Add New Items to Mount and Blade: VIDEO TUTORIAL

[n00854180t]

Alright, here's a video tutorial on how to add new items to Mount & Blade, otherwise known as "BRF editing" (or RSF editing for your pre-7.xx old timers).

Download
You can get the tutorial here [M&B Unofficial File Repository]: http://www.fenrisoft.com/mb_repository/modules/PDdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=2&lid=50

Instructions for viewing the tutorial:
The tutorial is in Flash SWF format.  The tutorial comes in a zip file, with a folder named BRFTutorial.  In the folder there should be four (4) files, including Untitled.html, Untitled.swf, Untitled_config.xml, Untitled_controller.swf(and a 5th file, readme.txt, which is just a copy of this post).  Just open Untitled.html in your favorite browser.  You'll need Flash Player first, however.

You'll need the following tools to complete the tutorial:

A brain,
Lurb's BRFView model importer/exported,
A hex editor (I prefer and used Hex Workshop in the tutorial),
A Mount & Blade install,
A computer,
Hands.

I suggest before doing this, make a back up of your M&B install, especially if you have save games that you don't want to lose.  I'm not responsible for anyone screwing up their save games, or not being able to follow the tutorial, etc. disclaimer blah blah blah.


Also, if any of you take offense to my voice, you can kindly piss off

[Apex]

Awesome, now we can all make our own horse-wolves!

[n00854180t]

LMAO.  That's a closely guarded secret!

[This is what he's talking about]

[Ancientwanker]

Torturing horses again...

Thanks, great presentation. I should be in bed, wheres the coke?

[n00854180t]

I'm going to release future tutorials showing how to edit the more complex items (i.e. those that need to have environment maps defined for their materials).  Hope you find everything in order Ancient, I know you and some of the other guys have been waiting ages to be able to edit this stuff.

[Lhorkan]

Thanks a lot.

[Yoshiboy]

just want to say good stuff although i think i will wait around for a bit till he fixes the material editor, i'm not very confident when coding. Expically with Hex bite me

[Ancientwanker]

Well, I started banging away but couldnt get it to work yet. At first I tried a weapon but noticed that it wont accept my renamed copy of weapons1.dds (to weapons9.dds) as a legit texture. After I do the hex stuff and come back it says its unable to find the texture.

So I tried horses to keep it simple, this time it will accept it as a texture on the horse and even shows me the texture on the horse. I save and try to load the game and get the old <str error that ive had for the past week when monkeying with this stuff.

I made sure I replicated everything bit for bit and even used names that didnt require the changing of the name length bit. Im starting to wonder if this is  an OS issue (ME on this one) so Ill try it on my XP laptop later today.


EDIT: ok, Ive got a horse in. I really dont know what the issue was. There is still something that Im missing with the weapons though. Ill try it later when I get back.

[n00854180t]

Weapons are a bit more complicated.  They require adding entries to other files such as the shader file.  I'll record another tutorial for adding weapons

[Ancientwanker]

Thats the first ive heard about the shader files and whatever else. Does that go for armor/costumes as well? Also, im only adding shields from the weapons file but I guess it uses the same format.

So what files are required to be changed?

[n00854180t]

I don't recall what all files need to be edited off hand.  It holds true for any item that is shiny, and it's done by material file, so if the file is capable of shininess, it has an entry.

[Ancientwanker]

I got it. You just need to increment the steel file as well. Clone weapons/shields, now online.

Thanks for the help.

[n00854180t]

Ah, now I remember.  I'll put up another tutorial explaining it anyway, since it's rather non-obvious unless you've looked at it a bit.

[Narcissus]

Wow ...

Very impressive and thanks!

Narcissus

[Lhorkan]

So where is that next tutorial you promised us?