Help! Adding armies/character to DLV!

**Xtiaan72** · September 11, 2009, 09:35 PM

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.

**Kjertesvein** · September 12, 2009, 01:31 AM

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

**Xtiaan72** · September 12, 2009, 01:46 AM

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

**Harry Lime** · September 12, 2009, 03:15 AM

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.

**Xtiaan72** · September 12, 2009, 04:11 AM

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