Title: RTW Unit Editor

Author: Nathan Miller aka SirNateofWessex (TW forums, .ORG)

Version: 1.0.3

Last Updated : October 14, 2004

Website:  www.freewebs.com/houseofjulii

Description: This is a unit editor for Rome: Total War.  It is a relatively stable program to edit the export_descr_unit.txt file in the data folder of the RTW root directory.

Install: Unzip the RTWUnitEditor.zip folder to any location.  It will create a folder named: "RTW Unit Editor".  The other three files included is the .exe (application), a backup (.txt) of the unit file and the .mdb (the Microsoft 2000 Access database).  After using the program during testing, I noticed that the .mdb file exceeded 260MB of space after multiple uses.  So I recommend unziping this file and overwriting everything ever so often to free up disk space.  I'm also including a .txt file of the unit in case you mess things up.

Like the MTW Gnome editor, it was created in VB6 and you may need some updated runtime files.  If you get such an error, look at Microsoft.com's website and find VBRun60sp5 to update some files that you may need if you cannot run the program.  If that still doesn't work, let me know, I should be able to help you if you ask nicely.

Most importantly, if you get the "Component 'msflxgrd.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid" error, copy the included msflxgrd.ocx file to your system32 folder (C:\windows\system32).  Then go to the start menu and select Run.  Copy this "regsvr32.exe msflxgrd.ocx" without the quotes and hit enter.  Now try to run the program again.  Also, if you get the "Component 'comdlg32.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid" error, copy the included comdlg32.ocx file to your system32 folder (C:\windows\system32).  Then go to the start menu and select Run.  Copy this "regsvr32.exe comdlg32.ocx" without the quotes and hit enter.  Now try to run the program again.

Error:  Find an error!  If so, please send a screenshot of the error (croping the pic makes me happy) and the file you tried importing so that I may correct the mistake.  After a clean import and export of the orginial data, the only differences in the files are where CA left no spaces on some lines where negative values were entered, so I hope there are no more problems importing and exporting the file.  My email address to contact me is: scottmiller04@yahoo.com and if you get a failure to delivery message, use my spam email address: useraron@hotmail.com.  I check the latter weekly so please use the other one for faster help.  One final thing, back up your files, dont suffer like many have.

Copyright: The author may have retained certain copyrights to this code...please observe their request and the law by reviewing all copyright conditions.

Version History:  

0.0.9 -First Release version

1.0.0 -Second Release version.  After many complaints about missing .ocx and .dll files on end user machines, I redid the dependenices the program uses and it should run now.

1.0.1 -Third Release version.  After many complaints about a missing .ocx file on end user machines, I included the .ocx and the instructions to install it are above.

1.0.2 -Fourth Release version.  After many complaints about another missing .ocx file on end user machines, I included the .ocx and the instructions to install it are above.

1.0.3 -Fifth Release version.  I changed the contact info and removed the House of Julii clan site references.  The site was discontinued at the owners request.