Anyone know how to edit/add traits?

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Greetings all!

I would like to add some traits to faction creation that give a faction's cities unique resource production. Simple things, not at all complex, such as a trait that has every city produce horses, or a trait that gives every city extra mana, or extra gold income...the sort of things you could use to further specialize your play style without having to worry about haphazard resource placement. So if you want to be heavily focused on metal weapons, or horses, or influence, or what have you, it's something you could do.

The issue I'm having is that I don't know where the traits are nor how to edit them. I've got Notepad++ and could probably figure my way through it, but I'd very much like to know where the original traits are so I can have a template to work from. I had figured they'd be in /stardock games/fallen enchantress/data/data, but my computer insists that folder is empty.

Thanks for your time!

Nathikal

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Look in "CoreAbilities". 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Aha, I never checked in there. Thank you very much, jshores.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I believe the folder you are looking for is the following:

stardock games/fallen enchantress/data/english

This has all the core xml files to help model what you are trying to mod. Not exactly sure what file you want to try to model it after, you will have to try to get heavenfalls or seanw3 attention as they might know

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I may have to ask them - this isn't working out as easily as I had planned. Time for more trial and error!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Can you post your XML? 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top


yeah i'm thinking about adding some custom triats myself, and i was thinking about adding some blood traits but that quickly got more complicated.

From what i can tell the blood traits are written into the core races so i may have to add a core race to add a blood trait, and that will get annoying.

If i'm wrong someone please correct me I'm not a very good modder...

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting xenotashin, reply 7

yeah i'm thinking about adding some custom triats myself, and i was thinking about adding some blood traits but that quickly got more complicated.

From what i can tell the blood traits are written into the core races so i may have to add a core race to add a blood trait, and that will get annoying.

If i'm wrong someone please correct me I'm not a very good modder...
End of xenotashin's quote

 

Well, that's really the only thing that makes it a blood trait, is being attached to the race. 

You can make the trait accessible somewhere else, and call it some type of blood trait I guess. If you don't want the trait to appear when you select the race, where were you hoping to have it selectable? We can go from there and I or someone else can tell you the tags you need.