Patch 1.2 Cinematic Editor

[Pdguru]

How does this work/where is it? Help appreciated.

[blank]

As i posted in another topic, you could try this, but i don't know if it'll work (it's actually how it worked with RTW)

select your Medieval 2 desktop shortcut, right click and then select properties. In the dialog box that opens you need to position your cursor in the “Target” box and add the “ -movie_cam” on the end of your existing command line

if it worked, then when you load a replay file, the editor should start.

[Pdguru]

Thanks. I tried what you said, but get message that the path is invalid. If I place your statement outside the quotes I get a fatal error on launch. Any other ideas?
Also, exactly what is the "launcher" for? it's a whole new shortcut and way into the game but I can't see what for.

[plasticfigurine]

From the patch readme:

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Cinematic Editor

This tool is unsupported by either Creative Assembly or Sega, it is
provided as is and there are no guarantees that it is free from bugs.

To run the Cinematic Editor you must create a new config file with any
filename (e.g. CineEd.cfg) and launch medieval2.exe with the following
command line switch:

Medieval2.exe @CineEd.cfg

The Config file must contain the following:

[video]

windowed = true

movies = false

tga_width = 800 #tga capture size



[capture_tga]

fps = 20



[misc]

tga_front_buffer_capture = true



[audio]

disabled = true



[cine]

show = true

width = 800

height = 600



[replay]

play = true

file = replays/replay.rpy

camera = cameras/cam1.cam #default camera to load



#The file will also need to contain one or both of these options:


[cine]

capture = true #captures the movie as .tga files using the default camera (required)

avi = true #use this if you want an AVI instead of .tga files

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[Pdguru]

Thanks! But how do I "launch medieval2.exe with the following
command line switch: Medieval2.exe @CineEd.cfg"?

[plasticfigurine]

You have to create a .bat file. Just create a new text file and rename it to whatever you want, but with .bat at the end. For example, I would create a text file and rename it to m2tw.bat. Next, right click the new .bat file, click edit, then put in "Medieval2.exe @CineEd.cfg" (without the quotation marks of course). Now just use this .bat file to launch the game.

PS, sorry if this was hard to understand. I'm not very good at explaining things.

[Douchebag]

video]

windowed = true

movies = false

tga_width = 800 #tga capture size



[capture_tga]

fps = 20



[misc]

tga_front_buffer_capture = true



[audio]

disabled = true



[cine]

show = true

width = 800

height = 600



[replay]

play = true

file = replays/replay.rpy

camera = cameras/cam1.cam #default camera to load



#The file will also need to contain one or both of these options:


[cine]

capture = true #captures the movie as .tga files using the default camera (required)

avi = true #use this if you want an AVI instead of .tga files

Do I have to put all this, in the .bat file also?

[Helmi]

Do I have to put all this, in the .bat file also?

No, that goes into the .CFG file.

The .BAT file only needs to contain:
Medieval2.exe @CineEd.cfg

Obviously, your .CFG file needs to be named CineEd.cfg for this to work

[jaklei]

wow.... you blew my mind.

[kobi118]

to watch a battle in the cinematic editore I need to save it as a replay?
if yes, how will I watch campaign battles? I cant save campaign battles...(or can I? I havnt installed 1.2 yet...waiting for the official)

[jaklei]

auctally that wont work. Is there another way?

Cant anybody bother to post a functional .CFG text in here!?

[B. Ward]

07:15:30.406 [system.io] [warning] open: replays/replay.rpy.chk is missing
07:15:30.468 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

why do i keep getting this error? anyone know?

[Lusted]

Well you need to make sure that what you put for this part in the .cfg:

file = replays/replay.rpy

Is the name of the replay you've saved.

[B. Ward]

indeed, i have all that, but now i'm getting another crazy error....

07:32:28.671 [system.io] [warning] open: cine.cfgXml is missing
07:32:28.671 [data.xml.tag] [error] File:[cine.cfgXml]Failed to open file(0:0)
07:32:28.671 [system.io] [warning] open: cameras/cam1.cam is missing
07:32:28.671 [data.xml.tag] [error] File:[cameras/cam1.cam]Failed to open file(0:0)

[Lusted]

Okay have you got the unofficial patch 1.2? And are you trying to run this from a mod folder?

[B. Ward]

yea, i'm running 1.2 and i tried to run it from a mod folder and it would go passed the first screen without ctd. so i ran vanilla and saved a replay from their and it loads and everything and right when the screen goes to the editor it just closes.

[aion2006]

Hmm didn't work for me. Did everything I'm suppose to do.
-Make .bat
-Make .ctf
-All correctly "pasted" in

It started up for a bit but then it suddenly close.

[Douchebag]

Okay it dosent work. I mean...I opened it with the batch file...the game menu popped up, i clicked on "Load Game" then "Load Battle Reply". The reply loaded, BUT I cant zoom in real close. Do I have to click a certain key or something?

[Prof]

it doesn't work for me...it just loads until I get to the main menu and then I'm back on the desktop...if I try to restart the game I won't even see the splashscreen anymore -_-

[haggiseater]

tryed getting this to work also i got as far as the loading screen loads the bar at the bottom while in windowed mode but stops responding at this point ive followed the comments posted dunno why Tigervx can get it working but we cant?anybody else other than tiger got this working on the 1.2 leaked patch?