Forum: Modding Questions

(This thread is duplicated here. The threads will be maintained in duplicate, with all changes in one being made to the other as well.) This thread is devoted to discovering the hard-coded limits for various moddable text-file things. For instance, the game doesn't accept unit sizes of greater...

My hope is to generate a long list of exactly what can cause errors throughout all of RTW. I would love to be able to compile and update this list. I hope we continue to have participation, even if only adding a few here and there. EDU = /data/export_descr_unit.txt DMB =...

OK this isn't actually a question - but it's not a tutorial either and I wanted to get it into the answers database..... The post is based on this original article - please excuse the lecture but hopefully it's useful - if not jump to Common Causes of Problems Why Doesn't my Campaign Map Load?...

Most of you will already know that modding is short for modifying, and a mod is a modified version of the game. Rome Total War is divided into two parts, the code and the data. The code is the game engine, it determines most of how the game works at the basic level. The data is what the game...

PAK files don't need to repacked after you have extracted the files with the PAK program from Vercingetorix. R:TW first looks at the PAK files but if they are not there it will look for them inside the normal directory structure. If you extracted the files then the tool makes something like: ...

Hello, Here's an uploadscript for RTW files. http://www.totalwar.org/Downloads/Uploaders/RTWFinal.php

Welcome to the Modding Questions forum Learning to mod If you’re interested in learning to modify your game then read through some of the tutorials on the Scriptorium and have a go at following one that captures your interest. Once you've done those you'll start to get an idea of how things...