Snow Leopard Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Hello everyone, Can anyone tell us how do we edit soldiers' names in missions using Mission Editor? I thought it will be cool to have my own name and some famous names into some soldiers. Thank you for read and reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wokelly Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Man soldiers die so easily in this game. If you do change the name, make sure to make him the commander in a Tiger, Panther, King Tiger or Churchill 7 if you are allies, otherwise he will be gone in 3 or 4 missions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Buzzsaw* Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Salute The standard generated names of the U.S. soldiers should be changed as well. All the names are currently Anglo Saxon. When in fact the U.S. had immigrants from all over the world serving in its army. Should be plenty of Graboski's for every Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeBrAnTo Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 It would be helpful as well if you want to re-create other nations units serving on the East Front, as I'm doing with the Spanish 250ยบ Freiwillige Division, fighting in the Army Group North of the Wehrmacht, besieging Leningrad. I tried to change them manually through the editor but when the mission launches all names are reseted to german names... Is there any way to make them stay using a text file or any other way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnN Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Names are in the SFS files. As far as I can tell the game randomly picks one from the country list that's referenced in one of the units ini files when the unit is created during the mission. Interestingly you can also do this with faces, but there's only one big list implemented for those. If you were to add Spanish names to the German list, it'd affect all German units, so basically you'd have to create a new country and units to go with it. I've been working on a database (and some photoshop texture templates) that makes doing this fairly easy and I now have a working version, but I need to check it against the patch. I hope to have some screenshots of the new uniforms later this week, then I'm off to France for 2 weeks. When I get back I'll rework the database a bit and the exporter, then release them together with the source code and the photoshop templates. Have fun Finn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnN Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Oh, and I think there may be a bug in the names in any case as once I noticed some names from the American list appearing amongst the Germans (O'Braden if I remember correctly). Have fun Finn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeBrAnTo Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Originally posted by FinnN: Names are in the SFS files. As far as I can tell the game randomly picks one from the country list that's referenced in one of the units ini files when the unit is created during the mission. Interestingly you can also do this with faces, but there's only one big list implemented for those. If you were to add Spanish names to the German list, it'd affect all German units, so basically you'd have to create a new country and units to go with it. I've been working on a database (and some photoshop texture templates) that makes doing this fairly easy and I now have a working version, but I need to check it against the patch. I hope to have some screenshots of the new uniforms later this week, then I'm off to France for 2 weeks. When I get back I'll rework the database a bit and the exporter, then release them together with the source code and the photoshop templates. Have fun Finn Right, understood, if you want I can give you a hand with the templates or something else if you want, I would like to add the spanish arm patch to the german uniform as well Have a nice journey to France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Leopard Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hello FinnN Thank you for share with us! I wonder about soldiers' faces that may can photoshop of real people? I guess it may need get artist to painting/drawing someone's face to be same type as stocks faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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