changiing banners on chariots?

[Lorenzo Maximus]

How do I change the britania banner on back of chariots to another barbarian banner? which files should I be looking at to modify?

[florin80]

You mean the blue banner with the deer? You have to edit the texture. Unfortunatelly that`s in a .pak file(in data/packs). You`d need to decompress it using Vergingetorix`s xpak(it`s in the download section of twc) and redo the pack after you`ve changed the texture. Just leaving it out in a different subforum like with other textures won`t work because the game will still look for it in the pak file first and will load that one.
Alternatively you could make another smaller pak and name it mod_0.pak or mod_1.pak and put the new texture in this one. The game will look there first and this saves you the work to repack the bigger one. There is also a fileparser for xpak that makes it easier to make a pak file. You`ll find that in the download section too.
And btw, you`d need a program able to edit the texture which is in .dds format. Gimp for example can do that and it`s also free. There is also a dds plugin for it available.

[Lorenzo Maximus]

I already xtracted texture files and have the requisite Gimp with dds plug-in to mod unit textures. Already moded the texture file for the british heavy chariots only thing is I don't know how to re-pak. I'll see if I can figure it out by using the file parser. Thanx for the info, it should come in handy!

[Lorenzo Maximus]

Okay got the file parser and managed to create the pak file, now how do I re-pak it? Assistance would be appreciated, thanx.

[florin80]

The fileparser is self explanatory. You should have instructions for every step you need to complete. I don`t remember more specifics as I usually follwed its guide. But, as I`ve said, repacking the whole pack is a huge work since you need to select every file in there and while fileparser allows you to select all the files of one sub-folder you`ll still have to go through all of them. It`s easier to create a pak using just the modified texture and name that pack mod_0.pak. The game will check that first and will load the texture from there. Just make sure to place the texture in the right sub-folder before repacking. Follow the path it had in the original one.