How can you create your own civ?

[me_irate]

I was wondering about creating the babalonians, i always played with them in civ 2 and i was wondering if it was possible to play with them in ctp2. Would you be able to select them from the civ list, or would you need to place them in map editor simular to a scenario?

[Martin Gühmann]

To add a civ you need to modify two files:

..\ctp2_data\default\civilisation.txt
..\ctp2_data\english\civ_str.txt

Add to civelisation.txt:

BABYLONIAN	#43	
	{	
	CIV_LEADER_NAME BABYLONIAN_LEADERM_NAME	
	CIV_LEADER_NAME_FEMALE BABYLONIAN_LEADERF_NAME	
	CIV_PERSONALITY_MALE "PERSONALITY_STALIN"
	CIV_PERSONALITY_FEMALE "PERSONALITY_MEDICI"
	CIV_PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_CLERIC
	CIV_COUNTRY BABYLONIAN_COUNTRY_NAME	
	CIV_SINGULAR BABYLONIAN_SINGULAR	
	CIV_PLURAL BABYLONIAN_PLURAL	
	CIV_EMISSARY_PHOTO	BABYLONIAN_DIPLOMAT_PHOTO	
    CIV_PARCHMENT 27	
	CIV_CITY_STYLE 1	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_1 CITY_IS_CAPITAL	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_2	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_3	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_4	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_5	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_6	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_7	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_8	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_9	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_10	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_11	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_12	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_13	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_14	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_15	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_16	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_17	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_18	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_19	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_20	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_21	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_22	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_23	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_24	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_25	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_26	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_27	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_28	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_29	
	CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_30	
	}

Now you have to choose a personallity for CIV_PERSONALITY_MALE and CIV_PERSONALITY_FEMALE.

Valid personalities from personalities.txt are:

PERSONALITY_KAHN
PERSONALITY_GHANDI
PERSONALITY_STALIN
PERSONALITY_CEASAR
PERSONALITY_DEGAULLE
PERSONALITY_MEDICI
PERSONALITY_TELLER
PERSONALITY_STRANGELOVE
PERSONALITY_CALLENBACH
PERSONALITY_NADER

Note: first personality is always used for the barbarians and should never be used for normal AI's because it effects what strategies they use.

Now you have to choose a personality description valid descriptions from civ_str,txt are:

PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_BARBARIAN "Barbarisch"
PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_SLAVER "Herrisch"
PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_CLERIC "Fromm"
PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_WAR_MANY "Militant"
PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_WAR_FEW "Aggressiv"
PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_SCI_MANY "Friedlich"
PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_SCI_FEW "Umgänglich"

There is no need to create a diplomatic photo, because this feature wasn't finished before release. But you want to create a parchment for your civ. In this example your Babylonian civ will use the Necaraguan parchment. I you want to take a look on a parchment check Blueo's Alternate Sci-fi Mod. It contains alrady three parchment for Amazone civs.
If you alter the parchment number to 42 you need to create an image called UPDG42.tga 16 bit, no compression, no alpha, dimensions 248x315 pixels (OK you can play with the dimensions a little bit that are only the values of Blueo's parchments.


After that you have to add this to the civ_str.txt:

BABYLONIAN "Nicaraguaner"

BABYLONIAN_LEADERM_NAME "Montezuma II."
BABYLONIAN_LEADERF_NAME "Azzalleh"
BABYLONIAN_COUNTRY_NAME "Nicaragua"
BABYLONIAN_SINGULAR "Nicaraguaner"
BABYLONIAN_PLURAL "Nicaraguaner"

BABYLONIAN_CITY_1 "Managua"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_2 "San Carlos"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_3 "Nueva Guinea"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_4 "Juigalpa"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_5 "Matagalpa"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_6 "La Rosita"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_7 "Rio Blanco"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_8 "Bonanza"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_9 "La Cruz"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_10 "Prinzapolka"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_11 "San Juan del Sur"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_12 "San Juan del Norte"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_13 "Rivas"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_14 "Ocotal"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_15 "Siuna"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_16 "Condega"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_17 "Chinandega"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_18 "Leimus"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_19 "Bocay"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_20 "Potosi"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_21 "Puerto Cabezas"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_22 "Rama"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_23 "Kukalaya"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_24 "Masaya"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_25 "Jinotega"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_26 "Waspam"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_27 "Leimus"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_28 "Teotecacinte"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_29 "Wiwill"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_30 "Granada"

Now you have repleace all Necaraguan city, leader, and contry names by Babylonian ones.

-Martin

[me_irate]

Thanks, i really apreciate the help.

[me_irate]

Can not find end quate for ID palazium

unable to initiate database

those were the two error messages i recieved with the altered civ files

Palazium is # 30 on my list of civ city names. but it has end quotes after it. So i dont know what to do, any suggestions?

