Help, please

[Dark Storm]

I downloaded and installed lost legion today, followed the instructions as best i could, but when i came to play it it told me unit skeleton could not be found. I then placed the animation folder out of the original mod for rtw and started the game again. This time i got a message telling me that there was a;
Script Error in bi/rim/data/export_descr_unit.txt, at line 35, column 18. Unrecoginsed mount type '4amountrotkh.

I really want to use this mod and any help resolving the problem would be brilliant. I am a noob at modding, but i have repeated the process over and over again to no avail

also, i reinstalled the entire game today with every expansion and it worked fine

[Aradan]

Is your RTW patched to 1.5?

Also, can you be more specific as to what exactly you did? The installation instructions are so detailed, that I would be simply repeating them if I tried to explain how to install the Lost Legion properly.

[Dark Storm]

it's the gold edition and it's patched to 1.5. First if all i installed the rome total war version, and tested it, it worked fine. Then i installed the lost legion, created the RIM file in the bi folder, copied the lost legion RIM file over that, changed the target of the shortcut to "C:\Program Files (x86)\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -show_err -nm -mod:bi\rim, didn't touch the bit in the brackets but added that on the end. Then i clicked the shortcut, it started up like it was going to play, then it ctd and told me that the skeleton for one of the units doesn't exist, so i saved a backup copy, and tried to replace the line with something that did work. The problem was on this line about the Mumakil, so i removed the thing that didn't work and replaced it with something that did. I then started the game and again it ctd and told me this time that the skeleton for the warg riders didn't exist. I researched this online and a modder was talking about how the skeleton meant the animation and not the actual animal itself. So then i copied the animation folder from the original mod into the RIM data folder and started the game, this time it ctd but told me that there was a; Script Error in bi/rim/data/export_descr_unit.txt, at line 35, column 18. Unrecoginsed mount type '4amountrotkh. That is everything i've done. I reinstalled the entire game today and it is all up to date. Hopefully that will help

[StealthEvo]

Re-install Rome Total War to a non program file location on your C drive. Mods dont like windows 7. Then patch it, then try again.

[Dark Storm]

ok, i'll try that thanks

Thank you very much for your help, it is finally working

[TWWolfe]

Ok, let me make sure i have the installation procedure right. First, i take the version for RTW 1.5, extract is somewhere temporary. Then i take the data file from, that, and copy it to a RIM file in the ci folder in the BI version of FATW. then, i take the patch, take the RIM folder and merge it with the data file in the ci folder?

[Aradan]

1. Extract TNS - RTW somewhere temporarily.
2. Create a bi/RIM folder in your RTW directory. This is where the Lost Legion files will end up.
3. Take the "data" folder from the extracted TNS-RTW folder and move it inside the bi/RIM one, so that you now have a bi/RIM/data folder.
4. Extract the Lost Legion files somewhere temporarily.
5. Take the RIM folder from the above temporary location and overwrite with it the RIM folder in your RTW/bi folder.


To sum it up. You create a bi/RIM folder. First you put inside there the data folder from TNS-RTW and then you overwrite the entire RIM folder with the RIM folder of the "Lost Legion" patch.

[Dark Storm]

aah, i know what i did i took the whole lot from TNS-RTW instead of just the data, sorry fo wasting your time