[Help/Questions] Adding Empire Wizards to the Bretonnian Unit Roster

[kelzmeltzer]

Hi folks. I’m trying to update Bretonnia’s roster to include the already existing Light, Jade, and Amber Wizards from the Empire and have stumbled somewhere along the line. I didn’t want to change anything about them – just provide Bretonnia the ability to recruit those 3 agents during the campaign and custom battles.

I realize that Bretonnia is coming as Free-LC next month, but I wanted to use their sparse roster as a learning exercise in modding (i.e. for my personal use). So, after some tinkering:

__ 1. I can get all 3 wizards into Custom Battles – no problem with portraits, meshes, animations, etc.
______ a. Table updated:
__________ i. units_custom_battle_permissions_tables

__ 2. I can get all 3 wizards attached to a Bretonnian building (the Grail Shrine) for campaign recruiting.
______ a. Tables updated:
__________i. (Either) building_units_allowed_tables
__________ ii. (Or) building_effects_junction_tables

However, I’m having trouble with a couple of things:

__ 1. No matter what I do, the agent information shows up incorrectly in the building browser:
______ a. If I define the changes through building_units_allowed_tables, no text shows up correctly.
______ b. If I define the changes through building_effects_junction_tables, I can then replicate most of their text correctly with exceptions being:
__________ i. Agent ability bullet points - does this perhaps have something to do with the wizards being redefined as "Dignitary" agents for Bretonnia (I'll touch on this in a sec)?

Vs.

__________ ii. The second bullet point below about increasing the wizard's "Hero Capacity" - it’s definitely attached to the building via the building_effects_junction_tables - why would it merge with the Damsel's line?

__ 2. Now, if I keep the Empire Wizards in the “Wizard” agent category alongside the Damsel:
______ a. I can see and successfully recruit all 4 agent types (Light, Amber, Jade, and Damsel).
______ b. However, I lose the Empire wizards’ portraits, unit cards, and character models - all show up as Grombrindal the White Dwarf for whatever reason?

__ 3. If I split the wizards off into a new agent category (“Dignitary” for example), I can’t get the recruitment pool to unlock even with what I think are the correct updates to:
______ a. Tables:
__________ i. agent_culture_details_tables
__________ ii. faction_agent_permitted_subtypes_tables
__________ iii. effects_tables
__________ iv. effect_bonus_value_agent_subtype_junctions_tables
__________ v. building_effects_junction_tables
______ b. I thought the categories were just placeholders, but it seems like there is potential conflict or overlap in the agent related tables I can’t pin down?

I had contemplated cloning the Damsel a few times and just changing the accessible lore on each. Given all of the mess I’ve made so far, I may end up going that route if there are issues with defining new agent categories for factions or recognizing UI and meshes for different models within the same category.

Note: I had intended to use this in conjunction with Lokerian's Modular Factions - Unlocker and maybe Lokerian's Bretonnia Overhaul Pack to access Bretonnia in the campaign until February. I don’t think think there are any conflicts here, but figured I would point them out.

I’d really appreciate someone taking a look at what I have so far, and hopefully pointing me in the right direction. Thanks!

[Crux2]

I'm trying to do something similar adding the vamp wizard agent to the empire and I'm getting the same Grombrindal model glitch - I wish I could offer some useful advice other than that the issue doesn't seem to be unique to the Bretonnia faction or the wizard characters. I have a suspicion that this might be beyond our ability to fix based on the reasoning that in the past I've been able to change the model used by a character by editing the save game in the save parser tool but I can't ever seem to ditch Grombrindal. I can't be certain about this though as in my previous tinkering it only related to changing one exiting orc general to another, nothing cross-faction.

[kelzmeltzer]

Yeah. I've basically given up on both of the paths I laid out above. Tried a few different iterations with no luck - I still feel like I'm missing something.

Took a bit of the wind out of my sails, but I know I can at least duplicate the Damsel out with different lores so that's my plan at the moment.

Thanks!