How do you install tRIADASOULS UPatch1.6 mod or the work build of the UPatch1.

6
mod?

The "installation" (unpacking and copying the two UPatch1.6 workbuild files really
takes about 2 minutes).
Reading the instructions here is possible as the actual work of `installing` the
workbuild.

Busy:

Installation order for AoWSM and MPE / Upatch 1.6 (Workbuild) Mods

Installation order:

1. AoW: SM - CD version
2. Official 1.2 patch
3. Official 1.3 patch
4. No CD patch
5. Upatch 1.4
6. Upatch 1.5
7. MPE Mod 2.x.
8. Upatch 1.6 work build

Done

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Prior knowledge:

Install order for tRIADASOULS MPE upatch 1.6 mod:

(Knowledge: - upatch 1.6 consists of the same mods upatch 1.4 & 1.5 and is
necessarily connected to the MPE mod from Hellbrick, which must be installed
beforehand).

Explanation:
For Windows 7.
For Windows 10 this will be:

For tRIADSOULs MPE upatch 1.6 Mod you also have to find the folder of the MPE Mod
in Windows 7 on C: /, which is in the picture
unnamed-14 is called.
Mind you under Windows 7.

Of course, you have to do the MPE Mod yourself.

After then tRIADASOULs UPatch1.6 Mod.

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Remove MPE:

This is also the 2-MP Evolution 2.0.4.209.exe to do.

Then the Mod Editor.exe. Even if the two ought to be the same.

File:
MP Evolution 2.0.4.209 Mod Editor as zip archive - 9834 kb in size
File name: MP Evolution 2.0.4.209 Mod Editor.zip

After becoming MPE, you were heard in the MPE folder:

C: / Users / Public / Public Documents / Age of Wonders - MP Evolution 2 / Mods /

then a folder named: Upatch 1.6

It also looks like this:

C: / Users / Public / Public Documents / Age of Wonders - MP Evolution 2 / Mods /
UPatch1.6

Note: When installing the MPE-Mod you can open a window with a warning after the
installation that the installation was not checked.
This looks to be normal and is not important:
Keep going.

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Install tRIADASOULS upatch 1.6 work build:

There are two files to install.

"Install" means that 2 zipped files have to be unpacked after the download and the
unpacked files / folders there
need to be moved / copied in two positions.
Some files in the AoWSM directory will be overwritten.
This has no effect on existing AoWSM mods or the base game.

The two files of work build 1.6 are currently:

1.
MPE_UPatch-1.6.zip

2.
MPE_UPatch-1.6_2 (3) .zip

MPE_UPatch-1.6.zip currently 1,130,138 kb

This is the base file and is unpacked and copied first.
With newer workbuilds this file does not need to be downloaded and installed again.
This file is the basic package and nothing changes.

MPE_UPatch-1.6_2 (3) .zip currently 1,291,666 kb

This is the extension file that gets bigger the more it is integrated into the
worBuild.
The name may also change slightly here in the future.

1. First you unpack file 1:

MPE_UPatch-1.6.zip

This now contains the directories:

AOW_DIR
This folder name (AOW_DIR) means that the user should copy the directories and
files contained in this directory into the AoWSM directory.

Select all the directories and files contained in the AoW_DIR, copy them and paste
them into the AoWSM game directory.
You have to know for yourself where this is. Right there where AoWSM was installed
by you once.
Warnings that files will be overwritten here are safe to accept and without fear.

The first base file is now `installed`.

This does not have to be `reinstalled` when the work build is upgraded (new
version).

2. The second part (file), which will continue to change in the future, will now be
`installed`.
MPE_UPatch-1.6_2 (3) .zip

There are now two directories in it:

AOW_DIR
&
C_USERS_PUBLIC_DOCUMENTS_AOW

With the content of the AOW_DIR folder, the user now proceeds in exactly the same
way as before:
Everything that is in the AOW_DIR folder is copied back into the AoWSM game
directory. As before.
the hint again! The unzipped AOW_DIR folder is not copied, but the content of the
AOW_DIR folder.
Overwrite warnings are to be ignored again.

So second we now have the folder:

C_USERS_PUBLIC_DOCUMENTS_AOW
The content of this folder, not the folder itself, is now the actual mod.
This is very small and only contains the mod itself, not all of the mod's content,
such as graphics.
The contents of this folder will not be copied to the AoWSM game directory.
The content of this folder is copied into the MPE directory, which is not in the
AoWSM folder.

It is where MPE copied itself during installation, namely in:

C: / Users / Public / Public Documents / Age of Wonders - MP Evolution 2 / Mods /
See above! (installation MPE Mod)

In the folder:
C_USERS_PUBLIC_DOCUMENTS_AOW
is the folder
UPatch1.6
contain that YOU have created.

The content of this folder (C_USERS_PUBLIC_DOCUMENTS_AOW) is now copied into:

C: / Users / Public / Public Documents / Age of Wonders - MP Evolution 2 / Mods /
UPatch1.6

The files it contains change in the course of the development of the workbuild and
are always updated with every second:
MPE_UPatch-1.6_2 (3) .zip
file must be overwritten again.
It is easy to do.

The `installation '(unpacking and copying these two workbuild files is really done
in about 2 minutes).
Reading the instructions here may be harder than the actual work.

Finished!!!

Upatch 1.6 work build installed.

Then again briefly with the MPE Mod.

See below!

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Further:

MPE MOD - Select the UPatch1.6 work build

The last thing to do is to select the Upatch 1.6 work build in the MPE mod.
this is done as follows:

Select the mod in the Mod Editor.

To do this, switch to your AOWSM game directory.
Probably:
C: \ Age of Wonders Shadow Magic

There you will find the folder:

Mod Editor for MPE

This was installed by MPE.

Change to this folder.

Find the file:

ModEditor.exe

Double click to start the EXE file

Now you can see the Mod UPatch1.6 in the mod editor window that opens.
You can see all MPE mods here.
select the UPatch1.6 mod. (Small green tick)

Close the Mod Editor.

MPE has three icons installed on your desktop.

To start the Upatch 1.6 workbuild and a map supplied with the mod, click the icon:
AoW - MP Evolution
at.

Choose an UPatch1.6 map in the game:

The Lost Dog (by The Groll)

or

The Bridge (by The Groll)

out

Finished!

tRIADASOUL and The Groll wish you a lot of fun!

~ The Grudge ~

P.S .: These instructions were written by The Groll on April 10th, 2021.
I do not guarantee that the AoWSM installation will not be damaged.
Everything works fine for me.