Frequently asked questions (FAQ) Thread

[FactionHeir]

Hiya,

Welcome to my small forum and thanks for giving my mod a try.

The Kingdoms update affects kingdoms.exe and the CA-made mods only. As VM is based on medieval2.exe, it will thus not have any effect on it. However, if you run VM with the kingdoms.exe (not sure if that's possible - can't try it myself), you would hypothetically get any improvements made in the patch for your game as well.

Either way, VM does not require kingdoms to be played effectively.

At this time, all you need is 0.93 Full and the Emergency fix. Please do note that you will need to create a folder called VanillaMod in your medieval2 directory.

Hope that helps

P.S.: I have also closed the other thread and made notes in the download link thread on what is needed as a result of your query

[xjllm7]

hi faction heir, i did not know where to post this at so forgive me if this is in the wrong thread. i was wondering how do i change the limit on the army size to unlimited? i know im supposed to change the preference.cfg file but since i am using vanillamod. how do i go about doing it?

[FactionHeir]

open the VanillaMod.cfg (making sure Vista doesn't create a second copy while you do that) and find the line "unlimited_men_on_battlefield" and set that one from 0 to 1. It may already be set to 1 depending on which file you used.

[xjllm7]

in my vanillamod.cfg file there is only these few lines



[features]
mod=VanillaMod
[video]
widescreen=1
[game]
allusers=1

[FactionHeir]

Add this under game:
unlimited_men_on_battlefield = 1

[xjllm7]

[features]
mod=VanillaMod
[video]
widescreen=1
[game]
allusers=1
unlimited_men_on_battlefield = 1

am i doing it right? sorry if this is a dumb question. i need to get things right instead of revisiting it later.

thanks factionheir for the help. i appreciate it.

[FactionHeir]

Yes that's right, make sure Vista reads the right thing though

[xoid]

The Kingdoms update affects kingdoms.exe and the CA-made mods only. As VM is based on medieval2.exe, it will thus not have any effect on it. However, if you run VM with the kingdoms.exe (not sure if that's possible - can't try it myself), you would hypothetically get any improvements made in the patch for your game as well.

Some of the changes and improvements to Kingdoms necessitate new fields in various XML and export_*.txt files. That appears to be why the Retrofit mod was made in the first place. To get VM to use many of these improvements you'd need to merge the two mods. Even with a diff program this is proving somewhat difficult as I'm not versed enough in M2TW to know which changes you've made that would be possibly conflict (or are better done differently) with Kingdoms.

It would be great if you could make a version of VM to slot in over the retrofit mod; the two would complement each other nicely.