Start movie and corpse graphics

[Frankymole]

Due to a corrupt set of saved games (2 days effort wasted) I've had to reinstall everything MTW.

I had the command-line modifier to prevent the startup movie running when you load the game, and also the text file changes to correct the "disappearing corpses" bug.

I've searched but cannot find the instructions on how to reinstate these Can any one help??

[katank]

well, for the start movie, just create a blank text file called skipcredits.txt in the directory root.

dunno about other one.

[Frankymole]

Hope this works - surprised no-one remembered it From DnC? "There isn't a patch for it as far as I know, but I can help you.

This takes about two/five minutes to do.

Do the following:

- Go to Medieval - Total War > Textures > Men.
- Scroll down towards the bottom untill you find DEADPAGE COORDS (the .txt file) and open it.
- Scroll down (quite a bit down [;)] untill you see this:

(Other units above - as you can see when looking at the "DEADPAGE COORDS.txt")
EarlyVarangianGuard
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
JomsVikings
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
SaxonHuscarles
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
(other units below)

- Cut and paste the part in Bold to the bottom of the list (below the last unit of the list), like this:

(Other units above)
PictishCrossBows
26 13 226 311 277 334
20 16 65 259 101 284
24 15 289 232 334 257
21 13 179 132 229 151
JomsVikings
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
(End of the list)

- Make sure that this part looks like the following:

(Other units above)
EarlyVarangianGuard
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
SaxonHuscarles
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
(other units below)

This way I know for sure it will work, if there are any enters between the deadpage coordinate entries it might cause problems, but I don't know this for sure, because I have never tested it.

- Do the same with:

Bonnachts
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230

and

IrishDartmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230

If you're a bit lost on how to do it, I'll explain how to do it exactly with these aswell:

- Look for this:

(Other units above)
Faris
44 23 94 149 142 174
32 29 1 34 49 61
17 27 25 175 2 231
4 26 1 5 50 32
Bonnachts
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
Fyrdmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
(Other units below)

- Cut and paste again the Bold part and paste it below the last unit of the list, like this:

(Other units above)
PictishCrossBows
26 13 226 311 277 334
20 16 65 259 101 284
24 15 289 232 334 257
21 13 179 132 229 151
JomsVikings
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
Bonnachts
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
(End of the list)

- Again make sure the following looks like this:

(Other units above)
Faris
44 23 94 149 142 174
32 29 1 34 49 61
17 27 25 175 2 231
4 26 1 5 50 32
Fyrdmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
(Other units below)

- As last, look for this:

(Other units above)
Fyrdmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
IrishDartmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
RoundShieldSpearmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
(Other units below)

- Cut and paste the Bold part to the bottom of the list like the previous two, like this:

(Other units above)
PictishCrossBows
26 13 226 311 277 334
20 16 65 259 101 284
24 15 289 232 334 257
21 13 179 132 229 151
JomsVikings
27 13 233 84 283 106
21 16 40 233 78 257
25 15 235 286 282 309
20 14 284 24 334 44
Bonnachts
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
IrishDartmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
(End of the list)

- And again make sure the following looks like this:

(Other units above)
Fyrdmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
RoundShieldSpearmen
26 13 286 179 334 203
20 16 118 232 154 257
24 15 125 206 170 230
20 13 74 206 123 230
(Other units below)

Edited by [DnC] on Dec. 14 2003,19:43"