legionary_name and generals

**rebelyell2006** · December 11, 2009, 08:41 PM

Here's an idea that I had, and I wonder if it is possible. I want to create a general unit (tercio_general), that has the legionary_name property. Would it be possible for this unit to have a generic unit card and information image, replacing the portrait card? And would the legionary_name property even work for a general unit?

**Gigantus** · December 12, 2009, 02:43 AM

General with legionary_name properties I haven't heard of yet. Why don't you try what happens and report back?
Don't think your idea with the unit card will work.

**rebelyell2006** · December 12, 2009, 03:35 AM

You are correct, the unit card idea did not work. But here are the results, and I found some issues. I didn't add any text information to the /text/export_units.txt, but I did enter "{Leon_Legion}Tercio de Leon" in /text/imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt, and I do not know why it is simply listed as Legio I "Leon", unless custom Legio names do not work in M2TW. Is the unit card image hard-coded to use a family portrait?

EDIT:

To clarify, in data\world\maps\base\descr_regions.txt, I put

Leon_Province
legion: Leon_Legion
Leon
spain
Iberian_Rebels
13 157 198
coal, wool, atlantic, explorers_guild, knights_of_santiago_chapter_house, tercio_of_leon
5
4
religions { catholic 90 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 10 heretic 0 }

and in data\text\imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt, I put

{Leon}Leon
{Leon_Province}Leon Region
{Leon_Legion}Tercio de Leon

I am not certain why it didn't label the Legion as "Legio I Tercio de Leon."

**konny** · December 12, 2009, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by rebelyell2006

Leon_Province
legion: Leon_Legion
Leon
spain
Iberian_Rebels
13 157 198
coal, wool, atlantic, explorers_guild, knights_of_santiago_chapter_house, tercio_of_leon
5
4
religions { catholic 90 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 10 heretic 0 }

May be it should be "Legion: Leon_Legion" and that way the game is reading the second "Legion" as command and makes the next entry "Leon" the legionary_name.

**Gigantus** · December 12, 2009, 05:19 AM

{Leon_Legion}Tercio de Leon

That should have worked. Was the string.bin file regenerated? If in doubt, simply delete.

**Gigantus** · December 12, 2009, 06:49 AM

This worked for me:

Gotland
legion: Gotland_Legion
Visby

{Gotland}Gotland
{Visby}Visby
{Gotland_Legion}Gotland Haufen

**rebelyell2006** · December 12, 2009, 04:32 PM

The strings.bin file is being regenerated, but it still is just giving "Legio I Leon", even after I changed descr_regions to "legion:Tercio_de_Leon" and imperial...names.txt to "{Tercio_de_Leon}Tercio de Leon". I don't understand why it is throwing this problem.

**Gigantus** · December 12, 2009, 08:19 PM

Beats me. Maybe add the Legion bit to the database?

legion: Legion_Tercio_de_Leon

{Legion_Tercio_de_Leon}Tercio de Leon

**rebelyell2006** · December 12, 2009, 08:53 PM

I tried that, and even with a generic infantry unit, and it didn't work. It still displayed Legio I Leon. Is there something that I am missing?

**Gigantus** · December 12, 2009, 10:23 PM

Upload data\text\imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt and the string.bin file both. I will have a look. Maybe it is a formatting thing with the txt file.

Sometimes it helps to take a working txt file, delete everything except the first line with the funny sign.
Then copy over everything except the first line from the txt file that doesn't work.

**rebelyell2006** · December 13, 2009, 12:23 AM

The uploader rejected imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt.strings.bin, so I put it in an .rar archive.

**Gigantus** · December 13, 2009, 01:46 AM

I fingered the two files with the BinEditor from GIMP (make backups!!). Have a look if it works now.
Are you using kingdoms or medieval?

**rebelyell2006** · December 13, 2009, 03:17 AM

I'm afraid it is still just displaying "Legio I Leon". Is there something else in /data/ or the subfolders that would affect this? Is it possible that at some point in my meddling in the files that I could have done something to change this, or is the legionary_name system affected only by data\text\imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt and data\world\maps\base\descr_regions.txt?

**Gigantus** · December 13, 2009, 03:30 AM

Only those two files.

Why don't you try it with a different city or different name of the legion?

**rebelyell2006** · December 13, 2009, 03:44 AM

It didn't work for the Holy Roman Empire as well, the "Bologna Tercio" showed up as "Legio I Bologna", the Vienna and Nuremburg Tercios as well.

**Gigantus** · December 13, 2009, 04:21 AM

Which version of the game are you playing?

**rebelyell2006** · December 13, 2009, 04:31 AM

It's just Medieval. I uninstalled Kingdoms because it took up too much space.

**Gigantus** · December 13, 2009, 06:36 AM

That could be the reason. The medieval2.exe is most likely not properly set up for it.

If you want to use the improvements of kingdoms, you don't have to install all campaigns. Simply install one only. That updates med2 and installs the kingdoms.exe