Adding shields to bif folder problems

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Yesterday I added a shield in the bifs of the fullplatarmour folder. It was a teutonic one, rectangular, as I wanted to make a teutonic foot knight. I inserted the correct line based on the xy coordinates into the shields file and assigned the unit shield number two.

I then went into the items folder, copied the Hospitaller shield from the shield 1 folder into the shield 2 folder and renamed it accordingly.

WHen I started a battle a strange thing happened. The unit had the new shield but it flashed on and off.

Does anyone know why this happens? Was I supposed to change anything in the shields folder in the items folder? Or is it something to do with the bifs? Remember, this is my first crack at adding a weapon or shield to the bif folder.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

UPDATE:

I tried to add a flail weapon into the ltopophelmet folder and experienced the same problem. Now I think it might be the colour palette, but I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. Can anyone who has already added weapon and shield bifs give me a hand?

[Lord Krazy]

I'm not tring to be smart but did you put the shield
and weapon on all 12 frames of the bif ?

Your not the first person to ask that question
and it's always the same answere . http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif


LK http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Thank you and god bless.