Guide To Adding New Cultures - Discussion

[Dol Guldur]

I have uploaded the first draft of my Complete Guide To Adding New Cultures in BI...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...668#post945668

This is the thread for discussing it and getting it perfect! ;)

[Sahran]

So we dont have any hardcoded limit on cultures, or as I understand it, religions? That's pretty cool, and at least one limitation off the modders backs.

[Dol Guldur]

I'm going to need to research the sound files for a new culture; unit models in the battlemap seem to work, but strat_map voices are currently missing as are the battle events and music. Battle speech has defaulted to Roman.

This is an area in which help would be appreciated as I know little of the sound text files.


Sahran,

7 seems to be the hardcoded limit. Attempts to add an 8th culture fail even after swapping. But even 1 extra culture opens up quite a bit more for us modders!

[alpaca]

No problemo:
You'll have to go through each sound description file, every one of it has "culture" lines. Just search the culture you want (e.g. barbarian) in the text file and append your culture to it.
You can also add new culture blocks copying the old ones if you want to use custom sounds.
I guessed this would happen as I know some about sound files from my work on Chivalry...

[Dol Guldur]

Thx. Alpaca.

Adding my new culture to the culture lines in the export_descr_soudns_stratmap_voice.txt file produced no results.

I will look into it more.

[alpaca]

Oh, I forgot.
You have to delete or rename data\sounds\events.dat
But leave the .idx intact or the game will crash.
I hope that still works as it did in 1.2...