[M2TW] Index of Modding Tutorials, Resources & Tools

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Index

ՓOFFICIAL RELEASE
ՓM2TW PATCH INFORMATION
ՓTEXT EDITING & SCRIPTING(CODING)
ՓSKINNING/MODELING/ANIMATIONS
ՓSOUNDS AND OTHER MEDIA
ՓMAPPING
ՓMISCELLANEOUS
ՓM2TW GAMEPLAY GUIDES

OFFICIAL RELEASE

• CA .cas exporter released
• Sound text files released
• Docudemon files released (Working download here)
• Sprite Generation
• M2TW Animations Released
• Cinematic Editor: Tutorial
• Patch 1.2 Docudemons
• Kingdoms Sound Files

M2TW PATCH INFORMATION

• Find and download all the released patches here

TEXT EDITING & SCRIPTING(CODING)

Tutorials

• Nakharar's Basics:Religion|Descr_Strat|Resources|Rebels|How to remove "unlocalized placement text"
• Creating a World:Functional Grape Shot|Adding a new Faction|Replacing Strat Models|Using Character portraits|Killing characters multiple ways|Importing units from another mod|Disasters and the add_events command|Faction Limits for Agents|Using Kingdom Campaigns as Mod Base|Advanced recruiting with event counters|Building and maintaining unique Buildings
• z3n's AI tutorials:Understanding MTW2/Kingdoms.exe Pathfinding, XML and the AI|Basics of Battle AI and Pathfinding|AI Personalities|Addressing the AI Precursor Bug|Invade and Defend Decisions|MTW2 Battle Scripting
• Tutorial for a Garrisonscript
• How-To: Add other faction units for new factions
• How to add a new unit into game
• How to add an existing unit to another faction
• How To Make New Units
• How to create a dismounted unit
• Adding New Faction from Nothing – Step by Step
• How-To: Make a ZoR
• A Guide To Modding Character Names
• How To Add Historical Events
• How to change the display of a settlement
• How to add any type of horse to any cavalry unit (easy)
• Traits, Triggers & Monitors
• Giving Units and Buildings the Free Upkeep Ability
• More Artillery Pieces in a Unit
• How to change shared.txt and strat.txt
• alpaca's Script-O-Rama
• Scripting based on Difficulty and AI/Player
• Zeph's Adding Regions To Any Faction Tutorial
• How to make crossbowmen rate of fire slower
• How To: Change Faction Religion and Church
• Errabundi's Rebels Right in Place (RRiP)
• descr_events file for modified time-scale
• How To: Enable year and season display
• How to create an emerging faction
• Using toggle_demeanour to mod diplomacy
• Adding Factions
• How To Add Greek Fire
• How to get Stone Forts on the Battle Map
• How to add a mangonel to retrofit or bare kingdoms mod
• Hero Abilities
• Basic faction conversion
• 31 factions without the Faction Select screen crashing
• The placement of units, Coded and Scripted - using various commands
• A Beginner's Guide to the Export_Descr_Unit
• A Guide to Export_Descr_Buildings.txt
• How piety works and how to activate the alternative piety mode
• How to add mercenaries
• Legion-Names for M2TW
• How to add a religion
• Make a settlement a power centre for training special units
• Leader traits with faction-wide effects
• The Holy Banana of Jerusalem (Projectile)
• The use of destroy_units in the campaign script
• How to add an animal handler unit (Wardogs)
• Field costs
• Forts: Everything you need to know about permanent, stone and/or buildable forts
• J@mes' Kingdoms Scripts
• Working Patriarch & Redesigned Bishops
• How to create an emerging faction with Barons Alliance script
• How To: The Ancillary Guide
• How to spawn family members via script
• How to use weapon upgrades sensibly
• Quick and dirty method for enabling units for all factions
• How to make Mounted Greekfirethrowers/Naffatun with just text
• Enabling War Wagons and Wagon Walls
• Creating a script to give all the names you want to a settlement
• Making a Family Tree With an Under Age Faction Heir or Leader
• Converting Huge Cities to Castles
• Garrison Script
• Know how about invasions and Ai-horde-mode behavior (for advanced users)
• How to Make New Buildings
• How to: Change Fort model on Campaign- and Battlemap
• Crashes and how to fix them
• Mines
• Increased Movement Points(Cavalry, Infantry and/or Siege)
• Miniscript to hide/unhide stratmap-ui whilst ingame
• Yes/No Event Tutorial
• A Guide To settlement_mechanics.xml
• A Guide to Modding Character Names in M2TW
• How-to: make battle_models.MODELDB more readable
• alpaca's odds and ends
• How to Edit Settlements
• Bwians guide to changing a factions name
