EB and the MTW2 heir system

[BozosLiveHere]

That is interesting, go on...

[Xtiaan72]

that does sound promising!

[Megas Methuselah]

I hate to be an asshole here, but it seems like such a simple solution as put forth by Absinthia could not possibly have been overlooked by previous expert modders attempting to bypass this dumb feature in MiNO.

Whatever the case may be, Absinthia did bring my hopes up. Good luck, friend!

[absinthia]

i am sorry to realize that Methuselah probably is right. i got a bit to enthusiastic when discovering these references in strategy.sd:

entry=SET_FACTION_HEIR_BUTTON_IMAGE
topleft=350,39
bottomright=381,70
page=stratpage_01.tga
alpha=1
mystery=0
coord=0,0

but i could not find any file that determines the lay-out of the faction family tree scroll. or the lay-out for any part of the ui.
may be the lay-out is hardcoded after all.

[BozosLiveHere]

These tga's can be found in the ui\southern_european\interface folder.

[absinthia]

i know the tga`s. in fact it was while adding a new faction logo (and thus adding a new reference in strategy.sd) that i noticed that the reference to the set_faction_heir_button_image still exists. that gave me the hope that there would be another file that could be edited to change the lay_out of the ui and add the set faction heir button.
problem is that i did not find any file that determines how the ui is put together.

[BozosLiveHere]

Oh, I see now. Hmm. I'm not very familiar with it, but I thought all GUIs were controlled by mtw2.lnt.

[SlickNicaG69]

Well then, maybe the mod should be called, "Medieval Rome."