Just as everyone else in the comments has said, I'd like to say how much I appreciate these tutorials and lessons you've been pumping out, started using your HOI4 tutorials and am now getting into CK modding. Really great stuff man, cannot thank you enough.
You are one of the few channels on the internet that makes tutorials about ck3 modding. I really appreciate you doing this, please continue. You help a lot of people who have crazy ideas in their mind but cannot do it because they do not have the slightest knowledge about modding.
What and how can you add in the extra data blocks to characters? add_spouse and give_nickname are kinda easy but events or decisions stuff would be interesting but also some basic stuff.
When i do this my character doesnt appear in game and the highest liege of that title holds the title or the game generate a random ruler how can i deal with this
I don't think the steps in this tutorial link up the created character with the dna. The dna of my character wasn't syncing up with how the character looked in game, so after following this mod step by step twice with the same results I did some digging. The history folders seem to be set up correctly. A character with the correct age, name, gender, traits, etc. was in the correct county. However I think it just uses a generic model based on the culture inputted, since when I changed the culture from "breton" to "mongol" the created character in brittany suddenly looked asian. I'm not sure what the solution is, whether it's save file editing or placing the dna in a different folder. I did notice the dna for some of the historical characters seems to be in the common > bookmark_portraits folder, but there aren't nearly enough files in there for every character in the game so I have no idea where those are. And of course there's always the chance I did something wrong, though I was careful both times when creating the mod (deleted the first one and created a whole new one for the second try to make sure there wasn't any shenanigans there). Either way this is still part of the way to creating custom characters until they release a way for us to do it in game. So thanks :)
@@TheIronWorkshop Yes. It was a female character, but it was definitely not the same character I had made in portrait editor. Different build, eye color, hair color, facial structure, hairstyle etc. Also both times I created the mod in the same county the same generic female breton was generated. And after I switched back from mongol she still looked the same. After I posted I played around with the files a bit more, file location, where to put the dna etc but still no luck unfortunately. I did notice that the historical characters have an "entity" number entry after their dna data in the bookmark portraits folder but don't even know if that's important. Sorry man, I program as a hobby not a profession so am a little lost on how to fix it. I'm guessing you have to link the historical data to the dna data somehow but I'm not sure how to do it. Thanks for the quick reply.
I think the reason it not working for you guys is because i think the video missed a step, ive already created my own custom character with a full dna entry and what i did to get it to work is in the character file, i added a line that says effect = { add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance } And just insert that line under the year of birth entry so that it looks like this.. 1050.9.4 = { birth = yes effect = { add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance } }
For some reason my character does not appear as i want him to. I create a character in the ditor and then copy the dna, but he doesn't look anything like the dna i included
use add_spouse in your character history file with a date and spouse ID, you can put it after the birth data. For example: 846.5.28 = { birth = "846.5.28" } 865.1.1 = { add_spouse = 500001 } creating the spouse you want is done following the steps in the video, just like any other character.
Just a question, for those characters born after the start of the game, how to create [born.date>game.start.date],If you use the method of writing history, it will not take effect
Hello mate, I need your help urgently. I established the Sultanate of Rum. I want to create a new culture. I want to make a decision and move to a culture that is not in the game. How can I do it? Can you take a video?
So, this only works to make a ruler, yes? Not for an extra landless character? I tried the steps, but without the last step, assigning land to the character, and it doesnt work. No one appears. is there a way to add a character (myself) as just a simple low born?
I really appreciate your tutorial and it’s pretty easy to follow the only issue I’m having is I use MacBook I don’t understand how you got into steam apps how do I do that from iOS ?
Thank you for the video, but is this just impossible to do for Xbox Game Pass users? I had to jump through some hoops just to access where the game was installed, only to not be able to copy the 01_easteregg_dna.txt file because of administrator rights I was unable to circumvent.
an excellent tutorial and everything was fine with the character, but mine got white hair, though ive made him have black in the editor, any solution to this?
@@dukerojo1 Yes! You need to go into the hair/beard files under gfx/portrait/portrait_modifiers and set the base modifier for the character using the character's historical id.
