Using -mod:my_mod

**Dol Guldur** · 08-18-2006, 20:13

Before I dedicate myself to more hours of work next week, has anyone got the tga.dds files running from out of a -mod folder for the climates, e.g. those that would be normally found at:

...\Rome - Total War\Data\terrain\battlefield\test_climate\summer

If so, would you be kind enough to share how it might be done?

**Sir Dinadan** · 09-07-2006, 23:56

Has anyone found some files from BI that don't need to be copied?

Thanks in advance.

**DaVinci** · 10-24-2006, 04:12

Is anywhere a list of mods, that use CA's -mod function?

I know only about Chiv and TFT.

I would like to install other mods, but just only with -mod functionality.

The times, that i used to copying several vanilla directories is gone for me, as i have not longer lust and time to manage this and/or to buy bigger/new hd's due to new mods.

However, i would like to "encourage" all big mod projects to produce actual mod folders, and not overwriting any kind of vanilla TW data. It is so much userfriendly

**swell** · 10-25-2006, 14:28

DaVinci,
XGM (Extended Greek Mod) uses also the -mod switch.

**Dol Guldur** · 10-25-2006, 17:47

Fourth Age is a BI mod folder.

They are useful and not just for players. However, some elements will be overwritten in your vanilla if the mod is quite "deep" in what it has modded - but these are usually quite small and harmless changes.

**Epistolary Richard** · 10-26-2006, 04:15

Napoleonic 2 for example uses a mod folder - but puts the new skies in the main data folder - presumably because they wouldn't appear otherwise.

**Makanyane** · 01-09-2007, 01:11

Umm, bump...
As its been a while I was wondering did anyone work out how to get an intro video ('bi_Intro_640x480.wmv' equivalent) to play if placed in -mod folder.

Also any ideas on these bits I can't seem to shift out of RTW, let alone get into -mod;
RTW\data\UI\culture\cities\ .tga's
so far putting them even in BI has corrupted the whole UI with portraits appearing instead of the city logo's etc.

and RTW\Data\terrain\aerial_map\sea\ .tga's (ground types I can find paths for but not these)

Lastly did anyone find any difference between copying BI folder leaving it at the same level and renaming copy for -mod so you get -mod:my_mod or copying BI into itself and naming internal one so you get the -mod:bi/my_mod set up. So far I'm struggling to see difference (except to what you re-path textures etc to).

**ThePianist** · 08-07-2008, 10:07

Originally Posted by Sir Dinadan

Has anyone found some files from BI that don't need to be copied?

Thanks in advance.

And i would ask the same question.
Trying to make a BI mod into -mod option. Apparently playing BI is already doing -mod:bi, so just creating a mod folder and a shortcut pointing to it doesn't work. So you still have to duplicate the entire BI folder, just minus some files. Anyone found out what files can be omitted?

**Sir_Lysander** · 11-20-2008, 03:26

A further question.

Modding just units (some new unit and unit_info cards, changes to EDB/EDU as appropriate) I put everything into a "mymod" folder to keep the plain vanilla files "safe." However, running the mod, every time I zoom to battle map (either to view one of my own settlements, or for combat) I get a CTD when the game tries to generate the settlement:

"Error. Filename doesn't exist" data/models_building/..."
then a laundry list including "militia_barracks_eastern_high.cas" and so forth. I have not modified any Cas file, nor planned to. All remain in the original data/ folder.

When running RTW without the -mod switch, everything runs fine. I've tried copying data/models_building/ into the mod folder, tried removing it from the mod folder, no change.

My understanding is that if RTW didn't find it in the mod folder, it looked in the original data/ folder. Is that assumption off, or is something else going on?