Adding Greek Fire

**Eothese** · June 28, 2008, 09:51 AM

I followed the tutorial to the letter and get only the following error:-

15:50:30.093 [script.err] [error] Script Error in latemod/data/descr_projectile.txt, at line 1453, column 1
Expected 'display'
15:50:30.408 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

what it finds instead of display is grapeshot...

**Furin** · June 28, 2008, 10:57 PM

The idea was to let the shoot upwards to the walls, from inside the settlement, from street level. So they can burn invaders who are taking the walls with ladders or towers. It could be nice to let them shoot down from the walls too but I think the range isn't sufficient and changing that too might make them too strong perhaps.

I tried that with changing the max angle in descr_projectiles, from the default value to 45,75, and so on, but I havent tried 180° (just read about that in a different thread, maybe it works with 180°).

**Eothese** · July 02, 2008, 06:01 AM

do I need Kingdoms patched to the latest version, 1.5 I assume, for this to work?

**The Count(er)** · July 02, 2008, 07:45 AM

It works fine for me with vanilla Kingdoms

**Eothese** · July 02, 2008, 03:02 PM

Then why does mine have a problem with grapeshot?

**The Count(er)** · July 04, 2008, 01:14 AM

well the grape shot needs some other work to be added in is probably why

**Eothese** · July 08, 2008, 03:52 PM

Well I've finally managed to get greek firethrowers working, I had to add several other files as well as those mentioned by J@mes.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I used the barebones folder and without the files outlined above, my mod CTD when loading a battle involving Greek Firethrowers.
Hope this info helps anyone else who has the same problems as I did.

**J@mes** · August 01, 2008, 03:01 PM

@Eothese I'm happy you have it working now.

Very nice AnthoniusII.

**krycek** · August 05, 2008, 05:50 AM

good tutorial.

**Panthera leo** · September 13, 2008, 06:45 AM

I'm using gold edition, and.... oh god, this is probably necromancy. Anyways- I'm using gold edition, and I followed the original tutorial, and nothing has happened. The unit has not been added to the Byzantine custom battles, or the Byzantine campaign. I've had no issues withblack screen and error messages,but I think I screwed up the Export_Desc_Buildings file. Or maybe the Export_Desc_Units filel, but I think not.

Please help?

**EVYATAR** · November 11, 2008, 01:02 PM

if i want to add other unit from kingdoms to M2TW.what to do?

**J@mes** · November 11, 2008, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by EVYATAR

if i want to add other unit from kingdoms to M2TW.what to do?

are you still having problems? if you are would a new tutorial be of any help? (not sure we have one on this already)

**EVYATAR** · November 12, 2008, 09:54 AM

i ask if i can to do the same thing with other unit from kingdoms?
like the norway unit to denamark?

**J@mes** · November 12, 2008, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by EVYATAR

i ask if i can to do the same thing with other unit from kingdoms?
like the norway unit to denamark?

yes its the same method but most units do not need new projectiles

**EVYATAR** · November 13, 2008, 10:57 AM

thnk you i will try it

**Pnutmaster** · July 24, 2009, 01:15 PM

I've added the Greek Firethrower to PDER, but I'm having trouble activating the sounds of the flamethrower...

If I'm rebuilding my sound files (as I already have custom music, voices, and warhorns), what text files do I need to update for the firethrower?

**Neige** · September 12, 2009, 10:47 AM

Could you please provide more information on this? I can't understand some parts of this tutorial. I have tried adding flamethrower unit to LTC mod, but I got error CTD.

Depending on how you have set your mod folder up will depend on where you need to copy these files if your using barebones (like myself) copy to the main directory after making back ups of the files listed below

What is this "barebones"??

open your unpacked crusader campaign folder and copy these file to your main directory
(once you have made back-ups)

found: Data Folder
descr_effect_impacts.txt
....
....
.....

What do you mean by main directory? M2 directory or LTC mod directory?

copy (over writing) these into your main Medieval II Total War data/sound directory

flamethrower_firing.evt
flamethrower_remains.evt
flamethrower_start.evt

You mean I have to copy those files to M2 directory and not to the LTC mod directory? If so, then why? Because I want to add the unit to the mod and not to the vanilla M2.

so now we need an entry for the EDU (export_descr_unit.txt)
copy the following into your EDU

Again, the mod, or the M2 vanilla EDU?

Maybe I sound like a noob (which is actually quite true), but I really hope somebody reads this and answers me.