Help - somebody, anybody - real quick

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 05:22

I intended to enable Templars for the HRE as well. I did not realize that the HRE already had a unit card picture for Templars, so in the midst of copying that tga file over from the french folder, I accidentally overwrote the original hre version.

When I realized what I'd done, I checked and yes, each faction has their own version which follows the faction color-scheme.... now it's not a big deal, just a unit card picture - but I want my HRE picture back now, lol...

So, could somebody e-mail me it? If you've run the unpacker it's in your data/ui/units/hre folder, called "knights_templar.tga"

If you can, drop me a PM, and I'll respond back with my email, thnx muchly =]

EDIT: oh yeah, the reason I don't just re-color one myself is because I don't have photoshop... so yup, if there's a kind person out there, just take you 2 minutes to do.... I'll post again after I've got it

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 07:00

oh, and if I'm just confused and there is no such hre specific unit card, somebody tell me that too please, lol

EDIT: *sits in corner crying* :(

**zstajerski** · 02-20-2007, 09:56

No idea man :(
cant help you with this one

**HoreTore** · 02-20-2007, 12:00

(stating the obvious)back, backup, always backup....

**sapi** · 02-20-2007, 12:47

Why don't you just run the unpacker with the filter switch on the file you want to extract?

Voila, an instant replacement from the vanillia files!

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 13:04

cause doofuses like me don't know such things can be done

*learns something new for today*

thnx muchly =]

**sapi** · 02-20-2007, 13:27

No troubles

**Carl** · 02-20-2007, 13:42

My advise would be to create a folder somwhere (mines on my desktop), labeled "Backup", then in their create one labeled "M2TW" and then copy & paste the entire data folder into it. Viola, Instant Backup if anything goes wrong. I do that for every game I mod, with each game having it's own folder.

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 14:10

i don't really have the hard disk space to do that... my main hobby is music... and that gobbles memory

I'm trying to puzzle my way thru putting in the correct command thru this ms-dos thing now... at least I was able to check and see that yes the file does exist... now I just gotta figure out how to get to it =/

**Foz** · 02-20-2007, 17:03

Originally Posted by SMZ

i don't really have the hard disk space to do that... my main hobby is music... and that gobbles memory

I'm trying to puzzle my way thru putting in the correct command thru this ms-dos thing now... at least I was able to check and see that yes the file does exist... now I just gotta figure out how to get to it =/

Well, make a copy (use a dif name) of the unpack_all.bat, then edit it to see what it does to use the command. Basically all you have to do with your new file then is add to the end "--filter=knights_templar.tga" and run it (in the same directory the other bat file is in, your unpacker directory). Your new knights_templar.tga should pop out in the appropriate subdirectory of your main data folder.

As for a backup data directory, this is really quite silly when it's so easy to unpack things from the pack files on demand. As long as you understand that, you already have a backup of your data directory.

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 20:34

thank you a hundred times, got the file I wanted - and now I kinda sorta know how to work batch files... just needed it explained real slow and real loud - thnx again, you and sapi

**sapi** · 02-21-2007, 13:44

I figure i might as well note that you don't actually have to use batch files; and it can be easier simply to use the tool from the command line if you only want to extract one file.

If you'd rather do it this way it works fine though

gl ;)

**Foz** · 02-21-2007, 20:19

Originally Posted by sapi

I figure i might as well note that you don't actually have to use batch files; and it can be easier simply to use the tool from the command line if you only want to extract one file.

If you'd rather do it this way it works fine though

gl ;)

Yup, you sure can. I just figured I'd avoid having to explain to people that you may have to shorten file or folder names to get the path to work, or how to figure out the path to all the given files in question. It's a lot easier to just have people modify the existing bat file that I know will call the unpacker correctly than to explain how to use a command prompt to people who may not know already, IMO. Plus it's prolly actually faster and easier to modify a bat file, by the time you've made sure you have all the paths and such correctly entered on the command line. It's taken me 3 or 4 tries before to get a given file unpacked from the command line due to typos, lol.

Originally Posted by SMZ

thank you a hundred times, got the file I wanted - and now I kinda sorta know how to work batch files... just needed it explained real slow and real loud - thnx again, you and sapi

You're quite welcome. Happy to be of service