Total War: Warhammer - Modding Index

Tutorials, resources and tools for modding Total War: Warhammer and Total War: Warhammer II

The below listing provides links to tutorials, useful answers to common modding questions, resources and tools, divided by category.

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General Information

• Official CA Warscape Modding Tips by CA
• Where to Start Guide by CA
• Tutorial - Getting Started - Modding for Newbies - by Commissar Caligular
• Tutorial - Warhammer Modding Tutorial(s) - by Magnar - link to video

Mod Set-up and Launching

• Tool - Mod manager for Warhammer 2 - by Kaedrin

Common Tools

Tools used across multiple aspects of the game:

• Tool - Assembly Kit Terry - by CA
• Tool - Rusted PackFile Manager (RPFM) - by Frodo45127
• Tool - Pack File Manager (PFM) - by daniu
• Tool - SaveParser - Editor for Total War savegames - by RoninX2807 - for all Warscape games

Units

Please note that the types of units that can be added to Warhammer are restricted by the game's end-user license agreement (EULA). To be specific, the EULA of Total War: Warhammer forbids any mods from including any copyrighted content other than that which is within Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Even the copyrighted content that is within the other divisions of Warhammer (most prominently Warhammer 40,000) is forbidden.

Getting Units in Game

• Tutorial - Complete Guide to Warhammer Unit Modding - by Sebidee - includes; getting your unit into game, variant editing, retexturing, unit cards, recruitment etc
• Answer - How to Create a New Unit - by Mooncabbage - explanation of involved tables
• Resource - Sebidee's Unit Modding Template (Warhammer 2) - by Sebidee

Models

• Tool - RMeditor - by phazer - extract models and animations, find and unpack textures, edit texture paths inside .rigid_model_v2 files, render models - for all Warscape games

Textures

• Resource - Various retextures - modders resource - by kelembribor21
• Tool - DDSConverter - by DiegoDelaVega - converts DX10 BC1 through BC3 textures to DX9 DXTn formats
• Tool - RigidModel NotePad - by phazer - edit .dds file names+folders inside .rigid_mode_v2 files, safely and fast!
• Tool - Easy Rigid Editor (for texture links) - by Der_Spaten - included in RPFM

Unit Stats and Abilities

• Tutorial - Adding and creating new unit bulletpoints - by Matmannen
• Answer - Changing Cavalry Unit Sizes - by Tarsus999
• Resource - TotalWar Warhammer - Unit Stats Table - by RoninX2807 - based on game version: 1.3.0 and DLCs

Formations

• Tutorial - Getting Formations to work (shield wall/pike wall/loose/formed) - by WakelessREX

Campaign Elements

Factions

• Answer - How to unlock a faction by Clyclone Jack

Army/Unit Recruitment

• Tutorial - Setting a variable Unit cap in Total Warhammer - by KindredBrujah

Battle Map

• Tutorial - How to add a custom siege map to the campaign by Der_Spaten
• Resource - Community Battle Map Best Design Practices by CA

Scripting

• Resource - Warhammer Lua Game Functions - by Litharion

UI

• Tool - UI Layout Parser by Cpecific

Miscellaneous

• Answer - Guide to get the unrestricted camera for beginners - by Turumba - for all Warscape games

Lore Reference

• Resource - Warhammer Information Thread Index - by PaulH - Index to the Information Threads for Potential New Units
• Resource - Empire images for modders - by AL890

See Also:

• Warhammer Tools, Tutorials and Resources sub-forum on TWC where most of the tutorials and resources listed above are hosted.
• Warhammer I, II & III Mod Workshop on TWC to ask any questions not covered in the tutorials section.

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