Custom General Creation not fuctioning

[lerb21]

A while back I wanted to make a William Wallace character for Scotland in Vanilla M2:TW.

Instead of ripping it out of Kingdoms I decided to just script it out.

I added both "William" and "Wallace" names in the 'descr_names' in (what I think is) their proper area.

I then went in did a simple copy n' paste character in the 'descr_strat' file.

When I play the game, it doesn't crash. My Character shows up, only he has no name. So it's some kind of an error in recognizing the name on the list. I've tried doing this twenty different ways. I can't figure it out.

I figured if I'd upload the two files you folks could take a look at it and tell me if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks.

[Gigantus]

You will have to see that his name is also entered in the text\names.txt file.
- Assuming he is scottish, his first name should be entered like this in descr_names:
faction: scotland
character
William
:
:
:
surnames
Wallace

A typical entry in descr_strat would look like this:
character William Wallace, named character, male, leader, age 40, x 425, y 492

finally text\names.txt:
{William}William
{Wallace}Wallace

[lerb21]

You will have to see that his name is also entered in the text\names.txt file.
- Assuming he is scottish, his first name should be entered like this in descr_names:
faction: scotland
character
William
:
:
:
surnames
Wallace

A typical entry in descr_strat would look like this:
character William Wallace, named character, male, leader, age 40, x 425, y 492

finally text\names.txt:
{William}William
{Wallace}Wallace

"{William}William
{Wallace}Wallace"

These are already contained the vanilla version of the file.

Hmm.

I've also entered his names into the name list (the one sorted by faction) and created a character.

Here's the Quote:

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character William Wallace, named character, male, age 22, x 98, y 176
traits LoyaltyStarter 1 , ReligionStarter 1
army
unit NE Bodyguard exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

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faction: scotland

characters
Adam
Aed
Alexander
Algune
Allan
Aodh
Arcill
Angus
Brian
Broccin
Cathal
Cennedig
Comgell
Cormac
Colin
Dauid
David
Domnall
Domongart
Donnchadh
Donald
Duncan
Dougall
Edmund
Edward
Eoin
Feradac
Fearghus
Finguine
Gille_Calline
Gille_Coimded
Gille_Petair
Gille_Patrick
Hew
James
Lulach
Mac_Bethad
Mac_Dobarchon
Malcolm
Matad
Morgunn
Nectan
Patrick
Stuart
Ruadri
Aidan
Farquar
Gawain
Gordon
Ian
Kirk
Kyle
Lachlan
Micheil
Nevin
Raibert
Ranald
Rory
Roy
Steaphan
William

surnames
Arthyn
Bell
Besat
Boyd
Brechyne
Broune
Buchan
Bunnok
Campbell
Canmore
Colison
Comyn
Cullane
Cwnyngame
Erskyn
Feniss
Forster
Inchmertyn
Lesly
Macconel
Macdonchie
Macdougall
Macgoulchane
Makartane
Makdowall
Makfulchiane
Makgullane
Makmartane
Maknab
Maknakill
Maknauchtan
Mar
Mensies
Nevell
Randall
Stewart
Vissman
Wallace
the Balleol
the Boroundoun
the Broiss
the Ross
the Sowlis
of Carnavarane
of Clair
of Cobhame
of Douglas
of Edinburgh
of Argyll
of Bute
of Midlothian
of Peeblesshire
of Sutherland
of Ayrshire
of Caithness
of East Lothian
of Moray
of Perthshire
of Selkirkshire
of West Lothian
of Aberdeen
of Banffshire
of Fife
of Nairnshire
of Renfrewshire
of Shetland
of Wigtownshire
of Angus
of Berwickshire
of Lanarkshire
of Orkney
of Ross-shire

[Augustus Lucifer]

I might suggest moving the entry for William Wallace up beneath the family members. Currently you have it after the agent entries, so it could be a list order issue that the file needs to have family first then agents.

[Gigantus]

That is the only thing that could still be wrong (didn't look into that, lazy me).

[lerb21]

Not successful.

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It appears as though my M2:TW is... UNMODABLE.

