Female Great People

Female Great People ModComp

This modcomp adds a female version for each of the Great People. These new units don't replace the original units. Instead there is a certain chance that each time a Great Person is born, this person is female. The chance for this is 15 % without the emanzipation civic and 50 % with that civic. Because the Female Great People have the same attributes as the original male ones this modcomp doesn't alter the gameplay in any way, it's just pure eye candy. In order to keep the civilopedia clean, the new units won't appear in it. However, you can see that this modcomp works by checking the original Great People. If there is a new entry 'Replaced by ...' the modcomp works.

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Female Names

Here are the female people I used to name the Great People. If somebody has a person that should be added I'd gladly do so. However, nobody that is still living or is a fictional character (spies are an exection of this rule).

Great Artist


Great Engineer


Great General


Great Merchant


Great Prophet


Great Scientist


Great Spy


Now for the more technical details:

This modcomp is mostly modular. However, there are some files that can't be made modular. These files are three python files (CvEventManager, CvPediaUnit, CvPediaMain) and two xml files (Audio3DScripts and AudioDefines). The changes in the python files can be found by searching for 'saibotlieh', the changes in the xml files can be found near the buttom of the files (lines 22861-23005 and lines 10979-11013). Further there is a sound folder with custom sounds that must be placed direct into the base mod Assets folder.
All files in the zip-file are already put into the necessary folder, unzipping it directly in the Mods folder of BtS should result into a working mod.
The python functions that changes the Great People to female units is written in a way that all Great People that have similiar named female unit counterparts are targets. For example, the existence of the Unit_Female_Scientist makes the Unit_Scientist a target. So, if it is desired to add more Female Great People to this modcomp (for custom Great People) this is possible by just naming the new female units accordingly. For example, if a Female Doctor should be added to this modcomp, that unit should be named Unit_Female_Doctor (if the original unit is named Unit_Doctor that is).

If you are using my Native Amazon modcomp with this modcomp:

- The python files in the Screens folder don't need to be changed.
- Most of the sound files are the same, they can be overriden if asked for.
- The chance of getting Female Great People is 15 % higher for each available Amazons bonus (max. 50 %).

Credits/Thanks

- The_J for his 'Invisible dummy techs' mod that I've modified to fit to my needs.
- God-Emperor for the idea to use the Civilopedia entry for turning the units invisible.
- Ploeporpengal, the Scientist unit is based on his imported Pirates! barmaid.
- Walter Hawkwood, I used his Mercedes Benz model as basis for my Mustang.
- Bakuel, I used some of his textures as base.
- BioWare, the audio files arefrom their game Dragon Age Origins.
- Type-Moon, the Middle Age General is heavily based upon one of their original characters.
- Ploeperpengel's 'female sound animations' was my starting point for my animation sounds.
- Lemon Merchant for contributing some names and for putting them into the right format.
- The_Coyote for teaching me how to shader units & leaderheads
- All the users that gave their feedback to my unit creations.
- All the writers of the tutorial section and helpful people in the forums. Without those, I'd never have learnt how to mod in the first place.

Download link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=14749

Known bugs/errors/potential bugs

- The message about the birth of a great person still says the name of the male unit that got replaced.

- Lemon Merchant found a Golden Age bug. GPs of different gender aren't counted as the same GP, so, for example, a female Scientist and a male Scientist can together start a GA.

I try to extract to the BtS mods folder but it says "The system can't find the path specified."

Sorry, if this is a noob question; I'm not the greatest with computers.

Cool idea.

JustATourist said:

Cool idea.

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Thanks.

SeniorFluffy3 said:

I try to extract to the BtS mods folder but it says "The system can't find the path specified."

Sorry, if this is a noob question; I'm not the greatest with computers.

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Hm, if you have the Beyond the Sword Extension for Civ4, which is necessary for this modcomp to work, you should have this file structure in your Civ4 folder:
The 'Mods' folder is the one where you'll have to put the content of the .zip file.

I guess, so we finally have a female equivalent for all the great persons?



I think of doing the thing here without fake units, but that would lead to some confusion with stored GPs .

The_J said:

I guess, so we finally have a female equivalent for all the great persons?

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Aye, I guess it's official now:

The_J said:

I think of doing the thing here without fake units, but that would lead to some confusion with stored GPs .

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Hm, do you mean by only swapping only the art and not the whole unit? As you might remember, I tried this once we couldn't find a python-only solution.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=346648
I think it would be favorable if there was a way to just exchange the art, but that would need some SDK changes and I don't want to go there because I want to keep the addition of this modcomp as simple as possible. However, if the changes would be made in SDK, the bug that the original male name is displayed in the birth message could be fixed as well I guess. As far as I understand it, this message is triggered before the unit can be changed via python in the CvEventManager file.

Ups, yeah, i remember it vaguely now.

But i'll maybe still somewhen try it myself, because it had partially worked with the buildings for me (i think i said this in the thread), and i'll maybe somewhen have a bit more time and some lust to do it.
I'll probably also fail, but it then will not matter .

I think a certain someone is fan of animes: I can see saber from Fate Stay/Night.

Tachywaxon said:

I think a certain someone is fan of animes: I can see saber from Fate Stay/Night.

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Aye, first I thought about taking Jeanne d’Arc as model for the MiddleAge General, but there is already a Jeanne unit out there. Thus and because I enjoyed Fate/Stay night very much I made a Saber unit.

I recommend using Wikipedia's default name for all great people. The middle names that no one recognizes are just distracting.

DaveMcW said:

I recommend using Wikipedia's default name for all great people. The middle names that no one recognizes are just distracting.

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You might be right, but I thought it would be better to have one middle name too much than one too few. I already removed some of them, especially when the whole name got to long.

I've updated all units to shadered units. They are now included in the download file. Further I've added some names and removed a few.

Bah, more work, i have to update these .

The_J said:

Bah, more work, i have to update these .

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Exactly my thoughts after I've learned how to shader units.

Hi, sorry I readnot above... Some from great peoples are announcemented in upper screen part.
In one case is announcement in top with name of model consistent and in other case not.

It is my problem or you meet with already?

thanks for your work and time

Hrochland

I guess you mean that when a female GP is born, there is still a male name in the birth message, right? I'm aware of the problem, but can't do anything about it because it would need some SDK changes as far as I know.

SaibotLieh said:

I guess you mean that when a female GP is born, there is still a male name in the birth message, right? I'm aware of the problem, but can't do anything about it because it would need some SDK changes as far as I know.

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But sometime is in message area female name too. I will check it now more. Sometime is it right. I send word...

Hroch

hrochland said:

But sometime is in message area female name too.

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That's rather strange.

hrochland said:

I will check it now more. Sometime is it right. I send word...

Hroch

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And that's quite helpful.

Are it generals

Interesting. I guess these were the actual names of the generals, right? Maybe the message for the generals is done differently than the one for the other great persons.