Hello Hello everyone! I have a quick question myself, I'm making the lannister family starting off as Tywin who I have already made and landed with his own dynasty, I have seen some very wonderful custom characters for Jaime that I want to add as of course a child of Tywin but my biggest question is how do I go about doing that? Do I have to make the custom character a new mod and make him unlanded and a child of Tywin?
Thank you so much for that! And I have one more question, so I also want to add spouses, like I have eddard stark and wish to add Catelyn tully as his wife, how do I go about doing that?
@@TheIronWorkshop so I've tried that add_spouse everywhere and it's hasn't worked, do I have to put it in the character history document and if so do I have to put it for both characters I wish to be married?
You need to look up the ID's of the traits, don't try to guess them otherwise it won't work. All the traits are listed in common/traits/00_traits.txt Look for the trait you need there and then apply it in the character with trait = NAME_OF_TRAIT For example, beautiful traits are actually called beauty_good_1/2/3 which is why trait = beautiful didn't work.
add_trait beauty_good_3 is for top level beauty. and Add_trait_physical_good_3 for herculean. obviously 1_2_3 are the levels. It goes, Comely=1, Handsome=2,beautiful=3 and hale=1 robust=2 and herculean =3.
can you explain what skin_color = { 78 60 76 66 } means is it a range or something? also if want to give a trait to all people within a range of skin color how do i do that ??
It's an RGB code for the skin color of a character, as for applying certain traits to people with skin color that's impossible but you can apply them to characters with certain cultures.
Not 100% sure about this but I think that non landed characters are randomly generated. But it should be possible via an event/decision to have your character "pop up" in your court.
use "employer" in the character history file in a date block. For example, imagine this is an entry in a character history file that I made, and I want him to be a courtier at the court of a character who has the 500100 ID: 1045.1.1 = { birth = yes effect = { add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance } } 1066.1.1 = { employer = 500100 } you can even make them a councillor from the start if you want with "give_council_position", for example: 1045.1.1 = { birth = yes effect = { add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance } } 1066.1.1 = { employer = 500100 give_council_position = councillor_marshal }
The pasting genes part doesnt work, once you go into the game it generates a different character depending on the culture you pick. Everything else works though just not the part after portrait editor.
From what I can see the character gets clothing based on the culture but as far as how he looks (face features) they are working exactly as they are in the portrait editor. I will run the lesson a few more times myself to see if I spot some errors that could potentially cause this but you can clearly see that the character I created in the portrait editor is the same one we get at the end of the video.
@@TheIronWorkshop i have the same problem, the difference is that I have created a new Illyrian culture that should have both byzantine and western styles, maybe I did something wrong but it adds only byzantine styles, can you pls make a video on creating new cultures ? maybe I did something wrong on the cultural esthetics idk
@@TheIronWorkshop It was a problem on my end, I forgot to enter the dna = part on the character portion of the video. I am sorry if I inconvenienced you in any way.
@@androzin What did you paste after dna = ? I tried pasting the dna string but that didn't work. I then tried pasting all of the dna data that was in the "new character dna" txt file that we created from this tutorial. I can't seem to get the dna to work. I can assign my character to a duchy, but it looks nothing like what was created in the portrait creator...
Hello. I am playing in Russian language, so it’s important for me that the character would have Russian name. If I write it in English in history>characters>afghan, will it automatically translate to Russian, if this name has got a translation in base game? Or can I just write the name in Russian straight away, or should I do something else? Thank you
Also, for some reason, after I pasted my dna in a separate file, the Id was 0. First time I pasted it wasn’t zero, but I closed the file and didn’t save, then when you said I have to put id in there as well, I went to debug mode and copied it again, but now the is was 0. I still didn’t check if it works however. Edit: sadly, nothing at all happened for me. It doesn’t work for me.
Now I deleted the last duke completely and added my character there instead of him, because my character didn’t show up at all. I gave him Pskov and Sebezh
Nothing happens at all. Like if the game just doesn’t see that the mod is turned on. I guess I won’t be able to see this character in game until the ruler designer is out. Why wouldn’t the game just let me do a character in portrait creator in debug mode and simply add him as playable character. Sad. Spent like 2 hours working with it and...
