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Need Help Adding New Nations

Grey Roger said:
Since whoever put those Danish pennants there didn't finish the job by making flags, let alone adding Denmark as a full nation, I'd say they're expendable.
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Exactly right. Probably @konradk added it as "proof of concept"/placeholder, but we ended up only adding the USA.

Grey Roger said:
Of course, by that time we might all be using NHR anyway...
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We can always hope! But we do have to realise that is not the most short-term project...
 
You could use the triple-tail flag in "shipflg*" and the plain version in "merflg*".
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Yes you are right. If you want, I could use some help making those triple-tail flags.
 

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Pieter Boelen said:
Exactly right. Probably @konradk added it as "proof of concept"/placeholder, but we ended up only adding the USA.
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If memory serves me right, it should be just easy to add one more nation (or even to for periods when there's no USA, this awful imperialist excuse of the country).

PS. It's for the newest version of B14? I would help, if needed.
 
Hey don't blame us for what our corporate government is doing. Our vote doesn't count anymore.
 
Hylie Pistof said:
Hey don't blame us for what our corporate government is doing. Our vote doesn't count anymore.
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My apologies goes all honest Americans.

I shouldn't make any political excursions here. I'm just mad at Mr. Trump – he declared to normalize relations with Russian Federation, but as soon as he got his … on post, he immediately started to do more warmongering. Mrs. Clinton at least was honest during elections… :( How I hate this!
 
Jack Rackham said:
Yes you are right. If you want, I could use some help making those triple-tail flags.
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No problem, it's just a matter of playing with the alpha channel. What shape pennant do you want? Single tail, twin tail, triple tail? Or something else?
 
I have made the pennants (merchants and ships) already and they're twin tail. The standard merchant flags are also done.
It's just the triple tail for ship flags. I added a picture of the swedish navy (war) flag in my upload.
 
Try that. I noticed the picture of the Swedish war ensign - it's probably the same one I saw on "Flags of the World" when I suggested the triple tail flag in the first place. ;)
 

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Thanks a lot. They're looking great. I'll include everything concerning this "swedish flags on ships mod" in my next upload.
I have as lot of files so a new zip would be welcome soon.
 
One thing puzzles me. How were you able to create the pennants but not the triple-tail ensign? They are shaped by exactly the same method - draw a mask on the alpha channel. If you haven't done that on the pennants then they won't look right or might not appear at all in the game.

I'm planning on a new zip based on the newest installer from @Mad Jack Wolfe which I want to put out fairly soon because that installer has the latest version of "HMS_Indefatigable" but not the texture files which go with it. (Probably my fault - I used my portable drive to move the new version of the ship to my game PC.) So if you have anything which needs to go into the zip, upload it soon...
 
I browsed the thread and see, that Sweden should be present during three periods (Spanish Main, Age of Piracy and Colonial Powers). I saw also names for Swedish officer's ranks.

I have following questions in regard of adding Sweden:
  1. What international relations should be between Sweden and the rest of colonial powers.
  2. What towns (and of which names) should be present in said three periods.
  3. I'll make an assumption, that historically accurate ruler's names should be used.

I'll use existing sources from this topic and upload result when ready.

Best Regards.
 
2. The idea was no towns - just being able to meet swedish ships. There is one swedish town though but
it's a unique quest town of mine. Has nothing to do with this mod.

@Grey Roger I'll upload before the weekend if it's ok.
 
International relations: the single biggest event in the 17th century involving Sweden, and most of Europe as well, was the Thirty Years War. In that, Sweden was allied to England, France and Holland, and at war with Spain. Portugal wasn't involved, so was probably neutral to Sweden. In the War of the League of Augsburg, a.k.a. Nine Years War, Sweden was in the Alliance against France. Sweden wasn't involved in the later War of the Spanish Succession.

Towns: Sweden had a colony on Saint Barthélemy for a while, and also briefly took over Guadeloupe. But the colony on Saint Barthélemy existed from 1784 to 1878, i.e. "Revolutions" and "Napoleonic", and their period on Guadeloupe was also late Napoleonic.

There was a Swedish East India Company but, as its name suggests, it was concerned with trade to the east. Realistically, Swedish ships should be considerably rarer than ships from the nations already in the game. ;)
 
Screenshot.
 

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I've had to re-do the pennant files as the ones you supplied had the old British pennants, not the ones I'd made with the reproportioned St. George's cross part.

Is there a way to make Swedish ships significantly rarer than everyone else's? There shouldn't be all that many of them as, realistically, there might have been the occasional trader, and maybe a warship up to frigate size to escort it. For that matter, "Ships_init.c" has no ships assigned to Sweden, so do Swedish ships appear at all? The obvious one to assign is the Swedish East Indiaman, though that's not available in "Spanish Main". Any of the Brandenburg ships ("Castel Friedrichsburg", "Brandenburg Frigate") might also be suitable, as they're also from the Baltic. If they can't be made to appear without them becoming as common as the normal inhabitants of the Caribbean then I'm inclined to put a toggle in "InternalSettings.h" to enable or disable Sweden, then anyone can choose whether to have them appear or not. The code which detects the flag could perhaps also check if the "Woodes Rogers" story is running and allow Swedish participation regardless, since the colony on Isla Mona gives their ships a reason to be present.
 
Now you make me wonder about the Danish role in Caribbean, we were there for a real
long time. It could be nice for me to see Danish ships too , not to mention the three islands. :rolleyes:
 
Maybe it would have been better if we had chosen Denmark as I think they had more
colonies in the Caribbean than Sweden. Or maybe it can be added too as Guest Nation2?
 
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