Making all captain/campaign characters stronger?

[edders]

Hi everyone I'm new to RTW modding so sorry if this is something obvious, but a search on the subject didn't help.
Anyway, my question is: How do you make all "Generals" more powerful? That is to say, are captains just hardcoded to be as strong as the unit they're in or is there a way to give them different stats (e.g. more hitpoints)? The reason I ask was because I wanted to have stonger generals in custom battles (since it won't allow you characters).

If you can't change the captains, is there then a way to make every named character in the campaign more powerful? The only way I can think of at the moment is to give all the characters in desc_strat hitpoint-boosting traits but this seems like a waste of time if every new character is unchanged.

Any help is welcome!

[Dr Fox]

you would have to add to the export_descr_character_traits.txt and make all named characters learn traits that increase their Hitpoints making them hard to kill

in export_descr_character_traits

Trait HardtoKill
Characters family

Level HardtoKill
Description HardtoKill_desc
EffectsDescription HardtoKill_effects_desc
Threshold 1

Effect HitPoints 12 ; change number to how many hitpoints you want all generals to have

Trigger Hard_to_kill
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart


Affects HardtoKill 1 Chance 100

and then in export_descr_VnVs_enums

HardtoKill
HardtoKill_desc
HardtoKill_effects_desc

and then finally in data/text the export_VnVs.txt

{HardtoKill} Hard To Kill

{HardtoKill_desc}
The Trait makes all Generals very hard to Kill able to withstand constant blows and still not be knocked, the stuff of legend maybe even God Like ¬Change this to whatever you want it is just a description

{HardtoKill_effects_desc}
Hitpoints Increased, Dramatically

hopefully this helps you

[edders]

Thanks, I'll try that. On the off chance; do you know of any way to increase the damage done by named characters, or their armor rating?

One more thing; what is the maximum amount of hitpoints a character can have (before a CTD)?

Darn, it won't work - It doesn't just CTD (so I get an explanation from "-show_err") but says "windows has encountered a problem" etc. etc. send error report? etc.

Here is what the modified bits of my files look like - anyone see a problem? (I've included a bit of the surrounding text too).

;This file is generated from the Spreadsheet VnV,txt
;Please modify the spreadsheet and re-xport the data, rather than editing this file directly

;===============================================================
;== TRAIT DATA STARTS HERE ==
;===============================================================

;------------------------------------------
Trait HardtoKill
Characters family

level Hard_to_Kill
Description HardtoKill_desc
EffectsDescription HardtoKill_effects_desc
Threshold 1

Effect HitPoints 12

;------------------------------------------
Trait GoodCommander
Characters family
AntiTraits BadCommander

Level Confident_Commander
Description Confident_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Confident_Commander_effects_desc
GainMessage Confident_Commander_gain_desc
Threshold 1

Effect Command 1

Level Good_Commander
Description Good_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Good_Commander_effects_desc
GainMessage Good_Commander_gain_desc
Threshold 2

Effect Command 2

Level Superior_Commander
Description Superior_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Superior_Commander_effects_desc
GainMessage Superior_Commander_gain_desc
Threshold 4

Effect Command 3

Level Great_Commander
Description Great_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Great_Commander_effects_desc
GainMessage Great_Commander_gain_desc
Threshold 10

Effect Command 4

Level Legendary_Commander
Description Legendary_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Legendary_Commander_effects_desc
GainMessage Legendary_Commander_gain_desc
Epithet Legendary_Commander_epithet_desc
Threshold 18

Effect Command 5



;------------------------------------------
Trait BadCommander
Characters family
AntiTraits GoodCommander

Level Indifferent_Commander
Description Indifferent_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Indifferent_Commander_effects_desc
Threshold 2

Effect Command -1

Level Incompetent_Commander
Description Incompetent_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Incompetent_Commander_effects_desc
Threshold 4

Effect Command -2

Level Poor_Commander
Description Poor_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Poor_Commander_effects_desc
Threshold 6

Effect Command -3

Level Pathetic_Commander
Description Pathetic_Commander_desc
EffectsDescription Pathetic_Commander_effects_desc
Threshold 8

Effect Command -5

;------------------------------------------
Trigger becomesheir
    WhenToTest BecomesFactionHeir


    Affects Factionheir  1  Chance  100 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger games
    WhenToTest GovernorThrowGames


    Affects GamesFanRomanVice  1  Chance  10 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger races
    WhenToTest GovernorThrowRaces


    Affects RacesFanRomanVice  1  Chance  10 

;------------------------------------------
Trigger Hard_to_kill
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart


    Affects HardtoKill 1 Chance 100 

HardtoKill
HardtoKill_desc
HardtoKill_effects_desc
Indifferent_Commander
Indifferent_Commander_desc
Incompetent_Commander
Incompetent_Commander_desc
Poor_Commander
Poor_Commander_desc
Pathetic_Commander
Pathetic_Commander_desc
Confident_Attacker
Confident_Attacker_desc
Good_Attacker

¬ Lines that begin with the ¬ character are comments
¬ and should not be translated
¬ Items with curly brackets are tags and should not be translated
¬ The text following tags either on the same line, or the next line
¬ should be translated
¬---------------------


¬--------------------

{HardtoKill} Hard To Kill

{HardtoKill_desc}
In a world of legends, men of importance almost invariably fail to be noticed if they can't avoid the onslaught of lesser beings!

{HardtoKill_effects_desc}
Dramatic increase to health.

¬--------------------

{Indifferent_Commander}    Indifferent Commander

{Indifferent_Commander_desc}
This man is definitely not developing his skills as a general. If anything, he seems less competent than before his first fight!

¬--------------------

{Incompetent_Commander}    Incompetent Commander

{Incompetent_Commander_desc}
This man shows signs of real uselessness when commanding armies in the field.

¬-------------------- 

Grr...I changed the capitalization from Trigger Hard_to_kill to Trigger Hard_to_Kill. Now I am able to load up the imperial campaign. Unfortunately, the game now CTDs when I right click/double click on a character's portrait (to get more details). I'm assuming that the final problem now is something to do with the description.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

first of all in enums you must have
Hard_to_Kill
HardtoKill_desc
HardtoKill_effects_desc

or change the 'level' to HardtoKill

and then maybe try changing the trigger to one similar to a 'comesofage' one (but don't use that cos i think it is wrong) the characterturnends adds 1 onto the trait each turn so it could muck up

[edders]

Thanks for your input. Anyway, I changed the enums entry to "Hard_to_Kill" but unfortunately the game still CTDs when I want to get a description of a character.

Nevermind - I fixed that by changing the HardtoKill to Hard_To_Kill in the export_VnVs.

Just one problem left now - could you explain what you meant by the trigger? Thanks.


EDIT: Okay, everything seems to work fine. Thanks for the help everyone.

[Dr Fox]

you should have yor description files right at the bottom of the export_Vnvs i don't know if this will make a difference but its worth a shot I will add the parts into my game and test to see if it works

EDIt: I tested it and it works the l in level needs to be a capital and then the game should run if u already got it to work good job I will update my first post with correct syntax