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    Default Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

    As some of you know I am working on a custom campaign for DLV for Ireland. It's been going pretty well until I needed to add some new characters and armies to the map...

    Has anybody done this recently? In my mod I gave England the province of Dublin and I"m trying to garrison Dublin and create another army in the province.

    I've followed some advice from the workshop but I keep getting crashes. I can't get them to work with generals or named characters.

    Here is my latest attempt....

    English Descr_strat.txt


    Code:
    character    Henry Plantagenet, named character, male, leader, age 50, x 189, y 261 
    traits Factionleader 1 , GoodCommander 1 , Intelligent 2 , VictorVirtue 1 , BattleDread 1 , StrategyDread 2 , ReligionStarter 1, CharacterAges 1, TurnsAlive 3, PresentAtGameStart 1
    ancillaries crown_england, master_of_archers  
    army
    unit        NE Bodyguard                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Town Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Peasants                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character    Robin, general, male, age 20, x 172, y 233 
    army
    unit        Peasants                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Peasant Archers                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character    Giles, admiral, male, age 20, x 194, y 259
    army
    unit        cog        exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character    Nigel, admiral, male, age 34, x 182, y 251
    army
    unit        cog                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character    Harold, spy, male, age 20, x 186, y 284
    traits GoodSpy 2, CharacterAges 1, SpyTurnsAlive 1 
    
    character    Samuel Blacke, merchant, male, age 25, x 189, y 238 
    traits GoodMerchant 1, CharacterAges 1, MerchantTurnsAlive 1
    
    character    Laurence Cranmer, diplomat, male, age 25, x 186, y 234
    traits GoodDiplomat 2, CharacterAges 1, DiplomatTurnsAlive 1
    
    character    Aston of Canterbury, priest, male, age 35, x 196, y 268
    traits NaturalPriestSkill 2 , StrongFaith 2 , PriestLevel 1, CharacterAges 1, PriestTurnsAlive 2
    
    
    character    Geoffrey, named character, male, age 24, x 180, y 241
    traits GoodCommander 2 , LoyaltyStarter 1 , ReligionStarter 1, CharacterAges 1, TurnsAlive 1, PresentAtGameStart 1 
    army
    unit        NE Bodyguard                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Peasant Archers                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character    Matilda, princess, female, age 25, x 193, y 268 
    traits IAmPrincess 1 , NaturalPrincess 2 , GoodPrincess 1, CharacterAges 1, PrincessTurnsAlive 1 
    
    character    Richard, named character, male, heir, age 26, x 195, y 270 
    traits Factionheir 1 , LoyaltyStarter 1 , NaturalMilitarySkill 1 , GoodCommander 1 , ReligionStarter 1, CharacterAges 1, TurnsAlive 1, PresentAtGameStart 1 
    army
    unit        NE Bodyguard                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Peasant Archers                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Peasant Archers                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character    Arthur, general, male, age 26, x 188, y 276
    army
    unit        Peasant Archers                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character       Elias, general, male, age, 20, x151, y291
    army
    unit        Peasants                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Spear Militia                exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    unit        Peasant Archers                exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
    
    character_record        Eleanor of Aquitaine,     female, age 49, alive, never_a_leader
    character_record        John,     male, age 11, alive, never_a_leader
    
    relative     Henry Plantagenet,     Eleanor of Aquitaine,        Richard,    Matilda,    Geoffrey,    John,    end
    and here is the error I'm getting

    Code:
    21:08:09.593 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/DLV_ext/data/ui/southern_european/portraits/portraits/young/catholic_rogues/083.tga
    21:08:09.593 [system.io] [info] exists: missing data/ui/southern_european/portraits/portraits/young/catholic_rogues/083.tga
    21:08:09.593 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/DLV_ext/data/ui/southern_european/portraits/portraits/young/rogues/083.tga
    21:08:09.593 [system.io] [info] exists:   found data/ui/southern_european/portraits/portraits/young/rogues/083.tga (from: packs/data_3.pack)
    21:08:09.593 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/DLV_ext/data/ui/southern_european/portraits/portraits/young/rogues/083.tga
    21:08:09.593 [system.io] [info] exists:   found data/ui/southern_european/portraits/portraits/young/rogues/083.tga (from: packs/data_3.pack)
    21:08:09.609 [bink] [debug] [mods/DLV_ext/data/fmv/menu/DUMP0000.BIK]Pause on
    21:08:10.296 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.
    When I remove the offending character everything is fine again.

    Thanks for any help, I can't really proceed with my mod until I figure this out.....and that's what I was planning on doing this weekend.

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    Default Re: Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

    I tried doing something similar(see social group, "FAQs and Notes"), but I fell 5 min. later on my keyboard, like a solider on D-day. Pretty long "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb......" when I woke up 2 hours later
    Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga
    I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
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    Default Re: Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

    But I thought DLV was completely unpacked?

    I'm trying a complete reinstall, I think somewhere along the line I deleted something from my vanilla total war files cause out of desperation I went back and just tried to load up vanilla and no nice... Very strange, DLV still worked or Kingdoms execute but not vanilla!

    I've got all my progress backed up for my custom campaign so it's not the end of the world.......yet........

    I will know shortly either way

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    Default Re: Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

    First thing to check is that the names of the generals are in the DLV/data/descr_names & DLV/data/text/names.txt files.

    Secondly, and not so obvious, is the formatting of the text. One erroneous space can cause the whole thing to go tits up. What I used to do was copy & paste a default entry (one that I knew was working) and then just overtype the particular parts I wanted to change, highlight Richard for example and type Cuthbert in it's place. This must be followed for all the changes you want to make in the descr_strat.

    Although it's hard to tell from the format used on the forums, it looks like there's too big a gap between character & Elias but it's best to do any changes one at a time, check by booting up the map, if it works save file and move onto the next one.

    EDIT: You need to delete the map.rwm file to get the changes to show up as well.
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    Default Re: Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

    Thanks for the advice Harry.. I'm doing a clean install and then I'll work from a fresh Strat file. I've been checking and double checking the names so that should work out.

    One question Harry... can you just add any armies you want once you get it working or do I have to add those units to mercenary or recruitment pools for that region?

    And just for the record, you rule

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    Default Re: Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

    As long as the troops are recruitable by the faction (check the EDU) you are assigning them to then there should be no problems.
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    That classic Europa bug was total mega-puzzle from Hell. Yeah, scripting nightmare like that must strip the will to live outta you.

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