Some Animation Mods (and some other things)

**♔ brucedickenson♔** · February 04, 2010, 05:49 AM

Can you make it look like officers are 'tipping' their hat to the enemy?

or maybe fiddling with his flintlock pistol when nothings happening, or even attempt an animation which shows him reloading it?

Keep up the good work matey!

**Vasa121** · February 04, 2010, 11:02 AM

Nice mod

+Rep

By the way, what Swedish mod are you using on these pictures?

Originally Posted by tiyafeh

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**secks** · February 04, 2010, 11:10 AM

Hi This seems like a great mod but I'm having trouble getting it to work

I'm a noob when it comes to modding so I may be making a simple mistake but I've downloaded the Lancer.pack and placed it into my empire data folder. However when I start the game i get the error :

Error:Expecting keywork 'version'
animations\animation_table\animation_tables.txt(1)

Anybody know what I’m doing wrong??? I've really wanted to have my lancer cav draw swords rather than wave their lances in the air whilst in melee! Any help would be much appreciated

**tiyafeh** · February 06, 2010, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by brucedickenson

Can you make it look like officers are 'tipping' their hat to the enemy?

or maybe fiddling with his flintlock pistol when nothings happening, or even attempt an animation which shows him reloading it?

Keep up the good work matey!

I only implement existing animations, and as far as I know there are no files for hat tipping or pistol reloading animations. Besides, I believe the hat is part of the officer model and is permanently fixed to the officer's head, so for the officer to properly tip his hat one would have to make extensive changes to the 3d models (something I've never been able to do properly). If the hats were detachable I would try to make them fall off once a soldier was killed, entered melee &c. (forgive the archaic spelling

), but unfortunately they are not.

Originally Posted by Vasa121

Nice mod

+Rep

By the way, what Swedish mod are you using on these pictures?

Thanks. The skins are from Preussen Gloria's Svenska Armen mod with some minor personal modifications (such as the trumpeter and officer's uniforms).

Originally Posted by secks

Hi This seems like a great mod but I'm having trouble getting it to work

I'm a noob when it comes to modding so I may be making a simple mistake but I've downloaded the Lancer.pack and placed it into my empire data folder. However when I start the game i get the error :

Error:Expecting keywork 'version'
animations\animation_table\animation_tables.txt(1)

Anybody know what I’m doing wrong??? I've really wanted to have my lancer cav draw swords rather than wave their lances in the air whilst in melee! Any help would be much appreciated

I apologise for that, I've uploaded a fixed version.

**Tango12345** · February 07, 2010, 07:17 AM

Nice mod this-well done!

I really like it.
EDIT-forgot to say +rep

**Lazy Knight** · February 07, 2010, 10:37 AM

I also get a CTD when trying your lancer.pack, are you sure you uploaded the right version?

(and yes: unmodded, working game, copied the lancer.pack in the data directory -> Crash at startup)

**shadowdrummer46** · February 07, 2010, 09:51 PM

Well I'm a lazy bastard, so clicking more than one link just isn't for me.

So I took it upon myself to devote 30 seconds of my time to compile these .pack into Winrar archives.

They do not include the Highlander, Spontoon, or the Spanish retextures; Because the links were down. It's pretty self explanitory, but the "run" rar has the animation-mod-pack-run, the "No Run" contains animation-mod-pack.

EDIT: I could not get my game to work with the "lancer.pack" either, so I reuploaded the zips without them. I also got my game running after about 7 hours of troubleshooting (mainly user error installing overlaping mods, although the lancer.pack was part of the problem) and the animations are amazing.

All you have to do is open the Archive with 7zip or a similar program ( I use Winzip)choose the .pack files you wish to install and extract them to the steam/steamapps/empiretotalwar/data folder.

Hopefully you're using mod manager in which case you just have to check the boxes in the launcher to get it to work.

If you aren't you'll have to manually add them to the user.empire.script in the C:\Users\[user name here]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts. You must turn on hidden files to view appdata.(This is for vista users; XP might be different but I don't have a xp system to try it on.)

If someone could get the down links working I could add them no problem. It's not link zipping files is hard or anything haha. Sorry the instructions being kind of redundant with it on the OP, but it might help someone who doesnt know

I hope someone finds this useful.

**♔KillZoneGB♔** · February 08, 2010, 09:30 PM

Could you do the prone animations?

Thinking if it was possiable, would love to have them in ETW for Late Army Docterine

**shadowdrummer46** · February 09, 2010, 03:15 AM

Originally Posted by tiyafeh

There's a prone mod already out, if I find it I'll post the link.
EDIT: Found it, here it is, somewhere near the end of page 1:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=243644

It was on page 2 of this thread.

**PhallosMaximus** · June 26, 2010, 06:27 AM

Just installed your mod, - great mod and thanks for finally fix the lancers. I have been waiting for that since ETW came out.

+ rep

Cheers,

**jasper** · June 27, 2010, 08:42 AM

can this mod also be used in Napoleon total war ?

**Ados** · July 08, 2010, 09:01 AM

Files are unavailable :'(

**IGdood** · July 15, 2010, 11:21 PM

Sir, can you update your links?

**Simone I** · August 23, 2010, 10:35 AM

It doesn't work, and make a little bug with all the cavalry units: when the are attacking the cavalry man go forward his horse of 3-4 metres and go back...