For CA: MTW2 Collected Modding Support Requests

[Epistolary Richard]

Note - the assembled thoughts have now been sent in.
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What kind of modding support would we ideally like with - or shortly after - the release of MTW2?

By modding support I mean things from RTW that CA provided such as the Battle Editor, the sprite generator, the docudemon files.

I'll compile a list from the suggestions posted here and send it in to CA.

Do please consider the reasonableness of your requests - demands to make it open source etc. aren't going to be passed along.

So far...
- a battle editor
- a campaign editor
- a sprite generator
- a settlement plan editor
- a list of hardcoded limits
- model import/export script, preferably for something cheap
- an unpacker for any packed/compressed files
- spreadsheets used for where it says "This was generated by a spreadsheet - do not modify by hand"
- additional narrative at the top of the moddable files, especially identifying where a file is no longer referenced

[antiochus epiphanes]

make it like bi where we dont have to extract the skins like in rtw

[Lentonius]

preferably a battle editor and a campaign editor if possible

A list of hardcoded elements to save unneccesary wasting of time

hopefully the script you used to work on models, if they arent CAS...


thanks

[Myrddraal]

make it like bi where we dont have to extract the skins like in rtw

I'd ammend that to: an unpacker for any pack files. CA will probably want to distribute some of their files in packs of some form.

[Tittils]

A better and easier ability to edit the settlement plans. Perhaps an editor of some sort?

[wlesmana]

A proper 3D model exporter/importer for god's sake. Please do not claim your game to be moddable if you can't even give the community a tool for modifying your models, animations, etc. Just changing the colors of a model or making them stab harder do not qualify as highly 'moddable' these days.

Sorry for the harshness but I'm a bit bitter from all the frustrations.