How to use the Official Modding Tools

[daniu]

Total War: Shogun 2 - Assembly Kit where the hell is it stored? just got the auto download the other day? am using win 7

thanks

Did you read the "Installation" section of the OP?
It gets downloaded to <Shogun installation>/modding. If you select "Play Game" on the Tools in Steam, it will open that folder in Windows Explorer so you can unzip it.

Looked at that aswell, but there is no way to add preview picture. Picture for Colection and mods inside yes, preview i cant find.

Second thing - steam should allow for Shogun 2 mods larger then 100mb, not many overhauls, graphical mods, music mods etc will be able to fit in there. I had to cut few loading screens pictures and some additional cards to be able get bellow 100mb.

It may turn out the 100MB is a hard limit set by the Workshop (it's the same for Skyrim IIUC), we'll have to work around this - probably by splitting mods into several Workshop items that won't work individually. Or split them up in a way that they will and be extensions of each other.

I'm sure I can get a "Split Mod Pack" feature going to do this automatically.
Or modders need to split up their mod on their own, into individual parts by function: 1. split up additional units into different packs 2. another one containing GUI stuff (like buttons, loading screens, etc) 3. Localization packages (I haven't created large enough mods to be able to tell if that can be done at all, and if so how). That's obviously a lot of work, but again I'm sure I can provide tool support if people tell me what's needed.

[Radious]

Did you read the "Installation" section of the OP?
It gets downloaded to <Shogun installation>/modding. If you select "Play Game" on the Tools in Steam, it will open that folder in Windows Explorer so you can unzip it.


It may turn out the 100MB is a hard limit set by the Workshop (it's the same for Skyrim IIUC), we'll have to work around this - probably by splitting mods into several Workshop items that won't work individually. Or split them up in a way that they will and be extensions of each other.

I'm sure I can get a "Split Mod Pack" feature going to do this automatically.
Or modders need to split up their mod on their own, into individual parts by function: 1. split up additional units into different packs 2. another one containing GUI stuff (like buttons, loading screens, etc) 3. Localization packages (I haven't created large enough mods to be able to tell if that can be done at all, and if so how). That's obviously a lot of work, but again I'm sure I can provide tool support if people tell me what's needed.

Yes and i heard with Skyrim its a big issue and there are many complains about this. It may change in the future (hopefully). Splitting is possible but i was working on some graphical parts of the game and result was about 900mb mod (that would require 9 parts) and it must be together to work properly, same for any artistic things like unit cards, pictures, loading screens, character pics etc takes many many space. I guess in this case is much easier to download thing like this on TWC or some upload site rather then getting 10+ parts of single mod and then all activating them in mod manager.

If the capacity would be 1gb or atlest 500mb it would be way better. But i think thats on steam and not CA.

[Freelancer Tex]

Make sure you did this part exactly how Daniu tells you how to do it:



I was having a similar if not the same problem as you and it turns out that was the problem. I had both spaces in the name and it was likely too long. Hope that helps!

thanks man,now everything work fine!
+rep

[Jack Lusted]

Hey guys,

I'll update the official wiki info on where to extract to on Monday.

[Lord Baal]

Something you might want to add around, although is the most obvious thing, but in some OS you must ran the .exe's with admin rights. That would help you to guide the most newbies in modding that are not pc savvy.

[Iutland]

A slight issue.
Every time I try to start any of the tools, I get an error message telling me:

The application was unable to start correctly (0x0150002). Click OK to close the application.

The installation path in game_path.txt does point to the folder where S2 is installed, and there isn't really all that much else to try. What might be the issue, if anybody has a guess?

Followed the instructions to the letter and gets the same error: The application was unable to start correctly (0x0150002). Click OK to close the application.

[Evanescent]

Glad I'm not the only one encountering this mysterious issue... I was starting to think that the tool just hated me.

Since my last post I've removed all files then downloaded it again, following daniu's instructions to the letter. I still get the same error message telling me the exact same thing. I have absolutely no clue what might be causing this to happen... I've come to the conclusion that the game's angry at me for not owning Rise.

[Freelancer Tex]

I'm wondering if it is possible to change the Connection DB path. Yesterday I edited my mod.pack with the PFM,but since the Assembly kit uses an external raw data,I'm afraid that my modifications were useless.
Do you guys know how to do that?

Thanks.

[daniu]

I'm wondering if it is possible to change the Connection DB path. Yesterday I edited my mod.pack with the PFM,but since the Assembly kit uses an external raw data,I'm afraid that my modifications were useless.
Do you guys know how to do that?

No, it's not possible to change the Connection DB path. Why would you?
It wouldn't fix the problem you describe anyway; the Assembly Kit can only work on the xml files, not on the pack you edited afterwards.
Simple solution: if you want edit the files, use either Assembly Kit or PFM.

[AngryTitusPullo]

Did it 5 times, no luck so far.
I took a picture, I saved it as "steam_workshop" with JPG format then pasted it into my map folder. Then I launched TEd, loaded the map and updated the battlefield. The thumbnail doesn't show up.

Do you have the correct size ?

[rainkloud]

When I use the Form Launcher the Tweak App crashes. Table and Query work fine.

[Freelancer Tex]

No, it's not possible to change the Connection DB path. Why would you?
It wouldn't fix the problem you describe anyway; the Assembly Kit can only work on the xml files, not on the pack you edited afterwards.
Simple solution: if you want edit the files, use either Assembly Kit or PFM.

So there is no way to make them working together? I need to work on some tables that cannot be edited or saved by the Assembly Kit, such as the animations. But I'll prefer this one for editing the others tables.

[daniu]

So there is no way to make them working together? I need to work on some tables that cannot be edited or saved by the Assembly Kit, such as the animations.

Did you try copying those into the right subdirectory of the working_data path? Even if they can't be edited, it should be possible to include them in the pack using BOB.
I'm working on better integration between Assembly Kit and PFM, but it takes some time.

[AngryTitusPullo]

I need a step-by-step guide to change game turns per year using the official tools.

[Jack Lusted]

Hi guys,

Just to let you know we've found the cause of the crash in the Unit Editor and are working on an update with a few other changes as well.

[AngryTitusPullo]

Great.

[Akaie]

Anyone else done some startpos reprocessing yet?

[beastfeast]

I just tried to upload my mod which is about 500mb in size. Is 100 mb the upload limit to the steam workshop?

I made a mod that changes unit upkeep and costs as well as unit stats- all for the Shogun 2 campaign. My mod is in the early stages but i'm pleased with the results so far. I noticed that the AI is behaving very agressively and expansively compared to vanilla shogun 2.

Can I get free mod hosting elsewhere if my file is too large?

[Freelancer Tex]

Did you try copying those into the right subdirectory of the working_data path? Even if they can't be edited, it should be possible to include them in the pack using BOB.
I'm working on better integration between Assembly Kit and PFM, but it takes some time.

Sorry for the extreme delay.

No,it didn't work. I did many attempts,following the documentation and going on my own,but it didn't work. I guess I should finish my mod with the Pack File Manager using some expedients.
If you succeed in including pack with BOB,please let me know how to do that.

Thanks.

[daniu]

No,it didn't work. I did many attempts,following the documentation and going on my own,but it didn't work. I guess I should finish my mod with the Pack File Manager using some expedients.
If you succeed in including pack with BOB,please let me know how to do that.

That's a really long way down the road... database works, but everything else is very complicated and might never work.
You should check Jinarik's rules.bob file tutorial, sounds like that could help you get those files into the pack.