Need Help Getting Started

[Bullethead]

I never had STW in any form so know nothing of how the game system works. Thus, I'd really appreciate a link to some good tutorial on modding MTW. What's possible to mod, what files you have to mess with, what tools you need, etc., to produce certain effects, and what else you have to do to keep your modded game compatible with other players' versions. Stuff like that.

Thanks in advance.

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-Bullethead

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria

[barocca]

Welcome to the Dungeon
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Theres no actual full modding guide,

theres the one at ClanDoragon, mentioned in the other thread, which shows how to build custom battles,

as for the rest we are still learning ourselves,

What we can edit so far,
the campaigns,
(starting position/provinces/units/factions)
historical battles
historical scenarios/campaigns
Battle Maps

Units - http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif
You can do just about anything with the units,
all we're waiting for is the devlopers to allow us to enable extra unit_bif files,
otherwise we can make a sacrifice mod, where we kill off some units in order to replace them with new ones,
but we'd prefer to enable new ones in addition to the standard units.

There are a few around here trying to decipher the campaign map, and create new ones
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the best advice is
decide what you want to do,
ask your questions,
modify your goals based on the replies you get and experiment yourself with anything you have thought of trying that we haven't got around to yet,

B.

[Bullethead]

Thanks http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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-Bullethead

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria