Quick scripting question

[Mad Hoplite]

Hey people.

Is there any command to pass one named character from one faction to another via script? I guess the answer is no?

What I want to do is a Xanthippos char for Carthage like in EB but with an hellenic portrait, if it's possible at all.

[Atilius]

Is there any command to pass one named character from one faction to another via script? I guess the answer is no?

That's correct, the answer is no.

[Makanyane]

On the issue of the portrait, Wlesmana (I think) posted that in descr_strat you could use for faction x a leader that belonged to sub_faction y as you do for slaves, eg:

character sub_faction saxons, Guillaume, named character, age 21, , x 260, y 11

you could try and see if that works for spawn army - I've not tried so have no idea, but it might be worth a go....

[Mad Hoplite]

YESSS!!!! That absolutely works!

Thanks Makanyane!

I did a quick test and added sub_faction greek_cities to Hamalcar in desc_strat and got a CTD, but just because "Hamalcar" is not a proper greek_cities name.

Changing all the references of "Hamalcar" in desc_strat to Xanthippos solved all. He is even showing in the family tree!

EDIT:

Unfortunately, I could not make work the sub_faction trick with a script. When it does not CTD simply it doesn't do anything. Oh well.

[Bardo]

We had the same problem, I'm sure it is not possible to change a character from one faction to another.
In my opinion, the best aproach is to kill the first one and to spawn a different character with the same name in the other faction. But you can not choose the portrait of the 2nd one...

Btw, the only reason for wlesmana to use a sub_faction for some characters is so other factions do not use these same names (like Gandalf, Aragorn...)