Upload and Share Your Political Machine 2012 Candidates

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/political_candidates
from PolMach Forums

One of the cool features of the Political Machine 2012 is the ability to create your own custom candidates.  We've seen some creative and quite unique characters created so far, but did you know you can upload and share them with others?

Just head over to WinCustomize and upload them there.

The character gallery is here - https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/political_candidates

 

Updated with some info from Zubaz:

To share a candidate.

  • Fire up TPM 2012
  • Create you candidate
    • Customize the stats
    • Customize the bobblehead
  • Take the picture
    • Click on Customize Bobblehead from the edit screen
    • Click the camera in the lower right
    • Position the box
    • Click the camera again
    • Name the image
    • (Now is a good time to post to Facebook if you do that sort of thing)
  • Create a zip file
    • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\Packages\zubaz.candidate
    • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\Configs\zubaz.candidatecfgxml
    • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\zubaz.candidatexml
  • Go to https://www.wincustomize.com/upload2.aspx?libid=74
    • Fill in the form.
      • The sytem will size down your canidates image . .so go bigger rather than smaller
        • The snapshot is located DRIVE\YourUserName\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Snapshots
      • Browse to the zip file
      • Fill in the description
        • Give some history.  Give some stats.  Give some story.
  • Wait for the submission to go through moderation.
    • Testing to make sure it works.
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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top

I read on the forum that characters from TPM 2008 are compatible with TPM 2012, if that is correct could you guys upload all the characters from TPM 2008 that are not in TPM 2012 onto WinCustomize? I don't have my copy of TPM 2008 anymore and my Bill Richardson character won't look as good as yours did :D

Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top

Also, could you explain how to get the characters to show up in game? I put the file in the My Games/PolMachine2012/Candidates/Packages folder, but they're not actually in the game. I noticed that my own custom characters don't only have .candidate files but they also have .candidatexml files in the Candidates folder as well as another .candidatecfgxml file in the Config folder.

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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting liberalsentinel, reply 2
Also, could you explain how to get the characters to show up in game? I put the file in the My Games/PolMachine2012/Candidates/Packages folder, but they're not actually in the game. I noticed that my own custom characters don't only have .candidate files but they also have .candidatexml files in the Candidates folder as well as another .candidatecfgxml file in the Config folder.
End of liberalsentinel's quote
For now, you should zip up the three files that make up a candidate before uploading.

 

For example: C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\Packages\zubaz.candidate

  • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\Configs\zubaz.candidatecfgxml
  • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\zubaz.candidatexml

And then unzip them into the proper directories.  They will then show up in game.

 

 

Reply #5 from PolMach Forums Top

To share a candidate.

  • Fire up TPM 2012
  • Create you candidate
    • Customize the stats
    • Customize the bobblehead
  • Take the picture
    • Click on Customize Bobblehead from the edit screen
    • Click the camera in the lower right
    • Position the box
    • Click the camera again
    • Name the image
    • (Now is a good time to post to Facebook if you do that sort of thing)
  • Create a zip file
    • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\Packages\zubaz.candidate
    • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\Configs\zubaz.candidatecfgxml
    • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Candidates\zubaz.candidatexml
  • Go to https://www.wincustomize.com/upload2.aspx?libid=74
    • Fill in the form.
      • The sytem will size down your canidates image . .so go bigger rather than smaller
        • The snapshot is located DRIVE\YourUserName\Documents\My Games\PolMachine2012\Snapshots
      • Browse to the zip file
      • Fill in the description
        • Give some history.  Give some stats.  Give some story.
  • Wait for the submission to go through moderation.
    • Testing to make sure it works.

 

{Instructions subject to change as testing continues.  :) }