How to hide age display?

**es157** · July 07, 2021, 06:57 AM

This question may sound silly to some, but in my mod aging is pointless because the turns correspond to mere weeks and dying from old age is disabled. So far I have only ever seen one mod that hides the age display for characters, and that was Fourth Age TW, a mod for RTW. I don't know how it was done. In my past experience, deleting the line corresponding to age would not result in a blank space, but rather in an error message.

Does anyone know how it was done? Can it be replicated in MTW2?

**es157** · July 08, 2021, 01:53 PM

Anyone? Is it possible that no smart trick exists for this?

**es157** · July 10, 2021, 12:45 PM

An update to those who might be interested in learning the answer.

I was forced to download the entire Fourth Age mod again just to investigate the files and see if I could find the element that caused the age display to be hidden. It turns out that the solution the developers found was to go to text\strat.txt and type something like this in front of the {SMT_AGE} entry:

"\n\n\nAge:"

The above was following several Shift-spaces. I assume using Shift before the text is necessary for this to work.

Looks like an obvious solution, but I had previously failed to hide the age when I tried using other similar methods.

**Razor** · July 13, 2021, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by es157

An update to those who might be interested in learning the answer.

I was forced to download the entire Fourth Age mod again just to investigate the files and see if I could find the element that caused the age display to be hidden. It turns out that the solution the developers found was to go to text\strat.txt and type something like this in front of the {SMT_AGE} entry:

"\n\n\nAge:"

The above was following several Shift-spaces. I assume using Shift before the text is necessary for this to work.

Looks like an obvious solution, but I had previously failed to hide the age when I tried using other similar methods.

Ok, so Shift-spaces...
What does it do? What does it look like in the .txt file? What does it look like in-game?

**es157** · July 15, 2021, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Razor

Ok, so Shift-spaces...
What does it do? What does it look like in the .txt file? What does it look like in-game?

Usually, the game ignores the Shift-spaces. But it seems that if you use a large enough number of them, they will start "pushing" the text off the border of the screen, so that it is still there somewhere, but totally invisible.