Adding (historical) Events? Is it possible?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I haven't found much in the way of information on modding events here. Has anyone else been able to add any new historical events? All I want to do is add a longer "Year in History" sort of thing that pops up once a year. I've already done a lot of them but they are too big for traits (they run over the edge of the screen) and would like to use them there instead - is it possible to add new ones? The files that seem like they reference them are:

strat.txt
historic_events.txt
descr_events.txt

Seems like I should be able to add a new 'body' and 'title' in the historic_events section, mirror it in the strat.txt file, then put it in on the descr_events.txt and have it pop up, but I get weird GUI errors and it messes things up (probably by putting something new into strat.txt).

Anyone have any ideas about this sort of stuff?

[Makanyane]

For BI you can add event (in terms of just getting message at pre-set date) using just :
historic_events.txt
descr_events.txt

I never touched strat.txt - mainly because it hadn't occurred to me that they would be in it

that seemed to work fine but you get the default message picture - is your issue that you're trying to give it a different pic? Or does RTW not work with just the top two?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Nah, I don't need a new pic, I just tried to use a current historical event that was in vanilla and imitating it. I'll try to do what I did before but this time without touching strat.txt (though it sure looks like it would be needed since those other vanilla historical events are listed there too).

All I'm wanting is that message at a pre-set date though - image is mostly irrelevant.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Weird, same thing happened again, directly as a result of changing the strat.txt file.

I tried just adding an event to the other two (descr_events.txt and historic_events.txt), but the event never appeared when I told it to. Have you successfully added *new* historic events Mak?

[Makanyane]

yep, but only for BI, I guess the system is a bit different.

To be very specific I didn't have more in number per campaign, I had re-named events in descr_events.txt for one campaign and historic_events.txt referencing both those and the original events which were active in the main campaign within same mod.

BI strat.txt is weird it seems to have RTW event followed by the BI description, a bit like they were just converting old RTW ones via that themselves

{SMT_ESPIONAGE_IN_CARTHAGE_TITLE} New Testament Formulated

but historic events has

{NEW_TESTAMENT_FORMULATED_TITLE}

in properly as well as the Carthage event, so I'm guessing they changed the system at some stage and strat.txt isn't used for that in BI? Sorry obviously doesn't help you, I wonder if there is some other file you have to add new SMT.... things to? As you apparently need to use that for RTW

[Dol Guldur]

Yep, same as Mak - works in BI. I just used the New Testament slot and changed the year, text (and image icon).