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DoomGuy

Apr 26, 2022 @ 9:55am

Custom banner creation

Hello, is there any way to create a custom banner using photoshop and exporting it to somewhere? I want to make some banners for my self just for fun and i cannot found any information on this that explain how to edit banners.

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Santo

Apr 27, 2022 @ 2:41am

No, it's not possible, sorry.

DoomGuy

Apr 27, 2022 @ 4:51am

Originally posted by Santo:
No, it's not possible, sorry.

Thanks, no need to say sorry man, cheers.

Eye tyrant has Battle Brothers

Apr 27, 2022 @ 5:16am

the banners are located in data_001.dat gfx/ui/banners. They are png files so you can get them and see if you can modify them somehow. About making them show up in-game, the easiest way would be to just replace an existing banner, meaning you call your banner banner_0x.png and put in the zip file. Otherwise you would need to check what creates the banner list and verify if you need to add the entry manually or the code reads the length of the list. In the second case, your banner would be probably added automatically without much else but I have not checked how that is done in the game so I cannot point you to which script you need to check.

DoomGuy

Apr 27, 2022 @ 9:08am

Originally posted by Eye tyrant:
the banners are located in data_001.dat gfx/ui/banners. They are png files so you can get them and see if you can modify them somehow. About making them show up in-game, the easiest way would be to just replace an existing banner, meaning you call your banner banner_0x.png and put in the zip file. Otherwise you would need to check what creates the banner list and verify if you need to add the entry manually or the code reads the length of the list. In the second case, your banner would be probably added automatically without much else but I have not checked how that is done in the game so I cannot point you to which script you need to check.

Thanks for your response, i have already tried to locate the files that is used by the game to open the banners in the game but no sucess, i think the game files for modding are not avaliable anymore, or i cant find them, at least in the steammaps folder where the battle brothers folder is.

Eye tyrant has Battle Brothers

Apr 27, 2022 @ 3:36pm

I am not sure exactly what you mean with your reply. You need to navigate to <your path> \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Battle Brothers\data and there you find data_001.dat. You can open this with any extractor like 7zip. Inside you will find folders with files with extension .cnut.
The banners are located in gfx/ui/banners as png files. You can try extracting one png file (create a back up of anything you plan to modify) and open it in photoshop to edit it.
Once you have edited the file, put it back into the zip file and see if it loads with your changes. If it does, you can just replace any existing banner with those you made, although I am not sure what size they should have so they do not look weird while in game.
If you do not want to replace the existing banners, it may get quite complicated trying to figure out how to make the banner load since you will need to check the cnut files and there may be more than one involved.

Last edited by Eye tyrant; Apr 27, 2022 @ 3:39pm

DoomGuy

Apr 27, 2022 @ 4:37pm

Originally posted by Eye tyrant:
I am not sure exactly what you mean with your reply. You need to navigate to <your path> \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Battle Brothers\data and there you find data_001.dat. You can open this with any extractor like 7zip. Inside you will find folders with files with extension .cnut.
The banners are located in gfx/ui/banners as png files. You can try extracting one png file (create a back up of anything you plan to modify) and open it in photoshop to edit it.
Once you have edited the file, put it back into the zip file and see if it loads with your changes. If it does, you can just replace any existing banner with those you made, although I am not sure what size they should have so they do not look weird while in game.
If you do not want to replace the existing banners, it may get quite complicated trying to figure out how to make the banner load since you will need to check the cnut files and there may be more than one involved.

I understand all of that but i cannot find the data folder in battle brothers folder, its not there, there is only one folder inside battle brothers folder, and it is savegames.

Coldoge

Apr 27, 2022 @ 4:57pm

I saved this discussion from awhile back from someone trying to customize banners. TLDR is the custom banners mod was not working and OP asked what was wrong? There was no response that I know of. But the discussion does provide the start to a banner mod.

There was a streamer, I do not recall the name using a modified banner of the US flag. He mentioned needing to mod three files to make it work. Demonstrating it is possible to customize the banners.

Several months ago there was a banner mod on Nexus called "mod_more_flags". It's been removed due to some of the banners triggering people. Again it shows it's possible to make custom banners.

This the the discussion mentioned. If you do figure out how to customize banners please post for the community. Cheers.

Custom Banners not working
Hi, I unzipped / data_001.dat / and started working on customizing a banner for my company, taking the one from The Black Company books.

The files I have modified are:

From \ gfx \ ui \
entity_icons.png
world_entity_0.png

https://imgur.com/MDcK3UA

From / data_001.dat / gfx / ui / banners /
banner_12.png
banner_12s.png

https://imgur.com/cqPbx20

From \ gfx \ui \ items \ weapons \ banner \
banner_12.png
banner_12_70x70.png

https://imgur.com/dzTgPt7

https://imgur.com/WCWHQEn

I just modified the files using the originals and scaling the banner, then replacing them before putting the files back into data_001.dat, and while the banners work in the menu, when I go to the World map, it reverts back to the Teutonic Knights cross...

What else do I need to modify? I thought that was ruled by the world:entity_0.png file.

https://imgur.com/FwE6C2c

https://imgur.com/f6TnmZi

DoomGuy

Apr 27, 2022 @ 5:02pm

Originally posted by Col-Doge:
I saved this discussion from awhile back from someone trying to customize banners. TLDR is the custom banners mod was not working and OP asked what was wrong? There was no response that I know of. But the discussion does provide the start to a banner mod.

There was a streamer, I do not recall the name using a modified banner of the US flag. He mentioned needing to mod three files to make it work. Demonstrating it is possible to customize the banners.

Several months ago there was a banner mod on Nexus called "mod_more_flags". It's been removed due to some of the banners triggering people. Again it shows it's possible to make custom banners.

This the the discussion mentioned. If you do figure out how to customize banners please post for the community. Cheers.

Custom Banners not working
Hi, I unzipped / data_001.dat / and started working on customizing a banner for my company, taking the one from The Black Company books.

The files I have modified are:

From \ gfx \ ui \
entity_icons.png
world_entity_0.png

https://imgur.com/MDcK3UA

From / data_001.dat / gfx / ui / banners /
banner_12.png
banner_12s.png

https://imgur.com/cqPbx20

From \ gfx \ui \ items \ weapons \ banner \
banner_12.png
banner_12_70x70.png

https://imgur.com/dzTgPt7

https://imgur.com/WCWHQEn

I just modified the files using the originals and scaling the banner, then replacing them before putting the files back into data_001.dat, and while the banners work in the menu, when I go to the World map, it reverts back to the Teutonic Knights cross...

What else do I need to modify? I thought that was ruled by the world:entity_0.png file.

https://imgur.com/FwE6C2c

https://imgur.com/f6TnmZi

Thanks for the info man, i will search about it in this weekend, im a digital artist and i just want to make some designs for fun, but i dont understand about modding and coding.

Eye tyrant has Battle Brothers

Apr 29, 2022 @ 8:07am

Originally posted by DoomGuy:

I understand all of that but i cannot find the data folder in battle brothers folder, its not there, there is only one folder inside battle brothers folder, and it is savegames.

I would try using the search function in your OS to find where the installation folder may be. It seems you are opening the folder with savegames which on Windows is Documents.

One way to find the folder would be to search for BattleBrothers.exe and then from there navigate to the data folder. Or maybe you need to reinstall it. It would be just guesswork at this point.