Mighty EB coders, I plea for your help

[Zarax]

Or, in a less dramatic way, I was hoping if you could give me some tips on a problem you faced in EB's development.

During EB's earlier versions roman and greek cultures have been swapped and as everyone knows it works fine.
I've been trying to do the same for XC but despite my best attempts I keep getting CTD on exit and lesser overall stability.

If by any chance any of the coders who did that are still around, would you be so kind to give me a few tips?

Thanks!

[Atraphoenix]

Or, in a less dramatic way, I was hoping if you could give me some tips on a problem you faced in EB's development.

During EB's earlier versions roman and greek cultures have been swapped and as everyone knows it works fine.
I've been trying to do the same for XC but despite my best attempts I keep getting CTD on exit and lesser overall stability.

If by any chance any of the coders who did that are still around, would you be so kind to give me a few tips?

Thanks!

What kind of modification are you planning exactly.
I modded, traits, ancillaries, faction names, movement points, EDU, EDB, DMB even added religion to EB but while adding religion traits it CTD. So I think you can add alex religion but not conversion traits.

If you aim around this files I can help but I have no info on scripting or modelling or modding map.

P.S. I am not a member of EB team.

[Zarax]

Like I said, I'm trying to swap culture between the greek and roman factions.
The simple aim of this is to enable the romano-british trick with baktria in order to emulate the rebelling satrapies.

[Atraphoenix]

Like I said, I'm trying to swap culture between the greek and roman factions.
The simple aim of this is to enable the romano-british trick with baktria in order to emulate the rebelling satrapies.

romani-british was a special faction in BI, it had some hardcodes as well, I hope its culture is not hardcoded, too.

Are you planning mod BI files instead of RTW or just panning to mod so as to play under BI?
If it does not work you can utilize religion system as culture, in fact I gave up to add religion alex EB but to add cultures under religion modification you can have a different but a insured way under BI.

[Zarax]

I'm doing it to play with the BI exe.
I already swapped seleucids and romano-british, all I need to do is to make them roman and to make the romans greek internally.
Everything else worked like a charm (parthia rebels perfectly with their trigger) except that one thing.

As this was done before successfully by the EB team I was wondering if they could give me a tip.

[Aemilius Paulus]

romani-british was a special faction in BI, it had some hardcodes as well, I hope its culture is not hardcoded, too.

Really? Why? I knwo it was emerging, but quite a bit of other factions were as well. So why, I am curious?

[Zarax]

Do you mean romano-british or baktria and parthia?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Or, in a less dramatic way, I was hoping if you could give me some tips on a problem you faced in EB's development.

During EB's earlier versions roman and greek cultures have been swapped and as everyone knows it works fine.
I've been trying to do the same for XC but despite my best attempts I keep getting CTD on exit and lesser overall stability.

If by any chance any of the coders who did that are still around, would you be so kind to give me a few tips?

Thanks!

That would have been during the port from RTW 1.2 to 1.5 which is a good 2 and half years (or thereabouts) ago. Since I wasn't a EB member at the time I can't really vouch for this, but I would hazard a guess and say that there never really was a swap: what appears as a swap is simply the effect of starting from scratch with the basics (porting over the factions in terms of descr_sm_factions and required symbols and such) and then gradually port code including updating the old references to cultures (that can be done reliably with N + 1 search and replace operations for N cultures) ...

As a matter of fact an artefact of the EB cultures is the abundance of "Western Greek" buildings: IIRC Foot once theorized a fix for this which had to do with how cultures are ordered.