• How to create a complex religion change script
• How to create a GreekFire Cannon
• How To Add New Historic Events
• Adding existing units into other factions in battle_models.modeldb made easy
• How to: Improve cavalry charges
• Turning footsoldiers into Captains & Generals with text editing only
• Changing The English General Battle Model
• How to fix siege units slowing down your armies
• How to play as the Aztecs in Campaign mode
• How to force male offspring and more than four children
• How to Get Rid of Faction Borders on the Mini Map
• M2TW AI Modification: An Interactive Essay
• Traits, Triggers&Monitors
• How to make a berserker unit (tut)
• More money for all factions
• for people who want to use gunpowder right away
• I Cracked Era System for Units!!!
• Want tougher AI generals to fight? Here's how
• Make all ancilliaries transferable
• How to add another armour upgrade to units
• to make crusades, hording targets, and jihad
• Improved Horde Faction Behavior
• The Complete Guide to Plugins
• Tutorial: Kingdoms Strat Models
• One Settlement Type
• Basic Character Specialization
• Varied Adoption
• Unique Names (and avoiding labels)
• Family trees compendium of knowledge
• How to create a playable horde
• How to call a crusade with papal state
• Test that a faction is dead/alive including hordes
• Move the campaign camera to a character with script
• How to disable autoresolve for the player
• How to Add Heroes in Custom Battle
• How to make family/clan/tribe traits for your faction
• Single Model Units in Campaign
• How to add strat map character levels & change battle models
• A Guide on the Descr_Projectile.txt
• Complex Interactive Events
• Creating Localised Re-Emerging Factions without using the Horde Ability
• Moneybag14's Naval Invasions Tutorial
• How to create new Hidden_Resource
• A Guide on the Descr_Mount.txt
• AOR concept: 199+ AOR with just 8 resources
• effective phalanx with pike and sword
• Implementing Marian Reforms in M2TW
• The Long Road- Campaign Script System
• how to make pikemen start with guard mode by default
• How to make an emergent faction playable from start
• How to have more than one faction leader or heir
• Prisoner Treatment
• A garrison script that incorporates the ‘destroy_units’ command
• A Guide to Events
• How to remove a unit from game
• Sapping on the Campaign map
• Unified Mod Version Tracking \ Troubleshooting Proposal
• Adding blank keyboard shortcuts for scripting purposes
• How to add a custom title for family members
• How to: give custom portraits to dead characters
• Emergent Generals
• How To set up Medieval II for Modding
• Hidden Attributes
• Taiji's weapon upgrade system explained
• Setting Heirs to your preference
• How to make a choice between buildings
• Guild Requirements Reworked
• How to make units that can fire lots of new projectiles
• Total Conversion Mods Some things to try
• Get a character_record when you need it
• (Almost) Complete Guide to Adding a Unit
• export_desc_buildings txt unit recruitment rate parameters
• Things that affect Bodyguard Size in M2TW
• More Visible Small Arms Bullets
• Script for annexing a faction by marriage ties
• A more comprehensive faction_emerge, and from differences between shadowing and not shadowing
• Roadmap to the .txt Basic Files
• Representing raiding via traits
• Making a unique/specific settlement(s) capture trait
• How to make arrows stay in the ground longer (very easy)
• I_CharacterTypeNearTile and testing for adjacency
• TATW Battle Editor (Tutorials, Help, Manual, Development)
• How to script unit recruitment according to a characters title (Anc)
• Finding/fixing EOL & Encoding problems in Notepad++
• Scripted sieges
• Prolong or shorten campaign time
• Enabling Trace in the Crashlog; for detailed reporting of crashes and bugs to modders.
• Reload-safe Yes/No Events
• How to change an already existing faction to a completely new one
• Finding incorrect usages of "" with Notepad++
• Scripted buildings: create_building and destroy_buildings
• How to enable shield wall formation for units
• Faction destroyed event
• How to: remove pike/any units in-between spacing
• Remove ancillary with script or the give_ancillary mission
• Test that a faction is dead/alive including hordes
• How To Have More Than 64 “Hard Coded” Hidden Resources
• diplomacy_mission: how to use
• Custom Effects/Models for Projectiles

