Tutorial: Converting a Roman Faction to a Different Culture

**Atilius** · 05-05-2007, 04:34

Originally Posted by wlesmana

II removed the Senate and all their dependencies, but my roman factions still have the Senate tab (not greyed out) and if I click on it, the game CTDs.

Did if you remove the lines "superfaction romans_senate"? I believe that's all that should be necessary if you've removed the romans_senate faction.

**wlesmana** · 05-05-2007, 15:10

Yes, I did.
The Senate is not even in the campaign. But the Senate offices button is still clickable, which results in CTD.

**Makanyane** · 05-05-2007, 15:43

@wlesmana, I just checked and agree that does definitely happen, assume it must be a hardcoded thing relating to romans_senate being in descr_sm_factions in which case button appears for any roman faction. Changing romans_senate to another culture doesn't change anything. Though swapping julii to greek culture means they don't get tab any-more.

I assume that would be another case of having to internally re-name the senate to get rid of it (?), unless anyone else has other ideas...

(or swap the senate offices icon for a windows desktop one.. :P)

**Dol Guldur** · 05-05-2007, 16:17

(or swap the senate offices icon for a windows desktop one.. :P)

Actually, someone suggested that some time ago when we had the right-click problem for building conditionals...a bit involved for what alt+f4 would have done :: but in this case....if all else fails change the tool tip too - 'click here to exit directly to desk top' :)

Removing all the internal references to the_senate will be pain :(

**Makanyane** · 05-05-2007, 16:23

Removing all the internal references to the_senate will be pain :(

yep

, i've done it for a -mod under BI before (unfortunately files are mixed in with other modded stuff or I would have posted them), Atilius has confirmed somewhere else that it will work under RTW.exe as well.

Approx list of files is in this post

**Dol Guldur** · 05-05-2007, 16:30

The button could be modded graphically to blend seamlessly into the background - not a perfect solution of course as there is always the chance it could be clicked by accident.

I'm glad I'm a BI modder :)

**Roman_Man#3** · 05-05-2007, 16:39

I know EB has internally renamed romans_senate to saba so this wouldn't happen.

I looked at the interface files, but that one doesn't seem to be there, unless I am mistaken. It would probably be easy to change menu_english.txt (is that right?) to say do not click here. Who would click somewhere if it said do not click here?

I do like Mak's idea though. Just write, "return to desktop"/

RM3