Changing faction primary/secondary colors

[Corbetjj]

Hi,

Recently, I tried to change my mod's factions' primary and secondary colors, but to no avail. The mod simply wouldn't pick up the changes.

I figured I would start fresh, as I had too much clutter and unused mods anyway. I installed a clean MII:TW, patched it up to 1.3, and unpacked the files. I then edited the vanilla desc_sm_factions file to set England's colors to 0,0,0. It didn't do anything. I don't have any mods or complications, just an edited, saved, vanilla file whose changes the game isn't picking up.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: Okay, so I actually deleted my desc_sm_factions file and didn't get a CTD. Logic seems to be implying that despite my cleanly installed MII:TW, there must be some other file the game is reading.

UPDATE 2: I realized now why file_first = 1 is important, as my modded vanilla was just reading the pack files. So I created a mymod.cfg with file_first and it still didn't do anything. Deleting the pack files fixed the problem, so apparently the problem lies within my mymod.cfg setup. I don't want to just have to delete the pack files, as I would like to switch freely between vanilla and my mod. Any ideas?

I also have a kind-of-related question. I used alpaca's string.bin to text converter and tried editing "London" to another name, after deleting the original bin file. However, no change is occuring. This problem is independent of the unpacking problem, as I did this with the pack files deleted.

[sinople]

I also have a kind-of-related question. I used alpaca's string.bin to text converter and tried editing "London" to another name, after deleting the original bin file. However, no change is occuring. This problem is independent of the unpacking problem, as I did this with the pack files deleted.

I had never deleted a string.bin file, I had just edited the txt files

[Gampie]

Try this:

Make a mod subfolder in your main M2TW directory, ie. 'Corbetmod'.
Make a Corbetmod.bat (which will run medieval2.exe @Corbetmod.cfg ) in the same directory.
Make a Corbetmod.cfg in the same directory.

This .cfg should at least contain the following:

[features]
mod = Corbetmod

[io]
file_first = true

Put descr_sm_factions in the data folder of Corbetmod. Take care that the other needed files are also in that mod subfolder (like the map files, etc.). Edit your descr_sm_factions and change the colours of England.
Check that map.rmw is deleted before you run the game (it will create a new one each time you start a new campaign). Double-click on the Corbetmod.bat to run the mod.


Regarding the 'London' issue: try deleting map.rmw and the strings.bin file. Then start a new campaign.