This topic is not talking about officially renaming the Sicilians to the Normans, but is asking about the feasibility of a data mod accomplishing this. I would post it in II - Modding, but I don’t think anyone ever visits that section.
What I want for the mod is the Sicilians to be renamed the Normans, with the architecture changing to Western European. Then the Donjon is reskinned to be the Accursed Tower, with the Castle changing to the in-game Fortress building (which is actually Flemish, but it looks similar enough to Norman castles to be believable), and the Wonder becomes the Tower of London. In this way, the mod does not require any new assets and uses existing ones, but changes the theming of the civ to something much more appropriate. I don’t know how to mod, so I can’t really do it, but it seems like a simple enough task to do.
Can be done within minutes really.
You are looking for a data mod that is placed in your local folder. Then use the AGE to copy all buildings from say Britons to Sicilians using S-copy, excluding the wonder, castle and monument, which you copy from tower and fortress respectively.
Unless you’re going to change language (and you should since I guarantee you that hearing Normans talking Sicilian would be silly), you don’t even need a data mod actually.
Just go to scenario editor and do some triggers modifying graphic animations of the buildings you mentioned and that’s it.
I suggest people to learn a bit of scenario design just so you know how hard Devs may make you wait months to sell you stuff that you could do yourself in an afternoon. And again all of this for free…
I think this can be done without making a data mod, you just need to replace the graphics of the existing buildings I’m pretty sure, and also the Language
I’ll be happy to try and make this mod, but I won’t just yet unless someone more talented than I would like to make it for you first. So far I’ve only released 1 graphical mod, but I think I could create what you are looking for.
Changing just the asset smx files would alter all med civs which sicilians are a part of. It’s very easy in AGE, look for tutorials. I could even make some screenshots if anyone wants
Unless you want to universally change the architecture set for all Mediterranean civs to the Western European one, this does indeed need a datamod to be used in skirmish/multiplayer.
