help creating new traits

[kingwill]

i have tied creating a new trait however te game crashes before loading and im not sure why

export_descr_character_traits

;------------------------------------------
Trait khalifah
Characters family
Level sucessor
Description sucessor_desc
EffectsDescription sucessor_effects_desc
Threshold 2
Effect Command 3

;------------------------------------------

;------------------------------------------
Trigger dads_khalifah
WhenToTest CharacterComesOfAge
Condition FatherTrait khalifah >= 1
Affects khalifah 1 Chance 100
;------------------------------------------

export_descr_VnVs_enums

sucessor
sucessor_desc
sucessor_effects_desc

export_VnVs

¬--------------------
{sucessor} Khalifah

{sucessor_desc}
This man is descended from the prophet himself and some of muhammed's greatness flows through his veins.
¬--------------------

{sucessor_effects_desc}
Great leader

have i missed anything out, it all looks exactly the same as any of the other traits.

[Bernhard of Clairvaux]

First “successor” is the correct word. The only thing I can think of, that might not be a problem anyway, is that other “Affects” begin with capital letter ie “Khalifa”.

[Malrubius]

One thing: nobody will ever get the trait. You need to change the threshold to 1. Usually, traits are capitalized, but I don't know if this would matter. Did you change descr_strat.txt? Make sure you have a blank line at the end of export_VnVs.txt, I think I've seen some crashes when that's not done. Your trigger's "Affects" line won't crash the game until the trigger is triggered (I've done this one many times). A CTD right at the start leads me to think there's a problem with parsing one of the files. export_VnVs.txt and export_ancillaries are picky about comments where it expects text, etc. They should also be unicode files, not ascii text, when you save them.

I'd recommend checking out these threads:

Traits and Ancillaries Validator
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=55732

How to mod your traits/VnV
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38481

[kingwill]

thanks very much. I dont want anyone to be able to get it randomly i only want it to be inheritied from the father.

[Malrubius]

How does the father get it? If you changed descr_strat, that might be where your problem is