The game dont use changes in export_descr_unit file

[Kendric]

Greetings everyone

Its 2 a clock in the night and I cant get my Vikings to be more mean lean killing machines.

So, I need ya wisdom.

First I installed Medieval II Total War, then Kingdoms ontop of it.

Found a unpacker in C:\!GM\Medieval II Total War\tools\unpacker and unpacked britannia.

And inside the C:\!GM\Medieval II Total War\mods\british_isles\data I started to edit the
export_descr_unit file in hope of making the Norse vikings more deadly.

Im using this guide to help me :
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1344#Breakdown

I started by changing the rec. price for the Vikings and saw no change in the offical campaign. And then I noticed that ingame the size of one squad is 75 men and in the export_descr_unit its 60 men. So I got to think, am I editing the right file?

I hope you kan help me :-)

/Ken

[ackrite26]

So I got to think, am I editing the right file?

Yes

You will need to make a .cfg file so that the game reads the unpacked data files instead of the packed ones.

scroll down to the io.file_first section in the below tutorial.

Tut for setting up M2TW for modding
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...W2-for-modding

Also a couple more tutorials for adding/editing Units.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=221097
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...highlight=unit

[Kendric]

You are a lifesaver ackrite26 :-)

Many many thanks mate

/Ken

[Kendric]

Well

I did edit my medieval2.preference.cfg file

with

[io]
file_first = 1

[log]
to = logs/system.log.txt
level = * error

now I get this grafic error when I start the game :

http://picasaweb.google.dk/lh/photo/...eat=directlink

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hmmmm, when I look in the log file it looks like this :

09:23:39.281 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
09:23:39.281 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
09:23:39.281 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
09:23:39.281 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
09:23:39.296 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
09:23:39.296 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
09:23:39.296 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
09:23:39.296 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
09:23:39.296 [system.io] [always] mounted pack mods/british_isles/packs/data.pack
09:23:39.296 [system.io] [always] mounted pack mods/british_isles/packs/localized.pack
09:23:40.000 [data.missing] [error] mods/british_isles/data/ui/shared.sdfile not found
09:23:40.000 [data.missing] [error] mods/british_isles/data/ui/battle.sdfile not found
09:23:40.000 [data.missing] [error] mods/british_isles/data/ui/strategy.sdfile not found
09:26:39.343 [system.rpt] [error]

But when I look in the data/ui dir I see shared,battle,strategy files
they look like this :
battle.sd
shared.sd
strategy.sd

So something is not right here :-)

[Gigantus]

I don't think that is the actual error - have a look at the time stamps. There is a three minute gap between the last two messages. Change your cfg entry (level = * error) to read (level = * trace). That way you will get more detailed messages in the log.

I remember that error, let me see if find the correct fix....

Ooh, my good gracious sir....

You are playing one of the mods via the default icons - doesn't work.

You need a bat file in the mods\british_isles folder and a new cfg file.

Copy my attachment files in there and then make shortcut from the bat file on your desktop.

[Kendric]

aaaaah, Welcome Gigantus, mighty fine of you to help out.

It worked well with the new bat file and cfg file.

But I still got graphic problems.


Oh bugger, the log file just got really big.
Last test made a log with about 58600 lines. if there are any specific errors I might just not find them,lol

[Gigantus]

I gave you the log option with 'trace'.

Simply open the log and search (Ctrl+F) for [error]

What I found about the error was in the "Kingdom of the Scots" mod, they had the same problem as they were using the unpacked 'britannia' campaign. The SD files play a role and so do some text files. Wish I remember exactly how it works.
Problem is, I fixed it and then made my own installer. Hope I find it when I install it after this long time.
Let's start with their version of the SD files and their XML counterparts - simply extract into the ui folder (make backups!)

[Kendric]

/bowing humbly

Its looking very good, the main graphic errors arround towns/casles is gone. but still some txt/graphic is missing in the menues.

http://picasaweb.google.dk/Kenazza/T...eat=directlink

Will go through the log file and look for errors.

/ken


AAaaaargh, bugger, something went wrong, I cant start the campaign now. Gonna uninstall the hole lot and start over :-/

[Gigantus]

All that you would have needed were the following files in the data\text folder: strat, shared and tooltips.

The log would also give th error message. Please explain what you did before the crash and upload the log (will be in medieval 2\logs)

Attached the missing text files - simply extract them into data\text and delete their counterparts, e.g. shared.string.bin

[Kendric]

Testing, give me a sec and I will be there :-)

Allright, everything(graphics) are looking very nice. I cant see any errors.

No errors in the log file(I lost the old one when I deleted everything, cant tell why game stoped working)

Now, lets see if I can change the price of Vikings, just to test.

[Kendric]

Holy Bugger, it works, it really works.

Thanks for helping my through Gigantus : - )

I did change the price of Vikings to 4500 and back to 450 - It worked ingame
I did change the amount of warriors - was a bit strange looks like the games adds x to my number, so 20 vikings becomes 25 and 60 vikings becomes 75, but what the heck, it changes :-)


Most humbly
/Ken

[Gigantus]

The game uses a multiplier according to your setting. You can change unit size in the options screen at the start of a game\campaign.

And one is glad to be of service