Modding Newbie Needs Help! NEW Traits????

Hey-

My friend and I have a few ideas for modding RTW...however we are both new to modding.

I have found some entries on modding EXISTING traits, but does anyone know how to make whole NEW traits from scratch? Making your own, with your own name, etc, etc. Again, everything I have found posted so far has only described how to play around with what is already in the game but is it even possible to make your own character traits?

If you could direct me to any links/postings that would describe how to do this, that would be VERY helpful. Thanks!

This thread is a good start, if you haven't already seen it:


How to mod your traits/VnV
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38481


For making new traits, you would probably do best to try one at a time. Take a trait that already is working, copy the sections in all 3 files that describe it, and change the name, description, levels, and effects.

Then copy a working trigger and modify it for your new trait. Make it very easy to get so you can test it, or you can give it to a character in the game by typing ` (backtick at the top left of keyboard) to bring up the console window.

Then type:
give_trait mynewtraitname charactername level

example: give_trait NewTrait "Cornelius Scipio" 1
will give Cornelius 1 point in NewTrait. You don't need quotes if it's a character with just one name, like Hanno.

I'd recommend editing the files in wordpad, as it's easy to mess up the encoding.

Good luck!

Thanks, I have seen that post and I actually tried what you said about the cutting and pasting, etc. based upon that post...unfortunately it did not work. I was trying to create a whole new trait of my own making and I was VERY careful about keeping the same format, spacing etc. I then pasted what I did into the files....

However when I went into the game.....nada. Not only did my new trait not show up when it was supposed to be triggered but NOONE was able to get any traits at all....everyone came of age with no triats and when they won battles, etc...they recieved nothing

So either I did something wrong (but again I was EXTREMELY careful about keeping all the same spaces and format, etc) or it is just not possible to create your own traits, of your own making and have them appear in the game?

Thanks for the advice though. I guess unless someone posts otherwise, I'm going to assume it's only possible to modify traits that already exist in the game and there is no way to create and add your own.....

It is possible. Check out this:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...5&postcount=16

In this tutorial there is detail on how to create a new advice thread...

And welcome to the forum :smile: