Edit Units & buildings

**ewokie111** · March 18, 2009, 12:22 AM

Hi all

I am not a modder and I used to play Rome totalwar and it
came with file that allowed you to edit each nations unit from cost
to damage to ownership. Same went to the buildings each nation
has and suddenly those same named files I can't seem to find in Med2
thinking It almost same type of game but its missing units and buildings section so I can edit time it takes for whatever nation i have at the time for it to build plus same goes to units. Thats one major question is where are these files they are in rome but not in this game? Please help me I not modding just want to edit existing games units and buildings thats all.

thanks.

**Mythic_Commodore** · March 18, 2009, 01:49 PM

1. Download the 1.2 patch.
2. Go to Medieval II Total War/tools/unpacker and run the unpack_all.bat file. This will use about 7GB of hard drive space.
3. Go to your medieval2.preference.cfg file and add this text to the bottom:

[io]
file_first = true

**ewokie111** · March 18, 2009, 07:21 PM

My Game is Medieval II gold edition that has both expansion pack and original game so will patch 1.2 still work or am I screwed?

**Mythic_Commodore** · March 18, 2009, 07:58 PM

In that case, disregard step 1. Just proceed to step 2.

**ewokie111** · March 18, 2009, 08:28 PM

I found what I finally was looking for but one question.
Why it was unpacked this time around unlike its previous game
Rome totalwar? I reconized the two files I always used and finally things can go well so thanks alot.

**ewokie111** · March 18, 2009, 11:51 PM

I went to edit export_descr_unit which is located in Data and went to edit the faction I am going to be and it scottish but here problem i changed price of the unit but when i go play the game it still doesnt change and doesnt matter what i do on export_descr_unit it seems not to affect my scottish faction and units i picked is scottish only i didnt touch units that had multi ownership and faction i am playing is under britania campaign and Don't know why its not working i saved it and it shows up on the file but not in the game.

**Vegas_Bear** · March 19, 2009, 02:51 AM

Look at M_C's first post, #3. You need to add that to see changes to files in data folder. If that isn't present, the game goes to the packs and doesn't recognize your changes. Or go to you short cut and open it, then go to properties. Under target and to the end, w/out the quotes -

" --io.file_first"

for Kingdom expansion it would look like -

" --io.file_first --features.mod=mods/americas"

Hope this helped.

**ewokie111** · March 19, 2009, 07:26 AM

My game is gold edition that comes with both the game and expansion pack so i guess i use the second line.

**ewokie111** · March 19, 2009, 07:42 AM

I am about to go to shortcut and attempt to put your command in
but i have so many shortcuts i have one for main game one for americas one for britiana
one for crusades one for teutonics i mean this gold edition puts 5 shortcuts a main one and 4 others which came with expansion this is all in one game the gold edition so do i put this command on all shortcuts or just the main? I mean I never bought expansion or had other seperately I mean what trying to say will these commands work on Medievel II gold edition which is both all in one and 5 shorcuts it created.

**ewokie111** · March 19, 2009, 07:50 AM

I tried the command and when game tries to load something like CA_LIBS pops up and says medievel II suffered fatal error and now must exit.

**ewokie111** · March 19, 2009, 08:17 AM

Now I even tried it different way no error shows up but wont
allow the changes either. I tried so many ways i guess the gold edition is impossible to do anything and why this time around did they make it harder and not let it be like rome totalwar was.

**Mythic_Commodore** · March 19, 2009, 06:51 PM

I have the Gold Edition as well. It works fine. Try making medieval2.preference.cfg read-only.

**ewokie111** · March 19, 2009, 10:34 PM

Hi

Thanks for another round of info and it command stayed in the file with ready only but still game wont allow the changes to happen and units still the same and only changes i made was cost of units for scottish only their units that doesnt share ownership and game still wont reconize it. Recap on past things i did so far i did unpack all features waited while until it finished then did changes in the export_descr_unit file on unit price and upkeep which i used to do on rome totalwar and that went well but not on this game for some reason. and did that command thing in the medievel2preference.cfg and even have it on read only and still damn thing being stubborn so i have no idea what to do from here?

**Mythic_Commodore** · March 20, 2009, 01:54 PM

Well, if you are expecting the changes to show up in the Britannia campaign, you'll need to unpack the Britannia files and then make changes to them. If you are running the regular game, then I don't know what to tell you.

**ewokie111** · March 23, 2009, 06:15 PM

It is britannia game i was playing and i didnt test changes on regular one i mean this gold edition it has them all. where do i unpack the britania ones? If this is what i been missing then i be doing this all wrong.

**ewokie111** · March 23, 2009, 06:20 PM

under tools it has main game files to unpack which i already did days ago but where do i find ones for britania and americas ect because i looked all over and cant find unpack file for any of those besides main game.