Export -description files

**Captain Pugwash** · 04-11-2007, 21:57

I want to look at the mechanics of how you get lumbered / gifted ancillaries and traits. They where quite accessible on RTW and MTW but I cannot find them in M2TW. Can someone point in the right direction. I ask as I would like to identify how to 'engineer' the good ones

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**Carl** · 04-11-2007, 22:19

Export_Descr_character_traits and Export_Descr_ancillaries

Both are found in the Data sub-folder of your M2TW folder after running the unpacker.

**HoreTore** · 04-12-2007, 02:14

btw, if all you want are the txt files, it's a bit tedious to unpack 7 gigs...

Change the unpacker .bat to read like this instead:

unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\*.pack --destination=..\..\ --filter=*.txt --verbosity=1

**BadBreath** · 04-12-2007, 07:23

Dang, and here I unpacked everything just to fix the shieldbug!

Well I was already planning on doing a re-install once the official patch gets here.

BB

**Captain Pugwash** · 04-12-2007, 08:50

Please remind how to unpack, it kind of sounds vaguely familiar.

Anything thing to do with xpac? files

**Carl** · 04-12-2007, 11:39

Right, you'll need to go into your default M2TW folder. Typically called Medieval 2 Total War in:

C:\Program Files\SEGA

The Folder your looking for inside the M2TW folder is called "tools". In their you will find a folder called "Unpacker".

Theirs a file called "unpack_all", double left click it and leave it to run. It takes about 10-20 mins for me.

Now go back to the M2TW folder, you should have seen a folder called "Data" last time, go into it and find the following 2 files and delete them , (use the arrange by type organization option as it makes them easier to find):

descr_geography_new.txt
descr_geography_new.db

If you use the arrange by type option the .db file will be obvious as theirs only a couple of those files in that folder. the .txt file is a touch harder but they are all in alphabetical order so you should be fine. The 2 files I named in my first post are near the very bottom of the text files listings.

**Captain Pugwash** · 04-12-2007, 14:42

gone into M2TW directory. Cannot find tools folder anywhere . Has it to be created first?????????

**HoreTore** · 04-12-2007, 14:58

Have you patched it to v1.1 or v1.2?

**Captain Pugwash** · 04-12-2007, 15:05

No. Only mod is the no cd file.

**Carl** · 04-12-2007, 15:34

You need the 1.1 patch installed.

**HoreTore** · 04-12-2007, 18:37

Yup, the unpacker was a component in that patch. Either get it, or skip it and go for the leaked 1.2 patch straight away.

**Captain Pugwash** · 04-12-2007, 21:13

Thanks,

Not sure whether the games actually worth the effort and ill wait for the official patch feedback to see whether things have actually improved