Creating your own country. Not showing as selectable at start.

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I wanted to add 2 countries to the WATK map (Urbino, and Ferrara) in the provinces of Romagna and Ferrara in Italy.

At first I tried to follow Harvard's instructions but I couldn't get it to work to so I took out two useless countries (Meng Yang, and some 1 province Indonesian minor) to free up the MEA and U06 tag.

After messing around with it, I finally got them to work with cities, appriopriate flags and everything, BUT for some reason Urbino (MEA tag) doesn't show up when I start the game in the menu. It just isn't on the list of flags on the drop down menu. Ferrara does show up. The country itself shows up in the game under the AI.

I've checked the config files, Include files 1419 scenario, and in the Db files and they should all be right. Both U06 and MEA are in there.

What determines if a country can be selectable to play at the beginning? (I thought this was the 1419 scenario include files.)

 

[Third Angel]

You need to change the the corresponding entries in the "NAMES OF COUNTRIES & AREAS" section of text.csv. Or do they not even appear into the selecting list under their former names?

 

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yup, I changed it in the csv files.

It looked like:

U06;Urbino;;;;;;;;;;
U06_DESC;Federico III was Duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482, a very successful condottiere, a skillful diplomat and an enthusiastic patron of art and literature. Romagna was at the forefront of Italian conflict from 1420 - 1495.;;;;;;;;;;

 

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While we're on the subject how do you make historical leaders for your country?

I created a new file: "leaders.u06" in the leader file and assigned the leaders custom ids and everything but when I load up as my new country it doesn't show up.

 

[MichaelM]

Did you add them to the selectable nations?

selectable = { 
	FRA CAS ARA ENG TUR BUR NVG NOG UZB CHI NIP AZT INC CHE ZAP APA 
	CRE SHA HUR BOH HAB BRI AUV ORL SCO EIR BRA POM LUX BRE SHL MOS
	TRE ATH PAP DAN SWE TOS VEN GEN MAM TIM SON ZIM LAT POL LIT SIE
	HUN MOL WAL AYU BYZ ADE AKK ALD ARG ARK ASH ASS ATJ BAD BAY BEN
	BGL NOR BOS BOU CAL CAM CAN CHA CHM CRO CYP DAH DAI DAK DEL DLH
	DUL ETH FEZ FRI GEL GEO GRA GUJ HAN HAU HEL HES HYD KAR KLE KNI
	KOL KON KOR KZK	LOR MAG MAI MAL MLO MOR MUN MYA MYS NAP NAV OHI
	OLD OMA PAR PEG	PFA PIS PRO PRU PSK QAR RAG RYA SAC SAV SER SIB
	STE STR SUD SUZ TAU POR TEK THU TIB TUN TVE VIJ WUR ZAN MAA MCH
	ALB BEI CHG JAI MAN MEC MKS MLC MLW ORI VIE XHO ZUL MTR
}

Now with your second question, I'm wondering: are you doing this in a moddir or in the vanilla files?

 

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Its for AGCEEP with WATK or as they call it ExtraWATK :wacko:

 

[MichaelM]

Next question: This might seem silly, but do you have Windows set to hide extensions for known file types? I.e., could leaders.u06 really be leaders.u06.txt?

 

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When I open up the files in text edit for some reason the leader.xxx file gets renamed to just "leader" in the text edit form.

so every leader I clicked on previously is now just leader.

 

[MichaelM]

In Notepad, you have to be careful about the extensions. You have to change "Save as type" to "All files", then you can save as leaders.u06.

Are you running Windows Vista or XP? In XP, you should click Tools->Folder Options->View->uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types".

 

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Btw I really appreciate the help guys! Thank you.

I'll try it now.

10 minutes later, its still not working. Is naming the leader folder .u06 the only thing I need to do to get the leaders to show up? The unique ids I used were 0712228 - 071235 is that too high?

Is there anything I need to do in the csv folder etc?

 

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Btw,

1 detail I forgot to mention. There actually wasn't a leader folder for u06. I had to create a brand new one. There was a folder for MEA, but it was "#Empty#" inside.

A lot of insignificant 1 province countries seem to have zero leaders with empty inside.

 

[MichaelM]

10 minutes later, its still not working. Is naming the leader folder .u06 the only thing I need to do to get the leaders to show up?

Should be. Are you getting any errors?

The unique ids I used were 0712228 - 071235 is that too high?

I don't think so, but I don't remember what the range is for leaders and monarchs. Try lowering it and see if it makes a difference.

Is there anything I need to do in the csv folder etc?

Shouldn't be.

1 detail I forgot to mention. There actually wasn't a leader folder for u06. I had to create a brand new one.

Shouldn't be a problem.

In other words, I have no idea why it's not working. It sounds like you're doing everything right.

 

[Third Angel]

The unique ids I used were 0712228 - 071235 is that too high?

The leader/monarch ID range is up to 199999, so that might be it.

By the way, did you solve your original problem of not having your countries as selectable at scenario start?

 

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Hey, I renamed them to 122228 - 122235 and it worked. sweet, thanks!

Ok, as to your second question, no I have not since I was focusing on the leaders. I was going to try to edit the selectable nations list but I couldn't find it in the csv file or the 1419 scenario country files.

Where is it? :wacko:

 

[Third Angel]

Yes, you should add the tags to the list, as shown by MichaelM, in the .eug file bearing the name of the scenario you want to modify. These .eug files are in the Scenarios folder, they are in fact text files which you can open with notepad.

 

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I found the Eug. file and it completely worked! Fantastic.

I'll try another go at making a new country from one of the unused tags (listed as FREE in the csv. files)

I'll try to get a screen shot of my work on Northern Italy posted on here later today where I added Ferrara, Urbino and Aquileia for historical accuracy.