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Buildings & Settlements
1. Tutorials regarding modding buildings & settlements both on strategic map and battlefield map.
  
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Adding New Buildings to the Game
Explains how to add new buildings to the building tree and add new 3d models to the building DB so that they will appear on battlemaps, by Seth Krn3ll
05-20-2008

Guide: The Complete Guide to Plugins
Guide describing how to make create plugins, add them to building in game, how to use them in scirpting and triggers, as well as known factors governing their use.
04-04-2008

How to: create culture-specific battering rams
A detailed guide on how to activate the hidden different battering ram types included in the game.
09-03-2006

How to: transfer barbarian buildings from BI to RTW
This tutorial relates to all Barbarian Buildings contained in BI and transferring them to RTW, and giving the Barbarian factins in RTW all city levels.
07-10-2006

Research: settlement plans
Discussion as to how the settlement plans are generated, especially the interaction between the underlay, overlay, streetplan, borders and collision detection.
05-06-2006

Tutorial: editing battlemap buildings
Instructions on how to change the shape of the buildings on the battlefield and within settlements.
05-06-2006

Tool: Wall Settlement Editor
Another tool that allows you to place walls in a graphical editor, and then export it into a settlement plan without having to manually calculate all co-ordinates.
05-06-2006

Tutorial: Creating one new culture in BI
For BI only - how to add one new culture, which controls which image sets are used for buildings, cultural unrest, character portraits, strat map models, tech trees and sounds.
05-06-2006

How to: add a new religion in BI
For BI only - adding a new religion to your game, including the relevant buildings and traits.
05-06-2006

How to: negate and replace the Wonder Effects
An innovative solution of how to edit and generate your own versions of the Wonder Effects.
05-06-2006

How to: change the ownership of provinces
Step by step instructions to change province ownership from one faction to another.
05-06-2006

Tool: ROME-Calculator
A small tool which allows you to calculate how long it will take a city to reach a certain level of population.
05-06-2006

How to: have faction-specific building descriptions
Create building descriptions specific to factions and not just cultures.
05-04-2006

Tutorial: The Complete EDB Guide
A thorough step-by-step breakdown of export_descr_buildings.txt (including export_buildings.txt and descr_ui_buildings.txt)
05-04-2006

How to: limit recruitment in certain areas
Using 'hidden resources', Nero explains how to limit recruitment to certain provinces.
05-03-2006

Tools: Unit and Building Editors
GodsPetMonkey has stunned the community with these great tools for editing buildings and units named 'Caligula and Hadrian'. Enjoy.
05-03-2006

How to: get rid of Boiling Oil
Dol Guldur has posted wlesmana's discovery on how to get rid of boiling oit and this tutorial explains how.
05-03-2006

How to: Modify Siege Tower Aspects
Seasoned Alcoholics invaluable information on how to edit the aspects concerning siege towers.
05-02-2006

How to: Edit Battlemap Buildings
Duke John's guide on how to edit battlemap buildings
04-30-2006

How to: Add/Edit Battlemap Models
[cF]Adherbal's guide to adding or editing battlemap models. It is quite brief unfortunately.
04-30-2006

How to: make a new campaign
The "How to make a new Campaign" by Myrddraal. This does exactly what it says on the tin, tells you all you need to know about how to make a new campaign
04-30-2006

Tool: cas editor plug-in script main support thread
From SCC: the support thread for the tool you need to make RTW models editable and exportable in 3DSmax.
04-25-2006

Tool: Wall editor
A tool that allows you to place walls in a graphical editor, and then export it into a settlement plan without having to manually calculate all co-ordinates.
04-21-2006

Tutorial: introduction to editing cities
An in-depth look into editing the various cas files used by settlements to make customised variations in 3DSmax.
04-21-2006

Tool: Settlement Export script
This script allows you to visually design settlements in 3DSmax, and then
export them into the game without having to place all those buildings manually,
and one by one.
04-20-2006