A start on the .MESH file format

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi AT

Hi All,

Sorry I have not posted lately, I didn't drop off the face of TW, my wife unchained me from my rock of chores and husbandly / fatherly duties and I was able to do some work.

On converting RTW cas, I have not converted any vanilla, BI or Alexander CAS's, but I have converted a large portion of RTR, Europa Barbarorum and Some Napoleonic TW CAS's... seeing if those CAS's could be brought up into MilkShape, and they can... their corresponding parts can be brought into M2TW flawlessly as I can see through my testing.

I followed Grumpy's converter directions step by step, and with that everything worked great.

Cas files are a bit of dog's breakfast, I've found 5 distinct versions so far with their own formats and one of the versions has variations as well. I'm working on converting some of the earlier 3.16 versions as well as the 3.18 versions, I'll have a look at the 3.20, 3.21 and 3.22 versions for BI later.

Another thing, I am not sure what demand there is for a newbie tutorial on converting meshes and bringing them back into the game. I plan to write one, but all my computer time has been devoted to new unit generation... what little I have right at the moment. If there is large demand for a tutorial, I will get started on one, if it is something that can wait about a month, like say June... I will wait until then everybody can let me know.

I hope they say Yes and I hope you can find the time to do the tut. It gives me more time to play with skeletons and animations

Also, to Grumpy, did anyone ever figure out if we can combine spear and sword in units... i.e. give the shield spearmen a sword as a secondary weapon. I know you guys were looking into it a couple of weeks ago for hoplites... I am trying to do the same thing, but I was not sure what the outcome was. Let me know...

Thanks

AT

Yes we did. The main issue is that the spears get replaced by swords fairly quickly. I've seen a thread either here or at TWCenter where people were working on getting pikes to retain their pikes for longer rather than go for swords. That may be applicable.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Andromachus Theodoulos]

@Grumpy

Considering your reply on the tut, I count that as 10 votes to start now!!!

Anybody else??

I will be gone all next week out of town, but I can try to start this week...

AT