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[Sir.Mitchell VII]

Ive been looking around in the M2TW Program Files all over and have yet to locate the export_descr_unit file. I can find it clear as day in Rome but I suppose M2TW is different. Any help would be appreciated.

[Moon]

This is a tutorial by Alpaca with a few amendments by myself, all thanks should go to the original author.
Well, the first step of setting up your game will always be unpacking the data files, no matter if you want to use mod folders or io.file_first. To do this, you should have patch 1.2 installed. If you do, you should be able to find a directory called "tools" inside your MTW2 directory, and inside that, you will find a folder named "unpacker". To unpack all the game's data files, simply run unpack_all.bat - this will take a while, so be warned. After the program's finished, open your data directory (inside your MTW2 directory) and delete or rename descr_geography_new.db and descr_geography_new.txt (this is important - if you don't do it, your game won't run)
Med 2 Information for advanced users
I recommend editing unpack_all.bat to not unpack into your vanilla data directory, but into a subfolder. This way, you can always keep a clean copy of the files. To do this, open up the batch file and edit it like this. This will unpack the files into a directory called backup inside your MTW2 folder."
unpacker.exe --source=..\..\packs\*.pack --destination=..\..\backup --verbosity=1
Setting up io.file_first
with a text editor add the following to the top of medieval2.preference this file is read only so remove this attribute make your changes and make sure you reenable it or the game will set it back to its default setting.
[io]
file_first = 1
[log]
to = logs/system.log.txt
level = * error


The first link is Alpacas original tutorial with a question and answer session
HowTo: Set up MTW2 for modding
alpaca
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=76289
This second link is an Iñnsomñni tutorial with a question and answer session about Vista
The unpacker, Using Vista
Iñnsomñni
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=101602

[Sir.Mitchell VII]

See, I was acutally wondering if that might have been the case. I seen the packs and kinda thought what if, but I was unsure on how to use the unpacker, but now you've help me so thanks alot.