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    Default List of RTW Tutorials and Useful Tools

    I'm putting this here temporarily, as I've not decided what to do with it. It's a list (as complete as possible) with RTW tutorials and Useful Tools, categorised and with some sort of quality control, plus some hasty notes (according to my standards, sorry if someone's tutorial is not in here). if I have forgotten something (which is certain) feel free to point. Thanks to Anallein for helping to compile this list.


    MAPPING

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    Campaign Map Not Loading....

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    Making a new campaign map.

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    Campaign Map from a small part

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    Tutorial: Placing Palms on the Battlemap

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    Creating new vegetation for battlemaps

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    Putting features on the Campaign map (custom tiles)

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    How I make my maps. ~ BDH

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    Muizer's guide to battlemap modification

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    How-To: Satellit/Map to Great map_ground_types/Map

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    Tutorial: Custom Settlement Plan Sets

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    How to make real rivers or Land Bridges

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    toggle_terrain highly useful for mapping

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    CODING

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    Guide: The Complete EDB Guide (WIP)

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    Tutorial: adding unique sounds to an onager

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    Getting Rid of Boiling Oil (at last!)

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    How to negate and replace the Wonder Effects

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    Adding new units for beginners

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    How to make province specific units/buildings using hidden resources

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    How To – Edit a trade resource

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    How to add Building Descriptions by Faction

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    How to - Make all armies/agents move futher per turn

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    How to edit/add quotes

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    How to - Edit the movement points for ships/spies/diplomats/assasins

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    [BI] Adding a new religion

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    How to include new rebel factions

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    How To – Change the faction names

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    Tutorial: Converting a Roman Faction to a Different Culture

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    How to dismount (or mount) a unit

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    Tutorial: How to edit character names

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    Guide: The Complete Guide to Plugins

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    Guide: The complete traits/ancillaries guide

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    How To...Modify Siege Tower Aspects

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    [BI] How to Add a New Culture

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    Adding battlemap buildings to BI

    (to be merged with ER's)

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    Modding Rome.LNT

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    The Complete EDU Guide (WIP)

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    Multiple Bodyguard Units

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    How To...Create Culture Specific Battering Rams

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    Tutorial on saving DMB Slots

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    SCRIPTING

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    A Beginner's Guide to Scripting & Scripting "How To"s

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    An Intermediate Guide to Scripting

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    How-to: Add a background script to your mod

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    How-to: Let the player make a yes/no choice in a script

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    How-to: Block user controls while advice is displayed

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    How-to: Setup your mod to have more than 2 turns per year

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    How-to: Use the play_sound_event command

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    How-to: Use the ui_indicator command

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    ART

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    How to Model New 3D Units

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    Head Swapping Tutorial (3D units)

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    Basic Modeling Guide

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    Making Gloss Maps with Paintshop Pro

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    An intermediate guide to skinning

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    Guide: Porting M2TW units to Rome/BI

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    How to: allow officers to keep weapons on precursor units

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    How to: make a map_heights

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    Texture Database (Useful for Skinners)

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    Photoshop Skinning Tutorials

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    Make your own unit cards

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    3d max bone weighting tutorial

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    Quick and Easy Equipment Merging Tutorial

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    Quick tutorial for cool maps..(photo shop)

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    faction icons/banners/strat map how to

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    3DSMax and tool tutorials

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    Tutorial - Rendering in 3DS Max

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    Tutorial: a basic guide to the UVW modifier

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    Tutorial: Making your own Custom Battles

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    [Bi]How to put Videos in the event messages

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    Voicemod setup tutorial/guide

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    Howto: Night Battles for RTW

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    Modding Music - Want your own Music?

