Equipment Tweak Mod v1.3: Optional Backpacks, Spontoons and Ammoboxes (UPDATED 5/3/15)

**erasmus777** · April 11, 2009, 08:20 PM

Wish I help, but I haven't seen that before. If you find out that it's due to my mod, please let me know. Good luck!

**Choki** · April 11, 2009, 10:43 PM

NICE WORK!!! I LOVE PRUSIA!!!!

**somerandomMinja** · April 12, 2009, 01:10 AM

I have yet to try this mod , but from what I see in the screenshots the ammo pouches are on the front of the soldier . Werent they held in a bog on the side ? Heres a vid for an example , skip to 3:50 and you can see them on the officers .

Edit: Fixed the video .

**Vanquisher** · April 12, 2009, 08:46 AM

Whats a bog?

**Flobulon** · April 12, 2009, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by somerandomMinja

I have yet to try this mod , but from what I see in the screenshots the ammo pouches are on the front of the soldier . Werent they held in a bog on the side ? Heres a vid for an example , skip to 3:50 and you can see them on the officers

Bag? But if you look closely at the screenshot in the first post, you will see that half of the soldiers do indeed have their ammobag on the side. Until modeling tools are released, however, I doubt the author could move the front ones.

**erasmus777** · April 12, 2009, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by somerandomMinja

I have yet to try this mod , but from what I see in the screenshots the ammo pouches are on the front of the soldier . Werent they held in a bog on the side ? Heres a vid for an example , skip to 3:50 and you can see them on the officers .

Edit: Fixed the video .

At present, I don't have any control over where the cartridge boxes show up. We're still waiting for modeling and animation tools.

**Jovanicus** · April 12, 2009, 10:58 AM

I'm curoius, do you remove the bags from code and battle, so the game loads less? Or are they just invisible? Cause if those bags are gone horrah for even higher framerate!

**erasmus777** · April 12, 2009, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by Jovanicus

I'm curoius, do you remove the bags from code and battle, so the game loads less? Or are they just invisible? Cause if those bags are gone horrah for even higher framerate!

They're still in the code. I would assume that they're not loaded for battles as opposed to just being invisible, but I honestly don't know.

**klesh** · April 12, 2009, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Kave-In

Anyway as said great mod! Here's Donald Sutherland with a little spontoon action

Interesting... the line infantry there is wearing backpacks...

**~~ToonTotalWar~~** · April 12, 2009, 11:56 AM

can you use this mod without the spontoon for officer??

**erasmus777** · April 12, 2009, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by ToonTotalWar

can you use this mod without the spontoon for officer??

I will put up a pack without the spontoons later today. If you're familiar with the PFM, you can do it yourself by deleting everything but Warscape_Equipment_Items.

**~~ToonTotalWar~~** · April 12, 2009, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by erasmus777

I will put up a pack without the spontoons later today. If you're familiar with the PFM, you can do it yourself by deleting everything but Warscape_Equipment_Items.

Spot on mate removed the entries you told me, just tested and worked 100%top man, top mod and well done from the Toonmeister

**Chevalier IX** · April 12, 2009, 03:49 PM

first off after playing with your mod I must say the battlefield looks close to perfect

but i wonder,any chance that you might be able to add in some cavalry standard bearers??The Glory of the Russian empire mod has proven this is possible,and i think it would fit well with the flavour of the era that your mod has brought to this game

@Klesh
line infantry were only really known to wear their packs during a meeting engagement,meaning they had no time to previously prepare for the upcoming battle,suh as chance meetings or passings of the forces to engagement distances.seeing as the forces in Empire are clearly arrayed i would have to say that there must have been a slight bit of time to prepare for the action,thus leaving packs and the like with the baggage trains.an exception to the rule in game would be the interception engagements,but I am not sure if there would be such a mechanic as to change their gear and what not depending on the circumstance of the engagement(were that the case it would be great to see some winter gear during the winter battles

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**erasmus777** · April 12, 2009, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Danny Cody Anderson

Hello....My question remains unanswered? I loved how you skipped mine.

Sorry Danny, I read right over it.

Open the file called "user.empire_script.txt" (without the quotation marks) which should be in the folder I described. If it's not, create it. Either way, once the file is open, write "mod equipment_tweak_mod.pack;" (again, no quotation marks). Save it as a Unicode document. And that's it.

**erasmus777** · April 12, 2009, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Chevalier IX

first off after playing with your mod I must say the battlefield looks close to perfect

but i wonder,any chance that you might be able to add in some cavalry standard bearers??The Glory of the Russian empire mod has proven this is possible,and i think it would fit well with the flavour of the era that your mod has brought to this game

Good suggestion. I'll have a look at what they've done and see if it's possible to do on a large scale.