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Adding Characters:

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There are 6 types of characters in descr_strat, Faction Leaders, Faction Heirs, Family Members, Generals, female Family Members, and underage male Family Members. While some require very little time to add, others take a lot more time

I will start with the simplest first:

Female and Underage Male Family Members
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Underage Male - These family members are placeholders for your new male generation. They come of age at 16, whereupon the character_record is deleted and a new Family member is spawned on the campaign map.
NOTE: the game will CTD if you have a male character record over 16.

Female - These family members are only there to have children for your family members. They come of age at 12 when they can get married.

The only part of the code they come in is the character records,

Quote Originally Posted by descr_strat
character_record Amulius Julius, male, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 13, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Manius Julius, male, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 10, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Decius Julius, male, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 7, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Marcus Julius, male, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 3, alive, never_a_leadercharacter_record Faustina, female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 48, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Poppaea, female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 29, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Alypia, female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 29, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Claudia, female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 28, alive, never_a_leader
character_record Fadia, female, command 0, influence 0, management 0, subterfuge 0, age 13, alive, never_a_leader
Males are in Italics, Females are Bold

character_record is required for characters that don't appear on campaign maps, for female and underage male family members. It means that the following character is a non-campaign map one.

Names following the character record is the name of the character, this name is found and edited in Data\descr_names, Data\descr_names_lookup, and Data\text\names. I will not go into adding names until later, but just look in descr_names for the faction\gender to name designation.

Gender follows names, it determines if the character is female or an underage male, Female dictates a Female character, male dictates an Underage Male character.

Command, Influence, Management, and Subterfuge are useless, because the character does not appear on the campaign map

Age This says how old the characters are.

Alive/Dead for a Female character, it tells the computer if it needs to keep generating children for the family.

never_a_leader is the last part of the character record, it tells the computer not to include these records in its search for faction leaders/heirs.


First part done, I'll do more later