New Faction Names

[Comrade the Colonel]

Ok guys I have run into a bit of a problem.

I am trying to rename a bunch of factions for the APETI mod. I have it with AUM as well.

here is what i did:
i extracted tge localisation.loc from the patch_aum_en_loc_ape_ti.pack file.
I opened it in scalc and changed the names via find/replace.
I then saved the file, opened the patch_aum_en_loc_ape_ti.pack file, and replaced the old Localisation with the new,

When i start up the game though, the new faction names arent there. WHat do i do? Please help me

[husserlTW]

Ok guys I have run into a bit of a problem.

I am trying to rename a bunch of factions for the APETI mod. I have it with AUM as well.

here is what i did:
i extracted tge localisation.loc from the patch_aum_en_loc_ape_ti.pack file.
I opened it in scalc and changed the names via find/replace.
I then saved the file, opened the patch_aum_en_loc_ape_ti.pack file, and replaced the old Localisation with the new,

When i start up the game though, the new faction names arent there. WHat do i do? Please help me

The procedure you followed is the right one but you can not use find and replace menu, since you'll spoil some usefull entries. To change a faction name you have to change just one entry in _loc file. So do these:

Open localisation.tsv with scalc and select all. Then go in Data/Short and sort it by Column A. Now it is in alphabetical order so it is easy to find the entry you want. Let's say you want to change Britain to Manchester United. Find factions_screen_name_britain. Do not change the britain in factions_screen_name_britain (that is what probably happened with the find and replace).Replace only Great Britain in column B, enter Manchester United and you are good to go.

I suggest to replace also the factions_screen_adjective_britain a few cells above. Also if you want to replace or add a faction description, open startpos.esf and go in [...]CAMPAIGN_PREOPEN_MAP_INFO/FACTIONS_INFO find the faction you want and write down the number xxxxxxx in start_pos_factions_description_-xxxxxxx. Then find start_pos_factions_description_-xxxxxxx in .tsv file and replace or add the text in column B. To change paragraph in text use the code \n\n without spaces before or after.

Since you have your _loc file sorted alphabetically, minor changes like these you can do from now on straight in PFM since it is easy to spot the line you want, without exported and imported TSV, etc.