Resources

• M2TW Ultimate Docudemons 4.0
• Archaon’s Scripting Commands Research and Guides
• Formatted campaign modeldb files for all campaigns - Kingdoms & Vanilla 1.5
• My mongol invasion script
• Religion conversion script
• King's Purse script
• Carl - the Taxman (economy script)
• Creating a World:Bare Kingdoms|Accelerating Stratmap Animations via Script|Changing hidden keyboard settings (console key)|converted battle tooltips shared and strat TXT files|Instant garrisons and their disbandment|29 Factions on selection display|Script and Fort Fixes for Kingdom Campaigns
• EDUHelper
• Experiments with units and results
• Roman names gens/surnames
• TimeWithArmy Condition
• Quotes strings.bin file format
• Trait List for Generals
• Forced Diplomacy v1.2
• Settlement Coordinates
• Script to add a "Capital" building
• Give a region to another faction via script
• BareBones EDU
• MUG: Modding Unit Guideline
• Hero Abilities...TUTORIAL and RESOURCE
• Name lists for generals and family members
• Script for selecting the heir
• List of non functional script terms (events, conditions and commands)
• The mystery of non merging fleets solved
• End Turn number logging script - download
• Elephant Based Berserkers
• Campaign_script.txt - syntax coloring & folding for UltraEdit
• List of scripting effects for Ancillaries and Traits
• Union with changing faction in game
• The mystery of the missing reinforcement portrait solved
• Uses for show_cursorstat

Tools

• ATVTW - Trait/Ancillary Validator
• EDU-matic: Automatic unit balance/EDU generation system
• GrnEyedDvl's Script Replicator
• Creating a World:Adding a Culture|Name Converter for data\text files|The BinEditor
• Excel Traitgenerator
• Easy script for medieval II
• .strings.bin converter
• BMTWTS - Unit Editor Plugin
• boboav's Build Maker1.0
• Random Trait Generator
• EDB validator
• M2TW Campaign and Show Me Script Editor
• cururu's unit toolbox v1.0 ---- tools for easy editing of battle_models.modeldb
• Family trees in M2TW - a useful freeware tool
• Quick & Dirty Mass Unit Size changer
• Brandon EDU tool for Kingdoms
• battle_models.modeldb Validation/Beautifying/Compacting Tool
• Building and Unit Validator
• Trait Editor
• EDSUV Lister and EDU Lister
• tornnight's Name Verifier
• Unit Editor
• PercentageUnitAttribute log error filter
• TWCapital: script generator for a Faction Capital building
• TWRegionOwnerSwitch: script generator for changing a region's owner
• Historic Event Creator
• Easy EDU Editor
• TW Script Editor
• Excel Editing
• Workbook that creates any mod's unit list
• export_descr_buildings_enums name generator
• TWTECV: TW Text Editor, Cleaner & Validator v1.7[NEW-added-some-image-tools]
• Faction and Campaign Editor Modding Helper
• Historic Events Checker - Version 1.0 Released On 14/06/2014

