Agree to the licence agreement, and select a location for it to install to. The DDS Plugin for Photoshop should be a single executable file (.exe) that you should run. Installing The NVIDIA DDS Plugin For Photoshop To extract these, we need an extractor made by Vercingetorix, which you can get HERE. PAK files in the ‘Rome Total War\Data\Packs’ folder. (Look for "Adobe Photoshop CS Trial")Īlso, to read and write the DDS format, you need a plugin made by NVIDIA, which can be downloaded HERE (We only need the top one on the list).įinally, the skins are all hidden away in different. However, it is very expensive so if you don’t happen to already have a copy, I would suggest downloading a trial version. For those of you who don’t know, it is an excellent photo and image editing tool, and it happens to be the only program I know of that can read and write the DDS file format that RTW uses to store it’s skins as. This not only gives me a backup copy of any file that goes wrong, but also gives me a ‘clean’ copy of the game which is still good for playing online, or if I just want to play the game as it should be.īefore we start modding, there are a few things we need to have. Make a copy of each file you are editing before you edit it, or better still, if you have space on your hard disk, do what I do and make a copy of the game folder. You should always have backups of files you change or replace.
As an example, we are going to change the skin of the roman praetorian cohort to be black instead of red/green/blue/purple. We are going to learn how to extract and edit the skins for units and how to get the game to recognize them. Here is the start to a tutorial that I will never finish on skinning:
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