cannons for the byzantines

**axnsan** · February 01, 2009, 01:16 AM

is there anyway to make the byzzies have any cannons other than the generic bombard?
i tried going to EDB, making the 2nd gunsmith buildable by "byzantium", then make EE Ribault for byzantium
then went to EDB, and put byzantium in the ownership of the EE ribault
but my game crashes when i start. perhaps its because of the lack of models, and i really suck at models
could anyone help me? >.<

**Caesar Clivus** · February 01, 2009, 02:19 AM

Your getting the crash because the Byzantines need a texture entry for the ribault in the modeldb file (in SS\data\unit_models). If you are ok with using another faction's skins, then you can just copy the texture entry for another faction.

1. Open the modeldb file in notepad
2. Do a search for ee_ribault_crew
3. Replace the entry you have with the following:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I've marked the changes in red. Basically this just adds a texture entry for another faction.

Explanation:

5 <---the number of faction entries to follow (was increased by 1 because we added a faction. The default SS file has 4 here)
9 byzantium <---- faction name
77 unit_models/_Units/EE_Peasant_Leather/textures/mtw2_EE_Peasant_russia.texture <---- texture path and file name
78 unit_models/_Units/EE_Peasant_Leather/textures/mtw2_EE_Peasant_normal3.texture <---- normal map texture file name and path
47 unit_sprites/russia_EE_Catapult_Crew_sprite.spr <---- path and name for sprite.

The number at the beginning of each line is the number of text characters to follow on that line (the game uses them to know how many characters to look for when reading the file)

The second lot of changes is for the units attachments (i.e. weapons, shields etc).

**axnsan** · February 01, 2009, 03:48 AM

so i get it this gives me a ribault with russian crew - i can use this with any cannon right?

**Caesar Clivus** · February 01, 2009, 04:02 AM

Yep. With those instructions you can give any unit to any faction (along with changes to the EDU and EDB of course

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**axnsan** · February 01, 2009, 04:48 AM

and what about the picture in the recruitment queue/unit info panel? how to change it?

**Caesar Clivus** · February 01, 2009, 05:13 AM

Unit cards and unit info pictures are stored in SS\data\ui\units and SS\data\ui\unit_info respectively. Each faction has a directory in each of these where the pictures are stored. What you need to do is simply copy the unit's picture from one of the old factions to the byzantium folder.

But because SS doesn't change the unit cards for artillery, the game just uses the default vanilla ones. Unfortunately these files are in pack files (basically huge zip files) that the game accesses. To access the files you need you'll need to use the unpacker tool located in M2TW\tools\unpacker. It's best to unpack these files to a separate directory from your M2TW folder just to be on the safe side. It is possible to just unpack the files you need. There is a readme in the unpacker directory but if you need any more help with the unpacker, there should be enough info in the mod workshop section of the forums to get you going.

**axnsan** · February 01, 2009, 07:00 AM

ok i did like you said, i got the cannons going, put the models for cannon maker and cannon foundry in the byzantium folder. everything is fine, i can build gunsmith, cannon maker, cannon foundry, which can train GR Bombard, EE Ribault , EE Cannon , EE Serpentine, EE Grand Bombard.
all buildings and units are being modeled properly, the name of the cannons is displayed corectly.
only one small problem: for the cannon maker and cannon foundry, the name isnt displayed right i.e its cannon_maker and cannon_foundry and c_cannon_maker and c_cannon_foundry instead of Cannon Maker and Cannon Foundry - how do i change that?

**Caesar Clivus** · February 01, 2009, 07:45 AM

Ok you need to go into the SS\data\text folder and open export_buildings.txt. You'll see that every building has a number of entries in this file. You'll also notice that each building has entries for each culture in the game (i.e. northern european, middle eastern etc). The entries for each culture are the name, description and a short description used for tooltips etc). Make sure that each of the cannon buildings has entries for the greek culture. If not, follow the syntax and add one in there.

**axnsan** · February 01, 2009, 08:13 AM

thanks!i finnaly got it going

**Caesar Clivus** · February 01, 2009, 04:23 PM

Glad to be of help

**Naked Emperor** · February 01, 2009, 06:14 PM

and the tip of the day for you modders out there, never forget the double spacing after the zero in the EDB, else your game crashes.

9 byzantium
67 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final European Light_russia_diff.texture
67 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final European Light_russia_norm.texture 0 (yes this zero)