Trajan's (SigniferOne's Animations With RTR 6.3) Mini-Mod Released!

[Trajan]

- Trajan's (SigniferOne's Animations With RTR 6.3) Mini-Mod -


Author: Trajan(TWC) or Samurai121(RTR.org)


This mini-mod allows you to play a clean copy of RTR 6.3 with SigniferOne's Animation Pack 0.71.


- Special thanks go to SigniferOne for making a fanastic animation pack, the RTR team for the amazing job in making RTR 6.3, and to {H0sPiTalLeR} for his amazing Unit speed Modifiers mod.


Description:
Brand new hoplite animations



Historically accurate Roman legionary animations
- no wild cheering for Romans during startup
- proper relaxed standing animations
- during a fight, holding the shield close and the gladius ready next to it
- stabbing fighting style with the gladius, no slashing



Historically accurate barbarian fighting animations
- no thrust for barbarians, only big slashes, as their swords were not designed for thrusts and even had blunt points



Proper archer firing animations
- aiming to the sky rather than horizontally, and drawing the bow with full power



Better horse archer firing animations
- when aiming, holding the bow vertically rather than horizontally, and drawing the bow with full power



New elephant javelinmen animations
- Now the javelinmen can stand on elephants and shoot javelins


New varying animal speed skeletons
- light elephant skeleton, heavy horse skeleton, light camel skeleton


General fixes:
- all vanilla fs_swordsman units have been fixed in the way they hold their swords, from the original awkward way to a more natural one




Installation (This Will Only Work If You Install On a Clean Copy of RTR 6.3):


- Make sure you have a clean copy of Rome Total War patched to 1.2.

- Install Rome Total Realism 6.0 to your Rome Total War directory.

- Install the Rome Total Realism 6.2 patch

- Install the Rome Total Realism 6.3 patch

- Make backups of the following files: descr_model_battle.txt, export_descr_unit.txt, descr_battle_map_movement_modifiers, and animation folder.

- Copy the Data folder located in Trajan's (SigniferOne's Animations With RTR 6.3) Mini-Mod folder and paste it in your Rome Total War directory. When asked to overwrite, click yes to all.

- Play


Notes:

- I have tested this many times with a clean copy of RTR 6.3 and it's guaranteed to work without any CTDs.

- This will work for sure with a clean copy of RTR 6.3 but I will not be held responsible for any CTDs or bugs caused by any other mods you installed after installing mine or by any custom modifications you do yourself.

- If any modders wants to include my mod to theirs, please ask permission first and I will most definitely agree.

- I have balanced out the hoplites so they should be more effective in battle. Let me know if you still think they're weak or are too over powered.

- I have included {H0sPiTalLeR}'s Unit speed Modifiers mod to fix the super fast unit speeds and to give a more realistic unit speed movement.

Enjoy!!!


Link for download: http://www.twcenter.net/downloads/db/?mod=771

Please let me know how everything works out.

Here's a patch that returns the original hoplite animation and stats for those that want it:

[Zano]

Are you able to create a mini-mod that installes all Greek factions using the Corinthian Helmet for RTR 6.3 Final ?

[Trajan]

That's something I can't do. You're better off asking a skinner for that.

[Trajan]

Ok guys, I've added Sig's descriptions w/ pics for people who don't know about his animations and what they do. Hope this helps.