Armour Upgrade System

[Rhyfelwyr]

When a blacksmith upgrades a units armour, does it upgrade, say all light mail armoured troops in the settlement, to heavy mail. Or, would it be triggered for individual units. For example, the first level blacksmith might read:

Peasants +1 armour
Peasant Archers +1 armour

Just wondering for a mod I am working on...

[Kobal2fr]

Not sure what you want to know exactly. But armour upgrades work that way : each unit type has an "armour_ug_levels" line in the export_descr_units.txt that dictates their starting armour type, how many upgrades they can get and which level of blacksmith gives it to them.

Example :
Peasants 0,1
Peasant Archers 0,1,2
Armored Sarges 2,3

etc..., 0 being naked, 1 leather, 2 light mail etc...

[Rhyfelwyr]

For example, the Highland Nobles read

type             Highland Nobles
dictionary       Highland_Nobles      ; Highland Nobles
category         infantry
class            heavy
voice_type       Heavy
banner faction   main_infantry
banner holy      crusade
soldier          Highland_Nobles, 48, 0, 1.2
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw
formation        1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         14, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, slashing, sword, 25, 1.3
;stat_pri_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 25, 1
;stat_sec_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  5, 4, 0, metal
;stat_armour_ex   5, 7, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        4
stat_ground      1, -2, 3, 2
stat_mental      9, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 490, 175, 90, 70, 490, 4, 120
armour_ug_levels 2, 3
armour_ug_models Highland_Nobles, Highland_Nobles_ug1
ownership        scotland
era 1            scotland
era 2            scotland
;unit_info        14, 0, 9

The number 2 is bold above shows they have light mail armour. Is the 3 following it code for the level of blacksmith that upgrades to the next armour model? Is the 3 the actual code itself?

[Kobal2fr]

3 tells the game that any blacksmith building at or above level 3 can upgrade it, yes, and Highland_Nobles_ug1 tells the game which model to upgrade them to.

And no, it's not the actual code for the process, the EDU merely lists variables and stats, not how they are used by which function where to do what, sadly.
Would make our modding work a lot easier though, wouldn't it ?