Addind cultures to R:TW 1.5

[cunctator]

Has abybody succesfully added a new culture to R:TW 1.5?

I've tried to add BIs nomad culture to 1.5 and made the necessary entires in the

descr_banners.txt
descr_cultures
descr_settlement plan
descr_sm_settlements
descr_sm_forts_ports_watchtowers.txt
menu_english.txt

files and added the ui files from BI.

Finally I got this error message:



it seems to me that the .exe doesn't recognizes the cultures anymore correctly if there are more than six.

[Dol Guldur]

You followed my Guide, right? I have not tested it on R:TW but I have heard it does work from someone who has done it.

[cunctator]

It works now! I had to change the files to my last backup to test something different and tried it again later and now everything is fine. I don't know what was wrong the first time, perhaps any syntax error.

[Monkwarrior]

Are you saying that you have now seven cultures defined in RTW?
Great!
I was thinking in modifying completely the egyptian one, but I think it will be easier this way.

Do the nomads in RTW 1.5 have the horde ability? My guess is , but... who knows.

[cunctator]

Yes seven cultures are no problem but the horde feature is BI only. I tried and got this error message:

[Ciaran]

That picture looks more like BI than Rome, even in 1.5 the interface doesn´t change with the culture, at least as far as I know.
But if making a new - or even asigning factions to another existing one - really works in 1.5, that would be a major breakthrough. I´ve seen the "culture" tag in some of the txt files, but I thought that was just another redundant entry of a hardcoded function.

Do the nomads in RTW 1.5 have the horde ability? My guess is , but... who knows

I´d not be optimistic on that one, the same way as there´s no shield wall formation or religions in 1.5, I believe those are BI-only features. But the ability of adding or changing cultures would be as much as one could ask for.

I do assume that you´d need new portait folders as well, however, don´t you?

[Monkwarrior]

That picture looks more like BI than Rome, even in 1.5 the interface doesn´t change with the culture, at least as far as I know.
But if making a new - or even asigning factions to another existing one - really works in 1.5, that would be a major breakthrough. I´ve seen the "culture" tag in some of the txt files, but I thought that was just another redundant entry of a hardcoded function.

Well, I can say that changing the culture of a faction is something easy to do in RTW 1.5. If there is no incompatibilities with buildings, just changing the culture tag in descr_sm_factions is enough. Perhaps some adjustments are necessary in the text files, but nothing too painful.

If I remember well, the interface changes if the new culture has a new interface assigned.
I put a new interface for eastern and re-assigned thrace to the eastern culture. The first method to see if the change was effective was the new interface.

I will try the nomad culture in RTW.
Thanks.

[cunctator]

That picture looks more like BI than Rome, even in 1.5 the interface doesn´t change with the culture, at least as far as I know.
But if making a new - or even asigning factions to another existing one - really works in 1.5, that would be a major breakthrough. I´ve seen the "culture" tag in some of the txt files, but I thought that was just another redundant entry of a hardcoded function.

It looks like BI because I copied the nomad UI subfolder from BI with it's potraits, event messages, interface, etc. In R:TW all cultures use the default interface but they can have an individual interface too if they have the necessary files in their UI subfolders (which are packed in the ui.pak in R:TW), even in earlier versions.

[kleemann]

If you have BI installed use BI exe file to run your vanilla RTW game. I use it and all works fine. Horde feature is coded into BI.exe file and rebelling character etc...

It is so easy to run vanilla RTW with bi.exe
- type "mod:" to the bi.exe properties and that's all.