HowTo: Set up MTW2 for modding

[alpaca]

Hi there, i am just starting up and what i would like to do is to in the future install different skins,ect.
I understand step on, though i did this last night i did not deleat these files
descr_geography_new.db and descr_geography_new.txt
when i loaded up the game to play custom battle, just befor it started it crashed. i dont really want to do any modding i am not that confidant But i would like to install other peoples work/skins and othe stuff. I am playing LTC at the mo.
What i am asking is, step 1.2 seems confusing,do i need to go through step1.2 in order to install skins and stuff?
Thank you Great forum

Well if you only want to use mods by other people, you probably don't have to follow section 1. at all.

[gary]

well, i think i would have to unpack them, the data that is, in order to copy and paste skins, i guess,

[alpaca]

Hmm ya that's true, I don't know my own tutorials...
Well, then ignore steps 1.1 and 1.2 ;)

[DukeofSerbia]

alpaca

I finally got my computer from upgrade and installed M2 TW, unpacked and used Python 2.5 Windows AMD64 installer. It can't be installed even I have AMD Athlon64. But ordinary can.

I have one, maybe stupid question:

Can I erase all those files which I unpacked as I don't need them? I see many RTW-BI files which just slow down performances.

[alpaca]

alpaca

I finally got my computer from upgrade and installed M2 TW, unpacked and used Python 2.5 Windows AMD64 installer. It can't be installed even I have AMD Athlon64. But ordinary can.

I have one, maybe stupid question:

Can I erase all those files which I unpacked as I don't need them? I see many RTW-BI files which just slow down performances.

You shouldn't delete any files. If you want to mod them, you'll have to have at least those that you want to mod (and maybe a few more). You can move them to a backup directory and only copy those to your modding folder/data folder that you actually want to work on, though.

[Psyco]

Wow do I feel dumb. Reading through some random threads, I learned that after extracting the patch, you actually have to install it.
I apologize for this waste of space.

[grinningman]

Hey alpaca, you might want to mention that your mod folder installer doesn't delete or rename descr_geography_new.db and descr_geography_new.txt. I know you mention this when you talk about unpacking the files, but it's not clear that this is still required if you use your installer (and it took me a while to work out why my modded version kept crashing ).

Apart from that the installer is excellent - thanks heaps for putting it together!

[Suraknar]

I been looking in to the approach between Mymod Folder and IO file first.

And, (correct me if my asumption if false), Mymod folder is a nice "overide" way of making and distributing certain mods, yet IO file first is more suited for Conversions and Larger mods.

Yes?

[kungfuserge]

Is there a way to launch the game faster, (with no cinematique introduction; ie RTW -nm)

[losts78]

i downloaded your file and i have no idea where the read me is. All i get is a notepad file with odd writing that i have no idea what it is. plse help.

[Aedan2812]

hmmm u feel dumb i dont even know how to install :S
could some1 plz point me in the right direction?
also i need a little help using bin.string converter
any help would be greatly appreciated

[Eothese]

Dose this still apply to 1.3 which is what you get when you install kingdoms? I managed to get it to run without convertimg the string.bin files but the UI and settlements were just large blank white squares, also the loading_screens and the text/imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt files were already in the mymod folder?? If I need to use the sting.bin converter how do I use it?

[piaoliang]

hi! i'm new to modding m2tw. i've gotten everything right so far, i have downloaded patch 1.1, unpacked the files, deleted the descr_geography_new.db and descr_geography_new.txt files, and i picked the io.file_first method

mymod is working fine and nothing is crashing so far. my only problem is, the changes i make don't happen either

i tried changing the imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names file by changing london to asdfg for trial and it hasn't changed in the game. also, i see a difference in the instructions, coz my file looks like this.

