Guide to modding

[Duke John]

Foreword
I think it will be usefull to make several chapters about modding, similar to the unitgraphics guide. I will do my best to make these as complete as possible, but the result will a hundred times better if we do this together. So feel free to add contributions, no matter how small.

I also wish to take the opportunity to say my thanks to the Org and all the members for making this is a very fine community and I hope that these guides can help making it even better.

Note that these chapters are written for Viking Invasion. This expansion adds considerable more options for modders but a more important reason is that there considerable differences between modding MTW:VI or regular MTW. I decided not to mix the 2 because it would mean a confusing guide with loads of exceptions because of the 2 versions.

Cheers, Duke John

Contents

Chapter 1: Mods and modding
1.1 Mods and modding
1.2 Modding tools[/list]

Chapter 2: Campaign
2.1 Making a basic campaign
2.2 Adding an expansion
2.3 Customizing the campaign[/list]

Chapter 3: Factions

Chapter 4: Buildings

Chapter 5: Units

Chapter 6: Battlemaps

Chapter 7: Strategic map

Chapter 8: Balancing

Chapter 10: Unitgraphics
10.1 The files
10.2 Editing graphics
10.3 Unit icons
10.4 Unit animation
10.5 Weapons and shields
10.6 Making new unit graphics

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