xpak Tutorial

**Vercingetorix** · 12-03-2004, 06:46

1) Download xpak.zip
2) Open xpak.zip with winzip
3) Open explorer
4) Goto the harddrive you installed RTW to (c:\ or d:\)
5) Goto Program Files
6) Goto Activision
7) Goto Rome - Total War
8) Goto data
9) Goto packs
10) Select from the winzip window: xpax.exe and xpak.bat
11) Drag those files to the Rome -Total War\data\packs folder you have open in explorer
12) Double click xpak.bat
13) Wait for it do it's stuff
14) Done.

Doesn't get any idiot friendlier

**PiperWilliam** · 12-03-2004, 22:48

Ok, thanks, that's got me a hell of a lot further than I did before..... but (

) where does it put the files once it's finished doing it's stuff?

again.

**Vercingetorix** · 12-04-2004, 01:43

In data\packs. Are you looking for certain files?

**PiperWilliam** · 12-04-2004, 12:27

Yeah, I was hoping to do a bit of texture editing. I can see a bunch of files in Data/packs, but they're all .pak.

Please bear with me here - and thanks for the help!

**Hans Kloss** · 12-04-2004, 17:30

I remember vaugly having to move these decompressed files as they were in different folder

**Vercingetorix** · 12-04-2004, 21:19

Once you have extracted the packs the textures for the units will be data\packs\data\models_unit\textures

**PiperWilliam** · 12-04-2004, 23:11

Brilliant! Thanks very much, really.

Now I need to work out how to get the DDS Plugin to work for Paint Shop Pro!

**TotalWarVet** · 03-03-2011, 22:05

Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

Once you have extracted the packs the textures for the units will be data\packs\data\models_unit\textures

Just moved all my TW installations to new Windows 7 box. Lost almost all my RTW mods to a disk crash. Luckily MTW2 was already on disk. Had to reinstall RTW,BI and apply patch 1.6. Now I can't get xpak to work. It runs, but nothing happens. I even copied the data\packs folder to another area but still no luck. I have full admin privs on my box. I've correctly recreated a few of my custom units based on existing ones, but need access to the existing stock unit cards for recruitment/battle display (the grey peasant won't work for me:)). If anyone is still out there, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Ok so I ended up manually running xpak 1 line item at a time in command prompt window. Success.