Help editing save files

[unmerged(92459)]

How would I go about editting a character's culture? (I'm Denmark and my king and his heirs are Arabs, despite being 3/4 Danish).

Actually, I think I've got this - it's surprisingly easy.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

How would I go about editting a character's culture? (I'm Denmark and my king and his heirs are Arabs, despite being 3/4 Danish).

Open your save-game with Wordpad or Notepad

The top of the file will look like this

name = "Hastings (1066)" header = { 
    name = "NAME_1066" 
    tutorial = no 
    startyear = 1066 
    endyear = 1452 
   [COLOR="Lime"] saved = C386 [/COLOR]
    optionmode = 0 
    set_ai_aggresive = 1 
    set_difficulty = 2 
    set_gamespeed = 6

I am playing the county C386

Now do a search for (ctrl+f) for C386, untill you see this

  C386 = { 
        gender = male 
        type = county 
        [COLOR="lime"]dna = "68050851779906" [/COLOR]
        title = { C386 } 
        }

Now do a search for this dna-entry, then you will find your ruler. His entry will look something like this

character = { 
    id = { type = 4712 id = 12510 } 
    dyn = 100386 
    tag = C386 
    name = "Faroald" 
    home = 386 
    date = "10490518" 
    gender = male 
    religion = catholic 
    [COLOR="lime"]culture = "iberian" [/COLOR]
    score = { gold = 97.289 prestige = -43.903 piety = 36.500 } 
    attributes = "4.4.3.4.4.5.424518624" 
    traits = { naive_wirepuller = yes } 
    loyalty = 0.772 
    dna = "68050851779906" 
    }

Here you see his culture, highlighted. Yours will most likely read "muslim" change it to "danish" and then save the file again as a .eug file

EDIT
And yes editing it is much easier then telling you how to edit it

 

[Sardaukar]

On related note, is it possible to edit for example Byzantine Emperor (change the emperor to other character) for bit of what-if play? I could probably just mod the stats of stock-one, but would be bit more convenient to have different emperor.

I have no clue about editing this game...