Medieval II:TW - Modding Tutorial: Adding Units 

Would transferring the drummer trolls and gundabad trolls from reforged work cause i done ut with the drummer trolls into dac bur got the same error as you people in discord were saying they might have a specific animation that i need to add or something but have no clue how to do it

How did you fix the officiars for the unit. Because i am adding a unit from another faction to the high elfs but the officiers are still silver surfers.

You should start uploading with a name like that.

There's no day like the present to get started :D

You could yes

Extremely hard.

@@josh8945 Not at all. Use Geomod by gigantus for easy map modding.

@@taitaizozo I downloaded it and don't know how to use, why won't anyone make a video on it ?,

Need to make sure the officer model is supported in the modeldb. Cross check the officer model name in the edu and search it in the modeldb, if it isn't supported by that faction then follow part 1 of the video if it is part of the same mod or part 2 if it isn't with regards to the modeldb file.

You have to download milkshape for that part. There's a month free trial and I'll grab the TWC link for a guide on how to use it: www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?412456-Be-a-Modder-Doctoring-of-Medieval-2-units Download the 7zip file posted by Ishan for the guide, it is probably the best way to understand how you need to go about it. I haven't got around to try out milkshape myself, but the guide is so comprehensive that I don't doubt I could do it, and it specifically covers how to change a unit's weapons as well (the guide shows how to make a 2-handed unit into a sword and shield unit in the guide)

You would have to use a script to do that and that is something you'll have to find a tutorial for. Sorry.

@@autumnleaf45 fixed it! The bmdb was truly alright so the problem lies elsewhere. *This all will be valid for Stainless Steel 6.4* . There are two things that I did, one of which or both of which contributed to the fix. The one is where you give ui to the recepient faction. Just skip that step! Maybe the devs made it happen automatically? Anyway, the second step is to *make sure you alter the right data folder* because Stainless Steel has its own data folder! If you do some steps in one and some on the other you will end up with silver surfers at best. To find the Stainless Steel data folder go to the main Medieval 2 folder and hit Mods. Inside the mods find Stainless Steel. Inside the Stainless Steel folder will be a folder that again says "data". *this is it* .

Did you ever find an answer?

They are at max factions, just like max units. So you'd have to replace one. But if you're fine replacing one.... open "expanded.txt" in "mods\Divide_and_Conquer\data\text" and scroll down a bit and you can get to where the factions are named, and all their faction adjectives listed so that you can change what you like there. Otherwise you should be able to follow his previous tutorials on how to do the other bits. Same thing again, but they have already reached the maximums of many things of what the base game allows. You will have to be willing to sacrifice something if you are willing to gain anything at all.

@@rogueassassin875 I understand. I meant, a totally new faction, like adding a new flag, a totally new country to play as. Sorry if that's a little vague, I don't really know how to describe it properly.

@@nolesquad5162 On the campaign map I'm guessing? I haven't messed that myself. Country limit is at it's maximum allowed number though. So if you wanted to add let's say Numenor, you'd have to trade them for a faction like Harad or Anduin Vale. It'd be cool if he did a guide on those 2, but it should be fairly easy to find starting location changing guides online as I believe I have seen one before?

@@rogueassassin875 no no no you don't understand. What I meant was a totally new nation with new units, new buildings, etc.

@@nolesquad5162 Creating them from scratch? Seems like it'd take a while lol. I believe I heard you had to use python for editing some of those locked features in the export_descr_unit. UI for the buildings is kept in the ui folder, they are sorted by culture so you can find those images there. Editing in totally new buildings may take more than just editing the text files unless I'm wrong.. Not trying to be annoying here, just trying to scrounge my memory for useful info

hello i got the same errore how do you fix it?

Did you find a way to fix it?

which version are you looking at? i thought for 4.5 enedwaith are not released yet?

They are removed from the game, but I added mine back :D

@@bamblaster5865 They haven't been ingame since 2.2 lol, he's watching very old content

Ha, yes. Very old content. Thanks guys

the video could work, you would just need to ensure that both mods share teh same animations. otherwise just swap animations to something that call of warhammer already has (searching battle_models database will let you see if your ported animation is in use already or not)

Yes

But you can replace existing units with reforged units if you want to, just make sure you don't break the game

How many units are they currently in DAC ?

@@floflo1645 I believe that there are currently 496 unit slots in use. So that leaves you unit slots to fill at you leasure.

I think 500 is the max amount of units, but I don't know how many are spare

500 is the maximum, and you can check by opening the export_descr_units file with Notepad++, press CTLR+F to get the search function and enter 'ownership' into the 'Find what:' slot, then click 'Count'. DaC currently has 496.

