Modding quick questions and answers!

[cray935]

I'm trying to get the coat of arms for the Danelaw to switch based on character religion just like England does for culture. In testing it doesn't automatically switch but will switch before the title is created if you convert to Christianity and then create k_danelaw. It just then won't switch back and forth if you reconvert to Asatru / Christianity. It also works when calling the event coa.1 manually.

These are my triggers:

coa_switch_to_asatru_trigger = {
    has_religion = religion:germanic_religion
}
coa_switch_to_christian_trigger = {
    has_religion = religion:christianity_religion
}

This is the event code:

coa.1 = {
    type = character_event
    hidden = yes
    trigger = {
        is_ruler = yes
    }
    immediate = {
        trigger_event = coa.10 # England
        trigger_event = coa.11 # Normans, Welsh, Saxons
        trigger_event = coa.12 # Danelaw
    }
}

...

coa.12 = {
    type = character_event
    hidden = yes
    trigger = {
        any_held_title = { this = title:k_danelaw }
    }
    immediate = {
        if = {
            limit = { coa_switch_to_asatru_trigger = yes }
            title:k_danelaw = { set_coa = k_danelaw } # reset
        }
       
        if = {
            limit = { coa_switch_to_christian_trigger = yes }
            title:k_danelaw = { set_coa = k_danelaw_christian }
        }
    }
}

I then added coa.1 to the religion_on_actions file:

on_character_faith_change = {
    effect = {
        check_for_equal_doctrine_effect = yes
    }
    events = {
        faith_conversion.0002 # Remove obsolete modifiers
        faith_conversion.0004 # Convert Theocracies
        faith_conversion.0005 # Update marriage opinions
        great_holy_war.0025 # Replace Recipient for ongoing GHW
        great_holy_war.0029 # Beneficiary converted, remove and replace.
        great_holy_war.0059 # Clear Crusader traits on conversion.
        great_holy_war.0084 # Replace fallback ghw recipient
        great_holy_war.0085 # Remove pledged vassals upon conversion of their liege.
        false_conversion.0001    # Flag possible false conversions.
        war_event.3100        # Handles invalidation of religious wars
        coa.1 # check if title Coat of Arms should change.
    }
}

I don't see anything in error.log about this. Anyone able to help debug?

I am more familiar with stellaris, but maybe it is valid here. The check is a trigger right ? so it needs to be in trigger and not in effect (?)

 

[dklfhgkjdgkulzr]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'add the regular no_legwear gene to the armor.' My thought is that you might need to create a custom no_legwear rule, as you suggested (or completely overwrite the default 01_legwear.txt file, but that's obviously not as desirable).

I was thinking of adding
mode = add
gene = legwear
template = no_legwear
value = 0

from the no_legwear section directly into the armor as an additional dna modifier like this

byzantine_war = {
dna_modifiers = {
accessory = {
mode = add
gene = clothes
template = byzantine_war_nobility_clothes
range = { 0 1 } # For the randomness to work correctly
}
dna_modifiers = {
accessory = {
mode = add
gene = legwear
template = no_legwear
value = 0
}
morph = {
mode = modify_multiply
gene = gene_bs_bust
value = 1.0
template = bust_clothes
}
morph = {
mode = modify_multiply
gene = gene_bs_body_shape
value = 1.0
template = body_shape_average_clothed
}
}
weight = {
base = 0
modifier = {
add = 100
portrait_wear_armor_trigger = yes
portrait_byzantine_clothing_trigger = yes
}
}
}



SRY i suck at formatting i just started my modding career 2 days ago XD

 

[SauronGorthaur]

To answer my own question from yesterday, you can modify what animation a portrait in an event uses depending on circumstances. The line to do so is triggered_animation.

To use my example:

triggered_animation = {
    trigger = {
        scope:serbian_representative = {
            has_culture = culture:serbian
        }
    }
    animation = beg
}
triggered_animation = {
    trigger = {
        scope:serbian_representative = {
            is_councillor_of = scope:scoped_ruler
        }
    }
    animation = personality_rational
}

The way it works is similar to first_valid for variable descriptions. If a trigger for a given triggered animation is not met, the event will go to the next triggered animation and continue to do so until a triggered animation's conditions are met, at which point it picks that one and ignores the rest. So put your preferred animation on top and the fallback options below.

 

[Question]

Im trying to change the convert culture action such that the AI will only convert counties if one of the following is true :

-they own the county directly

-the county holder is a direct vassal of the councillor's liege AND it is the vassal's capital county

How do you do the trigger for this?

