Unpacker announced to come with first patch

[alpaca]

Good news first: According to the CA dev blog (http://totalwardev.blogspot.com/), an unpacker will be released with the first patch, which I hope will arrive soon (after all, this news was posted today, although without mentioning any date).

However it also contains some bad news: We will apparently not be able to edit models in the near future. According to Iain, the meshes in M2TW are far from similar to the R:TW .cas files and have a much non-trivial layout. Inhowfar that applies to skinning will have to be seen.

[methoz]

btw -and date of release? next month,or year?? :(

[Lusted]

Within as few weeks i would have though given what Ca said to me at the Gold Code event.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

some good and bad news there thanks alpaca... (and to be annoying: your link is kinda wrong )

[alpaca]

some good and bad news there thanks alpaca... (and to be annoying: your link is kinda wrong )

Sorry, auto url tagging ;)

[Molinaargh]

[quote=We are investigating options to allow the community to create their own mesh files.[/quote]
I guess we'll need to make models from scratch - I foresee a lot of work and testing coming from modellers. If we can't get a base model (to see how things work) it will be almost impossible, not to mention file conversions.

[Shadow_Wolf33]

Good news first: According to the CA dev blog (http://totalwardev.blogspot.com/), an unpacker will be released with the first patch, which I hope will arrive soon

I am so turned on right now.

[PROMETHEUS]

According to CA ....

Meshes & Textures
The final area I wanted to talk about was the mesh/texture files used for soldier and siege engine models. These are a very different format to the CAS files with which Rome modders will be familiar. Currently, modders will not be able to edit or replace these files.

This is because the format is optimised specifically for rendering. We made this decision to enable us to ramp up the level of detail of the battles while retaining a good level of performance. We are investigating options to allow the community to create their own mesh files.

Still happy?

[SigniferOne]

Prometheus, any particular reason for abounding pessimism?

[Apoc]

I do find it a little hard to be optimistic myself. I'm afraid 'investigating options' may very well be a way of saying 'figure it out yourselves'.

I hope to be proven wrong.

[repman]

from TW.com-Forum

Hello,

As mentioned previously we at the Australia studio had planned on a day one update, we are close to having this ready for you. As you may remember Rome wasn’t built in a day and well neither is Med 2 update.

As a part of this update we are also including the unpacker for the modders. We would have released it earlier but it is only compatible with the update 1 code. This is a tip of the hat to the modding fans out there who are already trying to make their own unpacker. There is a whole lot of love going around C.A. for the community now. We have been really pleased with the reaction you guys have been giving us and we want to give a little back.

We are a few days behind schedule for the update and we are about to start the two week final test pass before we release it to you guys. Assuming nothing goes wrong you should have it after then. I hope to release a list of the fixes that will be in the update so you can get an idea of what is coming. You will know the update is only a few days away when you see the readme for it posted.

There will be lots of little fixes in the update mostly to do with A.I. and a masses of other tiny things which we have squeezed into this build. Being a little late on the delivery has allowed us to soak up a few more fixes to problems you guys have found too, Quality Assurance here have been trawling the forums looking for your bugs and trying to repro them. They have also been enjoying your comments. heh

Stay keen,

-wikiman