[me_irate]

I put at the end of the city name "" two sets of quotes and it gave me a different message cant find babylonians in string database. I dont know what this means, but i can still play the game, just no babylonians.

[me_irate]

I found out a couple things i didn't do i was missing a quote on the civ name first line on civ.str and on civilizion.txt i needed to change the # of civs at the top of the screen now im getting another error message

Missing string id

then unable to initiate database. Im not sure what else could be wrong but thats my new error message.

[me_irate]

here are my two files, maybe you can find an error im missing


BABYLONIAN "BABYLONIAN"

BABYLONIAN_LEADERM_NAME "HAMMURABI"
BABYLONIAN_LEADERF_NAME "Azzalleh"
BABYLONIAN_COUNTRY_NAME "Babylon"
BABYLONIAN_SINGULAR "Babylonia"
BABYLONIAN_PLURAL "Babylonians"

BABYLONIAN_CITY_1 "Babylon"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_2 "Ur"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_3 "Nineva"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_4 "Akkad"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_5 "Ashur"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_6 "Sippar"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_7 "Nippur"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_8 "Erech"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_9 "Opis"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_10 "Sumer"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_11 "Larsa"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_12 "Arbela"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_13 "Susa"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_14 "Harran"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_15 "Thapsacus"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_16 "Ecbbatana"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_17 "Persepolis"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_18 "Pasargadae"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_19 "Carchemish"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_20 "Behistun"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_21 "Sidon"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_22 "Tyre"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_23 "Byblos"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_24 "Arvad"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_25 "Rhagae"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_26 "Damascus"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_27 "Trapezus"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_28 "Megiddo"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_29 "Jerusalem"
BABYLONIAN_CITY_30 "Palazium"


BABYLONIAN #43
{
CIV_LEADER_NAME BABYLONIAN_LEADERM_NAME
CIV_LEADER_NAME_FEMALE BABYLONIAN_LEADERF_NAME
CIV_PERSONALITY_MALE "PERSONALITY_STALIN"
CIV_PERSONALITY_FEMALE "PERSONALITY_MEDICI"
CIV_PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION PERSONALITY_DESCRIPTION_CLERIC
CIV_COUNTRY BABYLONIAN_COUNTRY_NAME
CIV_SINGULAR BABYLONIA_SINGULAR
CIV_PLURAL BABYLONIANS_PLURAL
CIV_EMISSARY_PHOTO NICARAGUAN_DIPLOMAT_PHOTO
CIV_PARCHMENT 27
CIV_CITY_STYLE 1
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_1 CITY_IS_CAPITAL
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_2
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_3
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_4
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_5
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_6
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_7
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_8
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_9
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_10
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_11
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_12
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_13
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_14
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_15
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_16
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_17
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_18
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_19
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_20
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_21
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_22
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_23
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_24
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_25
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_26
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_27
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_28
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_29
CIV_CITY_NAME BABYLONIAN_CITY_30
}

[Immortal Wombat]

Did you put the
####################### line under the last entry in civilisation.txt, the game uses this to find the end of the entry.

[me_irate]

i just did put the # line but it seems to have no effect. The other (origional) files didn't have it, is it something you need after you mod it? Also my newest error message is cant find babylonian_singlur in string data base. then it says expected # of civs not found, then it says cant initiate database. Im at a complete loss, any help will be apreciated.

[Martin Gühmann]

You should take look into the civelisation.txt you will find there these lines at the beginning:

	##    Civilisation.txt	
42	## Number of Civs in list (add as grows)

The unmodded CTP2 contains 42 civelisations. Therefore change the number to 43, because there is a civ more. By the way everything that follows a # in a line is ignored by the game. After this sign a comment follows. Threrefore a line like ############## is only for your eyes.

-Martin

[me_irate]

I have done that also, thanks anyway. Do you know of anything else it could be?

[Immortal Wombat]

Email me the file, and I'll look over it.

[me_irate]

Thanks for the help, that was the prob. I read what i wanted wrong, i thought it wanted the alternate spellings there but they are in the other txt file.

[Martin Gühmann]

I noticed two misstypinigs in your code: In the civelistion.txt there are two line:

quote: CIV_SINGULAR BABYLONIA_SINGULAR CIV_PLURAL BABYLONIANS_PLURAL

They should be:

 CIV_SINGULAR BABYLONIAN_SINGULAR
 CIV_PLURAL BABYLONIAN_PLURAL

These two lines refers to these lines in civ_str.txt:

BABYLONIAN_SINGULAR "Babylonia"
BABYLONIAN_PLURAL "Babylonians"

-Martin