Desire for making Norway a faction

[[alex]]

Hi.

I have been experimented with modding a little while now, and I read giskard's tutorial (only one I found).

Then I decided that I want to make 1 of the rebel countries into a faction, Norway.
You might think its stupid to have a faction thats so similar to the danes, but I dont, The norwegian vikings and stuff were much better than the danish ones http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

so I experimented a little, found out that norwegians are called FN_Norse and tried to put them everywere possible, and removing them as rebels etc.. and I tried to add heirs etc...

But no luck, it didnt work http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

I also posted this in the "Entrance Hall" were I got told to contact Thorbeck, a norwegian modder that have made Norway as a faction, but he wount respond to my mails, and I tried to download his mod, but there must be something wrong, because it wouldnt download.

anyways Thorbeck's thread were here: Thorbeck's norwegian faction (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=5;t=1342;hl=norway)

hope you can help me http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[barocca]

Thorbecks mods are here

http://www.totalwar.org/Downloads/MTW/Stats.shtml

hope this helps
B.

[[alex]]

thanx alot barocca, you saved my day http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[[alex]]

There must be something wrong

I downloaded Thorbecks mod, and installed them, and started to play them, that worked fine, but no Norway

perhaps this is some old mods of his??


Well, since I prolly wount be able to download his mod, then it might be best if someone just explain how to make a rebel country into a faction http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[barocca]

Alex,

the files here at the org are the ones Thorbeck had available for download from his site,
I hope he does finish his work and returns soon...

[Kraellin]

if you are adding a completely new faction you cant just mod one file. you have to mod several. i looked through several of the files today just to get an idea of what is involved and it looks to me like it's multiple files, including the early, -high, and late.txt files. adding a new faction like norway or sweden isnt like turning on the swiss or aragonese. those only require the startpos files, but adding a completely new active faction would also require modding several of the loc files and perhaps others from what i can see.

btw, i'm getting close in my own mod to working on this, so i may have more data on this later on. the first indications show that you could add any named faction you wanted to, swedes, finns, belgians, dutch, elves, dwarves, high guard, storm troopers...just about anything you wanted, but that's just a preliminary, cursory look.

K.

[barocca]

a rough outline of the contents of the loc files is available from the FAQ, pinned to the top of the first page of The Dungeon...
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[[alex]]

ok http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif ,

guess I have to wait a little then, heh, and maybe train some more in modding so I get better http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif