Modding - Quick questions

[richvh]

That is not how scopes work, the RHS of a who = for opinion modifiers needs to be ROOT, FROM, PREV or an event target. So what you want to do is something like:

any_plot_backer = {
    ROOT = {
        opinion = {  
            modifier = opinion_rebellove
            who = PREV
            months = 12
        }
    }
}

Also opinion modifiers do not take any value other than opinion = int, as you are selecting who to apply the opinion modifier to.
Your modifier should be:

opinion_rebellove = {
    opinion = 35
}

any_plot_backer = {
   reverse_opinion = {
      who = ROOT
...

is simpler and achieves the same result.

 

[Amalamanhado]

In my personal modification of the HIP mod I was trying to place the Islamic sects as Sunni heresies, just putting parent = sunni and altering the icons worked for most of them but not for the the Isma'ilis and Qarmatians, no matter what I do they still appear as another branch and its heresy, do any of you know if I should change anything else to get what I want.

 

[richvh]

In my personal modification of the HIP mod I was trying to place the Islamic sects as Sunni heresies, just putting parent = sunni and altering the icons worked for most of them but not for the the Isma'ilis and Qarmatians, no matter what I do they still appear as another branch and its heresy, do any of you know if I should change anything else to get what I want.

Have you tried asking in the HIP sub-forum?

 

[Dryhad]

Did dukes_called_kings recently get disabled for Merchant Republics? I'm not sure when precisely the change happened but I noticed an independent Merchant Republic with a dukes_called_kings culture using the duke-level titles and further investigation confirms that it wasn't just a one-off. Did the dukes_called_kings flag in governments.txt sneakily change from being default yes to default no?

 

[jursamaj]

But events on_chronicle_start only fire for the olayer though. He'd need to take that into account when scripting the event.

Since it's a unique building, I assume it's intended for a specific province (like the Theodosian Walls), so scoping to the province isn't a problem.

 

[Skyllio]

Not sure if anyone knows this but anyone know why the coat of arms doesn't want to show up on my shields right? right now every nation that uses that model has the same colour on the shield. It works ok on other culture gfx types.

 

[SinStar87]

born_in_the_purple is a hard coded trait, referenced in the executable, and defined in 02_traits.txt.

Yep, seems dlc need dlc relate traits or it crashes, WoL needs lifestyles or it crashes, Conclave needs childhood traits or crash. Even if they aren't referenced anywhere, without them existing, it crashes. Lot's of crashes testing to get that figured out.

 

[Birzor]

So, I've added a few traits to my mod, but I have also modified the Zealous trait, even by modifying it's icon. My idea was to override the vanilla trait, but for some reason now I have 2 different Zealous traits, with the same picture (my version, not the vanilla icon) but different modifiers. I thought that adding the localisation, trait and the gfx would override the vanilla version... Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[theStormWeaver]

@Birzor: It only overrides the trait if you override the entire file it's found in.

 

[Birzor]

@Birzor: It only overrides the trait if you override the entire file it's found in.

So I should override like all the traits by adding the vanilla file to my mod and adding my traits into it?

 

[SinStar87]

So I should override like all the traits by adding the vanilla file to my mod and adding my traits into it?

Yea, copy common/traits folder to your mod. It'll override all vanilla traits and use the ones in your mod, then just edit the traits you want.

This line in the .mod will make sure it does.
replace_path = "common/traits"

 

[performer]

Hi, I tried to play around with the chronicle ... but it seems as if I am doing something wrong here:

                chronicle = {
                      entry = CHRONICLE_A_NEW_RIVAL
                      portrait = [Root.GetID]
                }

Unfortunately, no chronicle entry is made inside the chronicle (I defined the new text CHRONICLE_A_NEW_RIVAL in the loc. files ...). What am I doing wrong? Has anybody tried to use the chronicle command?

 

[jursamaj]

Yea, copy common/traits folder to your mod. It'll override all vanilla traits and use the ones in your mod, then just edit the traits you want.

This line in the .mod will make sure it does.
replace_path = "common/traits"

*Only* use replace_path if you want to ignore *every* vanilla file in that folder (whether your modifying the file or not). If you are only changing a few files while leaving others alone, just copy & edit the specific files.

 

[SinStar87]

*Only* use replace_path if you want to ignore *every* vanilla file in that folder (whether your modifying the file or not). If you are only changing a few files while leaving others alone, just copy & edit the specific files.

Which is why I said copy them over, if you have them in your mod then you have no need for vanilla's and replace_path makes sure that vanilla's are ignored.

 

[Nornin]

Which is why I said copy them over, if you have them in your mod then you have no need for vanilla's and replace_path makes sure that vanilla's are ignored.

But if he only want to change one trait then isn't it unnecessary to replace ALL the traits files?

 

[theStormWeaver]

But if he only want to change one trait then isn't it unnecessary to replace ALL the traits files?

Exactly, there are several traits files. It would be silly to force yourself to maintain them all when you only need to work with the first one.

 

[SinStar87]

Exactly, there are several traits files. It would be silly to force yourself to maintain them all when you only need to work with the first one.

It's 3 files, and they aren't divided in any real efficient fashion, to edit one specific trait you have to have, what, atleast a dozen other traits in the same file just so they are presented in game no matter what. At that point is it really that big an effort to copy over another 2 small text files? Replace path is just some extra security to ensure it's the mod traits that get loaded.

Heck, if like just about everything else in vanilla, the traits files were all combined,(anyone know why exactly they aren't?) this wouldn't even be an argument.

 

[theStormWeaver]

Why would you create more work for yourself for no gain?

 

[SinStar87]

Why would you create more work for yourself for no gain?

Right, and all the parts about ensuring that the mod's trait is the one loaded, because only the mod's traits will be loaded, in response to a question of how to do exactly that isn't gain? If your time is so important that selecting 3 files instead of just one is too much effort to do that, then don't do it.

 

[SinStar87]

Well to be entirely clear, I know how to setup the events and on actions, I was hoping to avoid using events to place them by using the normal method of province history. But when I've tried that the buildings weren't built properly and none of the error checking methods available(the error logs and Validator) have come up with anything, so I posted here to see if anyone knows of more reasons why the history would be ignored like that, which seems no one does.

I set it up through title histories, works just fine. Still no idea why the province history didn't work but my issue is resolved.