most irritating thing about the rtw engine

[Duguntz]

tell me about it; the darn engine has hardcoaded the level of skeleton animations. because of the clumsy coding, I cannot make the front rank of some of my units kneel to fire (for that SYW mod I mentioned).

and the ridiculous model limit: I mean, if they're gonna have 500 units max, they might as well have...I dunno...500 models max?
and the unit size limt: because of it, my prussian companies have only 70 men, when in fact they had ~140 men. and of course that's without the officer limit (3? why not 5?).

and i am really miffed right now at the landmass size limits: I want to be able to put North American in the same map as Europe (srsly, I realy do).

at this rate, I'm considering hange the towel on RTW modding, and just making my own game. :pissed:

otherwise, i actually do love this game, and I think its one of the best. however, they at CA could have made things a little more sensibly in regards to harcodes (I'm not saying have none, but I am calling for congruity: srsly, 500 units, but only 255 models?).

Well, use the engine of NTW, or ETW... I heard that it was less hardcoded (though i'm nothing of a modder)...

[Cute Wolf]

Well, use the engine of NTW, or ETW... I heard that it was less hardcoded (though i'm nothing of a modder)...

M2TW did not have the landmass ratio... but if not because of that lethality issues....

[Ibrahim]

Well, use the engine of NTW, or ETW... I heard that it was less hardcoded (though i'm nothing of a modder)...

that's nice and all in theory. but in practice, its just not practicable; iirc, nobody has been able to figure out how to mod the unit models themselvese (correct me if I'm wrong), and judging from their appearence (I have a copy of ETW), they realy suck in regards to accuracy*. and of course the size of the games-particularly ETW; a mod would be a drain on my and many other computers (I still use XP; my family will get a Win7 for me in the summer-I hope.)

besides, I am actually aiming at the smaller, low performance computers (or really stingy ppl like me); I want sth good, but cheap in requirements. using ETW or NTW would defeat the purpose.

*when you've volunteered for a historical project dealing with the SYW, you tend to get anal real quick about detail. must be all the lace, buttons, and cartoucheboxes

unless of course, anyone here is a programmer and can make a game from scratch-only problem is the concept might break copywright laws, esp the DMCA. and from my personal experience, the DMCA is mentally like getting skull ****** with a salt coated eye gouger-especially if false (as it was in my case).

[Duguntz]

and what about the M2TW? couldn't you use some units animations already there, change skin (plus as Wolf said, no land ratio...) i only try to help, i know nothin' on modding!

[Ibrahim]

and what about the M2TW? couldn't you use some units animations already there, change skin (plus as Wolf said, no land ratio...) i only try to help, i know nothin' on modding!

I actually considered that, and again, read what I said at the end.

[bobbin]

Well, use the engine of NTW, or ETW... I heard that it was less hardcoded (though i'm nothing of a modder)...

ETW is by far the least moddable game in the series, you can't even make a new campaign map (or more correctly no one knows how too becuase CA provided zero help to modders).