Try to mod soldier rank title, rank icon disappear. Solution ?

[DeGorro82]

I already use search function, but after search many pages, unable to find any similar trouble like me.

In short, I want to change my rank soldier name. Also create my own rank soldier icons.

this is default script in strings.xml

<Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0">

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">rank.private</Data><NamedCell

ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">Private</Data><NamedCell ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

</Row>

<Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0">

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">rank.private.short</Data><NamedCell

ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">Pvt.</Data><NamedCell ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

</Row>

I change Private text to Guardsman. And also to the other ranks. When launch the game, everything works fine, but I notice, the soldier rank are changed, but no more Rank Icons in their picture. I don't know where to go after this. When I changed back the strings.xml to default, my rank Icons are shown on the soldier picture, and re-edit the rank name, the rank icon disappear. So, What the problem ? and how to solve this ?

Add note : My self-created new Icon use the same default files name and same pixel scale. I even copy-paste the file and rename one with default rank.private.png and rank.guardsman.png in the ...\Xenonauts\assets\rankimages and ...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages

Edited April 2, 2015 by DeGorro82

[Max_Caine]

Never done it myself, so I can't tell you what the problem is, but I did find a really old mod made during the beta which adjusted both rank titles and rank icons. Perhaps there's something you can learn form there?

[kabill]

I think the game possibly uses the string for the ranks as a way of identifying the correct rank icons, therefore you need to name the new rank icons after the new rank names you've created. Might be wrong, but I seem to remember seeing this before and this being the problem.

[DeGorro82]

Txs for the reply, but I learn it by doing it and it's fruitful.

So I just share what I found, when you want to change the rank title and had your own picture with it, this what you have to do.

<Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0">

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">rank.private</Data><NamedCell

ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">Private</Data><NamedCell ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

</Row>

<Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0">

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">rank.private.short</Data><NamedCell

ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">Pvt.</Data><NamedCell ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

</Row>

Eg. You want to change "Private" - "Pvt." with "Rookie" - "Rok.".

So your new picture files of Rank Icon in both

...\Xenonauts\assets\rankimages

and

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages

had to be written the same name as the same with the scripts.

In this example, you have to naming your Rank Icon files spell ...

rank.Rookie.png in the ...\Xenonauts\assets\rankimages

and

Rookie.png in the

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages\large

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages\small

[drages]

thx for sharing your info!!!

[Nodge---]

On 4/10/2015 at 12:04 AM, DeGorro82 said:

Txs for the reply, but I learn it by doing it and it's fruitful.

So I just share what I found, when you want to change the rank title and had your own picture with it, this what you have to do.

<Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0">

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">rank.private</Data><NamedCell

ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">Private</Data><NamedCell ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

</Row>

<Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0">

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">rank.private.short</Data><NamedCell

ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">Pvt.</Data><NamedCell ss:Name="_FilterDatabase"/></Cell>

</Row>

Eg. You want to change "Private" - "Pvt." with "Rookie" - "Rok.".

So your new picture files of Rank Icon in both

...\Xenonauts\assets\rankimages

and

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages

had to be written the same name as the same with the scripts.

In this example, you have to naming your Rank Icon files spell ...

rank.Rookie.png in the ...\Xenonauts\assets\rankimages

and

Rookie.png in the

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages\large

...\Xenonauts\assets\gui\rankimages\small

Hi there, 

I doubt there'll be a response to this given this post is a decade old.

However, I followed your example to the tee and it worked brilliantly... until one of my soldiers reached the highest rank.

They became a Colonel instead of the Captain rank that I edited in the strings file.

I've double-checked the strings file and all the rank images.

I really have no idea why my soldier is still a Colonel rather than a Captain.

I also used new rank images which all work fine, except that the symbol for the highest rank disappears on my Colonel (it reappears if I edit the strings file back to the default Colonel rank).

If you had any suggestions or light you could shed on this issue, I'd greatly appreciate it!