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The process of adding a new culture is very simple and does not require the vanillia data to be changed. However you can only add one new culture, any more and the game will crash. Though it is possible to remove an existing culture and replace it with a new culture without the game crashing (as...

I'm new to modding, but I was wondering, how in the world do I get to some of these folders? My computer isn't displaying anything. In Rome: Total War it's fine, but in the Medieval2 folder it isn't. I am running vista on my computer. Thanks in Advance.

This is for stuff not directly related to path-finding. Used alpaca's stripped down map to make a mini testing map. http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/390/testmapjk5.th.jpg The map is set up in such a way as to not have any path-finding problems so i could test other things. Plan is to...

New religion The information on which files to use was provided by Octavius. To add a new religion you need to do the following (since this is pretty straight forward I won't included diagrams). 1) Open descr_religion.txt and add you religion to the list (in this case diabolical), then assign a...

Excerpt from my modified file <hordes> <end_target_faction_bonus int="600"/> <start_target_faction_bonus int="300"/> <farming_level_bonus int="50"/> <shared_target_bonus int="10"/> <disbanding_horde_bonus int="-400"/> <starting_region_bonus...

A settlement seems to make more money if it can trade with other settlements that do not posses the resources it does. For example if settlements A, B, and C all border each other and only have coal to trade they won't make much money because they're trading 'common goods'. But if A has coal, B...

I'm unsure whether this is known from RTW (I haven't tested it but I assume the same code works), but we certainly weren't aware of it in EB, so I thought I had better post my findings here. Sometimes it may be necessary to have a family tree that contains dead characters in it (ie characters...

This command is used to send a character off the bounds of the map, and nonexistent for the purposes of gameplay (he's even counted as dead in the family tree). But when you spawn him again, he retains all of his old traits, and can be used again. Here is the usage: send_character_off_map...

In case anyone else needs these: London 109,147 Nottingham 107, 155 York 106, 164 Edinburgh 102, 174 Inverness 99, 181 Caernarvon 94, 157 Dublin 90, 162 Oslo, 142, 187

How do I give a unit a self-replenishing property like the general units or the unique units in M2TW:Kingdoms? I'm trying to add them to a unique unit with a unit cap of 1, but is not a general's bodyguard unit.

AI path-finding Guidelines The AI is massively handicapped by path-finding problems between regions. Their armies are often immobile through not being able to find the target they have been given. Some quick examples: 1) The southern starting scottish army doesn't move at all. 2) The...

Since I'm currently testing bribery which I want to use in a feature for Italia Invicta (bribable condottieri stacks as mercenary armies), I'll log my test results and conclusions here so everyone has some use out of it (settings means settings changed from vanilla test unless specified). First...

I've read in several topics that it is possible to balance battle odds (the one's that show on the engagement screen and determine the extent of victory) by using stat_health's mount health value, as it is not used for anything besides elephants in M2TW. However, after testing a few cases, this...

Hi all, This is a continuation of a thread that had some formatting problems. Hope this thread doesn't. I'm going to try a quick test in this post, then post the real question. Here's a chunk of the settlement header, hopefully it will come out ok with linebreaks: serialization::archive...

I'm rather intrigued by this attribute in export_descr_units. I've been wanting to make certain units, such as billmen and voulgiers have bonus fighting cavalry without taking a drastic hit on combat effectiveness against infantry due to their already poor animations by using spear_bonus. Did a...

Asking a question for a change after the forum search wasn't quite successful: descr_projectile gives 2 velocity values for some projectiles. Other projectiles have only 1 value. What does the first and second value mean and how does it compare to those projectiles with only 1 value? And...

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Thought I'd start a thread on this as I'm currently messing with it. Will post anything I come up with. edit: removed first point until i get a chance to retest :) ~~~~ Lots of very useful info on this subject in this link posted by CavalryCmdr

The config file The medieval2.preference.cfg file that you can find in your M2TW directory has a lot of settings that can be used to enhance modding or customize your game. The primary uses for it in modding are presumably as a mod switcher (together with a .bat file, explained later), to...

A listing of some of the new building effects can be found here: http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=73978 Prefixes guild_ makes the building unbuildable, but instead subject to rules defined in export_descr_guilds temple_ as in Rome, only one temple_ structure can be built in a...

Hi I've been looking at the .MESH format and although it's not complete, I thought I'd share what I've found and maybe kickstart others to finish it. I've mainly been looking at figure meshes (siege engine and other meshes are a bit different) and the information relates to these. All values...

Well I have a specific question after getting the campaign scripts and maybe someone could test it: Do destroy_buildings and destroy_units only work on a faction-wide level or can we also specify a certain city as the scope?

Has anyone worked out how to do this yet? I've only worked out a cruder version, where whoever wants to run the mod makes a copy of campaign folder then installs mod into said folder. Has anyone got anything better?

You can add the fact that the number of Agent is capped to 12 (family, general, merchant, diplomat, princess, spy, assassin, admiral, heretic, priest, witch, inquisitor). If you try to add more agents with descr_strat it will crash and system.log will tell you exactly "N° of agents capped to...

This thread is the place for all research founded about Kingdoms' modding. What have been changed, what is same as M2...Just what we should now, if going to making mods for it... I can't yet make any research, but I'll try it later, then get own copy. So if anyone has found something, post it...

Well, did some work on those yesterday since we need to edit them if we actually want to add new factions (not only replace them). In case you don't know a thing about them, the .sd files can be found in the data/ui folder and describe the images associated with ui elements (i.e. they describe...

Hello. I drew up a new system to the armor upgrade levels, but this does not work. Te original txt file looks in this manner: type Spear Militia dictionary Spear_Militia ; Spear Militia category infantry class spearmen voice_type Light banner faction main_spear banner holy crusade

This is the new command in EDU, which is supposed to influence how frequently or infrequently the AI decides to recruit this unit. So far, 0 seems to be the neutral setting, as for peasants; Prussian Archers (I'm using the teutonic campaign) are -10, probably indicating undesirability; dismounted...

Been spending quite a bit of time trying to get to grips with how this can be done, and I have a solid plan that just does not seem to be working for me! 1) Took a selected set of horse animations, and created a dummy 'elephant' to try and get it so that a horse appeared as a horse...but was...

Well just to let you guys know: I started looking into the animation files a bit. I already wrote a python script that can extract them from the .idx/.dat file - it seems they aren't packed or anything since Verci's old cas importer was able to import them (well they didn't work properly, but it...