Help about modding programation MTW-VI

**Sultan_Suleyman** · 08-06-2016, 14:07

Once question more, how custom portrait in Famous King, in that line say -1 for random and i put 23 from folder (portraits/catholic/kings/king23.tga) for one special, but not change nothing, what am I doing wrong?

**macsen rufus** · 08-06-2016, 23:26

Hi Sultan

OK, first off:

SetStartLeader:: FN_BYZANTINE 4 8 1 4 7 2 3 11 2 1

If you look at the [ERA]_HEROES.TXT file you'll see the Byz have ten royal names listed. This bit in the startpos file means your starting king will be King (Name 0) IV.

Any subsequent kings will have had as many predecessors as are listed here, so when you get your first King with the next name (name 1), he will be King (name 1) IX. This need not be your NEXT king though. MTW normally names the first-born prince the same as the starting king, so you are more likely to see King (name 0) V. But should you carelessly lose your first two sons in battle, you are very likely to have the third son take the throne and he would be King (name 2) II. If you were even more careless it might be son four, in which case he would be King (name 3) V.

And to part two:

Once question more, how custom portrait in Famous King, in that line say -1 for random and i put 23 from folder (portraits/catholic/kings/king23.tga) for one special, but not change nothing, what am I doing wrong?

The simple answer is that you are doing exactly the same thing wrong that I did, until I worked it out

The more useful answer is that you must check a few things - first look at the startpos file and see if your faction has a 'portraits override' set - it may be set to 'MUSLIM' or 'VIKING' or something totally different in a mod. Then once you have checked that, you know which portraits folder to use.

But the MOST IMPORTANT thing to remember is that FAMOUS KINGS and HEROES do NOT use the 'Kings' and 'Generals' sub-folders as you would expect, but the MISC subfolder. To get your famous king portrait, copy your King23.tga into the MISC sub-folder, the RENAME it to the next FREE filename (so if you have 3 TGAs make it MISC04.TGA). Then you call that from from your HEROES.TXT -- remembering that the MTW engine starts lists at 0 and not 1 - hence to call MISC04.TGA as your portrait, you must enter number 3 as the portrait entry for your king.

Hope this helps you (and anyone else looking for the answer, of course!)

(EDIT to add: to double check this, take a look at the hero entry for Joan of Arc, and find where her portrait comes from. The reason the MISC folder is used is to stop random generals having the same portraits as your unique heroes)

**Sultan_Suleyman** · 08-07-2016, 02:14

I putted:

//========================================

PortraitsOverride:: FN_12 "muslim" *In LATE.TXT

//========================================

and put my image:
campmap/portraits/muslim/misc/misc02.tga

and finally in Famous King:
6, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 1, fearsome2

and next game dont load and dont open, i had to use Task Manager for close the app. What is wrong?

**macsen rufus** · 08-07-2016, 11:19

Hi Sultan,

There's some differences between the mediaeval era and Viking era startpos files, and the way factions are labelled. In the med eras, they are named, in the Viking era they are numbered. I always use the 'Viking' system, because it's so much easier to work with FN_01, etc and ID_LANREG_01, etc, than try to remember what all the names are changed to in the mod

I'm not sure if the 'portrait override' works in mediaeval eras, so there are TWO things to try:

First change FN_12 to FN_TURKISH - the reference to FN_12 in the LATE.txt will almost certainly kill the game

If that doesn't solve the problem, just delete that whole line, as the Turks will default to the Muslim folders anyway

EDIT TO ADD: Deleting the whole line is the way to go - it is unneeded.

One other thing: it looks like you've altered the famous king entry for the first in the list - this would be the king who starts in EARLY. In late, the startpos gives:

SetStartLeader:: FN_TURKISH 2 8 1 4 0 3 0 3 2 1

So it would be famous king 2 (ie 3rd in the list) that needs to be changed:

FAMOUS_KINGS:: FN_TURKISH 7
//name no. c d p a portrait vnv
6, 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, -1, educated1
7, 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, -1, educated1
0, 1, 3, 5, 4, 3, 1, fearsome1
2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 3, -1, lawman1
4, 1, 3, 5, 4, 3, -1, lawman1
2, 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, -1, attacker2
4, 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, -1, fearsome2

because that is the entry that points to Osman (name 0) the First, who starts in Late.

And, once again, Sultan, your question has pointed me to another mistake I'd been making myself, so thanks for the question