Modding Q&A's

[joedreck]

Could please someone help me to find the range of city garnison. I mean the red ring around the city.

I would like to try to make it smaller. On some places it is not possible to pass the city without attack it.

Example:
1. I play Suebi and want plunder Rome. I can't marching directly without attack cities, because they garnison range take all the space in a small passage.
2. I plunder a city, but can't move any more, because I was catched in the red zone. After an ally conquered I can move my army away.

[ottomanfan]

Anyone know where the provincial edicts effects are? I would like to mod them but can't find them in the db files....

[Reichmar12]

How can I change what tier barracks a unit is available from?

I've been trying to figure it out with one unit to test, but I can't get the unit to be recruitable from a barracks -- just as a general's unit.

[crzyrndm]

Building_units_allowed sets which units can be recruited from a structure

Anyone know where the provincial edicts effects are? I would like to mod them but can't find them in the db files....

effect_bundles_to_effects_junctions => rom_initiative_...

[Julio-Claudian]

How would one rename a faction?

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

I would like to know that too, plus renaming towns. Also can factions be spawned sd they were in Empire I believe? I'm thinking perhaps Hasmoneans and Kommagne and othet such petty kingdoms formed in the wake of waning Seleukid power.

[toasterwarrior]

Is it necessary to use the entire vanilla file whenever I want to edit units? For example: if I want to change Suebi Wodanaz Spears into a cavalry unit, I have to extract all relevant files with all their data intact, edit the Wodanaz Spears' stats and meshes, and repackage the whole thing?

I can't just create another land_units_table that only contains new values for Wodanaz Spears and have that overwrite the corresponding line in the vanilla table?

[Swiss Halberdier]

toasterwarrior: You can include just the row you want to change and call the table my_land_units. Then your row overwrites the one in the vanilla land_units table.


Answer: Where to change the faction names?

English: local_en_rome2.pack

text\db\factions.loc

factions_screen_name_*

All other languages: local_*_rome2.pack

text\localisation.loc

factions_screen_name_*


Answer: Where to find the "cap" of armies, navies, agents and edicts?

The "caps" can be edited in this table: fame_levels

[Peps]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, however I want to edit my save game to have two armies without movement points to be able to move again. I have been fiddling around with EditSF, but I haven't found out what I have to edit. Does somebody else know?

[Navajo Joe]

Hi Guys,

I would like to know how to modify the rate of fire from towers downwards?

[crzyrndm]

I would like to know how to modify the rate of fire from towers downwards?

projectiles_tables: arrow_tower, arrow_tower_upgraded, and bolt_tower are the three used by wall emplacements. Scroll across to base reload time (in seconds) column and increase the values in those rows

[Navajo Joe]

projectiles_tables: arrow_tower, arrow_tower_upgraded, and bolt_tower are the three used by wall emplacements. Scroll across to base reload time (in seconds) column and increase the values in those rows

cryrndm

Thanks, so much, I have had a look, cannot find, where is the file located?

[crzyrndm]

cryrndm

Thanks, so much, I have had a look, cannot find, where is the file located?

Open data_rome2.pack with PFM, db->projectiles_tables

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Can new factions be created? Or existing ones cloned and renamed? As part of same question, sort of, can you start a campaign with civil war already in effect?
To use the example I would like to do the Seleukid usurper Alexander Balas against Demetrios I .
Thank you
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[.Mitch.]

Question:

How do I make it so that a building can only be constructed in the capital region?

The "only_in_capital" bool in the building_levels DB crashes the game when used.

I'm trying to make a building like the Monument of Leonidas Sparta get at the end of their barrack chain at level 5. I think I might have read somewhere that the fact the building is level 5 is the thing that makes it only buildable in the Capital, but I want it to be constructable as the first in a chain, and be the only building in said chain, so level 0 in the DB.

Any help?

[crzyrndm]

Question:

How do I make it so that a building can only be constructed in the capital region?

The "only_in_capital" bool in the building_levels DB crashes the game when used.

I'm trying to make a building like the Monument of Leonidas Sparta get at the end of their barrack chain at level 5. I think I might have read somewhere that the fact the building is level 5 is the thing that makes it only buildable in the Capital, but I want it to be constructable as the first in a chain, and be the only building in said chain, so level 0 in the DB.

Any help?

Set by the structures superchain via. slot_template_to_building_superchain (table assigns which slots are eligible locations).

rom_minor_secondary = generic minor settlement building
rom_major_secondary = generic major settlement building

I added all the neccesary steps to my buildings guide for creating everything from the ground up last week or so (although it's still a little broken up. I need to write a complete nothing to everything tutorial sometime)

[Geleco]

How can I update my mods (they change variantmeshes and db) to patch 8? Apparently they aren't compatible somehow. I tried making changes to them and they don't show up... someone posted that they are not compatible with patch 8 but I have no clue what I have to do to fix them.

Here they are if you want to take a look.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=190487888

[sgtkatharn]

Does anyone know what the location of the tables for the edict effects as I would like to create some more edicts for my higher edict mod

[.Mitch.]

Sorry, I mean the Capitol of a faction, not of a region (Is that even possible, I read somewhere that the Leonidas monument can only be built in Sparta's capitol). My building is already set to only be built in the main city of a region.

I want to have a building that can only be built in Rome.

[crzyrndm]

I don't think its possible if the tickbox is causing crashes, and theres one good reason that theory doesn't work: Sparta's capital is a minor settlement, while MoL requires a major settlement

You can make it unique to a faction, but thats about it I think.