Adding brand new factions

[Re Berengario I]

I read the long thread sticked in the Repository (http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=26;t=10129) and, since the last post was written in July, I was curious to know if someone managed to add new factions without CTDing all the time.

The problem with facshields isn't so easy to overcome, as even if the new factions would use different kind of troops there'll always be a chance to have them into the new faction army as mercenary or bribed rebels. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

The questions are essentially these:

a) Is it possible to add new shield images in the facshield dirs and make them work? If positive, wich name should be used? (they're not in the format FN_xxx but just faction_name, es: byzantine.tga)

b) If the above modification isn't possible one can get rid of all the facshields creating new units linked to new dirs in Textures\Men using the Custom_01-09 dirs as Lysander suggested? Does it work?

Some of the posts in the thread are contradictory and I'd prefer not reinventing the wheel if someone actually managed to solve the problem.

Thanks in advance. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[Re Berengario I]

I forgot another question in my previous post regarding campmap\pieces\your_campaign\buildings\CastleFlags.bif.

That file have the flags of the 20 standard factions. If I add a new factions I have to add a frame to that file?