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{Acre}Acre
{Acre_Province}Acre Region
{Adana}Adana
{Adana_Province}Adana Region
{Ajaccio}Ajaccio
{Ajaccio_Province}Ajaccio Region
{Aleppo}Aleppo
{Aleppo_Province}Aleppo Region
{Alexandria}Alexandria
{Alexandria_Province}Alexandria Region
{Algiers}Algiers
{Algiers_Province}Algiers Region
{Angers}Angers
{Angers_Province}Angers Region
{Antioch}Antioch
{Antioch_Province}Antioch Region
{Antwerp}Antwerp
{Antwerp_Province}Antwerp Region
{Arguin}Arguin
{Arguin_Province}Arguin Region
{Arhus}Arhus
{Arhus_Province}Arhus Region
{Baghdad}Baghdad
{Baghdad_Province}Baghdad Region
{Bern}Bern
{Bern_Province}Bern Region
{Bologna}Bologna
{Bologna_Province}Bologna Region
{Bordeaux}Bordeaux
{Bordeaux_Province}Bordeaux Region
{Bran}Bran
{Bran_Province}Bran Region
{Brazil}Brazil
{Breslau}Breslau
{Breslau_Province}Breslau Region
{Bruges}Bruges
{Bruges_Province}Bruges Region
{Bucharest}Bucharest
{Bucharest_Province}Bucharest Region
{Budapest}Budapest
{Budapest_Province}Budapest Region
{Bulgar}Bulgar
{Caen}Caen
{Caen_Province}Caen Region
{Caernarvon}Caernarvon
{Caernarvon_Province}Caernarvon Region
{Caesarea}Caesarea
{Caesarea_Province}Caesarea Region
{Caffa}Caffa
{Caffa_Province}Caffa Province
{Cagliari}Cagliari
{Cagliari_Province}Cagliari Region
{Cairo}Cairo
{Cairo_Province}Cairo Region
{Caribbean}Caribbean
{Caribbean_Isles}Caribbean Isles
{Cholula}Cholula
{Cholula_Province}Texcoco Region
{Constantinople}Constantinople
{Constantinople_Province}Constantinople Region
{Cordoba}Cordoba
{Cordoba_Province}Cordoba Region
{Corinth}Corinth
{Corinth_Province}Corinth Region
{Cracow}Krakow
{Cracow_Province}Krakow Region
{Damascus}Damascus
{Damascus_Province}Damascus Region
{Dijon}Dijon
{Dijon_Province}Dijon Region
{Dongola}Dongola
{Dongola_Province}Dongola Region
{Dublin}Dublin
{Dublin_Province}Dublin Region
{Durazzo}Durazzo
{Durazzo_Province}Durazzo Region
{Edessa}Edessa
{Edessa_Province}Edessa Region
{Edinburgh}Edinburgh
{Edinburgh_Province}Edinburgh Region
{Florence}Florence
{Florence_Province}Florence Region
{Fortaleza}Fortaleza
{Frankfurt}Frankfurt
{Frankfurt_Province}Frankfurt Region
{Gaza}Gaza
{Gaza_Province}Gaza Region
{Genoa}Genoa
{Genoa_Province}Genoa Region
{Granada}Granada
{Granada_Province}Granada Region
{Halych}Halych
{Halych_Province}Halych Region
{Hamburg}Hamburg
{Hamburg_Province}Hamburg Region
{Helsinki}Helsinki
{Helsinki_Province}Helsinki Region
{Hohenstauffen}Staufen
{Hohenstauffen_Province}Staufen Region
{Iasi}Iasi
{Iasi_Province}Iasi Region
{Iconium}Iconium
{Iconium_Province}Iconium Region
{Innsbruck}Innsbruck
{Innsbruck_Province}Innsbruck Region
{Inverness}Inverness
{Inverness_Province}Inverness Region
{Iraklion}Iraklion
{Isle_of_Crete}Isle of Crete
{Isle_of_Cyprus}Isle of Cyprus
{Isle_of_Rhodes}Isle of Rhodes
{Jedda}Jedda
{Jedda_Province}Jedda Region
{Jerusalem}Jerusalem
{Jerusalem_Province}Jerusalem Region
{Kiev}Kiev
{Kiev_Province}Kiev Region
{Leon}Leon
{Leon_Province}Leon Region
{Lisbon}Lisbon
{Lisbon_Province}Lisbon Region
{London}London
{London_Province}London Region
{Magdeburg}Magdeburg
{Magdeburg_Province}Magdeburg Region
{Marrakesh}Marrakesh
{Marrakesh_Province}Marrakesh Region
{Marseille}Marseille
{Marseille_Province}Marseille Region
{Metz}Metz
{Metz_Province}Metz Region
{Miccosukee}Miccosukee
{Milan}Milan
{Milan_Province}Milan Region
{Moscow}Moscow
{Moscow_Province}Moscow Region
{Mosul}Mosul
{Mosul_Province}Mosul Region
{Naples}Naples
{Naples_Province}Naples Region
{Nicaea}Nicaea
{Nicaea_Province}Nicaea Region
{Nicosia}Nicosia
{North_America}North America
{Nottingham}Nottingham
{Nottingham_Province}Nottingham Region
{Novgorod}Novgorod
{Novgorod_Province}Novgorod Region
{Nuremburg}Nuremburg
{Nuremburg_Province}Nuremburg Region
{Oslo}Oslo
{Oslo_Province}Oslo Region
{Palermo}Palermo
{Palermo_Province}Palermo Region
{Pamplona}Pamplona
{Pamplona_Province}Pamplona Region
{Paris}Paris
{Paris_Province}Paris Region
{Prague}Prague
{Prague_Province}Prague Region
{Ragusa}Ragusa
{Ragusa_Province}Ragusa Region
{Rennes}Rennes
{Rennes_Province}Rennes Region
{Rheims}Rheims
{Rheims_Province}Rheims Region
{Rhodes}Rhodes
{Riga}Riga
{Riga_Province}Riga Region
{Roman_Province}Rome Region
{Rome}Rome
{Ryazan}Ryazan
{Ryazan_Province}Ryazan Region
{Sarkel}Sarkel
{Sarkel_Province}Sarkel Region
{Smolensk}Smolensk
{Smolensk_Province}Smolensk Region
{Smyrna}Smyrna
{Smyrna_Province}Smyrna Region
{Sofia}Sofia
{Sofia_Province}Sofia Region
{Stettin}Stettin
{Stettin_Province}Stettin Region
{Stockholm}Stockholm
{Stockholm_Province}Stockholm Region
{Tbilisi}Tbilisi
{Tbilisi_Province}Tbilisi Region
{Tenochtitlan}Tenochtitlan
{Tenochtitlan_Province}Tenochtitlan Region
{Thessalonica}Thessalonica
{Thessalonica_Province}Thessalonica Region
{Thorn}Thorn
{Thorn_Province}Thorn Region
{Timbuktu}Timbuktu
{Timbuktu_Province}Timbuktu Region
{Tlaxcala}Tlaxcala
{Tlaxcala_Province}Tlaxcala Region
{Toledo}Toledo
{Toledo_Province}Toledo Region
{Toulouse}Toulouse
{Toulouse_Province}Toulouse Region
{Trebizond}Trebizond
{Trebizond_Province}Trebizond Region
{Tripoli}Tripoli
{Tripoli_Province}Tripoli Region
{Tunis}Tunis
{Tunis_Province}Tunis Region
{Valencia}Valencia
{Valencia_Province}Valencia Region
{Venice}Venice
{Venice_Province}Venice Region
{Vienna}Vienna
{Vienna_Province}Vienna Region
{Vilnius}Vilnius
{Vilnius_Province}Vilnius Region
{Volga-Bulgar_Province}Volga-Bulgar Region
{Yerevan}Yerevan
{Yerevan_Province}Yerevan Region
{York}York
{York_Province}York Region
{Zagreb}Zagreb
{Zagreb_Province}Zagreb Region
{Zaragoza}Zaragoza
{Zaragoza_Province}Zaragoza Region