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    MISC

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    GUIDE: Specifics of Modding Alexander - TW

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    How To: Port an RTW mod to ATW - guidelines (WIP)

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    Game AI stuff (1.5)

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    New docudemon files

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    A Modder's Best Friend: Command Line Switches

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    Hardcoded Limits

    (needs update)

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    How to make a useful RTW shortcut

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    A Beginners guide to Preferences.txt

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    Unpacking Files Step-By-Step

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    Movie_cam instructions/How to take good pics 1
    Movie_cam instructions/How to take good pics 2

    (needs merging)

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    TOOLS AND EXTERNAL LINKS

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    RTW Settlement (Coordinate) Locator

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    Rome Tool

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    .CAS Importer/exporter for 3ds max
    PAK Extractor
    IDX Extractor

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    EDU-matic: Automatic EDU balancer/generator

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    EDB Validator

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    Zeus - EDB, DMB, DS Validator

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    ATVTW - Trait/Ancillary Validator

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    Faction Swapper

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    Name Generator

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    DDS Converter 2.0

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    BIF Converter

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    Gimp (free download)
    Gimp DDS plugin

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    Modelling Guides

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    A great resource for the Roman Army

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    Last edited by Aradan; December 27, 2009 at 06:00 AM.

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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools

    Thanks!
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    Brilliant, Aradan!

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    Thanks Aradan now time to learn
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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools

    wow, this is great. Good work guys.
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    Great stuff, thanks Aradan and Anallein. Its nice to have access to all the tutorials without having to search everywhere.


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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools

    Good work mate. I think that this one should also be included (under Mapping):

    How to make real rivers or Land Bridges
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    Added. Thx!

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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools

    Here's something else that could be useful for the mapping section:

    toggle_terrain highly useful for mapping
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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools

    Updated.

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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools

    very nice array Aradan.


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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools (RTW)

    nice

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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools (RTW)

    many many thanks to the author and contributers to this great thread. regards magpie

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    Default Re: List of Tutorials and Useful Tools (RTW)

    this will be very help full thanks aradan!!

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    This is very good of you to take the time and create this Aradan i found it very helpful, espically the modders guide for us new modders trying to get some sort of outcome.

    keep up the good work
    and i cannot rep you yet

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    Updated with HouseOfHam's RTW Settlement (Coordinate) Locator.
    Last edited by Aradan; May 16, 2009 at 05:20 AM.

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    Default Re: List of RTW Tutorials and Useful Tools

    I don't know where to put this, so you guys can decide what to do with it.....

    The guide at the ORG by 'Duke John' on regenerating the vegetation in RTW\BI is a 'bit' incorrect if you're the kind of person like I am who tries to follow instructions 'to the T'. This statement:

    Removing old vegetation files
    I shouldn't be writing this by now, but back up in case you screw up. Remove the files in:
    data\vegetation\
    data\vegetation\sprites
    data\vegetation\textures
    Remove:
    data\descr_vegetation.db

    Led me to believe that I should delete everything in 'data\vegetation\textures'.....so I did. Not a good idea. You need only delete any file containing the word 'edging' or 'canopy'.
    I ended up finding that in 'Tutorial: Placing Palms on the Battlemap' by 'Teleklos Archelaou'. So between the two, got it figured out. Not a big deal, but for a frist-timer, a little confusing.

    It's really great seeing all of this gathered in one place. Thanks Aradan. Also, you might want to include this short explanation of how I 'paired' all the Legions in RS2 so that they only used 28 DMB slots instead of 56.

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=209039

    Could be useful.
    Last edited by dvk901; May 13, 2009 at 09:54 AM.

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    Added. Not sure what to do with Duke John's tutorial, it's true several of them need merging/updated, but this will require at least one more person to help me out with, as my time is a bit limited atm. On the to-do list nonetheless.

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    Since there weren't too much script-tutorials , i decided to make one :

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=259487

    Also , as you (Aradan) already stated , list should be updated a little .. I don't ask you to do it , though

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    Default Re: List of RTW Tutorials and Useful Tools

    You never added my EDB validator to the tool list ... nor RedFox's Zeus tool.
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    - Settlement coordinate locator -for RTW/M2TW
    - EDB Validator v1.2.8 (Oct 16, 2012) - for RTW/M2TW
    - RTW scripting tutorials
    - n-turns per year script generator

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