Making Saxons playable in Britannia.

[XTaczek]

A very quick question.
I modded some unpacked files in my game. However, only descr_start changes seem to show up. Game dont seem to react to changes made to unpacked files like expanded.txt or sm_descr_factions, or descr_buildings.
I remember there was some command to add to medieval2 executable to fix that, but i dont remember which one was it.
Can somebody help me?

[irishron]

The answer is in the Unpacker's readme about adding the io_filefirst = true switch to the target in the game/mod's icon.

In a Kingdoms mod it's in the mod's .cfg file.

[XTaczek]

Thanks again man, now everything works

[irishron]

Glad to help.

[XTaczek]

Bah, unfortunally problems... AGAIN -_-
Here is the last entrings of the log:
23:55:52.186 [system.io] [warning] open: data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds is missing
23:55:52.187 [system.io] [warning] open: data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.724 [system.io] [warning] open: data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.764 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/symbols/FE_symbols_80/normans.tga is missing
23:55:53.764 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/symbols/FE_faction_units/normans.tga is missing
23:55:53.765 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/symbols/FE_symbols_80/saxons.tga is missing
23:55:53.765 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/symbols/FE_faction_units/saxons.tga is missing
23:55:53.766 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/symbols/FE_symbols_80/slave.tga is missing
23:55:53.766 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/symbols/FE_faction_units/slave.tga is missing
23:55:53.768 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/_M2_MP_HISTORICAL_BATTLE_CHOOSE_TEAMS.TGA is missing
23:55:53.770 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/TEXTURES/_M2_MAIN_MENU.TGA is missing
23:55:53.986 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/buttons_composite2.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.986 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/slider_composite.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.986 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/slider_composite2.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.986 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/border_4pix_black_gold2.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.987 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/text_border.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.987 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/yellow_highlight.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.987 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/border_4pix_black_gold_selected.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.987 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/border_4pix_black_gold_black.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.987 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/_M2_Selection_Glow.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.988 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/unit_card.tga.dds is missing
23:55:53.988 [system.io] [warning] open: data/menu/icons.tga.dds is missing
23:55:56.914 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_timurids.tga is missing
23:55:56.914 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_FE.tga is missing
23:55:56.914 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/base/map_timurids.tga is missing
23:55:56.914 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_normans.tga is missing
23:55:56.914 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_FE.tga is missing
23:55:56.915 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/base/map_normans.tga is missing
23:55:56.915 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_saxons.tga is missing
23:55:56.915 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_FE.tga is missing
23:55:56.915 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/base/map_saxons.tga is missing
23:55:56.915 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_slave.tga is missing
23:55:56.916 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/map_FE.tga is missing
23:55:56.916 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/base/map_slave.tga is missing
23:55:56.916 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/leader_pic_england.tga is missing
23:55:56.920 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/leader_pic_england.tga is missing
23:55:57.424 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/leader_pic_saxons.tga is missing
23:55:57.426 [system.io] [warning] open: data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/leader_pic_saxons.tga is missing
23:55:57.557 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War napotka

[irishron]

All of those are in the pack files. Nothing new. Did you delete the map.rwm in the data\world\maps\base folder and start a new campaign?
Did you delete the two files mentioned in the unpacker's readme?

[XTaczek]

Well, i think i screwed something up, as i have deleted one file i modded (win conditions to be exact) and returned back to the stock version, but then for some reason it stopped crashing. But i have seen that all of my changes are gone again... io file first is in both cfg and on batch file...

And yes, i removed geography files, but forgot about map.rwm.

The game was crashing at the point of faction selection. When i clicked on Saxon shield, game crashed.

[irishron]

DId you edit the descr_strat.txt?

[XTaczek]

Yes, of course. Here is the list of all files i modded:

descr_start
campaign_descriptions
descr_sm_factions
descr_win_conditions
expanded
export_buildings
export_descr_buildings
export_descr_buildings_enums

I used those to add faction description, victory conditions, change saxons to pagan, and add saxons to the game.

[irishron]

Broke this off the M2 GD General Questions thread as it is now modding questions.

[XTaczek]

The thread name isnt really fitting, as we are talking about vanilla M2TW here, but thats a minor thing.

Do you think i should just reinstall whole game and do my modding again, or i can somehow repair this?

[irishron]

How about doing a fresh install and using something like this to do your modding?

[XTaczek]

Well, i know what GeoMod is about (i made a mod with it for Britannia), so i might give it a try on vanilla. Thanks.
For now, i will reinstall the whole game again and this time, i will register what i changed. I will be back if i will encounter some problems.

[Gigantus]

Moved from tutorial section to Q&A