Video guide: how to add your own characters/dynasties in the game

[PdoxLP]

I made a video guide on how to add your own dynasty and characters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgH9SnVphc

It could have been a little shorter but I think it explains it pretty well.

 

[tau0011]

This should be pretty helpful

 

[ghengilhar]

I made a video guide on how to add your own dynasty and characters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgH9SnVphc

It could have been a little shorter but I think it explains it pretty well.

Awesome, this save me trying to work this out myself

 

[Tilarium]

Nice tutorial! I don't plan to add any people soon, but it's nice to know how simple it is. Basing it on that tutorial and looking at some of the other files, the game seems really simple to mod. This is good!

 

[Tivish]

only problem for me is to find out how i can set a special coa for my new dynastie

 

[themrwho]

only problem for me is to find out how i can set a special coa for my new dynastie

You need to have the 'code' for CoA then add it to your dynasty in dynasties such as the example below. That code "0 2 0 13 0 7 0" gives you something similar to English 3 lions. The way I picked that particular CoA is I saw it on one of the courtiers, saved the game, found that guy in the save game, found his dynasty, and extracted code from his Dynasty definition (still in the savegame file).

	8128133=
	{
		name="St Brigit"
		coat_of_arms=
		{
			data=
			{
0 2 0 13 0 7 0 			}
			religion_group="christian"
		}
	}

 

[Serkanner]

Nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing

 

[Murphy9926]

How do you make so your character has a dynasty or family? When i star to play hes listed as lowborn and can only marry in a way that makes all offspring of the mothers dynasty...

Edit
My mistake missed a zero

 

[metalinvader665]

Thanks for this tutorial, but I ran into an odd problem for me.

Random dynasties are listed as "Lowborn" for me when I try and play as them. For instance, when I try to play as the King of France, it says "Lowborn" under his name, but the Holy Roman Emperor still has his dynasty name. The character I modded in is also listed as "Lowborn." So my question is, what exactly am I doing wrong here? Is the range I inserted a few new dynasty names into (3555555-3555560) or cause some sort of error? For the character, I merely copy-pasted another one and changed the appropriate fields, so I don't see anything wrong there.

I'm sorry if I should start my own thread for this issue, but this seemed like a good place to post this. I honestly am not sure why the game is doing this, I could have sworn that I followed everything correctly.

 

[themrwho]

Thanks for this tutorial, but I ran into an odd problem for me.

Random dynasties are listed as "Lowborn" for me when I try and play as them. For instance, when I try to play as the King of France, it says "Lowborn" under his name, but the Holy Roman Emperor still has his dynasty name. The character I modded in is also listed as "Lowborn." So my question is, what exactly am I doing wrong here? Is the range I inserted a few new dynasty names into (3555555-3555560) or cause some sort of error? For the character, I merely copy-pasted another one and changed the appropriate fields, so I don't see anything wrong there.

I'm sorry if I should start my own thread for this issue, but this seemed like a good place to post this. I honestly am not sure why the game is doing this, I could have sworn that I followed everything correctly.

Not sure what you are doing wrong exactly, you could try the files I've posted here as they do work as noble (and not lowborn), and edit it for your liking.

 

[PdoxLP]

Could you upload the relevant files or post what you did in the thread? It might be easier to check what's wrong that way.

 

[AvengerDr]

I hade the same problem. There was another mod with a conflicting dynasties.txt. Apparently only the first one is loaded and the others are ignored. Merging or deleting one will make it work.

 

[Arthoc]

I have a problem where all my save games with the new character can't be loaded instead when I try to select them the game crashes. Anybody know why that would happen?

 

[ssslee73]

Thanks for the tutorial

Just one question, Is there a way to set a created character to your court or as your chancellor etc.?

 

[unmerged(98731)]

Is there a text version of this tutorial?

 

[Zednix]

Is there a text version of this tutorial?

I would love this. I couldn't get this to work with the video.

 

[Sproons]

How can I make a new character appear as a courtier in a specific province rather than having a landed title?

 

[unmerged(133356)]

Make the ruler of one of the holdings in that provice the character's employer/host?

 

[Diemaco]

You need to have the 'code' for CoA then add it to your dynasty in dynasties such as the example below. That code "0 2 0 13 0 7 0" gives you something similar to English 3 lions. The way I picked that particular CoA is I saw it on one of the courtiers, saved the game, found that guy in the save game, found his dynasty, and extracted code from his Dynasty definition (still in the savegame file).

	8128133=
	{
		name="St Brigit"
		coat_of_arms=
		{
			data=
			{
0 2 0 13 0 7 0 			}
			religion_group="christian"
		}
	}

How do you find someone in a savegame file?

 

[Tilarium]

Not to diminish the tutorial, it's really good, but the problem I have with it is that it's a video. It's easier for me to follow the steps when it's typed out. So what I'm wondering is if anyone has a link for a text version guide for adding my own dynasty in.