Editing factions names

**omry8880** · March 05, 2016, 07:44 AM

Hello,
I'm new to modding and i have a hard time trying to edit the factions names.
Can anybody direct me which file i need to edit?

thanks and have a good day!

**Augustusng** · March 05, 2016, 08:10 AM

Yep, it's in your localization pack (local_en for the English version). There, you want to find the factions.loc file and change the names there. You can also optionally edit the political_parties.loc table to change the name that shows up on the politics screen. You can check my faction names mod to see how that works.

**omry8880** · March 05, 2016, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Augustusng

Yep, it's in your localization pack (local_en for the English version). There, you want to find the factions.loc file and change the names there. You can also optionally edit the political_parties.loc table to change the name that shows up on the politics screen. You can check my faction names mod to see how that works.

Thanks dude!
Really appreciate this, gonna test it now

**Miguel_80** · March 06, 2016, 10:41 AM

Hello. So if my "local_" .pack is not in English, I can't change the names of the factions?

**Augustusng** · March 06, 2016, 12:13 PM

I don't know, but I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to. Can you not edit the same tables in other versions?

**Miguel_80** · March 06, 2016, 01:39 PM

In this example, the name of the faction doesn't change it, and the color of the map, yes, has been changed (blue to red)

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**Augustusng** · March 06, 2016, 02:53 PM

As far as I can tell, you're looking at the factions table in the data.pack file. That's not what you need to change. I'm not sure actually where to do it in the Assembly Kit (maybe right-click, then "see references" to find the localization table you need), but I use PFM for this. With PFM, you can make a mod by importing the relevant tables from your local_* pack, then make the changes there.