How can I mod the spanish crossbow angles in Americas campaign

[Skyler]

Hey guys,

If someone could point out what I have done wrong so far then that would be great. I have read other topics concerning this topic but it has got me nowhere.

I have unpacked Americas and moddified the descr_projectiles in order to make the crossbowmen a bit more endurable (no more insane high angle shots).

I did not see a prefference text in the Americas so I added the line of --io.file_first in the med2 text prefference instead.

Next up I changed the America exe launcher at the end with --io.file_first and thought I would work, needless to say it did not.

So can anyone help out a fellow modding noob and make it possible for me to not hate the dreadfull crossbows?

Also, can it be possible to implement a mod burrek had made in the past, namely the blood and Dirt mod vol.0.91?

[Chevalier IX]

First things first,it sounds to me like you are doing everything that you need to,but you might be better off making an actual batch file to run the americas with your modifications...here is what to do...open up a notepad and write kingdoms.exe....now save the file to your desktop,but save the file as kingdoms.exe.bat ...this should make the file you save a batch file,now right cick this new batch and select edit from the pull down menu....now you are going to add a few things to the end.....it should look like this
kingdoms.exe --features.mod=mods/americas --io.file_first
save the changes...
now you are going to move this batch ile to your medieval 2 base folder(the one with kingdoms installed,double click the batch and that should do the trick for you.
second,yes,you can use the burrek files for kingdoms,I am as well as a few others(like headlocks smoke mod for example,and horesearchers blood and sky)

[Bernhard of Clairvaux]

First things first,it sounds to me like you are doing everything that you need to,but you might be better off making an actual batch file to run the americas with your modifications...here is what to do...open up a notepad and write kingdoms.exe....now save the file to your desktop,but save the file as kingdoms.exe.bat ...this should make the file you save a batch file,now right cick this new batch and select edit from the pull down menu....now you are going to add a few things to the end.....it should look like this
kingdoms.exe --features.mod=mods/americas --io.file_first
save the changes...
now you are going to move this batch ile to your medieval 2 base folder(the one with kingdoms installed,double click the batch and that should do the trick for you.
second,yes,you can use the burrek files for kingdoms,I am as well as a few others(like headlocks smoke mod for example,and horesearchers blood and sky)

thanks, it works like a charm, you should post this as a tutorial.

[Skyler]

It worked like a charm, thanks

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Personally I have crossbow max angle at about 30-35, this way they don't shoot upwards like idiots and of course archers get 45 degree, cuz at that angle an object can travel farthest.
Make sure you've unpacked campaign and add " --io.file_first" in that campaign's shortcut, otherwise changes won't work, cheers