Retrofit Mod 1.0 Released

[Archaon]

I just got Kingdoms, loaded a game, played a while and thought "hmm i wonder if anyone is working on a mod to make some of these features work in vanilla..." turns out that not only is it being worked on but its already released!.
fine job!

[Rumpletumpskin]

plz delete this

[CaesarBR]

Great Job!

[spartan220]

Just wonderin Unspoken ....its it possible to carry the new units & permanent forts (not neccisarily stone ones) over from Kingdoms to GC? .........and also perhaps make the Jerusalem & tripolii units availible to the faction that controls the Holy Land? .....I'm not askin u to do this (though if u did it would be very cool..) at all just wonderin?

[ShadowGladius]

Could you add to this mod the changes to gunpowder units? They don't change files to fire/reload anymore in the Americas. Or is that change already in?

[Wolfiefang]

wait wait wait... so I can't patch my GC if i have Kingdoms??
say it ain't so!

[Unspoken Knight]

@spartan220:

Just wonderin Unspoken ....its it possible to carry the new units & permanent forts (not neccisarily stone ones) over from Kingdoms to GC? .........and also perhaps make the Jerusalem & tripolii units availible to the faction that controls the Holy Land? .....I'm not askin u to do this (though if u did it would be very cool..) at all just wonderin?

I am sure it is possible. I may in fact be looking into some of these items for a future version of the Custom Campaign Mod.


@Pode:

Much praise and gratitude to Unspoken Knight for supplying the patch part of the patchspansion. Only one thing remains, in my mind, and that is to integrate this mod and Spurius's BigMap. Is that a possibility? Are there any hidden conflicts, or is it something that can be done fairly straightforwardly by a novice modder? Thoughts?

Again, I am sure it would be possible. I haven't had a look at Spurius' BigMap mod files so would not know what is involved. If there are no conflicts, or the conflicts are minor, it shouldn't be too difficult to merge them together.


@ShadowGladius:

Could you add to this mod the changes to gunpowder units? They don't change files to fire/reload anymore in the Americas. Or is that change already in?

I am not certain if these chanes are in. I have taken unit data changes (in the EDU) from across all 4 Kingdoms mods. If these changes are contained in the EDU, chances are that I have included them.


@Wolfiefang:

wait wait wait... so I can't patch my GC if i have Kingdoms??
say it ain't so!

I am a little confused by your question. My Retrofit Mod is designed to be installed to a valid Kingdom installation and Kingdoms shouldn't affect the ability to patch the GC.


Unspoken Knight

[Spurius]

@Pode:
Again, I am sure it would be possible. I haven't had a look at Spurius' BigMap mod files so would not know what is involved. If there are no conflicts, or the conflicts are minor, it shouldn't be too difficult to merge them together.
Unspoken Knight

It's essentially just a simple map transplant, totally barebones except for the extra provinces. Should be a snap.

[repman]

@unspoken knight
Best wishes to your wife and the virtuell baby

DLV works fine with your mod and the new kingdoms.exe ! Thanks for your efforts.

repman

[Erithtotl]

Has anyone tried this with STEAM yet? When I try to run the installer it says I'm still running 1.2 so I haven't tried to let it continue yet.

[spartan220]

@Unspoken

that would be the awesomest if u could!
ty for makin mods and stuff very apprieciative I am

[Pode]

It's essentially just a simple map transplant, totally barebones except for the extra provinces. Should be a snap.

Color me clueless, but I've been playing other stuff lately and what little modding skill I did have has atrophied away. What's involved in a simple map transplant?

Congrats, UK, on your impending heir. Sleep now while you still can

[Unspoken Knight]

Just a heads up to everyone. My lovely wife is currently 3 days overdue with our baby. This means that at any time I might have to leave the forums and may not be able to offer support for my mods for a few weeks. If I am able, I will try and pop in occasionally to discuss any major issues or questions.

Thankyou for your understanding,

Unspoken Knight


p.s. If you haven't done so already, please try out my mods. These have been personal projects of mine and I hope that other players and modders have as much fun with them as I have had creating them. If you really like my mods, don't forget to rate them in the downloads section .

[Unspoken Knight]

@Sommo James:

Does this mod works with the italian version of the game?

Yes (in theory). I have designed the Retrofit Mod to install localised audio and text versions for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech and Japanese versions of M2TW: Kingdoms. However, there are 3 issues to be aware of:

- the installer package itself is in english
- the mod has not been exhaustively tested for every language
- the 4 custom battle map names have not been translated


@Pode:

What's involved in a simple map transplant?

I think Spurius means you can just copy his BigMap imperial campaign files over the ones in the Retrofit Mod (always back up files before overwriting them of course).


@Erithtotl:

Has anyone tried this with STEAM yet? When I try to run the installer it says I'm still running 1.2 so I haven't tried to let it continue yet.

I believe there are two issues with getting the mod to run on a Steam version of Kingdoms:

1) The Retrofit Mod installer validates the M2TW version number in the registry and checks that a kingdoms executable file exists in the M2TW install path. These may be different for a Steam version of Kingdoms. You can try and modify the registry version and create a dummy kingdoms executable at your own risk.

2) I am not yet sure of the process for launching kingdoms mods for a Steam version of Kingdoms. It will probably be similar to launching mods for a Steam version of M2TW. You can read about running mods in Steam M2TW in the following M2TW "Steam and mods" thread:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86236


Unspoken Knight

[Spurius]

@Sommo James:

I think Spurius means you can just copy his BigMap imperial campaign files over the ones in the Retrofit Mod (always back up files before overwriting them of course).

Is good advice always to back up, but should all be doable. I'll check it anyway, still have to download your mod - looks very interesting.

Good work, like the idea of those blown-up maps, and also the fantasy one gets kudos, more people should just go for that, I think.

[Warriorset]

Thanks a lot for this mod!

[Candelarius]

I don't even consider this to be a "mod", but, a semi-official "patch".

[CaesarBR]

I don't even consider this to be a "mod", but, a semi-official "patch".

Yeah...you're right about it...

[=Christian=]

I may have gotten something wrong, but how exactly did you install the BigMap with the Retrofit Mod? I have (to be absolutely sure) installed the BigMap files into the M2 directory AND the Retrofit directory. Additionaly. I added the "@BigMap.cfg" command to the retrofit.bat file, but it simply starts the Retrofit Mod with the same old map.

Any ideas?

[alpaca]

Gosh Unspoken Knight couldn't you have told me you use xml files for the .sd files? I'd have asked for them instead of having to write a converter which does the same via reverse-engineering...
Anyways I'm not sure if the bigwigs actually wanted you to release them