M2TW Animations Released

**Caliban** · May 03, 2007, 07:00 PM

I have been given the go-ahead to release the unpacked animations and .evt files for the modding community.

Download link on TWC.
Alternate Mediafire Link: Added on 17th June 2010

Feel free to host these files officially. The download is around 60mb and unzips to twice that.

Simply download and unzip to your data\ folder. It will extract everything to the animations folder with sub-directorys. You should be able to delete your data\animations\*.dat *.idx files and then run the game with this in your config:

Code:

[util]
no_animdb = true

This should run the game directly from the animation files, bypassing the need to re-build the pack files. Deleting the pack files without using the no_animdb command should rebuild the animation files from your animation source folder.

Happy Modding!

Caliban

**Slaxx Hatmen** · May 03, 2007, 07:05 PM

Holy crap! Thxz Caliban!

**war91** · May 03, 2007, 07:14 PM

What does this mean?

I'm don't mod, so I don't get it...

Well this allow people to make better mods?

**big_feef** · May 03, 2007, 07:20 PM

Downloading and trying them out now; thanks Caliban.

**Caliban** · May 03, 2007, 09:31 PM

GOM and KE are working on the animation system at the moment, I have been told that no_animdb doesn't work in the retail build. However, if you delete the .dat and .idx files it will re-pack the source animations from the folder.

You can see what they are upto over at the org here:

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=79414

**Condottiere SOG** · May 03, 2007, 09:53 PM

Caliban,

is it possible to change unit weapons in the battle_models.db file?

**Caliban** · May 03, 2007, 10:54 PM

Best to have a read of that thread on the .ORG. I think you can change weapons on units by using GOM and KE's model import/exporter.

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=79414

**jaklei** · May 04, 2007, 04:44 AM

Has anyone found out if the RTW animations could be refitted into Medieval 2?

**Marku** · May 04, 2007, 06:43 AM

jak that would be good :-)

which mods/modder has been needing this the most?

**Darkragnar** · May 04, 2007, 08:41 AM

Awesome, Great news indeed.

Not that it matters,but here chew on some +ve rep for a while

**Alletun** · May 04, 2007, 01:42 PM

Awesome, i've really been looked forward to playing around with the animations. Thanks

**Douchebag** · May 04, 2007, 05:32 PM

So what exactly does this do?

**omarrsq** · May 04, 2007, 07:16 PM

Thanks, Caliban

**vlad** · May 05, 2007, 03:31 AM

thx

**Ozy** · May 06, 2007, 12:16 AM

i don't really understand, what are these animations?

**Filip_bre** · May 07, 2007, 10:03 AM

now when i ll be changing some animations in the animation file, and then delete the idx and pack from the animation folder, i wont get a ctd and my changes will take place ? like changin the animation when units run to the animation when units run at defensive state so they are holding their shields in front of them ?

**Theseus1234** · August 24, 2008, 01:14 PM

again, i ask the question what exactly does this do? does it add more weapon animations or something??
EDIT: sorry for bumping this old thread, but i want to know!

**SigniferOne** · August 25, 2008, 08:50 PM

These are simply the animations which are stored in the /data/animations pack files. There is no way to extract anims from the pack files, so to change anything animation-related, you must change these files, and get the game to rebuild the anim pack files from them.