HowTo: Set up MTW2 for modding

**adembroski** · 02-24-2007, 23:25

Since I am not an "advanced user", is keeping a clean copy of the contents of the data folder backed up an effective alternative to editing unpack_all.bat?

**adembroski** · 02-24-2007, 23:30

Same issue as the others with london... followed instructions explicitly, twice. You've gotta be missing something here... it's not working. Further, I'm getting CTD everytime I try to start a battle in either the mod or the vanilla game.

**Zain** · 02-25-2007, 17:24

I got everything working!

**adembroski** · 02-25-2007, 19:55

So can I run the vanilla game using the io.file_first method??!

**adembroski** · 02-28-2007, 00:32

Issue resolved for me...

to those having problems getting the London named changed, make sure your config file is named 'mymod.cfg' and not 'mymod.cfg.cfg'. If mymod.bat can't find mymod.cfg, it will grab the default preferences (even so far as to create it's own preferences file if one is not present). Then it's running the vanilla game and your modifications wont show up.

**Zain** · 02-28-2007, 13:37

I have a question concerning converting the text files...

To have a change noticed in the Text folder, must I first delete the BIN file that coordinates with it? ex: text.txt and text.bin?

Thanks, this isn't a big deal, so take your time.

-Zain