I tried this, but it does not work (the AI always refuses to convert culture) :

if = {
            # If not holder, only convert the capitals of direct vassals
            limit = {
                NOR = {
                    scope:county.holder = scope:councillor_liege #checks if the liege owns it directly
                 
                    scope:county.holder = {
                        is_vassal_of = scope:councillor_liege #checks if the holder is a direct vassal of the liege
                    }

                    scope:county.holder.capital_county = scope:county # checks if the holder's capital_county is scope:county
                }
            }     
            multiply = 0
        }

Edit : I can confirm that this doesnt work at least :

scope:county.holder = {
                        is_vassal_of = scope:councillor_liege #checks if the holder is a direct vassal of the liege
                    }

Its supposed to check if the county.holder is a vassal of councillor_liege, but its not doing that. I dont understand, whats wrong with it?

Edit 2 : I think scope:county doesnt work in ai_will_do. Going to try moving it to potential_county instead.

 

[虚无行者]

What exactly is wrong with my code? Why wasn't this principality created?

What is wrong with this code, please?

The titles file allows you to set the development degree, and if there is an error here, the game will cause those provinces to have a development degree of 0 and the wrong culture. Due to this feature of the game, I found an error in the...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

 

[sineme]

Have you looked in the error.log in .../Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/logs? Also in _council_tasks.info, ai_will_do is not listed, so it probably doesn't exist there. I'd definitely put it in potential_county

potential_county = {
    scope:county = {
        NOT = { culture = scope:councillor_liege.culture }
    }
    trigger_if = {
        limit = {
            scope:councillor_liege = { is_ai = yes }
        }
        scope:county = {
            OR = {
                holder = scope:councillor_liege
                holder = {
                    is_vassal_of = scope:councillor_liege
                    capital_county = scope:county
                }
            }
        }
        OR = {...
        }
        OR = {...
        }
    }
}

Note: as you were only talking about limiting the AI, the code above would'nt limit a player

 

[dklfhgkjdgkulzr]

Quick question regarding localization: I managed to get my own armor into the game but can't get the game to use the regular localization path so i can set different names for the male and female version of the armor.
These are the regular paths i've seen the game use for localization:

PORTRAIT_MODIFIER_custom_clothes_male_clothes_secular_modded_myarmor_01:1 "Myarmor Male"
PORTRAIT_MODIFIER_custom_clothes_female_clothes_secular_modded_myarmor_01:1 "Myarmor female"

but for whatever reason the path my armor gets its localization from is instead.

PORTRAIT_MODIFIER_custom_clothes_modded_myarmor:1 "Myarmor Male"
Do you have any idea what i didn't set up correctly that causes this?

 

[Thomas_Oak]

I am trying to create a letter event to trigger if there is a high prowess prisoner in my dungeons, to use as a cheap source of knights. I want to limit it to adults and male only. I mistakenly thought I could use the following script, which is wrong. I am struggling to think of an elegant way of doing it. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

TOMSprisoner.0100 = {
    hidden = yes
    
    trigger = {
        is_at_war = no
        is_ai = no
        any_prisoner = {
            is_female = no
            age >= 18
            age <= 45
            prowess >= 14
        }
    }
    immediate = {
        ordered_prisoner = {
            is_female = no
            age >= 18
            age <= 45
            prowess >= 14
            save_scope_as = prisoner_knight
            
            order_by = {
                value = 5
                add = prowess
            }
        }

 

[SauronGorthaur]

I am trying to create a letter event to trigger if there is a high prowess prisoner in my dungeons, to use as a cheap source of knights. I want to limit it to adults and male only. I mistakenly thought I could use the following script, which is wrong. I am struggling to think of an elegant way of doing it. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

TOMSprisoner.0100 = {
    hidden = yes
  
    trigger = {
        is_at_war = no
        is_ai = no
        any_prisoner = {
            is_female = no
            age >= 18
            age <= 45
            prowess >= 14
        }
    }

First of all, if you're just looking for adults, is_adult = yes would achieve that by itself. Moving on, I think your code for the immediate area should look like this:

immediate = {
    ordered_prisoner = {
        limit = {
            is_female = no
            age >= 18
            age <= 45
            prowess >= 14
        }
        order_by = prowess
        if = {
            limit = {
                NOT = { exists = scope:prisoner_knight }
            }
            save_scope_as = prisoner_knight
        }
    }
}

 

[Thomas_Oak]

Thanks Sauron. I used the ages to avoid selecting elderly people, but I guess with the decaying prowess with increased age it might work just as well.

 

[Yazman]

I created some new sea provinces. I defined them as sea_zones in default.map.

And for some reason my new sea has the lake color, and not the sea color like I want it to have. I really need to fix this but can't figure out how. Help!

