Adding a new culture

[SigniferOne]

I need to add an important addition that is required when adding a new culture. It seems to cause a crash in battles otherwise. I have in mind descr_offmap_models.txt -- if you don't add your culture there, starting a battle with it will cause CTDs, that are not explained in the log file.

re: uanime5 -- Consider events possibly causing a problem.

[uanime5]

I've added the descr_offmap_models.txt file to first first post and given you credit SigniferOne.

I'll check the data\text\event_strings.txt file but I'm faily sure all the events are correct.

Edit: I was checking through and found I was missing a few, one of the missing traits was

{character_trait_lost_body_titanocene}	DO NOT TRANSLATE: THIS TRAIT GAINED TEXT SHOULD BE REPLACED BY MESSAGES FROM THE VnV SYSTEM AND SHOULD NOT BE TRANSLATED!

Perhaps this is why changing the character traits file helped.

[SigniferOne]

Nice note, Uanime. If you want, you can make a note that cultures that no longer exist, can successfully be removed from that file also. I'm concerned the game will try to initiate an off-map block of code for a culture that doesn't exist. I've successfully removed all of the in-game cultures and replaced them with my own, so there is no hardcode barrier from deleting old cultures (if you do it properly, and according to your tutorial).

[stevohall]

First off great guide, easy to understand and follow but ive hit a brick wall, ive followed all steps except i used england instead of create a new faction and any battle i fight on the battle map causes an unspecified error after loading, just as its about to do the pre battle speech, im trying to do an english empire cultural mod for a friend that will eventually lead away from the northern kingdoms (more of an end half of the game). i wonder if anyone could help with my problem? and thanks

[uanime5]

Battle crashed are usually due to a missing texture or mesh, or an error in the battle_models.model_db. I'd recommend checking the error log.