Starting faction's name and flag

**kelvintyk** · March 21, 2009, 12:44 PM

Say I intend to play as Prussia. However, I want my prussian's starting flag (the one with the black phoenix) changed to the prussian republic one, how do I go about it? Also, is it possible to rename my faction? So to say I might want to rename Prussia to something like kelvin or something. How do I go about achieving both modifications I mentioned? Thanks for any help.

**Xash** · March 21, 2009, 01:14 PM

To change the name would be very complicated - but the flag could be another one. In the startpos.esf at 0x855F1 is the path to the flags ("data/ui/flags/prussia"). When you change it to data/ui/flags/britain for example, it will have the british flag. But the problem is - you will the prussia_republic flag, which path is longer than 6 characters. And if you try to add the "_republic" to the hex, the game won't show anything. So if anyone know, how to edit this correctly .. :-)

**kelvintyk** · March 21, 2009, 01:31 PM

Well I'm using the pack manager. But when I change the prussian flag to the republic one, the change doesn't occur in-game. Any ideas?

**just** · March 21, 2009, 02:21 PM

Changing the name shouldn't be that complicated, there shouldn't be too many copies of the name in the localisation file, the pack manager contains a loc editor.

**kelvintyk** · March 21, 2009, 08:21 PM

But changing the UI flags as stated above by Xash doesn't change the flags in-game.

**Jams79** · March 21, 2009, 08:39 PM

The name should just be a case of changing the factions_screen_name in the localisation.loc file.

edit: Actually I'm lying

the faction name comes up in quite a few other instances in just the .loc file (1160 for prussia).

**kelvintyk** · March 21, 2009, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by Jams79

The name should just be a case of changing the factions_screen_name in the localisation.loc file.

edit: Actually I'm lying

the faction name comes up in quite a few other instances in just the .loc file (1160 for prussia).

So names are impossible to change? What about flags? The changes I made to the factions file doesn't seem to make the in-game flag change.

**GeorgiaPeanuts** · March 21, 2009, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by Xash

To change the name would be very complicated - but the flag could be another one. In the startpos.esf at 0x855F1 is the path to the flags ("data/ui/flags/prussia"). When you change it to data/ui/flags/britain for example, it will have the british flag. But the problem is - you will the prussia_republic flag, which path is longer than 6 characters. And if you try to add the "_republic" to the hex, the game won't show anything. So if anyone know, how to edit this correctly .. :-)

When you change the size of a string you have to also change its hex representing its size. All strings in esf are 0E XX [STRING DATA] the XX is the size in hex.

**kelvintyk** · March 21, 2009, 11:33 PM

But what if I'm using the pack manager and not a hex editor.

**Iaius Statius Laurentius** · March 22, 2009, 12:01 AM

You cannot edit startpos.esf with the package manager.

**deltadollar** · July 30, 2013, 05:12 AM

If you want to change the flag you have to download the latest esf editor (1.4.5). Once you have it, open startpos.esf with the editor, and go to CAMPAIGN_STARTPOS\CAMPAIGN_ENV\CAMPAIGN_MODEL\WORLD\FACTION_ARRAY\FACTION_ARRAY(find Prussia)\FACTION\FACTION_FLAG_AND_COLOURS(the first one)\ click on it, and in the first line change the "data\ui\flags\prussia" to "data\ui\flags\prussia_republic"

I'm still trying to change the name of the faction. Anyways, with this ESF editor you can do much more things with a pack manager. For more check the tutorial about the ESF Editor by husserlTW: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...D-startpos-esf

Hope this helps