Skin for Spartan Units

[paradoxia1]

Hi Guys -

Incredible Mod. I've played SPQR and a couple of others and I have to say that total realism is the best Rome Total Mod I've had the pleasure of playing.

My only quibble is I loved the new Spartan Skin that the makers released around 1.5 patch time. I realize that it's not realistic and you've spent a good long while putting together a highly realistic unit skin theme (The other hoplite units look brilliant, especially the Athenian and armoured hoplites).

Is there anyway of just adding the new skin to the Total Realism mod? I've got the downloaded file, is it as simple as just doing what you do in vanilla and simply copying it into the Rome Total War folder in program files? I wasn't hesitant because I didn't want to break anything.

Anyway, having a great time playing the mod and it would be awesome if you could just help me out on this one issue.

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[Maurits]

1.5 patch? Are you playing RTR6?

[paradoxia1]

I am playing RTR 1.9 Platinum full install - I mentioned 1.5 patch as a way of putting the Spartan skin in context.

Is it just a simple copy and paste job or will that bug up the mod?

Thanks very much for responding.

[Maurits]

I'm not experienced at unit coding, but swapping a skin shouldn't cause problems. I'd look for a guide about adding new units to RTW if I were you

If you like the RTR mods, you should also have a look at the VII series

[paradoxia1]

Ok well I'm going to just go ahead like it was RTW vanilla and if it doesn't work out I'll just reinstall etc.

VII looks great, I'll definitely have to download that. Thanks for the heads up.

[paradoxia1]

Well that didn't work - crashed the game and I had to reinstall RTWR.

[Finn]

In future, make sure you back up any file you change. That way you don't have to do a complete reinstall.

[paradoxia1]

That is very good advice. Hmmm - I think the problem is the merge of the text file that tells the RTW Engine to use the skins, as the text file in the updated skin is compatible with Vanilla not the Mod.

Are the original Spartan Skins used throughout all of the RTWR mods?

[AngryTitusPullo]

RTW Spartan uses different model than RTR Spartan I think.

Replacing the skins also means editing the descr_model_battle.txt.