To this date there's still nobody who really knows how to open those either, although we do know they are compiled with information on how to load the model.

Don't forget that in earlier Stronghold games, they used. I suspect they're kind of like a hybrid file of some kind where Firefly have simply changed the file extension but are using a different type of file (such as gr2). It's just a case of the software not recognising the format of the file so it wrongly assumes they are corrupt. model files, I'm not really sure what software will actually open them.

I think it will look for files within the archive and if that doesn't exist fall back to any folders that may exist. You might want to make sure that the files are only in one of those formats first to ensure the game is loading the correct files. I can't remember which way it is off-hand, but the game will automatically look for files within the directory or files within the archive, and load one of those first.

I tested the game and it works just fine without losing any of the updated features, or dlc. I basically replaced core.v, update.v, loc.v, update2.v and update3.v, with just a core.v file that has everything from these archives merged into it. No matter! Seems to work fine with the merged files. model files), but it says they are invalid/unsupported. Are they corrupt? I tried importing them into an AutoCAD drawing (since it supports. v files with one that has everything (overwritten where needed), back in the game, how would this work?ĮDIT: I noticed I can't open the. I merged them because it would be painful to see which stuff are updated from the core, to not edit those, and which I should edit from each update archive. I haven't tried to replace the re-archived files back to the game yet (I haven't done anything yet anyway), but I am concerned with how this will work, in case I have merged the files from the core and the update archives together, because the game has them separated. I followed your tutorial with success so far. I also like the high-res heighmap system the game has on the terrain, because I like palying with those. I am revisting Stronghold 3 after quite a while, because I was thinking of modifying it this time to try and fix some (many if I manage to.) of the issues it has, because I always wanted a 3D version of the first game and just improved on all of its aspects + new features. I know this thread is pretty old, so I am sorry if I should have started a new one, but it would be the same topic, so I didn't know what to do.

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