Adding New Faction from Nothing – Step by Step

[Wontonman]

well i reinstalled mtw2 and tried making a new faction (wales) well it worked in the camp map but when i choose to command an attack personally the game loads the battle as normall then it shows the battle without any textures then crashes straight afterwards. ive included the files in the zip.

[Wontonman]

Well i just did some more testing and i found out its an universal problem ie: every faction is effected.

I forgot to mention in my last post that the only other mod im using is Zeph's kingdom of jerusalem mod

[ivogovos]

i wanna make my new faction of croatia but i cant find the files:

descr_banners_new.xml
descr_character.txt
descr_lbc_db.txt
descr_model_strat.txt
descr_movies_tracks.xml
descr_names.txt
descr_offmap_models.txt
descr_sm_factions.txt
export_descr_advice.txt
export_descr_advice_enums.txt
export_descr_advice_timing.txt
export_descr_buildings.txt
export_descr_unit.txt
factionintrosubtitles_lookup.txt
campaign_descriptions.txt
expanded.txt
export_advice.txt
export_units.txt
menu_english.txt
names.txt
prebattle_speeches_subtitles.txt


can someone help me please?

[Lusted]

Have you got patch 1.1, and have you run the unpacker?

[ivogovos]

where can i find the files to unpack? and yes i've got patch 1.1

[Goatbuster3000]

You don't really "find" them. It's found in the 'tools' folder in the main M2TW directory. You just run the unpacker and it will unpack the files for you.

[ivogovos]

i'm sorry but i canot find the tools folder

[HereticFang]

i'm sorry but i canot find the tools folder

You have to create it into the Main MTW II folder

[DevilsAdvocate]

Well i added ireland and works okay with only 2 problems. 1) when i play as them when people can be adopted when i say yes they die instantly.. 2) when not playing as them they dont actually do anything. they occasionally move someone but never attack even though they start of with an army near a city
Anyone have any ideas why these things could be happening.
DevilsAdvocate

[selenius4tsd]

DevilsAdvocate, I have moved your post to the New Faction Tutorial - hopefully you will get a response here.

[Milos98]

I have fixed the error, (it was in expanded.txt ), but now when I play my faction I cant build chapels and churches in settelments, and I was wondering if it it is possible to do something, to change that.

[Goatbuster3000]

when I play my faction I cant build chapels and churches in settelments, and I was wondering if it it is possible to do something, to change that.

In your export_descr_buildings, you you have your faction add to the "requires factions" section? Adding them to this and every higher church should fix your problem.

[Milos98]

Thanks for help, it realy worked!

[ArnyBoy]

This is the first time I have tried to create my own faction. I have got to step 10 without any probs but I don't get the whole convert the file thing. I've downloaded the converterbut now what do i do?

Any help is much appreciated

[Milos98]

I had problem with that too, I copied the converter files into the text folder,
than i downloaded python 2,5 from here and unpacked the files.
Im sure there is a shorter way but I made it like that.

[ArnyBoy]

This is gonna sound really nooby but it is my first time modding, what text file the one i will be using in step 10?

Copy all the files into that file?
Or into the data file?
could you please explain if you don't mind

[Milos98]

This is gonna sound really nooby but it is my first time modding, what text file the one i will be using in step 10?

Copy all the files into that file?
Or into the data file?
could you please explain if you don't mind

The point with converting files is to make them from strings.BIN files to .txt, so you can open them with notepad and change it if you want.
I didnt understand your question completly, but im gonna gues what is bothering you...
1. You must install python 2.5, without it, I guess you cant do anything.
2. You must download strings_bin_converter 0.72 made by alpaca
3. You must extract the files from archive (strings_bin_converter 0.72 wich you downloaded ) and paste them into the text folder (data/text/) and run the convert_all.bat

You have a tutorial about it here:
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...t=76289&page=3
If you still have problems, try to describe exactly where is the problem.

[ArnyBoy]

Thanks for the help but I still get a problem, I have installed python 2.5, I have downloaded the converter, I extracted it into my medieval II total war/data/text folder I have copied the data/ui/southern_european/interface folder into the .sd_Converter yet i do not get a convert_all.bat folder i get a modpage.bat folder but that is it in term of bat folders...

...and yes i did run the medieval II total war/main/unpack_all.bat

[Milos98]

Wait a minute?! what data/ui/southern_european?????
I think you mixed up the converters,
you have to download alpacas strings.bin converter, the one you downloaded is a converter for making factions symbol,...
Download alpacas text converter here:


http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1006

And when I said that you must run unpack all, I ment the converter file, wich you download from upper link.

At step 10 you will need campaign_description.txt, and converting allows you to open it with a notepad.

BTW: I never knew how to explain things simply,...

[Milos98]

Have you checked files for mistakes?
It could be a problem in expanded.txt (40 % of mistakes happen there), check if you converted the text files in MTW2 original folder,...
Has the mod worked before you started adding new faction?