Modding:Tutorial list

The Modding:Tutorial list is a collection of all known Total War tutorials with minimal redundancy. Before you ask a question, you should look here first.

Art

M2TW and non-specific

• Introduction to Photoshop Video Tutorials
• Skin Editing in Photoshop
• Creating Unit Cards
• Photoshop Eye Candy Tutorial
• 3dsmax Unit Editing Video Tutorials
• 3dsmax Unit Editing
• Rendering in 3dsmax
• UVW Mapping in 3dsmax
• Skin Modifier in 3dsmax
• Getting your unit ingame
• New Faction Icons
• New Faction Icon Skins
• CA's Sprite Generation Tutorial
• Video Tutorial on Creating Normal and Specular Maps
• Normal Map Workflow
• mesh to milkshape tutorial
• Converting MESH files to milkshape
• Unit Cards
• Editing unit cards
• Making unit cards with GIMP
• How to make your own unit cards
• Rendering in 3dsmax with poses
• How CA makes their unit cards
• Advice on rendering
• More advice on rendering
• Everything you ever wanted to know about banners!
• Animation for Beginners
• Creating a World – Character portraits, creation and use
• Beveling
• Content Organization
• Introduction to City Editing
• Parallax
• Shaders
• Photoshop Skinning Tutorials
• Texture Databases

RTW Only

• Binding and Skeleton Tutorials
• Guide to taking great screenshots

Coding

M2TW

• Changing the display of a settlement
• Guide to guilds
• List of building effects
• Hyper-extended family trees
• Custom portraits
• Guide to modding character names
• Change character battle models
• List of character attributes
• Adding a new faction from nothing
• Creating a World - Adding a new Faction
• Adding a new faction icon/symbol
• Changing faction icon/symbol
• How to create a new faction
• Guide to emergent factions
• Merging two factions mid-campaign
• Switch faction icon/symbol mid-campaign
• Adding a new culture
• Adding a new religion
• Character traits
• Adding a new unit
• Add faction units for new factions
• Change type of mount for cavalry unit
• Dismounting units
• Making a Zone/Area of Recruitment
• Recruiting Mercenaries from buildings
• Enabling war wagons and wagon walls
• Animation for Beginners
• Getting new units ingame
• Giving units and buildings free upkeep
• Guide to Formatted modeldb File and Syntax Checker
• More artillery pieces in a unit
• Using era system to recruit units
• How to add your own music
• Adding units to the game FAQ
• How to unlock all factions
• How to disable green arrows and banners
• Guide to crashes/CTD/errors
• Changing faction symbols with paintnet

RTW Only

• Complete EDU Guide

Scripting

M2TW

• alpaca's campaign script-o-rama
• Adding new historic events
• Merging two factions mid-campaign
• Change character battle model mid-campaign
• Switch faction symbol/icon mid-campaign
• Making events occur when you want them to
• List of events, commands, and conditions
• Scripting based on difficultly and AI/Player
• Character traits and list
• Triggers and monitors
• CA's Cinematic Editor tutorial
• Guide to missions
• List of character attributes
• A guide to guilds
• Nakharar's guide to adding Religion
• Creating a World - Adding a new Faction by Gigantus
• Creating a World - Adding a Culture by Gigantus
• Creating a World – Adding detailed Regions by Gigantus
• Creating a World – Stone Forts on the Battlemap by Gigantus

Mapping

M2TW Only

Introduction to Mapping Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 by GrnEyedDvl ( Link to MapClass files)

Creating a World – Working with the Worldwind mapper by Gigantus

Creating a World – Basic Mapping from scratch by Gigantus

Creating a World – Adding detailed Regions by Gigantus

RTW Only

• Adding a new Province
• Your one stop spot for Making a new Campaign Map

Misc

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