SKINNING/MODELING/ANIMATIONS

Tutorials

• Be a Modder: Doctoring of Medieval 2 units
• Photoshop Skinning Tutorials
• Battlemap Building Textures
• Basic through Intermediate Practical Application Modeling Course
• Converting RTW units to M2TW
• Animation for Beginners
• How to make a normal texture file
• HowTo: Custom Portraits
• Everything you ever wanted to know about banners!
• How to edit M2TW MESH
• Battle model comments
• Bwian's Guide to the Infinite Possibilities of Animations
• How to add teutonic castles to all the east european factions both in strat and battle maps.
• Strat Map Models Reloaded
• How to add new models different for each faction (for the campaign map)
• How-To Edit unit textures
• Vanilla faction symbols: How to make one yourself
• Normal Map with GIMP
• Normal Mapping in Layers
• Breaking News: I HAVE unpacked animation files!
• How to remove split mesh seams
• RTW -> MTW2
• How to: Fix .obj file errors!
• Making unit cards for M2TW using Milkshape and Photoshop
• Unpack KINGDOMS mesh files so you can convert them to ms3d using GOAT
• Creating a Helmet
• Getting your own [made from scratch] models into the game
• How to make new info cards
• A Guide to Cursors
• Alletun's Eyecandy Tutorial
• Creating a World:Creating Character portraits|Unit Sprite Generating|LOD reduction without texture loss
• World Collision Entry alterations
• Guide for editing Army Banners
• How to make Faction Symbols ala Stephan
• Unit Info Card in photoshop
• Event Picture Tutorial
• Nakharar's Basic Art:UV mapping|Assigning Textures to Models
• How to make Better normal maps
• Modelling in Maya Part 1
• How to make Unit Cards for Mounted Units
• Applying textures in 3dsmax
• Gmax-Tutorial how to convert a geometry to ms3d/UPDATED17/02/2009
• How to create a dismounted knight
• Strat Models by [email]J@mes
• How-To: UV map merged models
• J@mes's guide to Milkshape
• How to merge materials without Grumpyoldmen´s converter
• EpicJon's Modeling Tutorials
• How to change faction symbol with paint.net
• How to: Add Alpha Channel and Make .tga for units with GIMP
• Unit Cards
• Taro's bag o' tricks (tutorial + some recources)
• The Total guide to Animation in MS3D for M2TW
• Bowstring animated model creation
• Adding completely custom weapons to a default figure
• How to assign model as officer banner-bearer with MS3D
• Create Realistic Texture Illumunation and Shading in Photoshop
• Wave effect - skinning tutorial by +Mr.Crow+
• Creating High-Res Normal Maps
• Easy Way of Creating Blank Texture
• How to make musketeers fire by rank perfectly
• The Guide to the BMDB (battle_models.modeldb) for absolute beginners and non-English speakers
• Learn-by-Example Modelling 01:Medieval Dagger
• Learn-by-Example Modelling 02:Composite UV-Mapping
• Learn-by-Example Modelling 03:Human Body
• Learn-by-Example Modelling 04:Multi-layered Normal Maps
• Creating and Adding New 2d Building Art with GIMP (For Beginners)
• Learn How to Use Blender 2.68! It's easy!
• How to fix the UV problem with Taleworlds Models
• How to merge animations from 2 different mods
• Learn-on-the-job series, AKA "Holding a noob's hand through the woods"
• How to create a normal texture file with gimp
• Modeling and texturing a Hellenistic Helmet | Detailed, Real-time Video Tutorial
• Making a unit card - easy and fast method
• Adding MARKA Horses in your mod and creating new versions of them.
• Finishing Actions before Saving & Exiting a MilkShape model.
• Mini Discovery-like Tutorial
• Mini tutorial about reflections.
• Basic modelling with Autodesk
• Let's Mod - Age of Petty Kings: Unit Creation
• How to paint units
  
  IWTE Tutorials:
• Editing worldterrain files (IWTE)
• Grass editing in vegetation.db
• IWTE for the complete utter noob
• Vegetation editing
• IWTE Tutorial - by Red_Devil
• How to have custom settlements on battlemap using settlement plans
• IWTE - Changing Settlement effect lighting
• King Kong's Tutorial
• IWTE Video Tutorial - Editing The Terrain / Creating Your First Settlement
• Creating a working layout for your custom settlement.
• Creating a generic custom settlement (easy step by step procedure)
• Custom settlements - IWTE
• Hints and tips for milkshape for buildings with IWTE
• How to use custom settlements from another mod in yours, both in campaign and custom battles. (Editing .worldpackage files)