[konny]

Make sure you have saved your files in the correct encoding (i.e. do not use the simply windows editor because it might change that).

[Caesar Clivus]

Are the names "William" and "Wallace in descr_names_lookup.txt?

[lerb21]

Are the names "William" and "Wallace in descr_names_lookup.txt?

No, but I was under the impression that descr_names_lookup.txt does not come into play when creating characters with custom names.

For example, even though the text does not contain "William" or "Wallace" is doesn't not contain the names of characters already in the game either, such as "Rufus".

[Gigantus]

descr_names_lookup.txt is redundant. Lazy guys just didn't take it out.

[lerb21]

descr_names_lookup.txt is redundant. Lazy guys just didn't take it out.

That's what I thought...

Hmm...

[Caesar Clivus]

descr_names_lookup.txt is redundant. Lazy guys just didn't take it out.

God I wish I knew that earlier! Would've saved me a LOT of time

I just remembered that I was having this exact same problem a couple of months back with a name not showing up for a new character. I just wish I could remember how I fixed it! Have you tried deleting names.txt.strings.bin in data\text?

[Augustus Lucifer]

God I wish I knew that earlier! Would've saved me a LOT of time

Most if not all of the _enums and _lookup files aren't needed. There's a coding file and a strings file, no need for a forwarding file really. There's a couple I have sitting around as legacy I need to remove, but all of them should be removable.

[lerb21]

The plot thickens...

I went into the descr_strat file and changed his first name from "William" to "Alexander" and we've got a winner.

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[Gigantus]

Some thought: delete the data\text\names.string.bin file. Maybe it did not regenerate after you made changes in the txt file.

[lerb21]

Some thought: delete the data\text\names.string.bin file. Maybe it did not regenerate after you made changes in the txt file.

I just did and tried it again, with the same result.

I currently have two generals made one with the first name 'William' and another with the last name 'Wallace'.

The William General doesn't have a name, while the Wallace general has his name intact.

If I can get the William general to work, then I'll be able to combine both.

It doesn't help that Scotland's first names are not in alphabetical order. They appear as such:

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faction: scotland

characters
Adam
Aed
Alexander
Algune
Allan
Aodh
Arcill
Angus
Brian
Broccin
Cathal
Cennedig
Comgell
Cormac
Colin
Dauid
David
Domnall
Domongart
Donnchadh
Donald
Duncan
Dougall
Edmund
Edward
Eoin
Feradac
Fearghus
Finguine
Gille_Calline
Gille_Coimded
Gille_Petair
Gille_Patrick
Hew
James
Lulach
Mac_Bethad
Mac_Dobarchon
Malcolm
Matad
Morgunn
Nectan
Patrick
Stuart
Ruadri
Aidan
Farquar
Gawain
Gordon
Ian
Kirk
Kyle
Lachlan
Micheil
Nevin
Raibert
Ranald
Rory
Roy
Steaphan

This is, of course, after I without the numerous Williams I have stuck in various places.

[Gigantus]

Silly idea:

Add this name to the first names of scotland:
Willi_am

Then add this to names.txt and delete the string.bin version:
{Willi_am}William

Now change the first name in descr_strat from william to willi_am

[lerb21]

Silly idea:

Add this name to the first names of scotland:
Willi_am

Then add this to names.txt and delete the string.bin version:
{Willi_am}William

Now change the first name in descr_strat from william to willi_am

What the hell, doing it right now.

[EDIT:] Tried it, same result.

I'm convinced that the reason this isn't working is that the name file in the Date folder is not recognizing William as a Scottish Name.

Does it have to be in alphabetical order in order to function properly?

Because it was out of order when I got it vanilla.

[Emperor of The Great Unknown]

try dding it to surname instead of.

{Wallace}Wallace

try

{Wallace}William Wallace

and add in a Sir as the 1st name nad you will get Sir Willaim Wallace.

tho this is temporary sence it will ahve side effects cause you might get Sir the Just and whatnot. also if he has kids they will be known like Malcom William Wallace.

[Gigantus]

One other possibility: there is a William for England as well. Maybe you have to add one more William entry to data\text\names?