Family Trees - can i ????

[5000]

hello i was wondering if its possible to include dead family members in the tree at the start of the game
this is what i wrote in the descr_strat.txt file. the game CTDs when i try to open the family tree button.

character_record		Barita, 	female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 49, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Sennianus, 	male, command 5, influence 6, management 4, subterfuge 0, age 72, dead, never_a_leader
character_record		Cartimandua, 	female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 68, alive, never_a_leader

relative	Sennianus,		Cartimandua,		Barrivendos		end
relative 	Barrivendos, 	Barita,		end

Barrivendos is the only active leader with an army ( i excluded that part for space purposes, but he is in there, with an army and starting position )
i made his father deceased, Sennianus.

edit: wait a minute should i have typed deceased ???? hmmm be back in a sec

-5000

[5000]

deceased didn't work, am i doing something wrong or is it just not possible


-5000

[Stuie]

"dead" is the correct usage, and only seems to work with women.

[Encaitar]

According to the template file, the male at the top of the family tree must either be the faction leader, or set to "past_leader". Unfortunately since the template was written, things seem to have changed and the "past_leader" attribute (which you could assign to a dead person) doesn't work. It's quite frustrating because it seems that you can't really have complex family trees showing several previous generations at startup.

[5000]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARN!
oh well thanks for the response


-5000

[Encaitar]

One thought that I had about this (I haven't investigated it to see if it's actually doable) is to set up your family tree at the start of the game with everyone still alive (including guys going back as many generations as you want to show up on the family tree), and then have a script that runs on startup to kill off everyone who's supposed to be dead. If it works, you'd effectively be able to have more complex historical family trees.