Making Historical Battles

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I was recently very pleased to learn how to make your own Historical Battles. Everything works fine apart from the flags. When I try to copy another flag from the Battle, Flags folder it appears okay when you open it but when you start the actual game it's always the French. Ever since I downloaded the patch William's allies at Hastings have had the French flag instead of their unique ones, and it seems like the attackers can only have the French flag.

Has anyone else noticed this problem and knows how to rectify it?

[TosaInu]

Just recalling by head from STW mod experiences.

The number used in the BDF file dictates which built in flag will be used. If you want to assign a custom flag to an army do this:

Battle/BatInit/Historical Battles/BattleX

Make an ADF file for the army (you probably already have this one). Say it's called French2.adf

Make a TGA for the flag in the same directory and name it French2.TGA.

MTW also allows to add shieldcolors (this is a bif file). Call that one French2.bif.

To sumarize: store everything in the same directory, and use identical names. If you don't do that, the built in images will be used.

You may check Battle/BatInit/Historical Battles/Battle of Bannockburn to see an example for the Scottish.

It may be that MTW does not only check for identical names, but also legal imagedimensions (don't use a 100*100 pixels flag when a 50*30 one is expected).

Good luck and feel free to ask for more help if you need it.