Mod Summit 2015- Assembly Kit for Total War: ATTILA

[Joey CA]

The Mod Summit is in full swing and the modders and devs are busy discussing new tools and community events for Total War: ATTILA.

Some exciting news for you modding enthusiasts is that a new Assembly Kit for Total War: ATTILA will be out a couple of months after launch!

Along with all the tools that were available with ROME II, there will also be some map modding capabilities with new TED and TERRY tools, and raw terrain data. You can check out some of the new features on the wiki below:
http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/ATTILA_Assembly_Kit

Today’s attendees will go hands on with an early version of these this afternoon, taking the chance for some Q&A with the ATTILA team while they are at it.

At last year’s Summit we saw the birth of the Mod Awards and we hope to achieve some new exciting ways to involve our modding community and thank them for their hard work.

For a more detailed look at our Mod Summit itinerary and announcements keep an eye on the forums for the attendees’ posts and write ups.

Joey

[Magnar]

Good news woo!!

Anything on making the models_naval table moddable to enable new ship models?

EDIT:
....oh its only battle map editing and campaign map aesthetics

However, does not enable editing of:

• Settlement positioning.
• Tree positioning.
• Border positioning.
• Campaign logic (pathfinding and collision).

I guess its understandable though considering AI pathfinding tools would be needed to allow border and settlement positioning to be moddable.

[von stoker]

Map making tools. That will make a lot of people happy. Including me.
Can be used for Custom Battles, Multiplayer Custom battles, Historical battles or replacing of currently placed battle map locations within the campaign map.
Can't wait to knock me up me very own Viking (forefathers) fortress. Thanks Joey. Now, about Warhammer.......

[Aenima]

there will also be some map modding capabilities with new TED and TERRY tools, and raw terrain data.

Terry:

• However, does not enable editing of:
  
  • Settlement positioning.
  • Tree positioning.
  • Border positioning.
  • Campaign logic (pathfinding and collision).

The bosses are still scared of mods being bad for the DLC business, huh.

[esejony65]

However, does not enable editing of:

• Settlement positioning.
• Tree positioning.
• Border positioning.
• Campaign logic (pathfinding and collision).

YOU KILLED MY BONNER

[Junaidi83 de Bodemloze]

hmm anything that can read db tables from Attila is fine for me

[Huberto]

This is positive. I like the capability allowing replacement or editing of the battle map tiles for the campaign map. This should lead to more interesting campaign mods. The burning question is why no Ted or Terry for TWR2?

[Linke]

The possibilities are endless, well not endless but a lot vaster.
Any time period until guns that is set in Europe will now be able to be made. The settlement modding in particular is great
as it is easier then ever before and with more possibilities, the settlements were a great issue for Rome II mods limiting the timeframe of possible mod. I am very sure Attila will have more of the greatest Tw3/war scape mods than any tw3 title
before.

[AnthoniusII]

YOU KILLED MY BONNER
However, does not enable editing of: Settlement positioning. Tree positioning. Border positioning. Campaign logic (pathfinding and collision).

That is exactly what i was about to post now!!
That proves that this summit is a big joke (to avoid post more agressive terms) and all its happening there is a feast on the suckers (us all)!!!!
IF any one of the so called "modders" will post that CA created a modding tool he/she will have us all for fools!

[anonimo272]

guys we can't add cities to the campaign map with the CA tools
but remember we don't need a tool for that, for shogun 2 we only needed the files
now my questiont is, are these files included ?

anyway if the above question is a yes then a huge thank you to CA gonna preorder the game if so

[warman222]

@AnthoniusII

I know I'm going to regret asking this but how is this a big joke again? To get that much stuff from the start, which is much more than what we have for Rome 2 I might add, isn't enough for you people!? I hope they never release anything else just to spite people like you Anthonius. You guys don't deserve anything else as far as I'm concerned.

[anonimo272]

@AnthoniusII

I know I'm going to regret asking this but how is this a big joke again? To get that much stuff from the start, which is much more than what we have for Rome 2 I might add, isn't enough for you people!? I hope they never release anything else just to spite people like you Anthonius. You guys don't deserve anything else as far as I'm concerned.

so CA should stop the assembly kits because of antonius ??
CA forum:
Sorry guys but we won't make any more assembly kit to show who is the boss here !!!

seriously ?

[warman222]

You completely missed the point. Based on the immediate reactions, the only thing I've seen people notice is what hasn't been included in this thing. So again, why should CA bother if the reactions are so absurdly bitter.

[Huberto]

To get that much stuff from the start, which is much more than what we have for Rome 2 I might add, isn't enough for you people!?

I know this isn't AnthoniusII's point, but don't you think it's ridiculous that there's no Ted or Terry for TWR2? You know those tools didn't just fall out of the sky as CA was wrapping up Attila....

[Linke]

As I said this has the greatest potential for mods any game has had the last 6 years.
No map editing does not automatically make this anywhere near useless.
I would have loved that but I give my full respect to Ca for giving us acces to twice as many of their tools.

[LestaT]

guys we can't add cities to the campaign map with the CA tools
but remember we don't need a tool for that, for shogun 2 we only needed the files
now my questiont is, are these files included ?

anyway if the above question is a yes then a huge thank you to CA gonna preorder the game if so

From what I read you can't add new settlement or rearrange border (meaning a totally new map is out of the question). What you can do is create new custom settlements (like Shogun 2) but unlike Shogun 2, the custom settlements can be use to replace the vanilla settlements in campaigns.

[warman222]

I know this isn't AnthoniusII's point, but don't you think it's ridiculous that there's no Ted or Terry for TWR2? You know those tools didn't just fall out of the sky as CA was wrapping up Attila....

It would be, except for the fact I have reasonable suspicion that we can retrofit those tools to Rome 2 given how similar those two games are.

[revan.be]

From what I read you can't add new settlement or rearrange border (meaning a totally new map is out of the question). What you can do is create new custom settlements (like Shogun 2) but unlike Shogun 2, the custom settlements can be use to replace the vanilla settlements in campaigns.

umm, correct me if i am wrong , but i seriously seem to remember a mod that adds Custom settlement battlemaps to vanilla settlements,
as well as several mods now adding settlements to the battlemap itself , not just the Imjin war mod, but on Japan itself.

Also , am i right in my suspicion that no new tools or modding support will be given for rome2 ?

[anonimo272]

CA doesn't care about the first 10 reactions
they do care about the long term ones

From what I read you can't add new settlement or rearrange border (meaning a totally new map is out of the question). What you can do is create new custom settlements (like Shogun 2) but unlike Shogun 2, the custom settlements can be use to replace the vanilla settlements in campaigns.

yes they didn't release a tool to create new settlements
but they did release alot of files, and some of them may be what we need to mod it properly
remember that in shogun 2 we have maps with korea
i believe it was something related to 3d max (wich seems to be included)
anyway the modders will tell it in time

[Humble Warrior]

CA doesn't care about the first 10 reactions
they do care about the long term ones

Really? No, they don`t. Short term or long. They just do what suits them financially and marketing wise, that`s all.