changing names - prob the last question

[missik]

hi everyone,

i've asked so many questions and have had them all answered so a big thank you to everyone who has helped me out.

my own little personal mod is ready (ill only play this) except I just want to clarify 2 things

where are the portraits for spies, assassins and diplomats found?

how do I edit the names? I downloaded another mod, and want to use the names of the generals and family members from that mod in my RTW vanilla 1.5 I tried to copy all the names and paste but I get CTD on the campaign loading, I tried the methods written out here in the tutorials but they all get CTD.

more help please!

[Charge]

Here we go again :)


If you have already unpacked .pak's - then in Data\UI\ROMAN\PORTRAITS\PORTRAITS\YOUNG_or_OLD\ROGUES;
for greek portraits go to GREEK folder, etc..


Names are in Data/descr_names.txt and Data/text/names.txt;
probably you're getting CTD's because you have vanilla names in your descr_strat - so you need to alter them all there as well...

[missik]

1 question: like portraits, do the number of names have to be the same?
like in portraits if you have 84, you need to replace 84, but you cant have less/more than the 84 that is there by default.

so is that the same for the names?

[Charge]

so is that the same for the names?

Nope, as far as I can tell..

[missik]

so if I paste in all the info from descr_names.txt, names.txt and descr_strat.txt from one file and overwrite the vanilla one it'll work?

descr_strat looks.. complicated to find the relevant areas because of all the relative, etc..

[Charge]

Of course it won't work if you past whole DS, another way you can do this is to add new names to needed factions in descr_names and translate in text/names.txt (without deleting previous entries ). you'll have old names and new ones appear later;
That should work hopefully...

I hate messing with names in DS too..