Adding new cultures with different portraits

[PyroAce2]

I've been experimenting with modding in a more active European presence in the late game, but I've run into a bit of a roadblock with some of the hardcoded features of the engine. I have been able to create a new culture group and get it to generate European family and given names, but cannot seem to make it accept my modified portrait files. I've added in the new files in the graphics folder and adjusted the portraits.gfx file in the interface folder and extended both in my mod, but all of the characters continue to use the standard Sengoku japanese portraits. Any thoughts?

Also, is it possible to reverse the order of names to allow first/last naming for the Westerners?

 

[chatnoir17]

I guess you need to make a direct path in the portraits.gfx like texturefile = "mod/your mod name/gfx/characters/japanese_male/japanese_male_clothes.dds"

 

[PyroAce2]

I guess you need to make a direct path in the portraits.gfx like texturefile = "mod/your mod name/gfx/characters/japanese_male/japanese_male_clothes.dds"

Unfortunately, I've actually got it set up that way already. Discovered this issue when messing with trait icons in EU Rome a while back.

 

[chatnoir17]

How about categorizing European into "Asian" in the culture txt?

 

[PyroAce2]

How about categorizing European into "Asian" in the culture txt?

As opposed to giving them their own culture group? I tried that as well without any success. Kind of stumped on this one, because it does not seem to work the same way that Rome did. I wonder if it is completely hardcoded.

 

[chatnoir17]

If it is hardcoded, truely pitty, since your mod idea sounds very interesting.