EB with BI

[hellenes]

strange....
ive just played a custom battle of spartans in Shield wall formation vs the roman legionarre...
Ive just did that what I wrote...and it worked....

[Oleo]

Thx for the answer Hellenes

Hmm, I tried it, but I get a Windows Error

Could this be because I have Barbarian Invasion installed?

Isnt the whole point to get custom battles to work through a BI installation?


It doesnt work for me either by the way.

[Janius]

I thought it wasn't necessary to have BI installed, just the BI exe in the right place...

Haven't tried it without installing BI though, so I may be wrong

[Lord Gruffles]

Strong evidence that playing EB with BI makes for a much more aggressive AI:



Rome has invaded Epeiros lands and Carthage has made a strong move in Sicily.

Both in 270bc!

[Lord Gruffles]

Noway that happens with the RTW.exe either.

EB with BI rocks

[Birka Viking]

Is it worth buying BI?? Cant u still play Custom battles???

[Lord Gruffles]

Is it worth buying BI?? Cant u still play Custom battles???

I think so. It can't be that expensive. Although you might have a hard time finding it, at this point, outside the RTW Gold Pack which comes with it. I never bothered with the Alexander Expansion, however. Too many people said it was lame.

[Zarax]

Is it worth buying BI?? Cant u still play Custom battles???

Custom battles can be played with a few extra arrangements to the folder structure, see XGM for examples.

[Mr Kaplan]

Could not find these extra arrangements you are talking.
Could you explain us what shall we do in order to play custom battles?
Thanks in advance.

[Zarax]

You have to make a copy of the imperial_campaign folder and rename it as barbarian_invasion IIRC

[Mr Kaplan]

Thanks a lot. I'll try it this evening

[Lovejoy]

Tell me. Why do some of you have does new city models when I am not?

Anyway.


I am the Ptole. It all happend on the same turn. Only in BI.exe

[Mr Kaplan]

Back again
Still having problems playing custom battles with BI.exe

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Tell me. Why do some of you have does new city models when I am not?

EB0.80 included the new city models (for greeks and romans) but due to a tiny error they are not loaded, you have to make changes to make them show up. (copy the EB\Data\models_strat\residences over the data\models_strat\residences) It is changed for 0.81.

[Lord Gruffles]

EB0.80 included the new city models (for greeks and romans) but due to a tiny error they are not loaded, you have to make changes to make them show up. (copy the EB\Data\models_strat\residences over the data\models_strat\residences) It is changed for 0.81.

Copy that file and do what with it?


TYIA

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

(copy the EB\Data\models_strat\residences...

and paste it

...over the data\models_strat\residences)

[Lord Gruffles]

Oh, thanks. I read that too fast after a long day at work and with my 5 year old pulling at my trousers.

Cheers

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Oh, thanks. I read that too fast after a long day at work and with my 5 year old pulling at my trousers.

Cheers

No problem. I probably wrote it too fast too.

[Geoffrey S]

Is it worth buying BI?? Cant u still play Custom battles???

If you live in the Netherlands, try the Free Record Shop. Last week I found a copy for eight euros.

[Dooz]

Man, I tried everything everyone wrote, and then some. Still custom battles won't work with BI. Can someone write full, step-by-step instructions they've tried and know it works for sure?

[Mr Kaplan]

Thanks Wonderland. I am still also having problems.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Zarax]

Try sending a PM to DimeBagHo, he made custom battles available on BI for XGM and can answer for sure...

[Thorlof]

New version formation AI to EB with BI http://files.filefront.com/TBS_to_EB.../fileinfo.html

[skuzzy]

I renamed the the path to RTW-BI.exe in the shortcut but since RTW is Imperial_campaign it didn't work. Although, I pressed Provincial Campaign while EB was loaded with BI and then selected Imperial Campaign from the Provincial Campaign menu and everything worked other than it gives me errors saying it cannot find data/maps/aerial_map/terrain/textures/eb_cypress_a.cas and basically every file in the textures folder although the folder does exist with cypress_a.cas, etc... So I copied and renamed all the files eb_cypress_a.cas etc but it still didn't work. I will try just copying imperial_campaign folder and putting its contents into barbarian_invasion to see if that works.

[Mr Kaplan]

Great, I will be waiting.

[skuzzy]

To follow up... nope. When I copied imperial_campaign into barbarian_invasion I was able to select Imperial Campaign from the start menu as a game choice but upon loading it froze. I have a feeling it is relevant to those missing textures when I used Provincial Campaign setting. Has anyone else gotten that error? Other than that one textures folder all the others load.

[Oleo]

I just played a custom battle with EB through bi 1.6, Ill post how within half an hour, gotta try to fix an error first and figure out how to get screenshots when using vista (they end up black ).

[Zarax]

Screenshots works fine on my vista, you might want to check for your video card driver updates...

[Oleo]

So I read on the XGM forum that BI cant handle the -mod structure. So to work around that and get custom battles working under BI, try the following (you wont be able to play BI 1.6 anymore with this build after this):

- Have a properly working 1.6 BI with EB. (For some reason my XP build didnt have that, my Vista build did, so it worked under Vista only, until I copied that data-folder to my xp-build)

- Delete the folder "your installation folder"\BI\data

- Copy the folder "your installation folder"\EB\data to "your installation folder"\BI

- Make a copy of the folder "your installation folder"\bi\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign, so you have to two of them in that location

- rename one of these two folders to barbarian_invasion

- copy the file descr_regions_and_settlement_name_lookup.txt from "your installation folder"\BI\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign to "your installation folder"\BI\data\world\maps\base.

- make a new shortcut (or use an old one) with this target line: "your installation folder\RTW EB\RomeTW-BI.exe" -nm -show_err

I hope others have the same success.

Spartans (with and without shield_wall) in custom battle:

Screenshots works fine on my vista, you might want to check for your video card driver updates...

I only installed Vista two days ago and dl'ed the drivers from ati-site that day, I'd think the problem might be that I am using a very old screenshotmanager thats not vistacompatible.

EDIT: I had some descr_strat.txt errors with regionnames, which I solved by deleting map.rwm in the bi\data\world\maps\base folder

[Mr Kaplan]

It did not work to me. Anyway, thanks a lot Oleo.