while the guide says it should be something like
{London} London

note that the guide says it has a tab spacing in between the } and the L in London

i'm not sure if this is the problem, but it seems like it. i also tried adding a tab in between mine, but still no effect.

i repeat, i can play the game just fine. i just can't mod it!

do i have a different version of the game? is there something i'm missing here? please help me. thanks!

[AndorranPrince]

I can't find the text folder :'( Help?

[Potent_Schraphlon]

Hi. I'm completely new to modding and don't really know what I'm doing. So I followed these instructions using the options to directly edit the .strings.bins and the io.file_first and I have a couple of questions:
1. I don't have a mymod folder, I'll just be changing the original files. Is that right?
2. Will this allow me to change unit stats, and if so, how do I do that?

[LanceM]

i have followed instruction i have edited names of the moors faction, now when i play there are no name for anyone, Help please.

[jsommons27]

I am having issues with 1.1 as I have downloaded the files and followed the readme but when i go to run the convert.all.bat file it acts like it's opening a command prompt but nothing follows. I am new to mtw2 modding but I have experience modding skyrim, new vegas and other bethesda games just not in the scripting department. this seems like a great place to start learning it just hitting a few road bumps and need a bit of help. So I am no noob to say but in some aspects I am.

[m_1512]

hey i did as u said about unpacking the files

but it shows an error at the end and there are no folders as ui etc

i only know this bcoz one of the mods bout adding nw religion required this folder.there must be a lot of other folders which have not been unpacked

[m_1512]

plz can u tell me what i can do???????

[irishron2004]

Since I just got home from work and here it is almost 2am, first question is are you using Vista?

[TineMelk]

Yes