British Grenadiers

[dclare4]

Hi guys. I've been trying to mod the Janissary archers into turn of the (18th) century British Grenadiers. My goodness there are 12 frames of animation to do So I finished with one but then I tried extracting all the files to BMP format so I could just clone stamp most of the figure then fill in the parts that move but I can't get the darn file to IMPORT to BIF reader. It always messes up the bmp file or the bif file.

How in the world did you guys, the Lords, do all those Napoleonic units? It must have taken ages. Ditto for the Patrician mod. I'm impressed I can barely get through 3 frames of British grenadiers.

This is, by the way, for this Jacobite Total War mod that I'm working on.

Lord de Clare

[RabidMonkey]

Sorry I cant help but this is something that Im also trying to do and being new to MTW modding im finding it very hard.

Hopefully one of the hardcore modders might give us some hints on how they speed up the process.

I think it does just involve a lot of work

At the moment im trying to mod the celtic warrior (Toplessloon bif) to give it more of a wild celt flavour. This is easy as i the base figure is already done but its still slow work.

[Lord Krazy]

LD4
it's most likely because the colours you have chosen
do not match with the pallet from the bif
you are trying to import the bmp into.

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[Ithaskar Fëarindel]

Suggest you check out the "adding new factions to VI" thread (pinned near top.) The last 2/3 pages. I had some problems with the palette import myself and if you're importing a picture into a completely different palette like I was then the only possible way is to to what I did and spend HOURS copying the palette accross manually http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

[dclare4]

I didn't change the palette at all. I have one frame set practically done but when I tried to clone (from that original frame) on the other frame sets with minor variations that I later drew in, it didn't work, the frame set didn't load. I can't figure it out.

Lord de Clare

[Lord Krazy]

Are you using bifreader2.2?
if so
use bifreader 2.1
or
save the .bif as a .txt and remove all the underscores
"_" in the name . Then it will appear.
If that's your problem ?

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