Adding Princesses to the Viking Faction

[naut]

I'm unsure of what's wrong, I do have an inkling. So I'll have a look through it and try to figure it out.

[Luthiena]

Thanks very much! I'll try to fiddle with it a bit, too.

[caravel]

You need to copy the princess_*.BIF/.Buf files from here:

\Total War\Medieval - Total War\campmap\pieces\Agents

To here:

C:\Total War\Medieval - Total War\campmap\pieces\Agents\Muslim

After that you need to add the portraits and then some names. They should work ok then.

[Luthiena]

I downloaded them from the link Rhythmic posted (don't worry, mate, not blamin' you! ) and they looked the same. So, I plunked them into the folder, but maybe I did it wrong. I'll try installing them again, and then if that still doesn't work, I'll try the regular princess ones.

[Luthiena]

Okay, just found something interesting: I downloaded the regular files into the campmap pieces Muslim folder, and the same thing was still going on with the Egyptians and the Almohads. BUT- it works for the Turks, the princesses are just nameless.

[naut]

Odd indeed.

If you declare the names of Princesses in the Heros file do they gain names, (or have you done that already).

[Luthiena]

I've done that already, but I can try doing it again.

[Luthiena]

Okay, I fixed the invisible problem... I tried it with the regular game pieces, and that worked, so I'm guessing there was a glitch with the downloaded ones. I now have princesses for all three Muslim factions.

Still no idea about the names, though. I tried adding them to the Names list (I did it alphabetically, would that mess it up?) and then the Change list, and then both- but nothing worked.

[naut]

You have to add names to the NAME.txt file in the Loc folder.

[Luthiena]

Yeah, I did that- but alphabetically. Do I have to add something after the name so that it will translate?

[naut]

Like this:

["Example"] {"Example"}

Doing it alphabetically shouldn't effect whether it works or not.

[Luthiena]

It looks exactly like that... buggering thing... O.o

I'll keep fiddling with it and see what happens.

[naut]

where have you added it inside the file?

If it is after this:

SetShowTransOff //Do not translate.			
//???? Remove when localized.

It wont work, it has to be before this text.

[R'as al Ghul]

Luthiena,

you need to introduce a new princess to the game by using ADD_PRINCESS in Heroes.txt.
It is important to insert the added princesses at the right place in the file. The Vikings are faction number 7. Look for the Scottish and put your princesses (the ADD_PRINCESS commands) between the Scottish and Welsh. The SET_PRINCESS command needs to read

SET_PRINCESS:: FN_07 7 // Vikings

later in the same file:

ADDPRINCESS:: "Whatever_name"

Example from STW mod Heroes.txt:

SET_PRINCESS:: FN_24 1 // Satake
ADD_PRINCESS::
"stw_Jito"

After that you need to declare the name of that new character in Names.txt.
Names.txt

["stw_Jito"] {"Jito"}

If you have that, then you need to tell the game that the faction can build/ have Princesses. You do that by editing the viking_unit_prod file. Column 50 (Faction Association label) needs to include the viking faction in the line for the Princess.

R'as

[Luthiena]

where have you added it inside the file?

If it is after this:

SetShowTransOff //Do not translate.			
//???? Remove when localized.

It wont work, it has to be before this text.

I think that's it! I was adding the Turkish/Egyptian/Almohad names alphabetically into the list of names that was already there. I'll try that and see what happens.

[naut]

I think it's what R'as al Ghul specified, it sounds right.