Unpacker announced to come with first patch

**Apoc** · 11-14-2006, 06:36

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** · 11-14-2006, 10:47

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

**Lusted** · 11-14-2006, 12:26

Hmm, when I asked that day, they were very vague about dates. They said we would hear soon, which we have.

They didn't say any dates to me either, but when i asked about the patch, and the unpacker, they said keep an eye on .com over the next few weeks.

And that's good news about the patch, at least now we have a date.

**methoz** · 11-14-2006, 13:27

soon soon ...next month,year... dont know

**Lusted** · 11-14-2006, 13:28

Wel in about 2 weeks actually, as they have now said it will come with the first patch.

**Arbaces** · 11-14-2006, 17:20

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.

Hopefully it will be possible no matter how hard, through 3ds Max. Through a script they will do and support. Otherwise, this game everybody feasted for it's "Improved moddability" will mark the end of the TW Modding Era, and bold mods like Europa Barbarorum 2 and others like this will die or remain only at the RTW level.

Arbaces.

**Ramon Gonzales y Garcia** · 11-15-2006, 05:14

Originally Posted by Arbaces

Hopefully it will be possible no matter how hard, through 3ds Max. Through a script they will do and support. Otherwise, this game everybody feasted for it's "Improved moddability" will mark the end of the TW Modding Era, and bold mods like Europa Barbarorum 2 and others like this will die or remain only at the RTW level.
Arbaces.

I think it is a very wise move on the part of CA. If they can't beat the skins the community makes, - take out the competition

If you think about it, they didn't release a .cas importer/exporter script for RTW either, we have Vercingetorix to thank for that.