Tutorial: Converting a Roman Faction to a Different Culture

[wlesmana]

Aaah, ok, I misunderstood then. Yea, the Senate button is greyed out, although Senate Offices button still appear.

It SHOULD be possible to remove the button, as BI had clearly done so. And since using the BI.exe on RTW doesn't remove the button, it's not part of the exe.

[Makanyane]

Was experimenting to blend it into background - you can delete its bit of the alpha channel (its on stratpage_02.tga) - though that doesn't help a lot as the bounding circle - which is shared with the other icons - is still there and the centre is still clickable (+CTD),



removing the outer ring (by removing its part of the alpha) on sharedpage_01.tga makes some of the other buttons look horrible... and of course you still have clickable CTD area....

(I'd still recommend re-naming the little pests - as that comes up as topic at least twice a month I think I'm finally going to try doing the files for vanilla - I'll tell you how long it takes Wles... )

EDIT: Takes about 45 mins to re-name them (and 15 mins to work out you can't comment out entries in expanded_bi.txt, doh)

FILES: Neutralised Senate, changes internal name 'romans_senate' to 'slavs' (also enables emergence if you add hording under BI) that is for vanilla 1.5 only if you already have changed EDU, DMB etc you'll have to do your own .

[wlesmana]

Thanks, Mak!!

[Zain]

Hey guys, I hope you're still around. I read that to change the overall culture for a faction you go into the descr_sm_factions.txt file. Correct?

I'm trying to convert the Parthians into the Greek "Spartans".

If descr_sm_factions.txt is correct, then why doesn't mine have the culture line? Here's what it's saying...

faction parthia
symbol data/models_strat/symbol_parthia.CAS
rebel_symbol data/models_strat/symbol_eastern_rebel.CAS
primary_colour red 168, green 62, blue 154
secondary_colour red 0, green 0, blue 0
logo_path data/ui/symbols/symbol_parthia.tga
triumph_value 5

[Atilius]

The faction line is right under the faction line. Perhaps you accidentally deleted it. For Parthia it should read:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

faction						parthia
culture						eastern
symbol						models_strat/symbol_parthia.CAS
rebel_symbol				models_strat/symbol_eastern_rebel.CAS
primary_colour				red 168, green 62, blue 154
secondary_colour			red 0, green 0, blue 0
loading_logo				loading_screen/symbols/symbol128_parthia.tga
standard_index				8
logo_index					243
small_logo_index			255
triumph_value				5
intro_movie					fmv/intros/eastern_intro_640x480_bars.wmv
victory_movie				fmv/victory/eastern_outro_320x240.wmv
defeat_movie				fmv/lose/parthia_eliminated.wmv
death_movie					fmv/death/death_parthia_sand_320x240.wmv
custom_battle_availability	yes
can_sap						yes
prefers_naval_invasions		no
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Makanyane]

Zain your descr_sm_factions looks like one from patch 1.2 not 1.5.

Which patch are you meant to be using? I'd recommend 1.5 unless you have a good reason not to use that, as I think it fixed some bugs and is probably a bit more flexible about what you can do to it as well.

If you are using 1.2 I'm not sure where, how or if you can change the culture of a faction!

[Atilius]

I've updated the tutorial to describe how to remove the Senate Offices button. I've also added acknowledgements to wlesmana for pointing out the problem and to Makanyane for verifying that the offending button disappears if the romans_senate faction is renamed.

I'm embarrassed to say that, in spite of reading her post several times, I had failed to realize she had verified a solution to the problem, uh, over three months ago.

[Skull]

Great tutorial!

[Vuk]

I have renamed the senate internally to Epirus and now I am getting this error at startup:

Does anyone know what I did wrong?
BTW, this is the line in question:

##standard_julii.tga
{
romans_julii ##standard_julii.tga
romans_brutii ##standard_brutii.tga
romans_scipii ##standard_scipii.tga
epirus ##standard_senate.tga

[Vuk]

Ok, my mistake. It was just a stupid typo. Now that I fixed it however I am having problems with the faction icon not appearing, and the game crashing whenever I start up a campaign or try to play as them. Any ideas what I did wrong? To the best of my knowledge I did not change any file paths.