Modding Problem

[Ixtli613]

I'm trying to add a new country to the game, and I thought I was doing everything right. The game loads just fine and when I click single-player, there's my country in the map screen, and I can click on it and see my ruler and such to the right (although, it's displaying the country tag as the name for some reason). When I try to play, it loads the graphics alright but then gets stuck on the 'adapting history' part. I waited for about 5 minutes for it to load before finally shutting the game off. Any idea what causes this?

 

[Sute]{h]

We always think, we have everything right.

This problem seems to be related to your history files. Could you post what exactly you modded? Does your new country have a new culture for instance?

 

[vanin]

It shows the Tag and not the country name either because you haven't added the country's localisation (just go to "Rome/Localisation" and open up "countries"; then you can just copypaste from another country, but replace the tags (don't forget rebellion) with your own and the corresponding name) or because you have edited those files with excel; always use notepad when you are modding (except for flags and maps of course).
When it comes to adapting history, it might be crashing because you have a bug of sorts in the province/character files you have edited or added, and if there is something wrong there the game will crash. My only advice is to look through all files you have edited again and check for faults.

 

[Kaigon]

Did you add a new culture group?

If so you must also add unit numbering for that culture group. You can see how this is done at the bottom of localisation/unit.csv where it says:

ARMY_NAME_persia;$NUM$$ORDER$ Army;;;;;;;;;;;x
NAVY_NAME_persia;$NUM$$ORDER$ Navy;;;;;;;;;;;x
REGIMENT_NAME_persia;$HOME$'s $NUM$$ORDER$ Cohort;;;;;;;;;;;x

Every culture group has to have an entry like this.

 

[Ixtli613]

Yes I added a new culture, and yes I forgot to add the army localisation. Doh. I'll go do that and see if it fixes it.

Edit: Okay, so the game is loading now, so that's good. But for some reason the countries and cultures localisation files aren't loading correctly. Everyone's name is now displayed as their country tag, and the characters names aren't working for anyone, nor are the culture names. Could it be the fact that I initially modified these files in excel before switching to notepad as suggested?

Edit2: Also, does anyone know what the line is in a character's history file for making two characters get married?

 

[Kaigon]

Yes I added a new culture, and yes I forgot to add the army localisation. Doh. I'll go do that and see if it fixes it.

Edit: Okay, so the game is loading now, so that's good. But for some reason the countries and cultures localisation files aren't loading correctly. Everyone's name is now displayed as their country tag, and the characters names aren't working for anyone, nor are the culture names. Could it be the fact that I initially modified these files in excel before switching to notepad as suggested?

Edit2: Also, does anyone know what the line is in a character's history file for making two characters get married?

Good thing you found the problem!

As for weird text, check your .csv files with a text editor and see if they are separated by semicolon ';' or comma ',', the first one is correct but excel is confused since csv stands for comma-separated values which is why it might corrupt the file. The best way is to take a copy of the original file (or back-up) and make the changes again. A risky way would be to open the file in a text editor and replace all ',' with ';'.

As for marriage, this is how you add it:

800.1.1 = {
	add_spouse = { id = SPOUSE_ID idtype = 44 }
}

You only need to do this for one of the spouses.

 

[Ixtli613]

Yeah, all the values are separated by semicolons. I have a backup file, so I guess I'll remake the changes in there and see if it works. Thanks for all the help everyone.

Edit: That seems to have fixed it. Again, thanks for all the help.

 

[Hardradi]

Erthain, another tip with the localisation files is to make sure you dont have any blank lines, even right as the bottom of the text.

I learnt this lesson the hard way, rebuilding a whole mod ony to stumble across where someone had posted this tip.

 

[Ixtli613]

Hmm, didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.