Himitsu 7 спросил как сделать так чтобы имя персонажа было на русском. Потом сказал что id портрета почему то 0, а должно быть не 0 соответственно. Дальше сказал что нифига не работает у меня, вообще, но я попробую переставить персонажа на другую провинцию, однако все равно не сработало. Вообщем, придётся ждать когда выйдет редактор от парадоксов. Почему они не могли сделать так, чтобы я мог в том редакторе сделать персонажа, и поместить его куда-то, одной кнопкой. Я потратил пару часов на всю эту махинацию, но ничего не сработало.
How do I put a female? Instead of male I put female in the files but the character always shows up as a guy, has that anything to do with laws, religion? I made her orthodox and Greek also duchee of Cyprus
If you're using debug mode, open the debug menu, there should be a button on the bottom right to turn off debug menu. It will turn off completely so if you want to use debug menu again you need to exit game and launch in debug mode again.
Go to the hard drive you have the game on and find program files, then search for projecttitus in file explorer. You might have to transfer ownership of the file to yourself to gain access to it, while I don't remember what the article was exactly called you can just look up, "how to transfer ownership of files to yourself" edit: you can't open the files you will have to do it manually
Great guide, however I'm trying to find a way to change an existing character's hair colour (Robert Capet, born 866.8.1) and make it Ironman compatible. Is there another way besides using a cheat engine?
24 minute video and I was lost by minute 4. Borrow some folders to move into some place where they should go isn’t real helpful. I’m sure someone with much more experience in modding had no problem with all of this, but I was totally lost. I’ve found this game too difficult to get a foothold without mods, but all the mods make it so easy that it’s not even fun... was hoping to create a very subtle character mod that gave me a toe up in the opening hours. Basically, I wanted to bring a slightly larger knife to a knife fight, not a Sherman tank. Oh well, perhaps someone will creat “25 stat man” rather than “100 stat man”
![[CK3 Modding] Creating New Traits](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zAS1r79TzoU/mqdefault.jpg)
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Just as everyone else in the comments has said, I'd like to say how much I appreciate these tutorials and lessons you've been pumping out, started using your HOI4 tutorials and am now getting into CK modding. Really great stuff man, cannot thank you enough.
You're very welcome!
You are one of the few channels on the internet that makes tutorials about ck3 modding.
I really appreciate you doing this, please continue. You help a lot of people who have crazy ideas in their mind but cannot do it because they do not have the slightest knowledge about modding.
what kind of dna id should i add into the character file? the number or the spongebob_dna_entry stuff?
Another excellent video, very useful stuff. Thank you!
What and how can you add in the extra data blocks to characters? add_spouse and give_nickname are kinda easy but events or decisions stuff would be interesting but also some basic stuff.
When i do this my character doesnt appear in game and the highest liege of that title holds the title or the game generate a random ruler how can i deal with this
Nice tutorial ! Could you do one on creating a dynasty ?
You didn't assign the DNA in the characters txt
Thank you so much for your videos.
hello could you make a mod video for creating culture mods. I don't know how it works and which data program do you use ?
Nice! Thanks for the video.
Hi my character is not showing as Duke of Cyprus even though I have checked everything. How could this be resolved ?
Can you do a Tutorial, how to create Events?
where does the id at 19:00 stand for?
I don't think the steps in this tutorial link up the created character with the dna. The dna of my character wasn't syncing up with how the character looked in game, so after following this mod step by step twice with the same results I did some digging.
The history folders seem to be set up correctly. A character with the correct age, name, gender, traits, etc. was in the correct county. However I think it just uses a generic model based on the culture inputted, since when I changed the culture from "breton" to "mongol" the created character in brittany suddenly looked asian. I'm not sure what the solution is, whether it's save file editing or placing the dna in a different folder. I did notice the dna for some of the historical characters seems to be in the common > bookmark_portraits folder, but there aren't nearly enough files in there for every character in the game so I have no idea where those are. And of course there's always the chance I did something wrong, though I was careful both times when creating the mod (deleted the first one and created a whole new one for the second try to make sure there wasn't any shenanigans there). Either way this is still part of the way to creating custom characters until they release a way for us to do it in game. So thanks :)
Hmm just to clarify, are you saying your character did not look in game the same way he looked in the portrait editor?
