Adding units

[SilentDeathja]

Hey all, first time i have gave modding a go.... I have been using the unit modding guide. However i have messed up at some point and there is no unit appearing in custom game or campaign. Any one know what i have messed up? :P(I have added what faction and what building with the gnome editor.)

Thx in advanced & soz about the lack of grammer i'm dyslexic :P

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Welcome to the Org, SilentDeathja. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

Checklist of files to change:

crusaders_unit_prod11
Battle/UnitIcons - Add pic
campmap/Info_Pics/Units - Add Pic
campmap/review_panel/Units - Add Pic
Loc/Eng/Descriptions - Add description
Loc/Eng/names - Add single and plural forms of name
Textures/Men/deadpage coords - add corpse
Textures/Men/{name of bif file defined in unitprod}- weapon and shield files
Textures/Men/Items - Folder in each of the weapons and shields the unit uses
Textures/Men/ActionsPage - File defining actions

I can't think of any others. Double-check you've done all of those. Not all of them would stop the unit running, though.

The only other thing I can think of is that the unit might be limited to an era, and you might be looking in the wrong one. If you can't find the problem, it might help if you could post back what unit you pasted over to use as a template (if any), and whether you get any error messages when you start the game.
Maybe Gregoshi could send this over to the Alchemist's Lab to get the (as good as) pro's on the case. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

Schrodie's Cat

[tombom]

Maybe you have exceeded the limit for units (255/256). You could also have done something wrong with the requirements.

Oh, and hi http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[SilentDeathja]

Hm i'm pretty sure i have done most of it right have looked thru it all anyways how would i go about allowing the irish the abilty of building celtic warriors what files would i have to change? have also tryed and failed at this rofl :P

[cutepuppy]

Maybe a stupid question, but did you use the correct files? If you want to give the Irish a new unit, you have to use the viking production file, not the crusader unit production.

[SilentDeathja]

yeah all i done was put FN_01 in the faction association list for cletic warriors but they don't seem to appear in custom battles lol i know i must be doing somthing stupidly easy wrong :/

[Gregoshi]

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif Welcome to the Org SilentDeathja.

I'm going to move this to the Dungeon -> Alchemist lab forum. The experts there will give you a hand.