If someone is in need of such a workaround, I'll contact the ORM team to request the permission. There's another way around this problem, but I'd need the ORM-developpers permission to use one of their files before I can post it here.
#Empire total war save game editor movie
if you get this problem, try husserlTW's solution of changing ORM to movie format, so that it always loads last. Using my tweaks in combination with ORM may cause the new faction colour for the Ottomans which ORM introduces to revert back to the vanilla green colour. To replay your camera path, make sure your camera file is saved, then press R to reload the battle. Warning: The game will overwrite any existing replay.cam file, so make sure that you copy/rename your replay.cam file after you create or edit it. Start up ETW to see your changes applied in game - Voilà!Įdit note - COMPATIBILITY with other mods: so far, I've discovered that these custom battles tweaks of mine interfere with at least one other mod out there and that's the Ottoman Realism Mod. This will create a file called replay.cam in the Rome root folder. Put the edited pack file back in the data folder of ETWħ. Save the changes, and exit the DB EditorĦ. Edit the columns named "early availability" and "late availability" for the appropriate factions to "True" or "False" depending on whether you want to see them in custom battles or not - max 32 set to "True"ĥ. Scroll down to the line named "Factions Tables" in bold text on the list that appears, and select "Factions"Ĥ. Open the DB Editor, and tick the box for said file thereģ. Place the DB Editor and accompanying files in a separate folder created for the job together with the "32_factions_in_custom_battles.pack" file.Ģ.
#Empire total war save game editor how to
There may be different and simpler ways of how to edit the above list, but the following method worked for me:ġ.
If you want to edit the above list of playable factions you need the DB Editor found here:
You can find the Mod Manager available for download here: on a line there, save, and exit the text file, and then start up ETW or.ī) Use the Mod Manager to tick the box for enabling this mod in that program, and start ETW from there. Mod "32_factions_in_custom_battles.pack" Put the extracted "32_factions_in_custom_battles.pack" file in, if on a XP computer, the C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\data folder (or wherever you have ETW installed)Ī) Open or create the "user.empire_script" text file in the C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts folder (visible only if the setting for showing hidden folders and files on your computer is enabled), and write. Extract the downloaded file to your desktop (for example)ģ.