Era-Specific Flags

[WartyX]

After trawling through the forums and attempting to use the awkward search function, I decided that the best way to get my answer would be to ask.

I want to get a Civilization's flag to change to a particular flag at the start of each new Era. Is this possible, and how would I do this?

Specifically I want to switch to the US Betsy Ross flag when the English colonies enter the Revolution Era in CIV4 Colonization (it appears to use pretty much the same system for typical era advances in BTS, so I assumed I may get a better response here).

Because it is the same system, I assumed I could also do Era flag changes for BTS English (Act of Union for the Industrial Era and all that).

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[The_J]

Welcome to CFC .

I don't think it's doable in an easy way, would need some programming skills.
As far as i know, CommunityCivV has such a feature.

[tchristensen]

I wonder if you could approach the situation from a different direction. Is it possible to evolve from one civilization to another? Not sure if it is, but if so you could replicate cultures at different time periods and evolve from one to the other, then receive a new flag, new UU, new UB, that sort of thing?

Washington --> Lincoln --> FDR --> Kennedy --> X

[The_J]

Needs only a few changes in the SDK (or tons in python) to achieve leader or civ cycling.

I think, the moongose mod and community civ5 have such features.

[mechaerik]

What exactly do the getTag and setTag functions do in python? I assumed it changed the artdefines tag, but after some testing, it doesnt seem to do that.

[The_J]

That works in general...temporary.
Saibotlieh and i myself have already tried that for buildings and units, that works temporary, but can have unexpected side effects.

I guess it could also be used here, but not sure, because with python you can't force the engine to a refresh, which would sometimes be needed.
Why, what have you done exactly?

[mechaerik]

I was doing some more meddling with dynamic civ names.

Basically, I was trying to make the civ's short description and adjective change according to era (England becomes Britain, Rome becomes Italy, Khmer becomes Cambodia, and Persia becomes Iran). I managed to get that working and was thinking about getting the flag to change as well.

[The_J]

Then give it a try .

I guess there are 3 things to modify imho:
a) After onTechAcquired in the CvEventManager, you should have to apply what you've thought about, changing the artdefine tag of the civilizations. Would need tons of more entries in the artdefines, i guess.
b) That has also to be done after a reload
c) For the flag in the GUI, you probably have to modify somethign in CvMainInterface.py.

That's quite a bit of a task, because it needs 32 (how many civs are there?) * 6 eras tags at all, and either you have to assign everything by hand, or you have to develop a good system, like naming the new tags directly after the civs + era integer number, so that you can get them automatically.

[mechaerik]

Well, for A I was actually going to link it to this:

Spoiler:

PHP Code:

        if( playerEra > 3 ) :
            if( sEngland in orgAdj ) :
                curShort =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_ENGLAND_SHRT", ())#Britain
                curAdj =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_ENGLAND_ADJ", ())#British
            elif( sKhmer in orgAdj ) :
                curShort =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_KHMER_SHRT", ())#Cambodia
                curAdj =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_KHMER_ADJ", ())#Cambodian
            elif( sPersia in orgAdj ) :
                curShort =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_PERSIA_SHRT", ())#Iran
                curAdj =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_PERSIA_ADJ", ())#Iranian
            elif( sRome in orgAdj and not sHolyRome in orgAdj) :
                curShort =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_ROME_SHRT", ())#Italy
                curAdj =  localText.getText("TXT_KEY_DCN_MODERN_ROME_ADJ", ())#Italian
            else :
                curShort = orgShort
                curAdj   = orgAdj
        else :
            curShort = orgShort
            curAdj   = orgAdj 


Which is how I convert the ShortDesc and Adj to the modern names. I was planning on simply adding it into there.

B) I think it does, but not entirely sure.

C) Don't know how to do that or even how to begin.

[The_J]

a) that looks okay, but could probably be more automatised, if the TXT_KEYs were made for it.
e.g. TXT_KEY + CivilizationType + Era could work relativly good, but i guess it's more work to rename the keys than to do that.

b) mmhh...depends on where it is attached .

c) Me too, no idea, haven't tried something like that myself yet .

[mechaerik]

Well, its attached to a function that is called whenever the player switches civics (apparently. It also appears to happen whenever a city is founded, but only sometimes. And its not called when the State Religion is changed ).

[Thomas SG]

Originally Posted by mechaerik

I was doing some more meddling with dynamic civ names.

Basically, I was trying to make the civ's short description and adjective change according to era (England becomes Britain, Rome becomes Italy, Khmer becomes Cambodia, and Persia becomes Iran). I managed to get that working and was thinking about getting the flag to change as well.

A link for you to Dynamic Civ Names, Dynamic Civ Nation and Dynamic Civ Leader.

But to isolate it may be hard. But if you want to try. Okay. Or build your mod upon CCV. That may be easier...

[mechaerik]

I'll try and isolate the dynamic flag.


Shouldn't be too hard.
^famous last words.

[Thomas SG]

Originally Posted by mechaerik

I'll try and isolate the dynamic flag.


Shouldn't be too hard.
^famous last words.

You have mail.

[TheLopez]

Flags changing on era triggers? I think Aussie and I tried this years ago and weren't able to do it. I might give it another go at it once I get BtS...

[TheLopez]

Here is a WIP that I did a while back... it might help:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downlo...o=file&id=2145

[The Capo]

Originally Posted by Thomas SG

You have mail.

Thomas, please PM me when you get a chance man.

[JoeyB98]

Sorry to necromance, but did anyone ever find a solution for this?