@@TheIronWorkshop Yes. It was a female character, but it was definitely not the same character I had made in portrait editor. Different build, eye color, hair color, facial structure, hairstyle etc. Also both times I created the mod in the same county the same generic female breton was generated. And after I switched back from mongol she still looked the same. After I posted I played around with the files a bit more, file location, where to put the dna etc but still no luck unfortunately. I did notice that the historical characters have an "entity" number entry after their dna data in the bookmark portraits folder but don't even know if that's important. Sorry man, I program as a hobby not a profession so am a little lost on how to fix it. I'm guessing you have to link the historical data to the dna data somehow but I'm not sure how to do it. Thanks for the quick reply.
@@korvet8482 yep same problem
I think the reason it not working for you guys is because i think the video missed a step, ive already created my own custom character with a full dna entry and what i did to get it to work is in the character file, i added a line that says
effect = {
add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance
}
And just insert that line under the year of birth entry so that it looks like this..
1050.9.4 = {
birth = yes
effect = {
add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance
}
}
How do i do this with characters in an existing playthrough?
For some reason my character does not appear as i want him to. I create a character in the ditor and then copy the dna, but he doesn't look anything like the dna i included
Do you have a guide on how to create my own dynasties and own house for my created character?
nice crusader kings modding
Hi Mr. May I ask you about to change the character's age by code? thank you
Does this work for ck2
Hi, how do I add houses to dynasties? I've tried adding via dynasty_houses but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks
Having the same issue
Will you do a tutorial for coke's map editor?
If you want to create a character to add to someone's court, how do you make sure they are in someone's court when they are unlanded?
How did you open your game like that not in fullscreen
My character ID says 0
Same
Same.
I’m not sure but I think it may of been if you copied your character
Just randomize the portraid id in portrait editor
How do you create and add a spouse to a character. Thanks!
use add_spouse in your character history file with a date and spouse ID, you can put it after the birth data. For example:
846.5.28 = {
birth = "846.5.28"
}
865.1.1 = {
add_spouse = 500001
}
creating the spouse you want is done following the steps in the video, just like any other character.
I was just waiting for this tutorial.
Glad to deliver ☺️
Plss do a tutorial about the portrait editor
is possible to make an unlanded character?
how to create new dynasty?
Just a question, for those characters born after the start of the game, how to create [born.date>game.start.date],If you use the method of writing history, it will not take effect
Hello mate, I need your help urgently. I established the Sultanate of Rum. I want to create a new culture. I want to make a decision and move to a culture that is not in the game. How can I do it? Can you take a video?
Can you make a video about how to mod building in ck 3 especially mine cuz it has physical object in map
If I want the character to be completly random, should I just skip the DNA step?
So, this only works to make a ruler, yes? Not for an extra landless character? I tried the steps, but without the last step, assigning land to the character, and it doesnt work. No one appears. is there a way to add a character (myself) as just a simple low born?
i wish i knew how to mod religions. i literally only try to change one or two doctrines but it doesnt work.
I really appreciate your tutorial and it’s pretty easy to follow the only issue I’m having is I use MacBook I don’t understand how you got into steam apps how do I do that from iOS ?
Is this what I would use to create an alt history mod?
Thank you for the video, but is this just impossible to do for Xbox Game Pass users? I had to jump through some hoops just to access where the game was installed, only to not be able to copy the 01_easteregg_dna.txt file because of administrator rights I was unable to circumvent.
I have no idea how the installation looks with that thing you mentioned...
can we assign a unique clothing texture for the character ?
I'll have to look into that, not sure it's possible...
an excellent tutorial and everything was fine with the character, but mine got white hair, though ive made him have black in the editor, any solution to this?
Hey. I got this to work except that my new character does not have any hair/beard.
having the same problem, did you ever figure out a solution?
@@dukerojo1 Yes! You need to go into the hair/beard files under gfx/portrait/portrait_modifiers and set the base modifier for the character using the character's historical id.
