Citadel: Total War- The Rennaissance

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Sure, waht do you want me to do? I have no modding experience really. I have no 3dmax or modelling/editing programs of that sort, and I do not own photoshop. But I am really interested in war and historical battles and that kind of thing so if you want me to research anything at all I would be glad to. I can also give suggestions for castle layouts and such if you want. I would be glad to do anything within my abilities to help this great mod.

[Silver Rusher]

Well, it isn't really hard to learn how to script. If you just delve into C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data and then look through the text files, you can figure out what to do quite easily. You could do historical battles.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I will take a look in a few minutes!

[kosloski1312]

if you need help with Voice Overs i would be happy to help, i could also try my hand at scripting.

[Silver Rusher]

@Uesugi: Make sure you look through the more important files there, not only in the Data folder but also in the Text folder. Also go to the Guides section of the RTW modding forum.

@kosloski: Voice overs are needed now, contact massamussi about it, he does the Scandinavian voice overs. Welcome to the ORG, I think you'll like it here.

Updated first post.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

YES SAH!


Have any specific battles you would like me to research or do you just want me to try and find a bunch of interesting ones?


Keep up the fight!

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I have posted a thread in the modding subforum in case anyone has any tips on how to mod the Historical Battles but I have found the .txt files and am going to try to change them a bit.... I will see how it goes tonight.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I am having error 1607 in installing a version of the game on my computer connected to the net so I am going to need to mod on my other comp with a backup Rome file, I will still take a look at that stuff tonight.


Too many psots tonight.

[Saranalos]

I would like to help in whatever way I can but im only learning how to mod rtw graphics and everything and 3ds max 7 is kinda hard to use although Im getting there.

[Silver Rusher]

You're learning 3ds max? Brilliant! If you don't know how to now that's OK. What else do you know (or think) you can do?

[kosloski1312]

i am also learning 3d max i have had a veary small experence with scripting. good luck on the mod.

[Silver Rusher]

I hope you become brilliant modellers, both of you. Good luck on learning 3ds max, be warned, I know people who use it (and who regrettably have no interest in modding RTW whatsoever) and they tell me it's a long and gruelling process.

Anyway, if you keep at it and we do get good folks to work on the models, I think the mod will come along quite well personally.

[zelda12]

Funny thing silver, I have a friend who I visited on Saturday. He has 3ds Max and is getting quite good at it. (The guide book he has for it is over a thousand pages.) He asked me about Rome Total war and I endeavoured to give him a look round the .org. He seems very interested in it and was really interested in the modding section. I will endeavour to get him to buy the game. If he shows interest in modding I'll give him a bell if ya want silver.

[Silver Rusher]

Zelda, that would be great. He would still have to figure out the cas system though, which isn't too hard.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I found a great source for historical battles during that time period, I will be looking all of these b attles up on the net and seeing if they are good enough, tell me if any battles strike your fancy.

http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen....r/battles.html

[Silver Rusher]

I AM TRIUMPHANT!!!

[Silver Rusher]

Shows the division of europe at 1402, in case you are wondering.

This is a very interesting map. It is hard to make out what is going on in Italy on this. Remember, this will be used as a general outline but it will not be fully relied upon.

@Uesugi: That's a nice list there. I see a lot of appealing battles. I may later make a long list of historical battles.

[Saranalos]

Im trying to mod the units in rtw and as soon as I figure that out I could try and help. But do you have to add bones to every little extension you make???

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Are the Byzantines going to be their own faction or rebels? becasue I believe they basically just held Constantinople at the time. Looks good!

[massamuusi]

Make them rebels and give them purple colour modeled byzantine troops. This will simulate them historically and open up a slot for a more prominent faction.

[Silver Rusher]

I think it would be better if they were an actual faction. They would hold the remaining Greek kingdoms as well (I would rather they were not rebel). They wouldn't be purple, I'm not sure that is too accurate, I'm experimenting with an olive colour for the byzantines.

[Silver Rusher]

And now I have decided to instead give Wallachia over to the Order of the Dragon, and a poll will come up to decide which faction to give the free space to.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Thanks for the clarifaction.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Just thought of something, Silver Rusher could you post relative amounts of work done on all the different areas, in aproximate percents if possible so people can get a feel for how far the mod is along?

For the historical battles, unless someone else has done some work on them as well I am mainly in the research and conceptual phase. Although I may begin to fool around with some of them to see what effect certain changes in the .txt files have.

[Silver Rusher]

Look: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38799

I know it's not all that accurate, but meh.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Ok thanks, I did not know that you were editing this. Do you know if we can add more historical battles, I think we could and in that case we probably have less than 2% done. I have been having trouble finding time to do research and have not been able to play with files yet, but I am going to try and stay up late researching tonight.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I have been researching for about an hour and have a conclusion... I do not know enough to be certain that I am getting all the good battles without looking through them all, I have so far looked at quite a few.

Sliver Rusher Could you please tell me what battles looked good to you, it would make it a lot easier because then I would only have to narrow it down or look for a few more. I can do a lot of the more in depth research, I just need names of battles if that is all right.

[pinstripes33]

Look cool. I was wondering about vice and virtues and those tag-along guys in RTW. I was wondering if u were just gonna keep them how they were or change them to fit the time period.

[Silver Rusher]

@pinstripe33: Yes, a lot will be changed, including v&vs. A lot of the v&vs seem to be far more appropriate for the ancient time period.

@Uesugi Kenshin: OK, a few of the battles are;

Constantinople
Agincourt
Furnovo
Tannenburg (sp?)
Vienna
Malta (possibly)

I think you should probably research a few more of these.

[pinstripes33]

another couple of question i had:
1. What are u gonna do with the wonders of the world?
2. Also what about navies?