Guide To Adding New Cultures - Discussion

[hoggy]

I've got it working as per your tutorial, I used a copy of an Eastern culture to create the new one. Might be worth mentioning when you auto rename files in export_descr_buildings to watchout for unit types named the same as the culture ie 'eastern archers'. The new Lombardi faction ends up with mostly eastern buildings but some roman and barbarian too (I think it's hardcoded religion based buildings?) I've been trying to get my new eastern culture to use egyptian ITEM files but am at a bit of a loss. My modding skills in that department are a bit lacking. It's abit of a dissapointment that BI uses only 3 unique cultures as far as ITEM files go. Top tutorial though, cheers.

[Dol Guldur]

Excellent, not just me that has it working then ;)

Thx for the tip. Wish I could help on ITEM files, but I know nothing of that area. :(

(but keep us updated!)

[Ciaran]

Does the guide apply only to BI or does it work in Rome 1.3 as well?

[hoggy]

Ok, I think I've mostly cracked it... mostly. I followed your guide and created a new eastern based culture instead of barbarian. I then when through each step changing this new culture to egyptian and copied the egyptian UI from RTW 1.3 over the newly created eastern based culture UI files. Then in descr_settlement_plan.txt as well as the section around line 8576 you mentioned I editted the two sections above that (plans and plans by level) using text from RTW 1.3 settlement files to ad the egyptian paragraphs. This basically resulted in my new culture using mostly egyptian ITEM files in battle mode. I think the remaining buildings are the remnants of the Lombardii tech tree where it can't find egyptian equivalents... I've not tested heavily yet but I think it's close. Hopefully with a new tech tree we will have another set of ITEM files to edit unique to the new culture.

[blindfaithnogod]

thats good news hoggy. good goin, i was kinda headed in that dirrection aswell....

[Dol Guldur]

Ciaran, it's just for BI. Although you can of course use RTW resources (as hoggy is doing with Egyptian).

Hoggy, Great going. You will of course provide the step-by-step tutorial for this so that I can link to it from the New Culture Guide when you are finished? ;)

[hoggy]

Ok DG here it is, this is possibly more long-winded than it needs to be but this is how how I did it:

Part 1: New Eastern Culture

Follow Dol Guldur’s tutorial but with these variations:

Step 1

part.2: ‘Eastnew’ instead of Chinese.

Step 2 and 3

Copy the content of the eastern folder not the barbarian and call your folders ‘EASTNEW’

Step 4

Copy eastern section and replace Chinese with eastnew

Step 5

Change from barbarian to eastnew

Step 6

Follow instruction but replace ‘eastern’ with ‘eastern, eastnew’ instead of ‘barbarian’ with ‘barbarian, chinese’ (go back afterward to alter where your eastern archers have been renamed too)

Step 7

Instead of chinese Barbarian_plan_levels put eastnew Eastern_plan_levels

Step 8

{UI_EASTNEW} EASTNEW instead of {UI_CHINESE} CHINESE

and {EASTNEW} Eastnew instead of {CHINESE} Chinese

Step 9

Copy Eastern section instead and put eastnew on banner line

Step 10 and 11

Rename files with prefix eastnew instead of Chinese

I’ve not gone into sound and music here
Test this to check it’s working and that the Lombardi use eastern portraits etc.

Part 2: Changing NewEast into Egyptian culture that uses Egypt’s ITEM files:

Step 1
open campaign_descriptions.txt in the bi data\text folder

change eastnew to Egyptian

Step 2
Rename your BI EASTNEW UI folder to EGYPTIAN and copy the contents of your Rome Egypt UI files into this folder

Step 3
Open up BI data\descr_cultures.txt and rename eastnew to egyptian including the building tga paths.

Step 4
Open up BI data\descr_sm_factions.txt change Lombardi to Egyptian culture

Step 5
Open up BI data\export_descr_buildings.txt

Replace all ‘eastnew’ with ‘egyptian’

Step 6
Open up the BI data\descr_settlement_plans.txt

Go to around line 8438

In the ‘plans’ section add:

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

in ‘PLANS BY LEVEL’ add:


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 in PLAN SETS

replace: eastnew Eastern_plan_levels
with: egyptian Egyptian_plan_levels

Step 7
Edit tags and text as in step 8 of DG’s tutorial (I think there are already Egyptian entries but best to check)

Step 8
Open up BI data\descr_banners.txt

Change eastnew to Egyptian

Step 9
I think that’s it. You’ll see that the Lombardi are using Egyptian buildings in battles. You need to adjust their export_descr_buildings to match Egyptian building production closer to make sure the last few are replaced (for example Christian churches etc). You can then edit portraits, ITEMS etc of the egyptians to any culture. I’m hoping I haven’t missed anything. If anyone finds anything post here. Cheers to Dol Guldur for sorting the process.