disapearring unit.

[jerby]

hi there,

i thought i read that macedon will have silver shields, argyrapdygys ( whatever) so i decided to do my own modding ( read: messing up) and give the silver shield ( not bothering with the name) to macedon. opened up export_descr_unit, placed macedon in it. opened export_descr_builidngs. added it.
stated custom battle, the unit was there ( messed up unit card) but when I zoomed out the unit disapeared.

so:
- how do I change the uit card? ( if it's to advanced don't bother)
-how do I stop the disapearing?

-jerby

[eadingas]

My guess: you forgot to mention sprites in descr_model or you point to a wrong sprite file

[jerby]

sorry, sprites?
i'm a real newb in this. but would liek to learn.

so what are sprites? were? how? is it for the unit card, or teh zoom-out?

[AntiochusIII]

Sprites are for the zoom-out. RTW 1.2 comes with the sprite generator, but needs a command line ( - something..) to activate, just like battle editor. That's all I know.

Oh, and for the picture of the cards you need to unpak some files (in the UI?) and...well...put the Argyraspides (or create your own) in Macedon's list on...some new txt file. (I never unpak the files before.) And of course you can just write your own unit description for Macedon in Data\text\export_units.txt

Bah, I think others know better than me.