[NTW] Index of Modding Tutorials, Resources & Tools (Last Update: 21 Dec, 2011)

[Ishan]

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Index

• Tutorials
• Resources
• Tools

Tutorials

• Change/Edit traits,ancillary,attributes and abilities of faction leaders and generals
• Use a part of a unit from another faction
• Create,modify and save your textures with the best quality - Diffuse/Gloss/Normal
• How to make your own historic events
• How to add Stonewall/Fences to Custom and Campaign Battle Maps First Part
• Groupformations: Warscape Battle Formations.
• Adding your own version information to the main menu.
• Another Unit Icon Tutorial 47th way
• How to get 20+ units per army in the campaign.
• DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Adding Your Own Music and Sound Effects
• DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Changing, Adding and Removing Unit Parts
• DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Creating Your Own Unit
• DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Changing and Adding a Units Names
• DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Creating Your Own Unit Card
• DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Getting Started & Making a Simple Mod
• How to use modfoldered map files in the multiplayer campaign
• HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM UNIT step by step (Part 1)
• How to create custom missions
• HOW TO HAVE MORE THAN 20 UNITS IN CAMPAIGN'S ARMIES
• Compressing Direct Draw Surface (DDS) files
• The Uniform Tutorial
• Adding a Gatling into your NTW mod
• How To Fix UAC and VirtualStore Problems
• BMA's MAKING YOUR OWN MUSIC
• How to add deployable objects in historical battles (that don't have them)
• The Ministry of War: Video Modding Tutorial #1 (Pack Files and Adding Units)
• How to add building slots in cities and how to change the type of slots in towns and facilities
• How to Repair NTW if Modding "Breaks" Your Game
• Creating your own Music Mod
• Using OpenOffice to edit DB entries (via TSV export)
• A guide to the modding process
• How to Mod Folder Multi Startpos Files
• Earn fast chevrons
• One turn technology
• Removing the Defensive requirement for abilities.
• Edit the Time of playing
• Replacing a unit's hat
• Saving large texture files without a memory overload
• How to edit in-game text such as unit names and descriptions.
• Minister Effects
• Government Effects
• Technology - The Basics
• AI Campaign Bonuses - The Basics
• Projectile Basics. (Reload Times, Ranges, Lethality, and shot dispersal)
• How to remove bayonets.
• Changing the firing angle of cannons to allow them fire over obstacles.
• How to create a custom unit card (icon and info pics)
• How to mod a new unit with PFM
• MODIFICATION BASICS: How to become a modder, and how to use Pack File Manager to make a mod
• Fixing the Horse Artillery "Chasers"
• Changing buildable structures in towns.
• Global Effects for Buildings
• Enabling Two Rank Fire for Infantry
• How to add an Empire Total War unit in Napoleon Total War
• How to Dismount/Mount a General and his bodyguard now with fire from horseback or dismount and fire!
• Changing the firing arc of a unit.
• How to eliminate the episodic restrictions of the Italy and Egypt historical campaigns.
• How to add starting armies in custom battles for newly added factions
• How to create a custom unit in NTW
• How to add a unit to another faction
• How to change faction leader´s portrait and name
• How to Create a Mod
• How to avoid the black screen bug and put the starting camera on your faction´s capital.
• Changing Victory Condition Date
• Mod Packaging for Modders a reminder
• How to unlock non playable and emergent factions
• Mod Managing for NTW
• Changing unit sizes MID-CAMPAIGN.
• Larger Unit Sizes/Bigger Battles.

Resources

• Script-o-Rama 2[/U]
• Archduke Charles Personal Portrait and Thumbnail
• Complete DB update [Release 2]
• Working decompiled UI files
• NAVAL MODING NTW.
• Egypt Campaign Map
• UI Layout file documentation
• Ntw Modding Notes
• The NTW Script-o-Rama
• The Complete Guide to NTW Modding Tutorials, Tools and Resources
• Guide to the NTW mapping
• Scripting Commands.
• Decompiled UI scripts
• Courtesy of CA - Unit stats land completly explained.
• A simple solution to eliminating the melee bug
• Before you start your mod - a list of what can and can't be modded.
• Tips and Tricks in modding ETW and NTW
• Editing Effects (e.g, explosions, firing effects, ambient effects).
• Updated DBFileType list (Unknown columns named)
• Target Unit mod: a mod to help make mods
• Do's and Don'ts
• Uniforms (pictures)
• STARTPOS.ESF analysis and modifications
• The great DB Manual
• Nafziger Collection
• Don't settle for forced MEDIUM settings on older comps!
• Guide to get the unrestricted camera for beginners
• .Pack Files: What We Know So Far

Tools

• Savegame Parser support tool for EditSF[/U]
• Easy Launcher
• DBEditor 1.96.3
• EasyLoc 1.0.1
• EasyEsf for NTW
• HIBAM Editor: Map & Historical Battle editor
• Symphony (sound unpacker/packer)
• NTW Model Converter Now Released v1.1
• Atlas Manager
• unit_variant <-> txt converter for NTW and S2TW
• atlas<->tsv converter
• Scripting And Debug Toolkit
• Pack File Manager Switcher
• NTW Data Checker (V1.4)
• UI Layout file converter
• International Programmatic Laboratory
• Model exporter
• Rigid spline converter
• TSVEditor (AD) v2.0
• An Access Database to mod NTW land units
• Pack File Manager 1.5.9 [Now edits .atlas and .unit_variant files]
• Mod Manager for NTW
• User Script and Preferences Editor for ETW, NTW, SHO2
• MS Visual Studio 2010 RC
• Napoleon PFM Released

Last Update: 15 March 2014 by LolIsuck

[Ishan]

21 Dec, 2011.