@@rainiermcbane2313 do you mind sharing your mod file so i could use it as an example to modify mine. thanks
Hello Hello everyone! I have a quick question myself, I'm making the lannister family starting off as Tywin who I have already made and landed with his own dynasty, I have seen some very wonderful custom characters for Jaime that I want to add as of course a child of Tywin but my biggest question is how do I go about doing that? Do I have to make the custom character a new mod and make him unlanded and a child of Tywin?
Thank you so much for that! And I have one more question, so I also want to add spouses, like I have eddard stark and wish to add Catelyn tully as his wife, how do I go about doing that?
add_spouse = ID_OF_SPOUSE_CHARACTER
@@TheIronWorkshop so I've tried that add_spouse everywhere and it's hasn't worked, do I have to put it in the character history document and if so do I have to put it for both characters I wish to be married?
@@TheIronWorkshop I figured it out, it's a date block not just a normal character change
How can a add the traits genius, beautiful and/or herculean? It does not work with "trait = beautiful"...
and also the educational traits. I do I add them?
You need to look up the ID's of the traits, don't try to guess them otherwise it won't work.
All the traits are listed in common/traits/00_traits.txt
Look for the trait you need there and then apply it in the character with trait = NAME_OF_TRAIT
For example, beautiful traits are actually called beauty_good_1/2/3 which is why trait = beautiful didn't work.
add_trait beauty_good_3 is for top level beauty. and Add_trait_physical_good_3 for herculean. obviously 1_2_3 are the levels. It goes, Comely=1, Handsome=2,beautiful=3 and hale=1 robust=2 and herculean =3.
can you explain what skin_color = { 78 60 76 66 } means is it a range or something? also if want to give a trait to all people within a range of skin color how do i do that ??
It's an RGB code for the skin color of a character, as for applying certain traits to people with skin color that's impossible but you can apply them to characters with certain cultures.
@@TheIronWorkshop oh thanx
@@TheIronWorkshop i tried
if = {
limit = { coa_african_culture_trigger = yes }
add_trait = ............ }. But its not working.
any tips on making custom coat of arms for a landed lowborn, since his dynasty id isn't in the game files :/
AFAIK low born characters are not part of any dynasty so you can't really create one for them...
@@TheIronWorkshop I've found a way to do it by finding their dynasty ID in the save file (once they're landed) and editing the corresponding COA id
how would i make a character a courtier in a court rather than a landed character?
Not 100% sure about this but I think that non landed characters are randomly generated. But it should be possible via an event/decision to have your character "pop up" in your court.
use "employer" in the character history file in a date block. For example, imagine this is an entry in a character history file that I made, and I want him to be a courtier at the court of a character who has the 500100 ID:
1045.1.1 = {
birth = yes
effect = {
add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance
}
}
1066.1.1 = {
employer = 500100
}
you can even make them a councillor from the start if you want with "give_council_position", for example:
1045.1.1 = {
birth = yes
effect = {
add_character_flag = has_scripted_appearance
}
}
1066.1.1 = {
employer = 500100
give_council_position = councillor_marshal
}
The pasting genes part doesnt work, once you go into the game it generates a different character depending on the culture you pick. Everything else works though just not the part after portrait editor.
From what I can see the character gets clothing based on the culture but as far as how he looks (face features) they are working exactly as they are in the portrait editor. I will run the lesson a few more times myself to see if I spot some errors that could potentially cause this but you can clearly see that the character I created in the portrait editor is the same one we get at the end of the video.
@@TheIronWorkshop i have the same problem, the difference is that I have created a new Illyrian culture that should have both byzantine and western styles, maybe I did something wrong but it adds only byzantine styles, can you pls make a video on creating new cultures ? maybe I did something wrong on the cultural esthetics idk
@@TheIronWorkshop It was a problem on my end, I forgot to enter the dna = part on the character portion of the video. I am sorry if I inconvenienced you in any way.
