(Author: Vlaad. Replaced rampart creatures and heroes. The heroes got new specialties)
Thread


New Objects Patch v1.9 (14.6 MB)
(Author: Black Phantom, FCst1, Valery and others. More than 2400 objects for map editor)
Thread


HoL v3.1: Crimson Tides expansion (22.2 MB)
(Author: Hero_of_Light. New creatures, artifacts, rebalanced towns, new heroes specialties, custom campaign, etc.
Requires: New Objects Patch)

Advanced Levels | Sagamosa (19.4 MB)
(Author: Sagamosa. Requires: Era 2.21+. Outstanding mod which implements 4 unique advanced levels per every class of heroes. Tons of code and new features. Left click on hero portrait to activate AL menu)


New Commanders Pack (4.19 MB)
(Author: itsjustme & Valery. Replaces all commanders with new outstanding models)
Thread


New Music Pack (68.5 MB)
(Author: DANZA. Replaces all Heroes3 mp3 music with samples from other games)
New Sounds Pack (6.29 MB)
(Author: DANZA. Replaces many interface and battle sounds)

Unmounted Heroes (1.13 MB)
(Author: Valery. All heroes now move on foot!)
Thread


New Upgrades (6.63 MB)
(Author: Acid Dragon. Each town will have one extra building allowing to have 3 additional upgrades per town. Look at Mods\New Upgrades\readme.txt for details)


Vallex Portraits (1.12 MB)
(Author: vallex. All heroes obtain new beautiful portraits)
Thread


Unhotify (1.69 MB)
(Author: Berserker. Removes Hota's elements from Era)

Composed objects and NPC (61.8 MB)
(Author: Valery. Brings 1876 nice objects for adventure map)


XXL (93.2 KB)
(Author: AlexSpl. Adds XXL maps support)

300 Spartans (32 MB)
(Author: Valery. Complex role playing map, a tribute to the bravery of a few men)
Era thread
Thread


Heroes 2 Objects (1.64 MB)
(Author: Gnollking. Beautiful objects for map editor from legendary Heroes 2)
Thread


Heroines (8.7 MB)
(Author: Zbigniew. Beautiful commanders from Heroes 4)


HoL v3.2: Tales of Amadar Expansion (49.3 MB)
(Author: Hero_of_Light. New creatures, artifacts, rebalanced towns, heroes specialties, etc.)


The King In Yellow (4.2 MB)
(Author: Jim Vogan. An RPG fantasy map, based somewhat on the "King in Yellow" stories by Robert Chambers, with influences from Lord Dunsany also)

[Pol]

Thank you for your wonderful article Salamandre! I will try to link it back and forth to our H3/WoG files article

Edit:
Link added, the collection is growing up (to date)

[GreatEmerald]

The original interface mod looks nice. I already have a solution that I made myself (replacing a bunch of LODs), and this looks like a cleaner and faster way of doing that. But my question is, how far does it go to restore the original interface? Does it only include the menu, or does it also affect the skill icons, resource icons, etc.?

[Salamandre]

It comes as binary file patch. I don't know what it restores, never installed it because I don't care about icons. Certainly the less interesting mod from the list.

[GreatEmerald]

To each his own But I'll have to try it out sometime. If I can get around to reinstalling WoG. The requirement of changing the locale while doing so is just silly :\

[Salamandre]

Locale? WoG?

Era does not need wog, only SoD/Complete edition. One of the first purposes was to get rid of WoG weird install process, as it often failed on recent OS. Now you double-click on installer, select game path, you're done.

All further modifications to the new created folder are handled by mod manager, like TES in Oblivion/Morrowind. Select a mod, turn on to play, turn off to disable.


The mod manager will also open everything you need, so you don't have to go in folder to select application anymore.

[GreatEmerald]

Oh, wow, I just read the thread at the top of this post, and it looks awesome! I never knew such a thing existed... I'll have to give it a try, then. By the way, how does it interface with HeroesHD?

[Salamandre]

I have no idea, never used it. You can ask in original HC thread, I am sure there is a solution to work with.

[GreatEmerald]

All right, tried this now. Some observations:

• The HD mod works fine. It doesn't integrate with all the mod system of ERA, but it works fine. You can either save mod configuration and use the HD launcher, or save the HD configuration and use the ERA launcher.
• The original interface mod seems to only returnt he main menu to the original, and nothing else. A pity, I'll have to use my own way of reverting all this, then.
• It seems that it has a lot of new graphics (orcs, pikemen). Not sure how to revert those. I'll have to look at things like Yona, too.
• Launching ERA without WOG results in a memory access violation and a crash.

[Salamandre]

All right, tried this now. Some observations:
Launching ERA without WOG results in a memory access violation and a crash.

I am not sure I understand this . Era will not work if wog installed, it needs clean SoD or Complete edition. We got a few reports about it not working on Win7, and I recall the solution was to run something in administrator mode, you know better as I still run XP (I am blessed)

[GreatEmerald]

I meant WOG as an ERA mod. If you try to launch ERA when WOG is disabled, you crash. And this was on a virtualised Windows XP.

[Salamandre]

This is like trying to run a car after taking out the engine. When you disable WoG mod in mod manager, you will get a warning that it is obligatory.

[GreatEmerald]

Yea, thought so. But that makes ERA just an upgraded variant of WOG. And it doesn't say it's obligatory, just that "you probably don't want to remove that".

Though it's still nice that in order to deWoGify the resources, now I need to remove things from the LOD files instead of adding things back.

[the beavers1]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how exactly to install the era mod? After installing it do I execute it and choose the HOMM3 Complete folder as the destination? plz and thanks

[Salamandre]

You will be asked to select your game path, that's all. Usually is C:\Program Files\3DO\Heroes III or something like that.

[the beavers1]

Thanks Thats all I needed to know

[the beavers1]

Will This message be a problem? When I install it to any directory this pops up "The ordinal 3019 could not be located in the dynamic link library LIBEAY32.dll"

[Salamandre]

Place this in root directory:

http://wikisend.com/download/441250/libeay32.dll

Also Era must be installed in same folder as Heroes III.

[the beavers1]

Place this in root directory:

http://wikisend.com/download/441250/libeay32.dll

Also Era must be installed in same folder as Heroes III.

Thanks!

[Xanus]

Thanks for the links. Could you upload the mod "Heroines" again, cuz the link is dead.