Manually Changing/Adding Royal Family Names

**hochmeister devin** · July 10, 2011, 09:16 PM

this probaly isnt the right place for this, but oh well.
heres the deal ive been trying to make my own general for the english faction in 6.1 but every time i try to change an existing character it deletes them from the gmae when i start it up and since i have no modding experiance i dont know what to do.

so far i have added the desiered name to the english faction name file and changed Robert (early campaign) to my character and changed some traits so really heres what i did.

From
character Robert, named character, male, age 26, x 76, y 199
traits LoyaltyStarter 1 , NaturalMilitarySkill 1 , MilitaryInclination 1 , Military_Edu 1 , GoodCommander 1 , ReligionStarter 1 , DiscontentGeneral 1

To
character Christopher, named character, male, age 14, x 76, y 199
traits LoyaltyStarter 1 , NaturalMilitarySkill 3 , MilitaryInclination 1 , Military_Edu 3 , GoodCommander 5 , ReligionStarter 1 ,

But now the campaign wont start so what am i doing wrong?

**David93** · July 10, 2011, 09:59 PM

whats your system log say?
The thing about deleting the entery if thats what you mean, when your finished changing the file set it to read-only and that should stop the game changing it.

Also i believe there are three files you must add a new name to, did you add it to all three?
Descr_names.txt, descr_names-lookup.txt and names.txt

**Caesar Clivus** · July 10, 2011, 11:05 PM

You dont have to add new names to the lookup file. It's a leftover from RTW and isn't needed for M2TW

**hochmeister devin** · July 11, 2011, 04:47 AM

where would i find the Names.txt?

**David93** · July 11, 2011, 05:06 AM

data/text

**bbbbb** · July 13, 2011, 11:36 AM

Anyone know how I can manually add/change royal family names in SS 6.4? Which files do I need to change? Specifically, I know currently there is no last name for England, early era - I would like to change this... what do I need to do?

Thanks,

b

**bɑne** · July 13, 2011, 01:57 PM

Merged with a extremely recent topic on the same issue i found by searching for "changing names" (just in case you wondered how I managed to conjure that one up). Check the first post and the following ones if this gives you the information you need.

On a sidenote: do you seriously have to bump a post even if it is still on the first page in this forum? Not that I want to see those in any form mind you...

**bbbbb** · July 13, 2011, 02:38 PM

sorry sir *looks at ground in shame*

...so If I wanted to add a family name to the existing English royal family, what files need changing, and how would I go about it?

**bɑne** · July 13, 2011, 03:05 PM

Are you just trying to add the name or do you want to change the name of a starting character like the OP wanted?

**bbbbb** · July 13, 2011, 04:59 PM

Just trying to add the last name... seems a bit odd that they don't have one, but I'm not even sure where to begin tbh. I thought someone else must have wanted to do this at some stage but I couldn't find anything apart from a sub mod - "The Stainless Steel Historical Characters Project (SSHCP)" - unfortunately this also adds lots of other changes I don't want

...compared to what some other people have achieved on this forum it seems like it should be trival for someone who is not a complete noob like me - surely there must be some fairly simple way to do this?

**hochmeister devin** · July 13, 2011, 07:10 PM

well check to make sure its in every name file for england and then go to the early era descr_strat scroll down to the english setup section and add the name to the character you want to add it to.
FYI if your game CTM, CTDs or said characters just dont exist anymore go back to your descr_strat and take away what you did to the file or just make a back up

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**The Source** · July 13, 2011, 09:46 PM

theres some tutorials on how to do it in the scripting section in resources in the mod workshop

and im pretty sure stephen has the last name de blois so you could always carry on with that

also are any of your family members in the same place(same co-ordinets

**bbbbb** · July 14, 2011, 11:25 AM

theres some tutorials on how to do it in the scripting section in resources in the mod workshop

and im pretty sure stephen has the last name de blois so you could always carry on with that

also are any of your family members in the same place(same co-ordinets

Now bane don't get mad at me for this, I really tried looking but I can't find a thread entitled "mod workshop" anywhere... where am I supposed to be looking for that exactly, The Source?

well check to make sure its in every name file for england and then go to the early era descr_strat scroll down to the english setup section and add the name to the character you want to add it to.

"Every name file for England" - like I said I know nothing about modding - what are the names and locations of these name files, and where exactly would I find the "early era desc_strat" file?

thanks,

b

**bɑne** · July 14, 2011, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by bbbbb

Now bane don't get mad at me for this, I really tried looking but I can't find a thread entitled "mod workshop" anywhere... where am I supposed to be looking for that exactly, The Source?

Mod Workshop

**The Source** · July 14, 2011, 12:30 PM

this shows you how to add and edit family members and regions-http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=187293

and the early descr strat file is in data/world/maps/campagin and thats it, please also note that if you run the setup after this this descr strat file will be returned to defult, so as bane said above change it permantly just edit the descr strat in this folder- data\campaign\early\world\maps\campaign