add AP trait?

[Legion12]

Can some1 give me instructions on how to add AP traits to every unit carrying 2 handed swords? thnx

[AlfonsoVIII]

A little tut how to add units to the mod, step by step.

Adding units have two aspects that need to be done.
- First you need to add the unit to the own battle section.
- Second, to have the unit later in campaign, you also need to add the unit to one building, so it can be recruited in game.
For now this tut I will only talk about the first.

A pitfall on adding new units is also, that the number of units a mod can have, is limited: If you go over that number , it will result in a crash and (if you have enabled '-show_err' to your games shortcut) an error message.

Ok, let's start!
There are two text files that need to be edited to get new units in game, both are in \data in your mod folder.
The files are:
descr_model_battle.txt and export_descr_unit.txt

The easiest way is you copy and duplicate an unit entry and rename it:

Let's take the RTW barb. standard bearer and put it into our mod.
Open the descr_model_battle.txt (in RTW!) and search the barb_standard:
'
type barb_standard
skeleton fs_standard_bearer
indiv_range 40
texture gauls, data/models_unit/textures/officer_barb_standard_gaul.tga
texture britons, data/models_unit/textures/officer_barb_standard_briton.tga
texture germans, data/models_unit/textures/officer_barb_standard_german.tga
texture dacia, data/models_unit/textures/officer_barb_standard_dacia.tga
texture scythia, data/models_unit/textures/officer_barb_standard_scythia.tga
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_400.cas, 8
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_300.cas, 15
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_200.cas, 30
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_100.cas, 40
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_70.cas, max
model_sprite 60.0, data/sprites/warband_woad_sprite.spr
model_sprite britons, 60.0, data/sprites/parthia_east_heavy_cataphract_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5
'

We now put this into our mod (which is BI yet, so we have to rename factions and we use our own textures)and rename it:
'
type vik_standard
skeleton fs_standard_bearer
indiv_range 40
texture vandals, data/models_unit/textures/unit_vik_standard_carls.tga
texture romano_british, data/models_unit/textures/unit_vik_standard_mercia.tga
texture ostrogoths, data/models_unit/textures/unit_vik_standard_mercia.tga
texture slave, data/models_unit/textures/unit_vik_standard_mercia.tga
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_400.cas, 8
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_300.cas, 15
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_200.cas, 30
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_100.cas, 40
model_flexi data/models_unit/officer_barb_standard_70.cas, max
model_sprite 60.0, data/sprites/warband_woad_sprite.spr
model_sprite vandals, 60.0, data/sprites/parthia_east_heavy_cataphract_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5
'

Make sure you really have already those textures and the faction- and filenames are correct, or it might result in a crash again.

This should be enought to get our unit into game via the 'officer' slot in export_descr_unit.txt.
To see that unit in battles you go to one of our units and add that standard bearer to a unit, let's say we add the standard-bearer to the 'costal levys':
'
type coastal levies
dictionary coastal_levies ; Coastal Levies
category infantry
class spearmen
voice_type Light_1
soldier coastal_levies, 55, 0, 1.3
officer vik_standard
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap, very_hardy
formation 1.2, 1.2, 2, 2, 7, square, shield_wall ;
stat_health 4, 0
stat_pri 42, 9, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, spear, 1 ,1
stat_pri_attr light_spear, spear_bonus_12, ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 1 ,1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 20, 20, 23, leather
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 5
stat_ground 1, -2, 3, 2
stat_mental 15, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 60
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 2, 437, 184, 40, 60, 350
ownership slave, romano_british
'

That should do it.
If you check your costal levys unit in romano-british faction in battle now (not in campaign! only in own battle) there should be a standard bearer in the unit now.

If this works, you could try to create a unit with our standard bearers (sure its nonsense to have such, but it can demonstrate how to do it).
Go in export_descr_unit.txt now, copy one unit there and rename it.
Lets say we copy our costal levys unit and change some parts:
'
type coastal levies2
dictionary coastal_levies ; Coastal Levies
category infantry
class spearmen
voice_type Light_1
soldier vik_standard, 55, 0, 1.3
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap, very_hardy
formation 1.2, 1.2, 2, 2, 7, square, shield_wall ;
stat_health 4, 0
stat_pri 42, 9, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, spear, 1 ,1
stat_pri_attr light_spear, spear_bonus_12, ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 1 ,1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 20, 20, 23, leather
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 5
stat_ground 1, -2, 3, 2
stat_mental 15, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 60
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 2, 437, 184, 40, 60, 350
ownership slave, romano_british
'

If you (and I) made no errors you should have a unit with standard bearers now in your own battle when you choose your Romano-british faction.
Here is more tuts, including how to create a new skin for a unit: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...units+tutorial

[Legion12]

i have no idea what that guy's talking about.:hmmm: Not a computer genius.

[Tankfriend]

Well, I guess I can translate that to a shorter and probably easier form...

The first thing that you need is an unpacked \data-folder so you can access the necessary files.
I can't tell you how to do that, you would have to ask in the modding forums where I think someone will be able to answer that question.

It is a lot easier though if you are using any mods because these usually come with extracted files from the get-go.
Let's have a look at it:

- open your Medieval 2 folder

-> open the folder of the mod you are using

-> open that mod's data folder

-> look for a text file named export_descr_units.txt, copy it someplace else as a backup (just in case something goes wrong) and then open the original

-> use the search function (ctrl-f in case you don't know it) and search for the name of a 2-handed unit (that's right - you have to look for the names for every single unit that you want to change later on)

-> when you have found your desired unit, look for the line stat_pri_attr; if there is a no in it, simply replace it with ap
-> if there is something in that line already (example: bp meaning body piercing) you have to add a comma, a space and then the ap so it looks this way: stat_pri_attr bp, ap
Just remember to keep the "blocks" of text aligned the way they are from the beginning, that makes it a lot easier to work with it later on.


Note: You can have a look at the very top part of this text file, there is a complete explanation on what each section of a units text means, what you can put in there and what the effect of that will be.

[Harry Lime]

Moved to Mod Workshop > Text editing and scripting

[Legion12]

is export_descr_units.txt in the imperial_campaign folder? By the way im using vanilla(i dont think that changes anything).

[Tankfriend]

No, it's inside the data folder in your M2TW folder.

To access it:

- make sure you have installed M2TW version 1.1 or higher (unpacker is included in 1.1)

- open [your M2TW folder]\tools\unpacker

- make sure you read the readme if you want to know more about the unpacker

- make sure you have another ~7GB space left on your hard drive with M2TW on it

- open unpack_all.bat and wait until it is finished (will take quite a long time, unpacking the huge amount of data)

- when finished, you can find all the unpacked files added to the data folder in your M2TW main folder; among them the file in question

In case you need a link to patch 1.1:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=75019

[Lord Raneus]

There's another tutorial somewhere, I think, but you have to dig around in this file if you want to mess with units.