Create new factions

[Hendon]

I was wondering if its possible of creating factions of your own . And i would really like to know if its possible to make the swedish playable


/ME

[fodder]

Quote[/b] (Hendon @ Feb. 12 2003,13:12)]I was wondering if its possible of creating factions of your own . And i would really like to know if its possible to make the swedish playable

You cant create new factions but you can edit one which is already in the game into the swedish with flags and everything. Tons of stuff about this in the Dungeon.

[alman9898]

u can add new factions i think there are those FN_FREE factions but I've never got em to work

[Gregoshi]

Greetings Hendon. And welcome.

As was said, read the pinned topics in the Dungeon forum for many how to topics.

Note Hendon - you need to shrink that beautiful flag in your sig. Here are the guidelines for such images:

-10 kb max.
-no sound.
-max 500 pixels wide, max 150 pixels high.

Your pixels and file size are way to large. Have pity on the 56k modem users. Thanks.

[Demon of Light]

I'm stalking Gregoshi all across the board right now. Trying to get him to repond to e-mail I sent a few minutes ago... He will not elude me forever

Hendon: your best bet may be to modify the Danes to be Swedes by altering beginning province, name, flag, etc.

[Hendon]

Thanks for the tips guys

And gregoshi i am new here and i dont know how to change the size of the flag
Can you please tell me that and i will take it away.

[Hendon]

Can someone please bounce this question to the dungeon cause i dont get any answer


/ME

[Wellington]

Quote[/b] (Hendon @ Feb. 13 2003,07:47)]Can someone please bounce this question to the dungeon cause i dont get any answer


/ME

Yes you can create new factions as such but ony by re-using one of the 20 existing factions in order to represent your new faction.

You cannot create new factions using the FN_FREE_01 slots as there are no faction colours associated with these slots.

If you wish to create a Swedish faction then decide which faction you want to base them on and then you'll have to create shields/flags/icons etc and then make changes to the loc/eng/ directory files (names.txt, descriptions.txt etc )

Quite a bit to do.

[Wellington]

Also have a good read of this thread -

http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin....and+mod

It contains a partial checklist for the steps required in creating a new Scottish faction.

[Gregoshi]

Thanks for all the help Wellington. You've been everwhere today

Hendon, you need a image editing tool like Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. Even Paint has the ability to resize the image. Look for the resize function and reduce the size of height and width so they don't exceed the dimensions 500 wide x 150 high. Save the smaller image under another name and check it's size by viewing the file's properties. If it still exceeds the 10k limit, look for a JPG optimizer or since your picture has few colours, you could reduce the colour depth from millions of colours to 256 colours or something like that.

[Wellington]

Quote[/b] (Gregoshi @ Feb. 15 2003,01:54)]Thanks for all the help Wellington. You've been everwhere today

Greg,

Seems like you've had a sudden rush of many new patrons who are interested in modding.:eek:

Also I'm trying hard to quash the rumour that modders never look in your forum

[Gregoshi]

LOL I know that isn't true The most impressive was a new patron grumbling about not being able to post to the Dungeon because he had praised to sing to King David - who would never see his post in the EH. I don't know how King David did it, but he responded to the patron within 10 minutes.

You guys are good.