using bi-exe

[wlesmana]

You cannot use shield wall, swimming, horde, etc, with Alexander. BI's features are strictly BI's. Alexander instead has its own features: custom general's strat and battle models and portraits, and increased limit in DMB. I don't know what is the limit in DMB for Alexander but I know for a fact it is over 300 (my mod's DMB has 302 entries currently).

So if you want to use BI's exe in Alexander, you'll have to clean up the DMB first and bring it down to under 250 entries. Then you just run the exe with the mod:alexander line and you should be able to use BI's features. Note, however, that Alexander's features like Alexander having unique strat and battle models would be ignored by BI's exe. You may also have to modify descr_strat.txt as the faction_do_not_attack feature is not recognizable and must be ommitted.

[tigger_t]

thanks. that sucks. damn ca

[Roman_Man#3]

But wouldn't it be possible to make an animation for something like shield wall or swimming?

[Makanyane]

I suspect I'm going to regret posting this without checking evidence first but isn't it case that swimming and shield wall can be done in RTW 1.5 ( though hording definitely can't )

wlesmana, have you tested those in alex?

[tigger_t]

yeah but i think you have to use bi-exe to do it in rome 1.5

[Makanyane]

if you use bi.exe you can use hording in RTW 1.5 and everything else, but I thought some other battle things you could activate anyway - if it's critical I'll try and check but if you're happy with alex functions there may not be much point..

[tigger_t]

am happy with alx-exe funtions, but recruiting generals would make a great addition to alexander or any mod really and swimming, wall shield plus hordes would be great, so i could really add onto the barb's in the game. i tried adding swimming and the wall shield the game doen't crash just doen't add them in. i know you can add recruitable generals without the bi-exe. i just don't know how.