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[drone]

Welcome to the Org, BluegoRed!

Unfortunately, I believe all of the date triggers are hardcoded in Med 1. Stazi might know of some super-secret ways to change them, but they are not set in any of the text files.

[BluegoRed]

Thanks for the welcome.

I thought it was something like that, hoping for something. thanks though.

[RexMundi412]

I edited "Medieval - TotalWar\campmap\startpos\Early.txt" with NotePad++ to be able to play as The Golden Horde. With the exception of a few minor in game bugs that has gone well. After playing a few decades it seemed I didn't have many specialized or even basic unit types available for training. So I tried editing "Medieval - TotalWar\crusaders_unit_prod11.txt" in NotePad++ to make HorseArchers available. When trying to launch the game after editing "crusaders_unit_prod11.txt" in NotePad++ it starts to launch, showing the Total War splash then fails(it did give an error report once, sadly I didn't write down what it was, but I believe it said format?).

I then tried to edit "crusaders_unit_prod11.txt" with basic NotePad and it worked. So I thought it may be the encoding since I had NotePad++ set to ANSI as UTF-8(UTF-8 without BOM), changing the encoding didn't work(note: when I edited "Early.txt" I never fiddled with the encoding so I'm assuming that saved as ANSI as UTF-8 and there were no issues there). But I'm not quite sure it's an encoding issue, since after editing "crusaders_unit_prod11.txt" in basic NotePad I opened in NotePad++ hit space then backspace just to be able to save in NP++ and the game launched. Then in NP++ I then tried to make Spearmen available to The Golden Horde on the same "crusaders_unit_prod11.txt" file and once again the game failed to load.

I can edit in basic NotePad, but I hope someone has an idea as to what's going on when trying to edit in NotePad++ because I would prefer to edit with it.


Thanks to anyone who helps me try to sort this issue!

[Stazi]

When you give a unit to Golden Horde do you change culture the unit belongs to?
I've never had problems with np++.

[RexMundi412]

Hi Stazi thanks for the reply. This is my 1st time modding MTW, so please forgive any nubishness.

By "culture" I'm guessing you mean religion? In any case no, I was just adding some basic units like spearmen and horsearchers(which I think can go to any religion) since for some reason they weren't available to The Golden Horde, maybe because TGH aren't supposed to be available till the High Period? And to make some of TGH's units available in the early period. For what ever reason any edit I do in NP++ won't work, but the exact same edits in basic NotePad does work.

This maybe a rabbit hole? But I read somewhere you could open the files in Excel? So I thought maybe I was losing some compatibility there? The furthest researching that I got what some file type or compatibility called ".CSV"(comma-separated values). I read that NP++ used to have it, but got rid of it because of stability issues and it was only now available as a plug-in. I didn't want to go ahead and get that until if I knew that was the issue.

Thanks,
~ Rex

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Edit:

Doing some testing here with NP++(NotePad++), I have found that it fails to launch when adding characters(text and such) to "crusaders_unit_prod11.txt"(haven't tested when removing). By that I mean when adding "GOLDEN_HORDE" or the like to a units playable factions.
EXAMPLE:
Taking

"SPANISH,ARAGONESE,BURGUNDIAN,BYZANTINE,DANISH,ENGLISH,FRENCH,GERMAN_HRE,ITALIAN,POLISH,RUSSIAN,HUNGARIAN,NOVGOROD,PAPIST,SICILIAN,SWISS, TURKISH"

and adding:

"GOLDEN_HORDE,SPANISH,ARAGONESE,BURGUNDIAN,BYZANTINE,DANISH,ENGLISH,FRENCH,GERMAN_HRE,ITALIAN,POLISH,RUSSIAN,HUNGARIAN,NOVGOROD,PAPIST,SICILIAN,SWISS, TURKISH"

But if I just change a number or charachter using NP++ it does launch.
Example:
From

"{HORSE_BREEDER3, ARMOURER3}"

to

"{HORSE_BREEDER1, ARMOURER2}"

EDIT:
I appear to have found the solution. It does seem to have something to do with encoding? I had been mostly using NP++ to edit/make webpages, and I had in "Preferences/New Document" set to "UTF-8 without BOM" for that. So it seemed when opening the .TXT it was converting it and even if I switch encoding or converted to ANSI something was changing and the edits would fail. But switching "Preferences/New Document" to "ANSI" seems to have worked with the few tests I have run so far.

Thanks for the help,
~ Rex

EDIT:
Well I seem to be having issues with NP++ again, even with the changes noted in my previous edit. Since I found Gnome_UnitBuildProj_Editorv2.0 and may get a free Excel editor if I can find one, I'll probably put this issue on the side burner for awhile. If I ever pinpoint the issue, I'll edit that in here.

[RexMundi412]

I want to try making a campaign map. But I can't sort which file(s) I need to edit to do that? Also it would be a nice bonus if someone could point me to where I could find a copy of LMM(Automatic LukMap & Script creator). I know there probably isn't many people still modding MTW, but If a copy is found, staff may want to think about hosting it here?

[drone]

Unfortunately the Org's downloads section is a bit messed up, but the files do exist on our host. Most of the mod tools you need should be in this AtomicGamer directory. The AG MTW section is a goldmine of Org Medieval TW history.