RTW Faction Swapper v1.0 Working

[Aragorn II Elessar]

This may sound stupid
I think i've been doing this all wrong because i put the normal RTW desc_fm_factions in the mod folder instead of the mods descr_fm_factions txt.
Is this possible? I'll try again soon.

[Aragorn II Elessar]

OMG what the heck! I finally did it and now i can't do it. When i try to swap a faction with the other it says operation failed and a lot of other things. I can see everything is marked with OK though...weird. Please help?

[Aragorn II Elessar]

Hey, it says error parsing files and something about symbols and stuff. Can you please help?

[Pat89]

It doesn't work for me either, but I don't know why. You need to give more information though if you really want to be helped

[Aragorn II Elessar]

No. screw this . I'm done trying bud

[gamer025]

I don't understand what this tool does. Is it meant to swap the locations of two factions to put a little twist on things?

[Squid]

No it changes the internal of a faction to another name, or swaps internal names between 2 faction. Basically it can be used to make the coding in your files easier to read so that if you had a faction called Illyria in game it would actually be called illyria in the files as well.

[Pat89]

I don't understand what this tool does. Is it meant to swap the locations of two factions to put a little twist on things?

It's a tool to make things easier for modders and not for players

[gamer025]

I do some light modding. Does this tool allow you to make a new faction by renaming and swapping all units/buildings of a faction to your new one?

[Squid]

No. You cannot make new factions in RTW. You can only replace existing factions with a new faction. All this tool does is change the internal name of a faction to a new name.

[Roy974]

Hi

I need some help here, i have changed the name of the Brutti to Test (just to test things out) but when i try to run the imperial campaign the game goes back to select the campign screen. What am i missing?

I have downloaded version 1.0 of this tool, i just don't understand whats wrong, the other thing thats missing is the factions symbols aren't showing up, it leaves a blank space which if clicked on selecs the new faction "Test".

I know it can't be a file i missed because i simply copied the itire data folder into the mods folder , maybe a file that needs manually editing, but which one(s) are the known files if any?

Thanks in advance
Roy.

Update 1:
Never mind, i figured it out. It was a fault i had made with a file (mixed my modded files with a few vanilla ones). This is now working perfectly, thanks for creating this amazing tool, only had to edit a few files to get the faction to use the new name.

Update 2:
Now i'm having a new problem where thegame won't allow me to play a imperial campaign. When i click imperial campaign it gives me a message about select from the list. And to make things more complicated there is now a provicial campaign which doesn't make sence as i use the imperial campaign not provicial campaigns. So it shouldn't even be there, and when you open p[rovicial campaign there is no campaigns to select anyway. Anyway idea's why 1) the game tells me to select from the list when selecting imperial campaign and 2) why on earth there is a provincial campaign?

[Skull]

I am confused.
What this does?
Repleace the stuff in {backets} ?

[Pat89]

No it changes the internal of a faction to another name, or swaps internal names between 2 faction. Basically it can be used to make the coding in your files easier to read so that if you had a faction called Illyria in game it would actually be called illyria in the files as well.

[Thrillology]

What does swapping factions exactly do? The name is pretty obvious, it swaps factions, but when a faction is swapped, wouldn't that make (for example) the House of Scipii turn into Egypt and vice versa?

[Pat89]

What does swapping factions exactly do? The name is pretty obvious, it swaps factions, but when a faction is swapped, wouldn't that make (for example) the House of Scipii turn into Egypt and vice versa?

No, all it does is change (for example):

{ROMANS_BRUTII}          Epirus

To:

{EPIRUS}                      Epirus

So it doesn't affect your game at all. it just makes coding much more convenient as you can alter the code names to match the ingame names. Since changing the code name requires you to change almost all files, doing it manually is a real pain, but this tool helps with that.

[The First Triumvirate]

I can see no one has posted here in a while, but i am trying to swap a faction but am getting several errors.



I know how to fix error #1 but of the others i don't know where to start.

[Lanjane]

Reuploaded the v1.0 to TWC Downloads since the link in the first post was dead.
RTW Faction Swapper 1.0

[Dog Fart]

Thanks for the repost. I was able to turn Spain into Greek Cities#2 in just under an hour.

And for those that might get confused on how this works, don't copy-paste the contents of data_swapped into your mod folder. Open the same text file in your mod folder and data swapped, and simply transfer the information from one text to the other. Press ctrl-f to bring up the text search bar incase you are unaware of it. Type in the faction names you are looking for and copy paste from one to the other. It may not be the quick fix you were hoping for, but it damn sure saves you weeks of frustrations and infantile hissy fits from unexplained ctd's.