Changing Leader Heads

[roywashington]

I have NEVER attempted to change leader heads, but for the Civ 3: PTW scenario I am doing, I would like to try it. So, can someone please help me? How do I change it?

[Gramphos]

You need to edit the pediaicons.txt for the scenario there are a bunsh of referenses for leaderhead files in the beginning of the file. Just change the once corresponding to the civilisations you edit.

[roywashington]

OK, so I just edit all the refrences to the leader heads.

in the editor, the first civ I made was re-named from Germany. so do I change the RACE_GERMANY to RACE_ARDAN for example, to?

And for the advisors, do I have to change the art\advisors\BS_all.pcx to get the new leader head or can I leave that?

A new leader head I have says its a .rar will that work or is it .pcx only? Will any image file type work?

[Gramphos]

if you change RACE_GERMANY to RACE_ARDAN
You would have to add
#RACE_ARDAN
art\leaderheads\Filename.pcx
art\advisors\Filename.pcx

to the #START LEADER/RACE ART section of pediaicons.txt (which you should make a version of in your scenario directory)
(The German files are
#RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS.pcx
art\advisors\BS_all.pcx)

Then you should add sometihn instead of
#HAPPY_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_HAP.pcx

#SHAPP_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_SHAP.pcx

#LKISS_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_KIS.pcx

#SKISS_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_SKIS.pcx

#ANGRY_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_ANG.pcx

#ILOVE_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_CULT.pcx

#LOVED_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_CULTB.pcx

#LHURT_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_CONQ_L.pcx

#HURTN_RACE_GERMANS
art\leaderheads\BS_CONQ.pcx


Of course you don't have to replace all the files, but you would at least have to have a valid entry for the PEDIA KEY you select for your civ.

And to change the aniamtion you simply edit the rules

[roywashington]

Oh! Okay! I think I understand it now!

I'll go test out my skill and see what probs I run into.

[roywashington]

ok, I've done evrything but the animation. How do I edit the rules to get it to switch from Bismarc to the custom one I have?

[Gramphos]

Isn't there four fields in the bottom left corner of the civilization tab, one for each era? (I'm running Linux right now, so I can't start the editor.)

[roywashington]

Oh yeah! The editor! Duh! I forgot all about the editor! I was looking for a .txt Been so used to going through the crazy things the last 2 days!


Thanks!

I'll go make sure I got everything working right!

[roywashington]

My downloaded leader heads are working right!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Out of curiosity, what kind of scenario are you working on?

[roywashington]

Well, actually, I'm kinda building 2.

I built a "test" scenario to make sure I could do those things right.

And then, I am making an ACTUAL scenario I will upload and post here if you guys would like, of The Lord of the Rings.

I think it will be quite good!