Resources

• Unit Makers Tome of Knowledge
• Update! - Animated Bowstring, War Wagon and Decapitations Animations Pack
• Head references
• Lü Bu's resources
• Modeling Course 101
• B. Ward's Modder's Resources:Expansion Pack - A Taste of Vanilla|The Armory|The Shield Project|Battle Banners|Generals & Captains|Barded & Mailed Horses
• Hunter Makoy's 2d Stencils
• AttachmentSet texture inventory
• Brushes and Tutorials (Skinning)
• Animation Utilities
• mesh converter documentation
• Converting .TEXTURE to .DDS when the unpacker arrives
• the Armory
• Elvasat's Shield Textures Pack
• Basic Cloth Patterns
• Middle Eastern Shields
• Community donation from the WotN team
• Warman's Animation Insights
• Akthross anims released
• templates
• Custom Settlements Repository
• Face collection:European,African,Far Eastern
• The Theodosian Walls [Model]
• Base 3d model
• Coat of Arms Library
• Free texture source
• Marka horse death animation fix
• Ambient building reduction mod
• Human Body
• Heads Pack
• Chinese armour drafts from several eras (Link, in Chinese)
• Sumskilz's Models & Textures
• Creating a World: Fixing square projectile trails
• Medieval Knights
• Resource Works by Paleologos
• Byzantine Cities Strat Models
• Tons of 3D stuff generously offered to likewise generous peoples
• Animated Wagon Wall
• Coat of arms - Website
• Ned's coat of arms templates
• Muslim_Assassin.CAS FIXED

Tools

• IWTE - World editing
• MaxScript version for World and WorldCollision files
• GOAT and GOAL: A collection of modelling and animation utilities
• Utility for writing UV map templates in dds format
• Milkshape .ms3d importer/exporter for 3ds Max and Gmax, version 1.1
• Alpaca's .sd Converter
• DDS plugin for GIMP
• 3DS Max animation export/import
• RTW animations converter
• Python strat model converter for Milkshape Users
• texture/dds converter
• Animation Utilities: Version 1.1
• GOAT version 1_1, bug fix release
• NEW- MW Graphics texture tools!
• Milkshape ms3d Importer/Exporter for 3ds Max and Gmax
• Open dds file
• Mesh/Cas/Engine - MaxScript version of GOAT tool
• Release of the SD mod tool
• DDS & Normal Map Plugin for Photoshop x86\x64 Both
• DXTBmp 4.00.96-texture converter
• Animations and Skeleton Unpacking Tool
• ddsview - alternative to DDS Converter
• TEXTURE file converter/editor
• M2TW Modeler's Toolbox
• Projectile release point changer
• 3ds Max

SOUNDS AND OTHER MEDIA

Tutorials

• How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW
• How to create a new accent
• Faction-Specific Music
• Extracting sounds
• How to Add Missing sounds in the Greek firethrower units
• How to add missing SFX sound for stakes in your mods
• How to add own video into the game
• Cinematic Editor Tutorial
• Creating your own Menu Background video
• How to change the accent of a faction using vanilla accents
• Unique unit voices and soundtheme
• How to remove the "Our units are under attack!" speech
• El Monstero's Definitive Guide to Modding Med 2's Music

Resource

• Royalty Free Music
• Remixed Medieval Music

Tool

• SoundExtractor v1.2
• Release of the EVT mod tool

MAPPING

Tutorials

• Myrddraal's Mapping Essentials (For RTW but it's a good starter guide to mapping for M2TW)
• Creating a World:Basic mapping from scratch|Working with the Demis online Mapper|Adding detailed Regions|Height Map with 3Dem|Named Forts
• Nakharar's Basics: Regions with Geomod
• Landbridges-Unblockable but sailable
• Basic tips on easier editing and approach in Geo-mod(the novice corner)
• Navigateable Rivers
• Creating Land Mass
• Campaign Mapping With Gimp
• Geomod: How to make new regions, Spot errors using Gmaps + tips
• Adding Characters and armies with Geo-mod
• How-To: Add a New Climate Zone
• How to Make a Smooth Coast
• How-To: Satellite/Map to Great map_ground_types/Map
• How-To: Add multiple campaigns (aka provincial campaigns)
• Settlements on rivers
• Mapping Essentials-Thanks to Myrddraal
• Expanding The Campaign Map
• Mapping for dummies (complete tutorial) - Thanks to GrnEyedDvl
• Creating a base campaign map
• How to Edit Trade Resources
• How to: Make a height map without Photoshop
• Very Easy Way of Smooth Coastlines
• Understanding the map_heights to battle map conversion limits
• Easy way to find a colour not in use for adding new regions!
• Easy "work of art" coastlines
• How to do Realistic Radar Map (Video Tutorial)
• Easy Smooth Coastlines
• IWTE Custom settlements - Step by Step for creating. Most important things you must know
• How To Add a New Climate Zone
• Smooth Coastlines in One Layer
• Mapping Video Tutorials
• How to create/implement a custom tile in your stratmap.