@@TheIronWorkshop Hi, I know why you have the problem. You forgot the step in 12:00 I gues. Not sure tho
@@androzin What did you paste after dna = ? I tried pasting the dna string but that didn't work. I then tried pasting all of the dna data that was in the "new character dna" txt file that we created from this tutorial. I can't seem to get the dna to work. I can assign my character to a duchy, but it looks nothing like what was created in the portrait creator...
How can I delete a mod in the launcher?
Remove it from the \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod folder if its a local mod or if its on Steam just unsubscribe from it.
Hello. I am playing in Russian language, so it’s important for me that the character would have Russian name. If I write it in English in history>characters>afghan, will it automatically translate to Russian, if this name has got a translation in base game? Or can I just write the name in Russian straight away, or should I do something else? Thank you
Also, for some reason, after I pasted my dna in a separate file, the Id was 0. First time I pasted it wasn’t zero, but I closed the file and didn’t save, then when you said I have to put id in there as well, I went to debug mode and copied it again, but now the is was 0. I still didn’t check if it works however.
Edit: sadly, nothing at all happened for me. It doesn’t work for me.
Now I deleted the last duke completely and added my character there instead of him, because my character didn’t show up at all. I gave him Pskov and Sebezh
Nothing happens at all. Like if the game just doesn’t see that the mod is turned on. I guess I won’t be able to see this character in game until the ruler designer is out. Why wouldn’t the game just let me do a character in portrait creator in debug mode and simply add him as playable character. Sad. Spent like 2 hours working with it and...
Напиши по русски, плиз)
Мне тоже интересно что ты спрашиваешь :3
Himitsu 7 спросил как сделать так чтобы имя персонажа было на русском. Потом сказал что id портрета почему то 0, а должно быть не 0 соответственно. Дальше сказал что нифига не работает у меня, вообще, но я попробую переставить персонажа на другую провинцию, однако все равно не сработало. Вообщем, придётся ждать когда выйдет редактор от парадоксов. Почему они не могли сделать так, чтобы я мог в том редакторе сделать персонажа, и поместить его куда-то, одной кнопкой. Я потратил пару часов на всю эту махинацию, но ничего не сработало.
How do I put a female? Instead of male I put female in the files but the character always shows up as a guy, has that anything to do with laws, religion? I made her orthodox and Greek also duchee of Cyprus
put
name =
dna = 7757_duchess_matilda
female = yes
( i took this from the character matilda file and this is her dna as well)
this way is no longer working, but nice tutorial 👌
How can i disable the debug mode
If you're using debug mode, open the debug menu, there should be a button on the bottom right to turn off debug menu. It will turn off completely so if you want to use debug menu again you need to exit game and launch in debug mode again.
Wish there was a way to just go into the character creator for any of the existing characters in game to change it
Anyone able to make your character show up in the bookmark?
Anyone that knows how to make mods via the microsoft store edition though?
Go to the hard drive you have the game on and find program files, then search for projecttitus in file explorer. You might have to transfer ownership of the file to yourself to gain access to it, while I don't remember what the article was exactly called you can just look up, "how to transfer ownership of files to yourself" edit: you can't open the files you will have to do it manually
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Great guide, however I'm trying to find a way to change an existing character's hair colour (Robert Capet, born 866.8.1) and make it Ironman compatible. Is there another way besides using a cheat engine?
Barbershop in game works
@@butchdeloria3688 The Barbershop is a dye, not a DNA change unfortunately. Found a way to do it anyway.
New subscriber here!! Can you please also make "Creating New Religion" mod. Thank you
Welcome, looking into it, and once I figured it out I will post it :)
No K mean King
My game crash all time
24 minute video and I was lost by minute 4. Borrow some folders to move into some place where they should go isn’t real helpful. I’m sure someone with much more experience in modding had no problem with all of this, but I was totally lost.
I’ve found this game too difficult to get a foothold without mods, but all the mods make it so easy that it’s not even fun... was hoping to create a very subtle character mod that gave me a toe up in the opening hours. Basically, I wanted to bring a slightly larger knife to a knife fight, not a Sherman tank.
Oh well, perhaps someone will creat “25 stat man” rather than “100 stat man”
hey, when I paste the dna of portrait editor, id=0, do you know how to fix that ?