Some Changes

[Nubbet]

I been playing Civ4 for quite some while now, and now i wish to mod! However im probably will not go to the extreme and mod many things all i want to mod is some quicker (i think) things. Hopefully someone will be able to help me .

What i like to Mod
1. Leader's Personality Traits (Changing/Altering them/Creating New Ones)
2. Creating a new leader for an existing Civilization
3. Changing Units/Resources/Tiles/Building/Tech bonuses

And i believe thats about it. I have no experience in Modding so im not too sure on the difficulty on Changing these things, so please bear with me. Also for the Picture on the new leader, i was planning on using the annoymous Pic of a guy's head used on i believe random choice/loading screen.

If theres any Faqs/Guides that explains those please link them to me, or explain them yourselves if you like. Finally question, is BtS and WL done the same as the original (in terms of modding the above).

Thanks in advance for reading and hopefully helping me out.

 

[GustavBjorklund]

Hey Nubbet!

I'm a newbie modder myself, but I can help you with number two. Kael has a fantastic guide on how to create a leader in this thread.

Best of luck!

 

[cool3a2]

If you can add a new Leader then you sincerly can change his traits, it is sincerly described in the tutorial GustavBjorklund linked. In the CIV4LeaderHeadInfos.xml you have to find a definition like this
<Traits>
<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_CHARISMATIC</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>
<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_AGGRESSIVE</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>
</Traits>
in the definition of your leader. Change the values of the <TraitType>-tags. To know which values are allowed, see civ4's default leaders.

Here is an overview on the tutorials. Under XML How to's you can find links to tutorials that describe how to add new buildings and units. There it is sincerly described how to change their properties (and then you will also find out to make a unit or a building need a certain technology). With techs, ressources and tiles I can't help you, I didn't change them yet.