No Leaders

[OscarAn94 - EvW-Dev]

You are all probably aware of this,, but the game completly lacks leaders for units and so on.

This is easy to fix, i've done this before in Hoi3, adding leaders and so on, if help is needed with it, fixing pictures, making it historically corect and so on, i would be glad to help.

[Medibee]

It seems that the USA and the Soviets have leaders, just no pictures.

Edit: Looking at the US's leaders it doesn't seem like there are any historical leaders. That's really odd.

[OscarAn94 - EvW-Dev]

Jan 18, 2015 23:52:00 GMT Medibee said:

It seems that the USA and the Soviets have leaders, just no pictures.

Edit: Looking at the US's leaders it doesn't seem like there are any historical leaders. That's really odd.

So far i only looked at Sweden, DPRK and Rhodesia.
I think the lack of leaders is a big problem, a problem that will take time to fix, i have experiance in creating new leaders from historically acurate information. so i hope i can help with that.

[Medibee]

All leaders can be found in \history\leaders

[OscarAn94 - EvW-Dev]

Jan 19, 2015 0:05:43 GMT Medibee said:

All leaders can be found in \history\leaders

I see, strange that they don't show in the game.

still, i see that the leaders are not historical, barley any of them is, would be good to haev alteas some historical leaders in every country.

[Medibee]

Yeah. I think I'll do all the US's armies. Those should be easy to find.

[Aleksey_EvW-Dev]

its an unfinished game you have to look through Notepad++ edit the text look for things that can fix it ect.. its not as easy u have to look through the whole EVW folder most of the time.

[tottenfnotten]

hey. im not much of a modder but i could be of some assistance. im a political science bachelor student at the end of my studies. i have always played Hoi games and it would be awsomme if i could help you guys. im from Norway so thats pretty much my field of expertice. i've also been taking some history classes, cold war etc. if you guys need info about, divs. gear etc from norway or anything else. just say so.

[tvbromold]

Team, I have solved the problem. The file history / leaders in country.txt files must change the date of leader of generation to the exact day of the beginning of the campaign. In this case, if we start the Israeli Arab conflict campaign with israel nation we must change the original date that the leader will be available for the date of the beginning of the campaign, which the Israeli Arab conflict is 14.05.1948. As in the example below:

1444004 = {
name = "Lavan Avraham"
type = land
country = ISR
skill = 3
max_skill = 9
loyalty = 1.00
picture = empty_position
add_trait = offensive_doctrine
add_trait = ranger
history = {
1948.5.14 = { rank = 1 }
1949.1.1 = { rank = 2 }
}
}

I think I do more tests because should not be so.

[Aleksey_EvW-Dev]

How do you add pictures?

[tvbromold]

I used an existing image directory gfx / pictures / portraits called empty_position.tga. If you want to create a specific image, you must set the image size in 36x50 and save in .tga format. After creating the file must define the leader of the description.

[mattem]

I'm trying to add a leader for the Swedish Air Force, Bengt Nordenskiöld, but the picture doesn't show up in game, now there is a leader_test.dds, which I used for template, then pasted the image and saved as L1439118.dds, figuring it uses the same type of system as
HOI3, I changed the 1439118 in SWE.txt to Nordenskiöld and added a few traits, obviously this doesn't work as the image does not show up in game, but the info and name is changed to the correct ones. Please if anyone knows how to add military leader pics tell me how! Oh and I tried making a L1439118.tga too, size 36x50, didn't work.

[mattem]

Finally I got it to work! Expect a full Swedish leader-pack from me, hopefully before summer!

[Medibee]

Fantastic. Do make a tutorial if you can.

[mattem]

Well, I have decided to keep doing the research for leaders, but I am not holding on much to the dream of a completed EvW,
seems like too much of an uphill struggle, and to be honest the game engine is beginning to fell real dated, and this forum
seems to be abandoned by all the original devteam, only one person still actually modding the or trying to fix the game.
I'm waiting and hoping for HOI4 and the possibility for modding that game. But the leader pics and research will most likely
come in handy.