Rebel strat banners(question)

**florin80** · May 11, 2008, 11:08 AM

What exactly determines which of the rebel symbols will appear on which city, army or navy flag? There are a number of vanilla images from war elephants to egyptian beattle and the trident. For example:

Question is what influences their distribution? I know the symbols themselves are in the follwing files
symbols6.tga.dds
symbols7.tga.dds
symbols8.tga.dds
but not sure how these function when it comes to the rebels. In my case I don`t want that beattle in thrace.

**Aradan** · May 11, 2008, 11:24 AM

Not sure if that's what you want but worth the try:

descr_cultures.txt ==>

Code:

culture					roman
portrait_mapping		roman
rebel_standard_index	0

**florin80** · May 11, 2008, 11:31 AM

Splendid. That might be it. I`m gonna go test it. One thing though.. what makes the roman rebels to be roman in culture?

The culture tag of the province from descr_regions?

**Aradan** · May 11, 2008, 11:35 AM

Yes, I believe so.

**florin80** · May 11, 2008, 02:14 PM

Thank you very much! It worked. Now, for anyone else interested here`s how the symbols are numbered:

0_1 4_5
2_3

So it`s just a matter of changing the index number of each culture from descr_culture to the one you want

Code:

culture				barbarian
portrait_mapping	barbarian
rebel_standard_index	1

And the culture of the settlement is indeed that of the faction mentioned in descr_regions for the culture line of each region/settlement:

Code:

Maeotis
	Tanais
	scythia
	Maeotae
	131 89 33
	grain, slaves, dogs, pigs
	5
	9

**florin80** · May 22, 2008, 05:39 AM

I just thought to add that what banner appears for the settlement`s garrison on the campaign map is also influenced by the rebel general(family member) present in it. For example a rebel family member with sub_faction parthia in descr_strat will make the rebel banner to be the eastern one(parthia is of eastern culture in descr_sm_factions) even if the settlement has egypt for culture in descr_regions and faction creator in descr_strat.

**SiamWarrior** · March 05, 2011, 03:52 PM

Is it possible to add a totally new symbol, I have Indian rebels and need an Indian symbol on them ?

**florin80** · March 06, 2011, 07:22 AM

Yes, in fact one of the textures for the vanilla rebels still has empty room and you can add it there. Then just figure out its number and give it to the culture of your choice.