Implementation Help Regarding Flags

[Scythan]

Hello, Long time reader first (or second) time poster.
Though I don't post much due to the wealth of information available here and the hassle of logging in etc. I find myself in a place where I do need help from you fine folk.

I am attempting to add Ireland as a Major, Playable, Fully-Formed Faction (Some amalgam of my affinity for all things Celtic and an interesting "What-If" of a Pan-Europa Irish Empire.

So far I'm well on my way to making Dublin a Major City, I've already (thanks to this website) enabled them as playable from 1700 and I've even designed and created via photoshop the Irish Republic flag; for which I simply used the French Tricolour and made it the present flag of the Republic of Ireland using proper colour codes.

That said, I need help IMPLEMENTING this flag into the game. Though I am quickly learning DB editor, PackFile Editor and the ESF editor I am not sure how to set up the files and databases to accept this flag as the flag of Ireland when changed to a "Republic" from a Monarchy or Const. Monarchy; as Vanilla ETW does not have an entry for "ireland_republic".

Any help you all can offer on how to make this the flag of Ireland, Republic Would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you so much, you're all a great community.

Scythan

[husserlTW]

Hello, Long time reader first (or second) time poster.
Though I don't post much due to the wealth of information available here and the hassle of logging in etc. I find myself in a place where I do need help from you fine folk.

I am attempting to add Ireland as a Major, Playable, Fully-Formed Faction (Some amalgam of my affinity for all things Celtic and an interesting "What-If" of a Pan-Europa Irish Empire.

So far I'm well on my way to making Dublin a Major City, I've already (thanks to this website) enabled them as playable from 1700 and I've even designed and created via photoshop the Irish Republic flag; for which I simply used the French Tricolour and made it the present flag of the Republic of Ireland using proper colour codes.

That said, I need help IMPLEMENTING this flag into the game. Though I am quickly learning DB editor, PackFile Editor and the ESF editor I am not sure how to set up the files and databases to accept this flag as the flag of Ireland when changed to a "Republic" from a Monarchy or Const. Monarchy; as Vanilla ETW does not have an entry for "ireland_republic".

Any help you all can offer on how to make this the flag of Ireland, Republic Would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you so much, you're all a great community.

Scythan

At first you can have some general infos about adding new flags in my tutorial how to add a new faction. After that you will be able to make the right files.

There are two places that you have to make changes for republic flag. In db/faction table there are the appropriate cells about flags (flag_1, flag_2, flag_3. First one is for the starting flag, the second is for republic). Compare Ireland's entires with another faction that uses different flag when becomes republic (e.g. France) and you'll figure out how to do it. Then you should go in startpos.esf and in [...]CAMPAIGN_ENV/CAMPAIGN_MODEL/WORLD/FACTIONS_ARRAY find Ireland and check the two records which are about FACTION_FLAGS_AND_COLOURS. As in db/tables first one is for the starting flag, the second is for republic. Enter the appropriate path.