Post your "must-know" modding questions here!

**Jagger** · 10-05-2004, 19:05

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I was wondering how to mod the cavalry turn/wheel factor. To me, it seems cavalry can turn on a time and reverse/change direction. Infantry seems to rotate formation in a reasonable manner. I just not happy with cavalry formation turns. I know we use to be able to change the turn rates in MTW. Can we mod this factor in RTW, in particular for cavalry?

DJ: Added

**khelvan** · 10-05-2004, 20:19

Is there a debug routine that we can turn on, to determine where the crashes come from?

DJ: See post #4

**tombom** · 10-05-2004, 20:21

I'll back modding tools. And what other modding support is included. Jerome said that there was a way to get around the fact that changed files will be incompatible in MP but that it wasn't ready. And I'd also like to know if "modding tools" covers a tool to create a map, which seems to have been compiled from the tga files.

And -show_errs on the command line shows errors when you exit.

**khelvan** · 10-05-2004, 20:57

Thanks, is there a list of command line and/or console commands anywhere?

DJ: Added

**Steppe Merc** · 10-05-2004, 22:20

Can we make the troops hold their weapons differently as it is now? Can the pikemen be made to hold their pikes correctly with two hands, and the heavy lancers hold their kontos with two hands, are are we forced into one hand to hold the spear/pike?

DJ: This can be done if we can add new animations and that question is already included.

**The Blind King of Bohemia** · 10-05-2004, 22:44

If there are multiple weapons in a texture how can we determine which one the unit uses? (This is probably relevant to the CAS files, so it may count as the same question as DJ's)

DJ: Indeed. The weapon is likely included with the model. When switching weapons the model is also switched and also a different set of animations. At the moment we can't change weapons so we need to add animations and models and that question is already asked.

**dhague** · 10-06-2004, 00:15

Academic Building Question: The descriptions of the academic buildings imply that they should improve the starting ratings of heirs. The export_descr_buildings.txt file shows that these buildings have blank "capabilities" so their only current value is to allow other usefull buildings. I see no effect on heirs starting ratings if these buildings are present. One could mod the blank capabilities for happiness_bonus, law_bonus, and recruit_exp_bonus but this would only affect units not heirs. Is there an "heir_bonus" somewhere or is this something that will appear in the "future patch"??

DJ: Added.

General Mod Issue Question: Since modding RTW would involve changes across many files/directories, Does RTW have an equivalent of the MTW "Prodfiles" and other similiar command lines?? Or are mod-ers going to be limited to having a duplicate RTW installation for each mod set?? For example, it would be nice if all mod files could reside in a single directory such as data\world\maps\campaign\My-Mod_campaign.

DJ: Question has been added. On a side note, by chance I copied the Imperial campmap directory. And then I noticed in the main menu that a new item appeared in which I could select "Copy of Imperial Campaign".

Command shell Question: Has anyone found or figured out if there is a "toggle_xxxx" command that will turn off the startup intro so that RTW pops right into the main menu?? This would make mod-testing so much easier and save hours of looking at the soundblaster plug.

DJ: See post #12

TIA for any answers or conjectures.

**camulos** · 10-06-2004, 01:13

What about files such as 'export_descr_character_traits.txt' that say:

;This file is generated from the Spreadsheet VnV,txt
;Please modify the spreadsheet and re-xport the data, rather than editing this file directly

How can we mod these files correctly?

DJ: Question has been added.

**khelvan** · 10-06-2004, 02:17

Further to camulos' question, can we please have copies of the spreadsheets that output those .txt files? We don't even need documentation, I am sure we can figure it out. However, given the almost countless number of changes one has to make to do something like rename a faction, such spreadsheets will no doubt make our lives a lot easier.

DJ: Added, merged with post #9.

**Thoros of Myr** · 10-06-2004, 05:47

Originally Posted by dhague

Command shell Question: Has anyone found or figured out if there is a "toggle_xxxx" command that will turn off the startup intro so that RTW pops right into the main menu?? This would make mod-testing so much easier and save hours of looking at the soundblaster plug.

Just cut the files "ATVI_Spinning_Logo_640x480.wmv" & "rome_title.wmv" from the game files and put them in a backup folder for safe keeping, no more intro during those heavy modding sessions