Requesting some help/modding/skinning

[weeman3000]

I was wandering 2 things;

1) Is it possible to put the roman army from standard RTW into BI? (Dont care if its not time accurate or realistic i just wanna see those cohorts, triarii, etc fighting off barbarians) the BI romans are ugly, because there made up of barbarians or something i dunno there armours just boring, please mod/skin this for me im sure theres others out there that would like this too (They can skin the west or east romans i dont car tbh) it would be cool if they could make the tuesudo (sp?) and everything aswell but a simple reskin/rename etc of all the units would do i guess

And

2) How do i go about making all units in-game take 0 turns to make? (I know theres mods but i just want the 0 turn thing, big battles are my thing )

Posted before going out in a rush, hoping for a responce for when i get back to save time hehe, thanks in advance... sorry if the questions are daft

[Arbaces]

1. Yes it is possible, check the descr_model_battle.txt and export_descr_unit.txt files, and you'll learn how to do it alone since I can't imagine anybody else wanting to play with republican units on 363 AD.

2. bi\data\export_descr_unit.txt
Press CTRL + H (in notepad) to replace
"stat_cost 1"
"stat_cost 2"
or "stat_cost 3" if you know any units with 3 turns recruitment time.
with
"stat_cost 0".

Read the Export_... readme at the top of the text file to learn how to link the units to models .

[weeman3000]

Thanks a bunch :original:

Will the RTW roman units go into the campaign or only be available in custom battles?

[makanyane]

To get them into the campaign you need to add them as recruitable in buildings in
export_descr_buildings.txt and to get them to appear in armies at the beginning of the campaign you need to add them into armies within descr_strat.txt

[weeman3000]

Bah i give up, cant get it to work

Soldier types, exporting, importing. Ack.

I think i managed to insert all the original RTW units into BI so BI would know where the models and stuff were by copying and pasting everything from RTW's export_descr_unit.txt onto the bottom of BI's descr_model_battle.txt but jeez its confusing.

[Lusted]

You shouldn't be copying and pasting stuff from export_descr_unit into descr_model_battle.txt, you should be copying the data from the RTw descr_model_battle and export_descr_unit into the Bi descr_model_battle and export_descr_unit, editing the texture lines in descr_model_battle.txt and ownership lines in export_descr_unit.

[weeman3000]

Cant i leave the texture lines as data/models_unit/etc, etc so BI pulls the models from RTW's data folder?
Damn, first error... when i start the game it just closes to desktop, whats that about any ideas?

[Publius]

Yes, you can leave the texture lines (& other lines as well) so that they pull them from the RTW files - that is no problem. As far as your CTD, its prob nothing related to the DMB file (this would most likely cause a CTD when loading the unit in a custom battle). I would bet it has something to do with the EDU file - make sure that the text giving the unit name at the top doesn't copy another one in existence. Go through the steps you have taken so far if you want a more in depth answer.

edit: On second thought, using the same unit name for two units in the DMB would cause this as well - just check over the code you have changed and see if it agrees with the many great tutorials on this subject

[Halie Satanus]

Everything Pubilis said' You should add show-err to your target line as well it might help, the target in the properties for your RTWBI shortcut should look like this.
"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-BI.exe" -show_err

This will give you an error message when you Ctd. it's always a good idea to make a back up of files before you work on them, and it is very confusing, i've been doing this for a while and still make mistakes all the time. try to do this with one unit at first, and go from there.

Oh and a big warm welcome to the forum's, please remain seated at all times and note the exits are often locked, have a quick look through the forum rules, we hope you enjoy your ride. :wink:

[weeman3000]

Ty for the welcome, using that command line helped me find the duplicate errors that were CTD before, but now i get this D: (hopefully if i can fix this then the game will work again )

[Halie Satanus]

I've never seen this, but i'm going to take a shot. how many units have you tried to move over to bi, becuse there is a limit of something like 200-250, it looks to me that you may have gone over, as there is no mention of a specific unit, but it has a problem with the whole file, but i could be wrong i've only ever seen one show-err and i set that up just to see if it worked. :original:

[weeman3000]

I wouldnt like to count :X however many were in the vanilla version of BI plus all the roman units from RTW

[weeman3000]

Anyone atall have any ideas? this is slightly annoying and its my first time modding ANYTHING in a game (other than weapon damage and models on sven coop hahhaa) so i have no clue what to do...

[spirit_of_rob]

dunno how many units there are in either to be honest but it is possible that all these additions have sent you over the maximum... thats all i can think of

[weeman3000]

How could i go about replacing all the existing units with the RTW ones? or would that be 10x more work?