Concerning selectable faction

[Anon90]

Hello, so considering I didn't have any luck whatsoever with making a faction selectable in attila ( I really don't know what I'm doing wrong ) I can't seem to make it possible for Total War Warhammer to actually process the startpos.esf I have in my pack file, where I tried to get Wydrioth ( a wood elven fac ) selectable, but despite having modified several files following several different guides on these forums and on the actual total war website, the faction is -still- not selectable...

It's starting to wear my patience and the urge to mod total war games thin as I can't make a faction selectable in warhammer OR attila... Did I also mention that all my .pack files are outdated for some unholy reason too?

Anyway the files I modified to get the fac working are the following:

start_pos_factions
start_pos_characters
start_pos_starting_general_options
start_pos_starting_general_option_additional_units
start_pos_land_units
campaign_mp_coop_groups_to_factions
faction_political_parties_junctions
effect_bundles
faction_groups
frontend_factions
frontend_faction_top_units
frontend_faction_leaders
faction_to_faction_group_junctions
political_parties_frontend_leaders_junctions
battle_siege_vehicle_permission
political_parties

Those are the ones I've modified, and despite it all, I still cannot select the faction..
( I followed this tutorial: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post15072745 )

What am I doing wrong? Why is my startpos always outdated?

I can upload the .packs file if needed as well.

[Cyclone Jack]

In factions you'll need to set the "playable" flag to True.

[Anon90]

really? It's set as playable by default already, I set it as playable in start_pos_factions too.

[Cyclone Jack]

OK. I just didn't see factions listed in your list of modified tables.

[Anon90]

Yeah, and if I sounded like a bit of a jerk I didn't mean to be so. I've been trying to fix this for the last couple of days and it's getting on my nerves, I've modded other games, but Attila and Warhammer won't work whatsoever and I also don't understand why my startpos is outdated, despite the fact I verify and check the files on more than one occasion.

[Cyclone Jack]

I understand. I've had a few roadblock in my time modding TWW. It's been a while since I've had to mess with faction unlocking, and it was a pain back then, so I'm sure my notes are way out of date. Have you taken a look at Crynsos' Faction Unlocker mods to see if there is something different between your files and his files?

As for the Out of Date thing, TWW will always say your mod is out of date until you publish it.

[Anon90]

hmm, no I haven't taken a look at it, in fact I didn't even know that was a thing - I don't suppose you have a link to it ?

[Cyclone Jack]

Here is his Empire one.

[Anon90]

damn that's a lot of tables, is that all the tables required for a single faction unlock?