Character Portraits

[MansaSakura]

still lookin for help guys. PLEASE. any info on changing portraits will be helpful.

[Dol Guldur]

I'm a BI coder too, but I remember in RTW that roman cultural elements - specifically the interface - did need to be repacked in order to work. Of course whether that changed later in a new patch I do not know.

[Myrddraal]

yeah, I'd suggest try repacking

[Makanyane]

I've finally got round to checking this.

Use a mod-folder !!! there is absolutely no reason not to and it works fine to change both the egyptian portraits and the roman ui without unpacking, repacking or renaming packs etc.

To make mod folder for RTW, make folder at same level as the .exe files called "my_mod" or whatever. Make folder called "data" inside that, so path is Rome - Total War/my_mod/data. Copy and paste into that the "text" and "world" folders from RTW/data (you don't need all of it but that's easy than trying to explain what you do need). To change the UI elements make folder so you have
RTW/my_mod/data/ui
and within that make folder for the culture you want to change and add your portraits or interface to the correct path inside it so you'd have:

RTW/my_mod/data/ui/egyptian/portraits/cards/young/generals

etc in your case.

Run game from shortcut with
-mod:my_mod
added to target line.

Works a dream for portraits and also Roman interface (I just tested by copying in the nomad ui folder from BI). You should also put any other files you change in the mod-folder and not the original data folder. It keeps original files intact which users like and means you always have original version to refer back to....

[Dol Guldur]

Gah..

[MansaSakura]

Thnx Makanyane. Just tried it. Worked like a dream. Wish more ppl were this descriptive rather than assume one knows all the ins and outs of this system. If I knew them...I wouldn't be asking. Thnx a bunch friend.MS