Originally Posted by
Raven Shadowe
Ok, I've been trying for about four months to get the editor to work, always without success. When I first started out, I was on vista, and had no clue what I was doing. I remember watching those tutorials, and they never did work for me. Now I'm on Windows 7, and I'm a slight bit (slight) less clueless, and furthermore I'm so close to having it work that I can almost feel it right under my fingertips. But still, the final result eludes me. I have gotten the replay viewer to work, Or at least to the point where I can see the soldiers I used in the battle, but the editor window doesn't work, so I can't even start the battle, much less make a video of from it. To be this close is driving me crazy. I found basically everything confusing, but somehow I managed to get this much of it to work. Especially the directories proved confusing to me. This is how mine are right now, starting with the edit file.
file = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\replays\replay.rpy
camera = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\cameras\
#mod = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\
dir = C:\video_capture\
And the render one:
file = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\replays\[REPLAY_NAME].rpy
camera = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\cameras\[CAMERA_NAME].cam
#mod = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\
dir = C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\video_capture\
That's how they are right now, they may be a bit mixed up because I've tried everything under the sun, and everything in between, and to be honest they don't look like they should work as they are, but unfortunately I have no older brother who's into this kind of thing to ask about it. (Actually, I kind of do, but he's you guys, and you're on the internet.)
I also thought the issue might be with the screen size, which by default is different for one file than for the other, so I changed one to match the other, but that didn't fix it.
I've been trying to get the editor to work with vanilla M2TW, but what I really want is to use it with Third Age total war.
I don't think in terms of file names, I think in terms of "The second text file" for the render one because of the stack of four, it's the bottom text file. That's one of the easiest ways to confuse me. I hope I'm not asking you to step too far out of your comfort zone with that, but it would help me understand a lot better and make this go a lot faster in the long run. Thank you for reading. I know it's long, but I wanted to be thorough. If you need me to explain something about my predicament, please go ahead and ask.
P.S. The name of the replay I'm trying to use actually is "replay". I wanted to keep things simple till I could figure the whole thing out.