Page 3 of 3 5. AIV Editor - Loading your castle into Stronghold Crusader Save your castle and exit. Copy the.aiv castle file from the villages folder into the Stronghold Crusader/aiv folder. To use a custom AI castle you must replace an existing AI castle.

To replace Richard the Lionheart’s castle with a Custom AI castle, backup the existing richard1.aiv file and replace it with your one using the same file name. Load Stronghold Crusader and start a Skirmish game with Richard the Lionheart and you will see your castle getting built in the game. Text Compiler Tool This tool can be used to edit any text that appears in Stronghold Crusader. The Crusader.txt file contains all the text that appears in the game. If you edit any of this text it will appear in the game in the place of where the text you replaced would appear.

Please note that you cannot simply keep adding lines to this file, you can only replace existing lines. Once you’ve done this, click on the ff_tex_cru.exe and you will hear your computer beep. This will create a file called cr.tex. Copy this file and replace the file of the same name that is in (default installation path) Program Files FireFly Studios Stronghold Crusader. You will now see your text appear in the game.

BMP to TGX Converter This tool ff_tgfx.exe will convert any BMP files you have in this folder to the TGX file format, which can be used with Stronghold Crusader. To help you along with we have included quite a few bmp files, which are used in the game previously.

Repelay Game. Once you’ve made your BMP files, click on the ff_tgfx.exe, this will convert all the available bmp files into tgx files. Copy this file and replace the file of the same name that is in (default installation path) Program Files FireFly Studios Stronghold Crusader gfx.

The three programs included in this package are the actual tools used by Firefly Studios in the creation of Stronghold Crusader. - AIV Editor (AI castle template editor).

Stronghold Crusader Community Tools is a pack that contains three tools which have been used by the game developers themselves and are also released to you so you can personally enhance your Stronghold Crusader experience. The first tool is the AIV Editor which allows you to build entire castles exactly how you want while also allowing AI to function with them. The tool provides a top view and all the items neatly sorted in specific categories. All you need to do is select the objects or buildings and place them where you want them to be. Once the castle is built, you can save it and replace its.aiv file with one that already exists in the game. After that, while playing, you can see the AI building your model of the castle. The second tool is the Text Compiler Tool which can be used to modify any of the text that exists in the game.