Resources

• Stripped-Down map
• Creating a World:Gig's Map Collection|Bare Geomod|The Geomod Manual|Stone Forts on the Battle Map|Editable Settlement Faction Symbols
• Basic Map by Ataegina
• You Need Good Map??Here!!
• Base map
• Blank Campaign Map
• Map of Ireland & Isle of Man
• Decent Biome Map
• The palm's shadow bug resolved.
• Working Basic Europe Map
• Hi-Res topographic maps, equal area projections
• Extended Map v0.1
• A gift to the community: map of the Iberian Peninsula
• Russia Map
• Map Region Colors

Tools

• Geomod Tool for Mapping
• Creating a World - Map Templates with Worldwind
• BrandonM's descr_strat editor - Beta Release .001
• Region Color Checker
• BMTWTS - Region Editor Plugin
• Odd Pixel Mapping Assistant Tool
• Fantasy Name Generator
• TW Map Reader v1.7.3
• Mapping Tool (online mapper)
• Aurun's M2TW Random Map Generator

MISCELLANEOUS

Tutorials

• Creating a World - Mod Install for Steam
• How to get Big MTWII Mods to work with Steam
• How to make a Professional Quality Installer for your Mod
• How To Fix UAC and VirtualStore Problems
• Unpacking: The very first steps & simplest method for new modders
• Specific unpacking from the .pack files
• How-To: Add multiple campaigns (aka provincial campaigns)
• Fixing the unpacker on vista/7 to get meshs and textures
• How to make vanilla hotseat
• How To Create A New Region
• How to make old factions, appear on kingdoms expansions campaigns
• Getting Attention for your mod/Basic mod infrastructure
• Advanced Family Trees - IMAGE HEAVY
• How To Create a New Faction (using Normans/Saxons)
• AI Expansion
• How to get Rid of Bald generals in Medieval II
• Creating a World:Character portraits, creation and use|Using the Install Creator|Registry Entries for the Launcher|Unpacking the Game|Starting Steam Mods the easy Way|Moving Steam's Game Library|Converting Install Disk to Steam
• Guide to the first steps in making a mod (The Novice Corner)
• M2TW commonly used modding terms(The Novice Corner)
• Errors to avoid when making a mod(The Novice Corner)
• Kingdoms: making an UI
• How to Make a Better Movie Background
• Adding a new faction symbol
• How-To: Create new Papal States and delete the old ones
• How to merge 2 mods
• How-to: Add new Kingdoms resources to your mod!
• Hyper-Extended Families
• Renaming lots of files using DOS
• How-To: Get files off your disc
• How to restore the status of a save
• New face of Faction Icon
• All tips to avoid unknown errors by the game when you install/create mods
• How the game can use your files ...
• Config Fixer Trick for Mod Installers
• Unpacking for Windows 7 users
• Chapter-1. Unpacking Medieval 2 Total War
• Chapter-2. using mod switcher
• Chapter-3. Trade Resource Monopoly
• Multiple installations of a mod (with different submods)
• Using a spare faction to preserve "destructible" pre-placed forts
• How to make completely new portraits
• How to add own video into the game
• File/Mod Compression Tutorial
• How to Get Awesome Graphics in Medieval II
• [Linux] - How to install mods and submods in Linux (Ubuntu)
• An alternative way to play mods through Steam (Includes Pictures)
• Automatically testing your mod's campaign.

