Having Trouble With Papacy

[Roslolian]

Rather, I'm having trouble making them playable. I edit the descr_strat which works in most cases, but the start button does nothing. Just loops back to selection. Previously,when this happened I could go around it by just waiting, but it seems to be unresolved.

An alternative that would make me happy would be to change Venice's colors to the papacy's colors. Anyhow, any help on either of these goals would be appreciated.

[The Holy Pilgrim]

go to dsecr_sm_factions.txt and find venice.

It should look like this:

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faction venice
culture southern_european
religion catholic
symbol models_strat/symbol_venice.CAS
rebel_symbol models_strat/symbol_rebels.CAS
primary_colour red 121, green 3, blue 3
secondary_colour red 221, green 176, blue 69
loading_logo loading_screen/symbols/symbol128_venice.tga
standard_index 0
logo_index FACTION_LOGO_VENICE
small_logo_index SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_VENICE
triumph_value 5
intro_movie faction/major_intro.bik
victory_movie faction/venice_win.bik
defeat_movie faction/venice_lose.bik
death_movie faction/venice_lose.bik
custom_battle_availability yes
can_sap yes
prefers_naval_invasions yes
can_have_princess yes
has_family_tree yes

Change it to have the papacy colors:

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faction venice
culture southern_european
religion catholic
symbol models_strat/symbol_venice.CAS
rebel_symbol models_strat/symbol_rebels.CAS
primary_colour red 239, green 239, blue 239
secondary_colour red 221, green 176, blue 69
loading_logo loading_screen/symbols/symbol128_venice.tga
standard_index 0
logo_index FACTION_LOGO_VENICE
small_logo_index SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_VENICE
triumph_value 5
intro_movie faction/major_intro.bik
victory_movie faction/venice_win.bik
defeat_movie faction/venice_lose.bik
death_movie faction/venice_lose.bik
custom_battle_availability yes
can_sap yes
prefers_naval_invasions yes
can_have_princess yes
has_family_tree yes

This was to make the map colors the same as the Pope. For units, you are going to have to go to the battle_models.modeldb and make all venice units use the Papal Textures

For example, this is the original code for Venice's Italian Spear Militia (red indicates parts of interest, blue indicates change):

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6 venice
78 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/textures/EN_Peasant_Padded_venice.texture
78 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/textures/EN_Peasant_Padded_normal.texture
52 unit_sprites/venice_Dummy_EN_Spearmen_ug1_sprite.spr

and this

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6 venice
60 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Italian_venice_diff.texture
60 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Italian_venice_norm.texture
0

You need to change them both to where they look like this

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6 venice
84 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/textures/EN_Peasant_Padded_papal_states.texture
78 unit_models/_Units/EN_Peasant_Padded/textures/EN_Peasant_Padded_normal.texture
58 unit_sprites/papal_states_Dummy_EN_Spearmen_ug1_sprite.spr

and this

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6 venice
66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Italian_papal_states_diff.texture
66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Italian_papal_states_norm.texture
0

This will make your Italian Spear Militia have the same colors as the Pope.

Hopefully this helped you.

[Soul Firez]

easiest way to play papal states without having to mod anything is play a hotseat select one faction turn that faction over to AI through the console and then put papal states in human control through the console .

eg just hit ` button then type control papal_states and your controling the pope (you have no control of accepting refusing crusades though