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Running Scripts Automatically
A way to run background scripts without having the user click on the 'show me how' button, discovered and explained by HouseOfHam
06-21-2008

Allowing Barbarian factions to build stone walls
Describes how to add stone walls to barbarian factions so that they appear in battle, on the campaign map with a building card and description.
05-12-2008

Adding Forts and Watchtowers to the Campaign Map
Explains how to add Forts and Watchtowers to the campaign map (so that they appear from the beginning)
03-31-2008

Enabling RTW custom battles with BI.exe
Explanation by TruePraetorian on how to get custom battles to work when running RTW through the BI.exe
12-31-2007

How to add Flaming Javelins - or other new projectiles
Explanation by Monkwarrior of how to add Flaming Javelins by cloning projectile entries.
10-21-2007

How to use -show_err
TWC Wiki page describing how to use -show_err to generate error messages, and explanation of some of the stranger messages.
09-06-2007

Campaign Map Not Loading
Some general advice and lists of common problems that prevent new / modified campaign maps loading.
05-24-2007

Map editing for AI path-finding problems.
Continuation and summary of Nikolai1962's research into path-finding. Written for M2TW but principles relevant to RTW as well.
04-06-2007

Adding new buildings to Carthaginian Culture
Explanation of change necessary to descr_ui_buildings.txt to allow new buildings to be added for Carthage, needed for v.1.5 and 1.6.
03-20-2007

Y'know you're speaking to a non-modder when...

09-17-2006

Marian Reforms: how they're triggered in v1.5
Investigations on exactly what triggers the Marian Reforms and alternate methods to represent reforms
09-17-2006

How to get a smoke effect with a missile weapon
How Napoleonic Total War 2 added smoke effects to their muskets.
09-17-2006

Why .cas files only use triangles
Models exported into cas files are remade as triangles, this is why.
09-17-2006

Distorted texture in 3DSMax
Why on occasion some textures distort inside 3DSMax
09-17-2006

Edited unit skins don't seem to change?
Why sometimes, despite editing a skin, it doesn't appear different in game.
09-17-2006

Chariots - making them more effective
Ideas on how to make chariots more effective.
09-17-2006

Getting rid of family names
How to convert a faction that uses both first names and family names to just use first names.
09-17-2006

Explanation of AI personalities in descr_strat
Balanced Henry, Trader Smith, Fortified Napoleon - all these and more explained in this thread.
09-17-2006

Mod: Total Mod isn't recruiting!

08-26-2006

Dictionary of Modding 2007 - submissions

08-26-2006

You know you're a modder when...

08-26-2006

I can't seem to get any recruits - what's wrong?

08-26-2006

Adding new elements to a UV map
Some answers as to how you designate a part of a texture to be used for a new part of a model.
08-26-2006

Terrain texture modification on the strat map
File locations for the textures used for the different climates on the strat map.
08-26-2006

building_present_min_level conditional issues in 1.5
Details of the problems introduced in 1.5 in using the building_present_min_level conditional in export_descr_buildings.
08-26-2006

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