Creating Traits or Ancillaries

[penquin11]

I wanted to know if there was a way to create a ancillary or Trait, I understand that I would hav to edit the .loc as well as the Database tables, but I just simply wanted to know if anyone had sucessfully made a trait and was willing to explain how.

EDIT: I have made a new discovery, I now believe that this is possible, but will be a PIA

[alpaca]

It's possible. You need to edit trait_info, character_traits and character_trait_levels to add your trait (copy and adjust existing entries), then modify the loc by adding a onscreen text, then add a trigger to export_triggers.lua - but beware as most events don't work properly. A safe one we've found is the turn end event. The probability you enter doesn't really work, either, as CA has a bug in their random number generator code or the checking of its results.

[penquin11]

It's possible. You need to edit trait_info, character_traits and character_trait_levels to add your trait (copy and adjust existing entries), then modify the loc by adding a onscreen text, then add a trigger to export_triggers.lua - but beware as most events don't work properly. A safe one we've found is the turn end event. The probability you enter doesn't really work, either, as CA has a bug in their random number generator code or the checking of its results.

Thnx, but how do i edit the lua and where exactly is it? Anyways I dont really need to make it have a trigger so to say...... I may just be making unique traits, like for Pyotr I i would like to give him a unique trait name "modernizor" in which gives a 25-40% bonus on research and industry income/wealth

[alpaca]

Thnx, but how do i edit the lua and where exactly is it? Anyways I dont really need to make it have a trigger so to say...... I may just be making unique traits, like for Pyotr I i would like to give him a unique trait name "modernizor" in which gives a 25-40% bonus on research and industry income/wealth

It's either in patch.pack or in main.pack

If you don't want triggers, you'll have to add the traits to the startpos. Not sure exactly how to do that, myself.