Resources

• Creating a World:High Resolution Screenshots|Reduced City Textures|Implementing custom campaigns for single player and hotseat
• Missing Portraits of Pagan Priests for Teutonic Campaign.
• Link to weapon/armour site
• Stripped-Down Mod Folder
• Ultimate Docudemons 1.0
• SourceCode
• Mod Hosting
• City List
• Vanilla resources sorted by region capital
• BrandonM's:Plugin Example|Online Edition
• L'Outremer Work Pack for Modders
• World history atlas
• MODIEVAL: Mugshots Midgetmod II. The 144 customised Generals .tga Resource Compendium + Ancillary Bonus V
• Rad's Textures/Art
• Syntax highlighting for Total War files in Sublime Text 3
• [Linux] - Unpacking the Game in Linux (Ubuntu)

Tools

• Release of the CUF (font & text rendering) mod tool
• IDX extractor
• Kingdoms Launcher Editing Application
• Total War Projectiles
• Mod folder installer
• PackFile Tools: Packfile-Slicer
• PackFile Tools: Packfile-Builder (re-packer)
• MTW2 unpack tool 1.01 Update
• M2TW syntax highlighting for UltraEdit32
• Useful tool for making a file list
• Link Shell Extension: A must
• Mod Development Tools
• BrandonM's Total War Toolset
• BMTWTS - Download and Details
• .xml editor
• tools from RTW/BI
• Unit Damage, Defense and Armour Calculator
• Bulk Rename Utility
• Release of the PACK tool (for packing/unpacking/repacking M2TW PACK files)
• Infracta Launcher + Tools
• Mod Launcher (steam compatible)
• Return of XIDX: with bug fixes and updates for M2TW.
• Steam compatible modStarter
• Faction Launcher
• The ToolBox - The Universal Mod Launcher v1.204 (Latest Steam Update Compatible)
• Creating a World - Fixing the 'Block Graphic' Bug
• Recruitment Viewer + Units Stats Viewer v1.05
• Medieval2ModLauncher (formerly "Launcher.exe replacement")
• Set counter value
• SubMod Installer/Manager for Medieval 2/Rome TW
• Auto-Completion and colour highlighting for Notepad++
• Med2ModLauncher - A new launcher for Medieval II Total War
• DXT Tool

M2TW GAMEPLAY GUIDES

• A Guide To Missions
• A Guide To Guilds
• Guide: Espionage (causing cities to revolt)
• Guide: Bribing and how to do it
• FAUST (Unit Stat guide) for M2:TW/Kingdoms
• Collection of M2TW Guides

In addition, check out the M2TW modding tutorials section in the Total War Center Wiki.

Index Update: 2021-05-24

I'll be updating this regularly, if you miss something just send me a message.

[Diglytron]

lol, this is a lot of effort and work. I would have repped you, If I diddn't that before already

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

Amazing work compiling all of this +rep! Just on time too, i want to read about modding as i have to for it now.

[lolIsuck]

Just for your information, I didn't make all of this, it's an update of the old one (which got moved to the Cemetary).

[BM309K58SMERCH]

Nice! An updated list!
Thank you very much for this.
+rep

[Tellos Athenaios]

Shameless advertising: there is a much more up to date version of XIDX (see link in my sig). Didn't see that one in the list, so I thought I'd mention it.

Also the EVT tool has just been released.

[lolIsuck]

I somehow missed that first one. I'll add them both in, thanks

edit: Done.

[King William the Conqueror]

Great thread. Thanks for adding my tutorials.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Thanks for adding the links.

Just a minor thing: the EVT tool is probably better filed under "Sounds" rather than animations since it deals with sounds code exclusively. XIDX could be filed under both sounds and animations, but in truth it is the direct successor to the old XIDX which is mentioned as IDX (based on that code, but heavily modified since) -- so I'd put the new XIDX in the same category as IDX.

[lolIsuck]

No idea why I put them there, fixed it.
Thanks mate

[Hadrian I]

+1 Reputation, splended work.

Signed Hadrian.

[Lifthrasir]

Amazing list, very helpful. Great job!!! +rep