 

[Anyasia]

Is there any way to check climatic data for a given province? I want to condition my event background so it only uses an outdoor option if it's not winter.

My initial thought was to cross-reference the date with the geographical_region trigger (so outdoor event backgrounds could still fire for regions that don't get winter), but realizing I absolutely lack the knowledge to know whether that's the case for many regions on the map, I did some digging and found map_data/climate.txt, which lists which provinces have mild, normal, or extreme winters. Brilliant, except that these don't seem to be referenced from anywhere in script, so I have no idea how to use them, or even if they can be used.

Fallback is to check against all the provinces in map_data/climate.txt, but that sounds kind of insane.

 

[Tatterhood]

Thanks Sauron. I used the ages to avoid selecting elderly people, but I guess with the decaying prowess with increased age it might work just as well.

Incidentally you could use can_be_combatant_based_on_gender_trigger = { ARMY_OWNER = root } instead of the is_female check if you want it to work better for non-male-dominated faiths.

 

[Kingsaver]

In vanilla game files I regularly find text which is capitalized. I first thought it had to do with localization, but that is not always the case. Example:
<$INTERCOURSE_CHARACTER$ > in the triggered effects folder ) Does anyone know what these parts of files signify/do?

 

[Anyasia]

In vanilla game files I regularly find text which is capitalized. I first thought it had to do with localization, but that is not always the case. Example:
<$INTERCOURSE_CHARACTER$ > in the triggered effects folder ) Does anyone know what these parts of files signify/do?

The strings surrounded by dollar signs like that are variables that are passed into the effect. For example, that one is called as such:

intercourse_with_character_effect = {
    INTERCOURSE_CHARACTER = scope:some_character
}

(Though for what it's worth, that particular effect is only used a few times in the whole game, and I'm not sure what it's purpose is; it looks like it's left over test code that's been replaced with had_sex_with_effect.)

These contrast with effects that don't take variables, which are usually just called as some_simple_effect = yes.

 

[Anyasia]

Is there any way to check climatic data for a given province? I want to condition my event background so it only uses an outdoor option if it's not winter.

My initial thought was to cross-reference the date with the geographical_region trigger (so outdoor event backgrounds could still fire for regions that don't get winter), but realizing I absolutely lack the knowledge to know whether that's the case for many regions on the map, I did some digging and found map_data/climate.txt, which lists which provinces have mild, normal, or extreme winters. Brilliant, except that these don't seem to be referenced from anywhere in script, so I have no idea how to use them, or even if they can be used.

Fallback is to check against all the provinces in map_data/climate.txt, but that sounds kind of insane.

The way I ended up solving this is by creating custom regions based on the data in map_data/climate.txt, which I then checked against time_of_year. Unfortunately, it seems like the only way to make custom regions is to overwrite the vanilla regions file, but I doubt many people are doing this anyway, so my hope is collisions with other mods should be rare, and it beats having to check each province ID individually.

 

[SauronGorthaur]

Wait, is there no way to add an opinion modifier for same culture group to a trait? Some traits have same_culture_opinion, but same_culture_group_opinion does nothing. In CKII you could even add opinions for specific cultures and culture groups, so unless I'm missing something, this is extremely lame...

 

[Yazman]

Update RE: my question about sea water colors: I just had to edit gfx/map/water/watercolor_rgb_waterspec_a.dds! Thanks to UlfDerDritte from the CK3 discord.

 

[Abcunbekannt75]

Hello,
i have a question. Where is the gender of a character defined ? (Ionly found the type=male/female in the _dna file or the _bookmark file) I set the type of my custom character on both to type = female, but when i start a game the character is male. Can y help me ?

 

[Anyasia]

Hello,
i have a question. Where is the gender of a character defined ? (Ionly found the type=male/female in the _dna file or the _bookmark file) I set the type of my custom character on both to type = female, but when i start a game the character is male. Can y help me ?

For historical characters (i.e., characters that exist at game start), gender is defined in their character entry in history/characters. For example, Duchess Matilda of Tuscany is defined as female in history/characters/italian.txt:—

7757 = {
    name = "Matilda" # Matilda di Canossa, Duchess of Toscana, MVP
    dna = 7757_duchess_matilda
    female = yes

    # …
}

For characters created on-the-fly, you can determine gender in create_character using a number of different parameters:—

create_character = {
    # Choose one
    gender = female
    gender = character:7757 # Will have the same gender as the specified character
    opposite_gender = character:7757 # …or the opposite gender of the specified character
    gender_female_chance = 50 # or a script value between 0 and 100

    # …
}