Frodo45127

Who am I? 
Hi! I'm 
Frodo45127, and I'm the creator of "Rusted PackFile Manager", a.k.a. "RPFM", a modding tool for modern Total War Games. 
 
What's that "RPFM" thing? TL;DR: It's a tool for Total War modders that allow them to do what the old "PackFile Manager" did, with less bugs and some extra features. You can see his <a href="https://github.com/Frodo45127/rpfm">source code and download it here</a>. 
 
You want the long version? Then sit down and listen, for what I'm going to tell you is an epic tale of... Ok, I'll keep it simple. Modern Total War games (since Empire I believe, may be mistaken as I started modding in Shogun 2) have all their files the modders have to... well, "mod" inside "PackFiles" (Like a compressed file, but without compression). To mod one of those games, the modders have at his disposal two tools:
 
<ul>
	<li>Assembly Kit: It's the official modding kit, made by CA. It allows you to change any table of the game (like editing stats, creating new factions,...), and then export the changes to a "PackFile" (that's the actual mod). The thing is, outside of table editing, is... hard to use for anything else.</li>
	<li>PackFile Manager (PFM): It's an opensource tool made by the community to edit the "PackFiles" directly. It's faaaaaar more flexible in everything but table editing than the Assembly Kit (and many things, like making two different mods compatible, are imposible to do without it), but.... it hasn't aged well. And the last maintainer stopped maintaining it just after "Total War: Warhammer 2" release.</li></ul> <ul>
</ul>
So, after the last maintainer anounced he was going to stop maintaining PackFile Manager I took a look at the code. I know a bit of C# but... Not enough to properly maintain it and fix all the bugs the tool has been accumulating for all this years. So I decided to use it as an oportunity to learn a new language and, in mid-october of 2017, I started "
RPFM", a reimplementation (also opensource) of "PFM" in Rust (that's why it's "Rusted"), using Qt5 for the UI. And thanks to it I learned (and continue learning) a lot. 
 
So, to answer the initial question,
 "RPFM" is a reimplementation of "PFM", the community-developed modding tool modders have been using since Empire to make mods for Total War games. 
 
Why should you care?<ul>
	<li>As an user: Do you have two different unit packs you like to use? Without "PFM" or "RPFM" it'll be imposible to use both at the same time. The same with a lot of mods made compatible with overhauls. </li>
	<li>As a modder: Are you tired of "PFM" being slow and buggy, deleting files without permission, having tables with "Unknown" columns, having uneditable tables...? "RPFM" aims to help you with that.</li></ul> <ul>
</ul>
What beneficts do this "RPFM" thing offers me over "PFM"? 
Apart from being actively developed, it has:
 
<ul>
	<li>Full Table support (No more unknown columns or impossible to mod tables).</li>
	<li>Better UI (like the meme, it's the same, but different).</li>
	<li>Edition of RigidModel Texture.</li>
	<li>Autopatching for Warhammer Siege Maps.</li></ul> <ul>
</ul>
For now It offers support for "Warhammer I &amp; II" and "Attila", and the current plan is to support new games, and back to "Rome II".
And if you are still with me after that wall of text, good job. There are not many that read that much lately....

Free

Like the classic "If you want to help, just invite me to a beer".
 
Also, you can ask for "Testing" builds. Just say it and I'll send you one with the lastest changes.

Take a Beer

One beer each day keep new features away.

Take a 3-Pack

"More beer = Better code" (said no one, ever).

Take a 6-Pack

Rejoice, for you are the reason that feature everyone wanted got delayed.

Take a 12-Pack

Best way to keep the hangover at bay.... It's to keep drinking.

Take a 24-Pack

Mmmm guess I'll be able to concentrate while coding again.

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