Medieval II:TW - Modding Tutorial: Adding Units

A guide to adding units between factions or between mods.

Units Between Factions: 00:40
Ownership: 01:11
Model: 03:06
UI: 07:21
Recruitment: 08:24

Units Between Mods: 18:00
Ownership: 18:12
Model: 20:10
UI: 28:28
Text: 30:30
Recruitment: 32:00
Mount Model: 34:00

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[SgtPrice]

This is an excellent video. I would advise everyone who attempts this (especially if you are doing a Third Age Reforged to DaC transfer as I did) to take VERY careful note of the officer models for certain units when you are attempting to switch them between mods.

I attempted to transfer a unit (Helm's Hammers) from Third Age: Reforged to Divide and Conquer and couldn't figure out why my game was crashing with an 'unexpected error' before a battle that the new unit was appearing in. I spent hours on the problem and double/triple checked all the altered files, the folder structure, and the db to make sure I had followed the tutorial correctly. I even checked the log file of M2TW and had no luck.

As it turned out, there was an extra step that had to be done for my specific unit. The transferred Helm's Hammer unit had an officer model that did not exist in DaC (but did in Reforged, its home mod) which was causing the CTD. I just switched the officer unit to an existing one in the DaC mod and everything worked.

If anyone runs into an 'unexpected error' that causes your game to crash and you swear you've done everything to the letter in the tutorial. Check the export_descr_unit file and double check that the officer model for your transferred unit can actually be loaded by the game.

[khamulthewack]

This was the first thing I learned when I started modding. Glad there's a channel as large as this one willing to go into the nitty gritty, it'll help a lot of folks out. Cheers.

[Mdhneo]

Thanks for this Galu, with it I’ve been able to create pretty extensive unit mixes for my dunedain and that’s been 🤩 fun to play with these past few months.

[ItsWhyUno]

Very good tutorial! By far the mot comprehensive I’ve seen. Typical Galu style with perfect time stamps, and neat as ever! Thank you! 👍

[jetsfan]

So hypothetically I could have stag riders and goat riders in Dac? Oh Galu I should not have this much power

[dustman]

Wow man I have always wanted to make my own medieval 2 mod it has always been a dream please keep these vids coming this is rare knownledge keep it up I’ll be looking into your patreon

[professionalproductions]

Galu, the best part about this video is the first 10 seconds. The background, the vibrant greens, the music, the calming voice. We have found heaven on earth.

[daedalus]

Great tutorial. Using this to figure out how to replace a whole faction visual for another visual...

[Iskandr]

Arachir!!!! Thank you so much, I really love your mod Dac! But some units from third age reforged are so damn good looking, I just wanted them in Dac and this was just the right video ;)
And of course I mixed these mods only for myself

[desmondm]

Thank you soooo much for this video! Exactly what I was looking for. I know everyone likes the SS mod, but I'm undecided. Either going to take units from it and build my own mod, or heavily customize a faction within SS. Thanks again.

[arhexirthesnake]

Great and useful tutorial.
I would like to say that a program like Total Commander is much better for moving files here and there.

[MAXPONOS]

Excellent work Arachîr Galudirithon. You are the hero of the day

[DinoBoy]

Welp time to add Musketeers to Byzantium

[obrigen]

Now I have Balrogs with Saruman of many colors MUAJAJAJA i love u bro! amazing video thank you. <3

[orestislazanakis]

I checked again and again, did everything as I should have but now the units look like Silver Surfers both on the faction I added them to AND to the original faction. What's going on?

[godisforever]

Damn, thx now I have made my fictional units :D

[lirielbaenre]

Can you do one about making a map, i would really like to learn that.

[ajavierb]

The officiers are still silver surfers and the banners of the units from another faction

[jbrockleburst]

This is an amazing tutorial.

I do have a question thought, if I am moving a unit that includes officers to a mod that doesn't use them would their textures be included? Or could I just delete the officer lines in the export_descr_units file?

[PoldyStark]

Hey Galu, would you recommend looking to the discord for support and Q&A regarding this? I have been trying to add a couple of units to Umbar and it was all going swimmingly until i tried to test them on a battle map. It doesn't even load into the battle before the "Unspecified error" message. I don't know exactly what I did wrong.

Edit: figured it out
Edit 2: i am so happy it worked! Thanks for the tutorial Galu! I managed to add Númenórean units to Umbar, to only available through a simple script of alliance with gondor or Dol Amroth :’) now all I need to learn is how to add UI pictures for these units and link them to voice files!