Dynamic Names on the Scoreboard?

Charles Martel

Charles Martel

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Is there a way to make civs' dynamic names appear on the scoreboard in the main screen? I know that some of the names may be too long for that, but in that case I would shorten them by editing the Civ4GameText_....xml files.
 
"Caliphate of Spain", "Viking Union", "Third Reich" style? I don't think that's possible. Even if it was, wouldn't some names take too much space? Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for example. Wouldn't it be unpractical?
 
My favourite is still "Portuguese Continuing Revolutionary Process". Say goodbye to that part of the screen if the scoreboard has dynamic names!
 
Actually, I want to show which leader's "time" you won in. But dynamic name scoring would be awesome as well,.
 
Rhye said:
sure you can. In Screens\CvMainInterface.py, replace around line 2990 the occurances of getCivilizationShortDescription(0) with getCivilizationDescription(0)
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Have totally done this now. It is awesome.

Thanks Rhye! :D
 
Panopticon said:
My favourite is still "Portuguese Continuing Revolutionary Process". Say goodbye to that part of the screen if the scoreboard has dynamic names!
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Actually it doesn't look that bad:

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Cethegus said:
wouldn't some names take too much space? Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for example. Wouldn't it be unpractical?
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Well, the longest names can be easily changed to something shorter: 'USSR', 'CCCP', or 'Soviet Union'; 'PREC' (Processo Revolucionário Em Curso) or 'People's Republic of Portugal', etc.

Rhye said:
sure you can. In Screens\CvMainInterface.py, replace around line 2990 the occurances of getCivilizationShortDescription(0) with getCivilizationDescription(0)
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Thank you very much, Rhye. That's very cool.
 
You're right, it doesn't look that bad... at least on paper.

I'll have to try it out myself and tell you how I like it.
 
Does this work on all patches?
 
Welcome back, Rhye :)
We have already started to worry where are you.
So what are the plans, what are you working currently on?
 
dragodon64 said:
How do you edit a python file? I'm using notepad, but but it can only save as a .txt file, not a .py file.
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just use "all files" as a file format and not "*.txt"
 
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