Then you will have to learn how to do that using this as a base. There are copious tutorials on TWC that can help.

@ Oh right, cool!

@@Uberdude6666 gl navigating twc friend :) finding those 2011 guides can be tough

@@rogueassassin875 Haha I bet xD I've seen the mess of tw center before

Correct

@ thank you

It captures Mordor and just replaces the L.

@ damn response from the man himself - cheers

@Vae Victvs I could only get the goat chariot units over but not he goats mounts them selves. Everytime I try either Iron Hammerguard or the Ironfoot War Goats it crashes the game on startup. But I do remember Arachir saying once that goats are never going to be possible. Which i find sucks, i get its not lore friendly but I JUST WANT GOATS!!! haha

If I remember correctly, he said that you could also add ResL to all the Mirkwood regions if you wanted to make it available everywhere. You should make sure that the Mirkwood hidden resource is actually where you want it to be.

@@davidant8901 yes, but that would also make all of my elite troops (path finders, palace guard, royal guard) available everywhere. I don't want that :/.

shouldn't be impossible

It was the same for me, and I don't know how to fix it

@@kilianlandersman4772 Me too

You need to use Notepad++

This is for DaC. It is, in fact, for any med 2 mod.

@ahh okay much appreciated good sir 🤝

what did the logs say? it should say something but if it does not check if you add in the models into the unit_models folder. my suggestion is to add 1 unit at a time if you are new or if you are adding missile units you also need to add them or the quickest way is to change them into vanilla projectiles same goes with cav units and such.

@@bamblaster5865 i just trying to add one unit, and its a infantry unit, I added all the unit_models files, attachments and sprites, and it still didn't work, but someone once told me that vanilla game units don't need to have these files in the MOD's unit_models folder

@@bamblaster5865 in the log i have only this: 03:45:14.957 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2 03:45:14.957 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Sep 5 2014 version development === 03:45:14.959 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack 03:45:14.959 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack 03:45:14.959 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack 03:45:14.960 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack 03:45:14.960 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack 03:45:14.960 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack 03:46:00.152 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

​@@HugoDiasR damn the logs didnt really helped. and I'm not really sure about adding stuff from vanilla and i never unpacked my medieval 2 and most of my attempts are made from a mod to another mod but from prior experience if it crashes on custom it means something is missing so i mostly copied the entire folder in the units_models depending on how the mod author structure it for example: 17 pharazon_faithful 1 1 55 unit_models/_units/Umbar/NEW_arpharazon_faith_lod0.mesh 6400 1 6 russia 66 unit_models/_Units/umbar/textures/NEW_arpharazon_faithfull.texture 71 unit_models/_Units/umbar/textures/NEW_arpharazon_faithfull_norm.texture 42 unit_sprites/russia_umbar_pikes_sprite.spr 1 6 russia 69 unit_models/_Units/umbar/textures/NEW_arpharazon_faith_attach.texture 74 unit_models/_Units/umbar/textures/NEW_arpharazon_faith_attach_norm.texture 0 from this unit i just copied the entire _units folder in this mod to the mod that i want even if i don't intend to use the whole units in the folder as long as the other mods don't conflict so i would say is to check the entries that you make incase of an error. also make sure that the units that you are trying to add is not at its full capacity of 500 and in the bmdb make sure that the very top entry have the extra 1 that you added plus it might be better to join a mod community in discord since you might get better help than me and here.

Search the net, its quite easy

astilla9 i already did nothing happened

Redj Canlas your user must be the “owner” of the files. Check UAC settings also.

that means you messed up somewhere formatting. The opening ctd crash will either happen when you mess up something in the "export_descr_unit.txt" or the "battle_models.modeldb". It can be something very simple like not numbering your rows correctly in the modeldb or having a stray character in the "export_descr_unit" or the db. These files are very unforgiving. This is why you must be careful when implementing units or you can brick your installation of the mod. This is why you also make backup files, and never close out of notepad++ (undo function is a godsend) until you have tested your attempt by launching the game and loading up a battle with said units. I have lost 3 months of work before because I got lazy and shutdown my computer without testing if things are working.

Rogue Assassin thanks for the help I didn’t close notepad ++ so I’ll try undoing what I did and retry. Thank you!

@@JamesVI22 yeah just spam undo until you can find where you went wrong. IF the game crashes upon starting a battle with your edited units then its a problem purely in the modeldb. Glad to be of any help!

Rogue Assassin It worked! Thank you for the help!

@@JamesVI22 :D good thing, it's real painful to start over again!

HOW???

@@brauni2558 I forgot...thats how