BI: Adding new cultures? This is interesting...

[Simetrical]

For unexpanded RTW, at least, the settlement plans are in data\settlement_plans\, and are referenced per culture in data\descr_settlement_plan.txt. For instance, this snippet:

	plan	Egyptian_Fort			egyptian_fort.txt
	plan	Egyptian_Village		egyptian_village.txt
	plan	Egyptian_Town			egyptian_town.txt
	plan	Egyptian_Large_Town		egyptian_large_town.txt
	plan	Egyptian_City			egyptian_city.txt
	plan	Egyptian_Large_City		egyptian_large_city.txt
	plan	Egyptian_Huge_City		egyptian_huge_city.txt

The plan names are then grouped into plan-level categories, like so:

	plan_levels		Egyptian_plan_levels
	{
		village		Egyptian_Village
		town		Egyptian_Town
		large_town	Egyptian_Large_Town
		city		Egyptian_City
		large_city	Egyptian_Large_City
		huge_city	Egyptian_Huge_City
	}

And then the cultures are linked to the plan-level groups:

		egyptian		Egyptian_plan_levels

Unfortunately, I lack the time to test whether these things work, or rather I feel like spending it on other things.

[Dol Guldur]

I have not been able to create an 8th culture. It has the feel of hardcoding to it, but I may be wrong.

I have modded the files but it CTDs when I add the new culture name to the culture line in the descr_sm_factions.txt - will it perhaps accept no more than 7 throughout the file?

If I leave it out, leaving the vanilla culture name in its place, I receive the error that the new culture is not recognised in the EDB and it CTDs - this would indicate that the descr_sm_factions.txt file assign the existence of that culture to the game.

Is it hardcoded to 6+1?

Jerome? :)