Swapping Faction Portraits?

[crackinthekraken]

I'd like to swap faction portraits so that the Seleucid characters have the faces of Egyptian ones. How can I do this?

[Aradan]

You can't. Portraits are culture related and Seleucids are greek culture. If you make them egyptian culture, that will change many things and will probably cause the gam to crash, unless you make a good deal more editions.

[MasterOfNone]

You could setup a new culture, a simple copy of the Greek, then map the portraits to the Egyptian culture (in descr_culture), and change the cultural assignment in descr_sm_factions to the new one for the Seleucids.

I should warn you it's quite a bit of work

[crackinthekraken]

You can't. Portraits are culture related and Seleucids are greek culture. If you make them egyptian culture, that will change many things and will probably cause the gam to crash, unless you make a good deal more editions.

I would not be opposed to making a few more edits. What exactly is connected to culture, and how do I change the culture a faction is affiliated with?

[Ramashan]

The only way to do it is as Master of None says to create a new culture group for just the Seluecids: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=34622

But, if you don't care if all the factions within that culture share the same portraits you can just replace the portraits from the greek culture with those from the egyptian culture. There are many folders of portraits you'll find in data/UI/egyptian/portraits...

[Aradan]

The culture is changed in descr_sm_factions.txt.
The edits are not exactly 'a few'. You'd probably have to edit recruitment/availability in EDB, availability in EDU, conditions in EDCT/EDA and so on, and you'd still end up with seleucids using sounds/UI/battlemap models/strat-map models from the egyptian culture.

I suggest you follow MoN's advice and set up a new culture for them, which you can then modify at will. Here is a step by step guide on that.