Can you mod barbarian invasion units into RTW?

**Guy with a spoon** · April 24, 2007, 01:15 AM

Hello

Can you get units from barbarian invasion and put them into rome total war? If so where are the unit cards for the barbarian invasion units?

Is it possible to make spartan hoplites recruitable in sparta's militia barracks but no other city? (other cites still recruit spartan hoplites but do so when their towns are upgraded enough)

**hacon** · April 24, 2007, 05:22 AM

yes use a hidden resource

in descr_regions.txt - add hidden resource
eg :

Laconia
legion: Minervia
Sparta
numidia
Helots
244 13 24
fertile, copper, iron, sparta, slaves, hellenic <====
5
5
christianity 0 pagan 100 zoroastrian 0

In export_descr_buildings.txt
add to this line

hidden_resources athens corinth sparta

then modify your building thus :

recruit "greek hoplite spartan" 0 requires factions { numidia, } and hidden_resource sparta

**Turk** · April 24, 2007, 09:10 AM

yes for more information how to add a unit here:http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=51750

hope that helps

**Guy with a spoon** · April 24, 2007, 07:39 PM

Thanks

There still something I don't understand, I would put the unit cards where they're supposed to go, but I dont know where the unit cards for the units in barbarian invasion are in the first place.

I dont understnad, does that mean numidia gets spartan hoplites? This is my first time fiddling with the desc-region file

Somehow I already have this file in my export desr buildings without any modifications (army barracks)
recruit "greek hoplite spartan" 0 requires factions { greek_cities, } and hidden_resource sparta

and this for royal barracks
recruit "greek hoplite spartan" 0 requires factions { greek_cities, } and hidden_resource sparta

**Guy with a spoon** · April 24, 2007, 08:23 PM

Oh yeah, if I add units that have abilities such as swimming and shield wall into RTW what would happen?

**Turk** · April 25, 2007, 12:51 AM

If you have BI you must add that in the export_descr_units
file

you have to put swimming in the special abilities line

**Guy with a spoon** · April 25, 2007, 02:16 AM

Does anyone know where the unit cards for the units in barbarian invasion are?

is it this?
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\RTW\bi\data\ui\units\celts

Oh and as I mentioned I dont understand the secret resorces thing. Please help me.

**Turk** · April 25, 2007, 11:59 AM

Look at this Tutorial:http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38403
and this:http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17266

And yes the UI cards are located in the UI folder
(i havent BI so i am not sure)

**hacon** · April 25, 2007, 06:22 PM

"I dont understnad, does that mean numidia gets spartan hoplites? This is my first time fiddling with the desc-region file"

No what I have done is replaced the Numidian faction which was unplayable with a Spartan faction. I have not modified the internal names only the text associated with them. Thus for Numidia read Sparta.

in your file the hidden_resource Sparta allows the Greek_Cities faction to recruit Spartans but only at Sparta so I think you already have what u want.

**Guy with a spoon** · April 26, 2007, 03:57 AM

Thanks guys

One last thing, one unit I've put into RTW isn't working, there are unit cards but when I want to fight it crashes to the desktop.

This is my entry and I have checked that every single file is where it should be several times.

type lombard_berserkers
skeleton fs_2handed_berserker
scale 1.1
indiv_range 40
texture germans, data/models_unit/textures/BI_unit_beserker_burgundii.tga
model_flexi data/models_unit/BI_unit_lombard_berserkers_lod1.CAS, 15
model_flexi data/models_unit/BI_unit_lombard_berserkers_lod2.CAS, 30
model_flexi data/models_unit/BI_unit_lombard_berserkers_lod3.CAS, 40
model_flexi data/models_unit/BI_unit_lombard_berserkers_lod4.CAS, max
model_sprite germans, 60.0, data/sprites/burgundii_lombard_berserkers_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

**Turk** · April 26, 2007, 08:00 AM

There must be a space between models_flexi .... and the line with data

**Guy with a spoon** · April 27, 2007, 03:55 AM

There were lines, it just didn't show up properly when I copied and pasted.

**Turk** · April 27, 2007, 08:35 AM

This line do not exist in RTW:scale 1.1

But sry i have not bi

**Guy with a spoon** · April 27, 2007, 10:30 PM

I delted the line but the game still crashes to the desktop, thansk for all your help but I might have to ask people who have the barbarian invasion, maybe its a programming thing

Thanks anyway.