[Solved]Question about How to Use Modified Data Files

[kevindrosario]

I followed this guide on setting up the original M2TW for modding.
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...W2-for-modding

Now I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do this for Kingdoms campaigns. The first campaign I want to try editing is the Teutonic campaign. That thread lists two different approaches to setting up M2TW for modding - the mod folder approach and the io.file_first approach. Let's say I want to take the slightly simpler route and do the io.file_first approach, I have a few questions.

1. From what I understand, using the io.file_first approach, you can edit the files right in the teutonic/data folder and it should show up in game, right?
2. Do I still copy and paste the vanilla .cfg file? What do I add to the top of it?
3. What should I put in my .bat file?
4. Where should I put my .bat and .cfg files?

I've already looked through a couple other threads on here and even tried downloading the .bat and .cfg files that a moderator posted, but my edited files were still not being read. It was just using the default files. Just for reference, the files I downloaded were from this post:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...88#post8290888

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Ishan]

You put those files the .cfg one and .bat one in the main folder of your Teutonic mod that will be:-
........\Medieval II Total War\mods\teutonic<--you put them in this folder.

[kevindrosario]

I tried doing that and it didn't work. The game launched, but my edited files weren't being read. The one thing I can think of that might be the issue is that I updated my patch after unpacking the files. Some of the files must've been changed by the patch. Maybe I need to unpack them again.

[irishron]

Yes, you do.

[kevindrosario]

I feel pretty stupid for not thinking about the patch issue before. I unpacked everything again and overwrote the old files and it's working fine now. Thanks for the help.

[irishron]

You're welcome.