Tutorial: How to add a new leader in the game

[General 666]

Originally Posted by chaos0987654321

hey man uh does that tutorial work for BtS?

NO ,it wouldn`t. This tutorial is not done for Civ4. It`s for Civ3 !

[chaos0987654321]

AW WHAT THE urgh well could you put a link on for that i came here from the modding wiki for away to insert leader heads.....IN BEYOND THE SWORD that seems to be imposible for some reason.....(i thought it was strange how you couldnt add a leader with out a scenario or replacing one)

[General 666]

Originally Posted by chaos0987654321

AW WHAT THE urgh well could you put a link on for that i came here from the modding wiki for away to insert leader heads.....IN BEYOND THE SWORD that seems to be imposible for some reason.....(i thought it was strange how you couldnt add a leader with out a scenario or replacing one)

Here you can find :

Civ4 - Modding Tutorials & Reference
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=177


Civ4 - Graphics Modpacks
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=172


I hope it will help you

Bye
General 666

[John Sinclair]

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HOW TO ADD A LEADER :

1- To add a leader you have two ways :

1-1 : you want just to replace an existing leader, without creating a scenario:
You have to check what is the name of the Firaxis leader, for example I want to change the pictures of Cleopatra with my pictures without changing anything else :I check the name of Cleopatra, it's CL, I rename all my "AA" files by CL.For the civilopedia pictures AAlarge and small it's often the name of the civ which is used e.g. Egypt in our example ...AAlarge becomes Egyptlarge
I replace all the initial CL files with the new ones ... It works ...
( see below chapter 2 for how you do that ... )

Edit : if you want to change the name of the leader in the basic game you have to edit the "Conquests.biq" file with the editor. It's a only-read file so you have first to uncheck the only-read flag ( right click on the file /properties ).. Make a save of the file in order to restore it if you need ..Open the editor and change the name and the others things you want... Be careful it's the main file for the game...


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Hello Gents,

i tried to edit the original leaders of civilisation 3 as you said in this thread.
all at all its all workin, with the graphics and so on, but when it came to the point to edit the name of the Civilisation/Nation and the leaders name i always failed to edit the conquests.biq file.

When i open the file with the editor there is just a kind of mass of confusing symbols like this:

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I really dont know how to solve this.
I would be very pleased if someone could help me

yours, sincerly John S.

[polyphemus]

you need to open the file in the Conquest Editor or the Civ 3 editor that came with the game. It should be located in the same root folder as the game...possibly entitled "Civ3edit.exe" or "Civ3ConquestsEdit.exe"

[John Sinclair]

ah, thank you very much....

i was kind of stupid at first but now its workin

im very happy

sincerly, John Sinclair

[Vladi]

Hello civ fanatics...I have one problem....I ve installed two leaderheads....I use conquest.biz scenario, und I edited some things....I use all technolgoy like in scenario Rise of Rome....but after finishing the last Tech - Medicine, cities changed in modern Eras....all leaderheads changing in diplomacy in modern faces, only two leaderheads who I added no....they are in ancient eras yet...and if I want to contact these two new leaders, the game crash....I ve added many ancient units und really want to enjoy in the game, but this crash...

please Help,....my english is not good, but I hope you understand me....

[Moosezilla]

Suggest you ask in main c&c forum. Don't recall .biz, I think you mean .biq.

[Civinator]

Originally Posted by Vladi

Hello civ fanatics...I have one problem....I ve installed two leaderheads....I use conquest.biz scenario, und I edited some things....I use all technolgoy like in scenario Rise of Rome....but after finishing the last Tech - Medicine, cities changed in modern Eras....all leaderheads changing in diplomacy in modern faces, only two leaderheads who I added no....they are in ancient eras yet...and if I want to contact these two new leaders, the game crash....I ve added many ancient units und really want to enjoy in the game, but this crash...

please Help,....my english is not good, but I hope you understand me....

Vladi, your English isn´t worse than mine -and that means you can do 80.000-views-mods here at CFC with your English.

In short, your problem seems to be, that you also imported the techs and eras of Rise of Rome. RoR techs end with medicine and RoR only has one era. When the last tech of an era is researched, you are in the next era. If all eras are researched, you are in the future (future-tech). So you have to add additional eras with additional techtrees or to replace era 1 of the normal game with the RoR techs and units. For the crashs:They could additionally be triggered by some missing graphics.

Moosezilla´s hint to post your problem in the Civ 3 Creation & Customization main forum is correct. Good luck!