A Guide to Modding Character Names in M2:TW

[bulldog13tv]

Thanks for the Guide! Just made myself King of England.

[Ayyubid]

Hi, I had a question about name changing to a already existing unit. How would I change for example, "Hashashim" to "Assassiyoon", or "Christian guard" to "Iberian Heavy Infantry", and make it appear in the game as such?

Thanks for any help.

PS: I may have posted this elsewhere, but I think it was the wrong thread.

[Romulus2910]

I don't know if this is still active or not but it seems like a well enough place to ask. If I just want to take out possible names for England, not add any in, can I just delete the ones I don't want in the descr_name file? Or will I end up with a bunch of whacky no names?

[ian.coetzer]

Help
I have a character in game "Veliky Knyaz Vladimir"
Now I managed it to come up in game as "Veliky Knyaz Moore".
However I cannot seem to change the two first names ...

I have done this in the names.txt file and of course deleted the bin file but it only seems to show the surname as I want:
{Vladimir}Moore
{Veliky_Knyaz}Jon-Bob
{Veliky}Jon
{Knyaz}Bob

I have also tried to add Veliky Knyaz to the list of bynames in the descr_names.txt but I cannot seem to get the game to read different first names?

[ian.coetzer]

someone answered me in this thread:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-First-Names-)

[blodhemn]

(Using the Kingdoms Grand Campaign Mod) I spent some hours changing the names of some of the factions. I got rid of almost all of the male names for England and Ireland and replaced them in the corresponding files, as well as switching out some names for Norway. I made sure any name that I added in the descr_names file were also added to names and descr_names_lookup. I kept getting kicked back to the menu screen when I tried to start a new campaign. After looking around on the forum a little, I realized that I had deleted names of startup characters for these factions, so I added them back to the descr_names file (I hadn't deleted them from either of the other ones), but I am still getting the same issue. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[blodhemn]

I meant, changing the character names, not faction names, btw.

[macigaglio1]

I just added names in the files, following the above isctructions..but it didn't work properly. So I guess I have to make all the work using the excel way...even if I add a single name on the 2(3) "names" files...damn..

[Jurand of Cracow]

No Excel is needed, just use Notepad++ (don't use any program that leaves something additional behind).
You must delete the related .bin file for the changes to appear in the game.

[KingofCrows]

I'm having difficulty with replacing the names found in the Total Vanilla Beyond mod with the ones from this project. I've replaced the names found in the names, descr_names, campaign_script, and descr_strat files but nothing seems to work. No matter what I try I keep getting kicked back to the menu when I try to start a new campaign.
Please help me, this is very infuriating
https://files.catbox.moe/19w8my.txt

https://files.catbox.moe/h7v64e.txt

descr_names.txtdescr_strat.txt