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If anyone would like to write a user-friendly tutorial, that would be great. Steps are:

Get Ruby - https://rubyinstaller.org/
Download esf2xml code from github...

[I only wrote command line tools](https://github.com/taw/etwng/tree/master/esfxml). You need to install either Ruby or JRuby to make it work. It should work with every game.

(I should update...

Who's maintaining Esf Total Editor?
From error message it sounds like it uses old source code of esf2xml, before I moved some files around, but I'm not sure if that's even related to the fail.

I don't think that's possible, but it's been like a decade since I last looked at Empire AI code.

Just open a pull request on github with any updates.

I keep the tools updated for compatibility with latest games etc., but I didn't really do any more research about Empire.

Sorry, I don't maintain EasyEsf editor.
At one point I had to rearrange the files in esf2xml a bit and update dependencies. It should be easy enough to update EasyEsf to use new version in principle.

Are you using latest version? Just from line numbers it seems like you aren't.

If you go to https://github.com/taw/etwng and click big green Code button, it offers you multiple download options.

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

I'm going to post this in 10 threads for each game, as that's how this forum is organized.

I wrote new UI layout file converter. It has very close to 100% support for all 10 Total War games from...

Just to reduce number of thing that could have gone wrong, could you try dropping it in same folder as esf2xml and trying this:

jruby ./esf2xml CAISET.esf CAISET_unpacked

So I'm not doing tech support here, and can't really help with installation.
Any version of JRuby or regular Ruby should work equally well with esf2xml. If you get any error message from esf2xml, I...

happiness_war_* applies to your capital based on how well war is going.
When negative it's called "war weariness", and when positive it's called "patriotic fervor".

Either way, these are not what...

I think -13 and -30 numbers are hardcoded. At least I couldn't find them anywhere when I tried to mod them.

OK, so I did some testing and I finally found the answer.

You get -30 resistance in capital of any PLAYABLE faction. You get -13 everywhere else.

Contrary to a common belief, it has nothing...

So not like many people are playing this game anymore, but in case anyone is actually googling this information, here's correction. Information posted above was correct at release, but good changed...

Did we ever figure out this logic?

Capitals of majors get -30, most other settlements get -13, that's the usual pattern.

But sometimes capitals or former of minors get -30. Like I just had...

So I tried "Bran_Empire_AI_Otto_++", and it looks like there's multiple size versions of the same units. The starting ones are just smaller than ones I can recruit later. Is this a known limitation?...

Could you try adding .luac as a 0 byte file in same pack as that generally how patch packs delete files?

Is it crashing from the game or from somewhere else?

Also, isn't game able to just run `.lua` uncompiled in addition to `.luac`? (or am I really misremembering that)

Quick tests suggest it's working better than decompilers we had before.

I updated README in my repo to say people should generally use that website instead.

Anyone tried that on Total War .luac files?

LUAC is not a single format like JAR, it has a lot of variants for every app, and Total War's uses some custom settings for sure.

I played it a bit, and I get crashes during battles every now and then. Usually reload works, so it's not too bad, but in my most recent campaign the same battle (sally out during siege of Budapest)...

The converter is supposed to handle all esf files not just startpos.

Just use the esf2xml script, nothing except startpos has this embedded compressed data as far as I know.

Both type 24 crash and type 17 lookahead issues should be fixed now.

Which game is it for?

ESF docs I wrote list 09 as "uint64 (rarely observed in practice)". It seems converter didn't have them, so I just blind-fixed it.

Could you send me the file so I can...

I mean, that's literally me, that's why I'm asking what works and what doesn't. ;-)

So very long time ago I did a lot of research and modding tool for Empire, with a bit of Napoleon and Shogun 2.

I've been wondering, how much of that still works for newer games?
Did officially...

Yeah, any feature which works for AI but not for player is a good candidate for something which could be added with UI modding.

If it doesn't work for AI, it's less likely to work this way.

I've taken a quick look at Rome 2 files, and it looks like there's a lot of changes from Shogun 2. Oh well, maybe someday.

So that UI to XML and back converter which alpaca once wrote for NTW, and which I then improved and extended to ETW... Now I added Shogun 2 support.

Enjoy. Code needs Python 3 to run.

I'm going to resurrect this old thread, and say that I made it work with Shogun 2 files now. Unless I'm terribly confused, I think that's the first time modding Shogun 2 UI is possible.

It's in...

You'll have to ask crux3D, I know nothing about that.