Help with Switching Units to other Factions

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Originally Posted by Veris

I have been trying to give Pontus ownership of the Hai unit Zrahakir Netadzik (armored horse archers), but my efforts have only led to continual CTDs upon startup. Somewhere I must have made a mistake or was not comprehensive enough, most likely in the EDB as it is the most complex but the EDU is also acting strangely.

I uploaded the files to check for any issues.

What I've done since I was last able to play the game:

-Copied the Zrahakir Netadzik .tga files into the carthage subfolder in both UI/Units and UI/Unit Info.

-In the EDU I put carthage next to romans_scipii in the unit ownership line.

-Created another line of model_sprite code for carthage in the DMB.

-In the EDB I put carthage next to romans_scipii in every recruitment line where Zrahakir Netadzik is. I read that one must put the Zrahakir Netadzik in Pontus's MIC locations but is this relevant since Pontus/Hayasdan seem to share the same MICs?

As far as I've found by searching this was all that was needed to be done, but it doesn't seem to be sufficient.

You seem to have done every step needed so it's probably a simple mistake somewhere. Couldn't find your uploaded files so I'll just put what you should have put in the various files here.

EDU

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;9 type eastern missile cavalry zrahakir netadzik dictionary eastern_missile_cavalry_zrahakir_netadzik ; Zrahakir Netadzik category cavalry class heavy voice_type General_1 soldier steppe_cavalry_zradhashivatir_zrahakirnetadzik, 25, 0, 1 mount hellenistic kataphraktoi horse mount_effect elephant -1, chariot +2 attributes sea_faring, hide_forest formation 1.5, 4, 3, 6, 4, square stat_health 1, 2 stat_pri 5, 44, arrow, 187, 40, missile, archery, piercing, none, 15 ,1 stat_pri_attr no stat_sec 4, 44, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, piercing, spear, 200 ,0.4 stat_sec_attr ap stat_pri_armour 20, 8, 0, metal stat_sec_armour 0, 0, metal stat_heat 4 stat_ground 0, 0, -4, -1 stat_mental 13, disciplined, highly_trained stat_charge_dist 30 stat_fire_delay 0 stat_food 60, 300 stat_cost 1, 4165, 1041, 274, 1276, 4165 ownership romans_scipii, carthage

EDB

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recruit "eastern missile cavalry zrahakir netadzik" 0 requires factions { romans_scipii, carthage, } and hidden_resource EA and hidden_resource C and hidden_resource y1 and hidden_resource n2 and hidden_resource n4 and hidden_resource n8 recruit "eastern missile cavalry zrahakir netadzik" 0 requires factions { romans_scipii, carthage, } and hidden_resource SW and hidden_resource D and hidden_resource n1 and hidden_resource n2 and hidden_resource y4 and hidden_resource y8 recruit "eastern missile cavalry zrahakir netadzik" 0 requires factions { romans_scipii, carthage, } and hidden_resource EA and hidden_resource C and hidden_resource y1 and hidden_resource y2 and hidden_resource n4 and hidden_resource n8

DMB

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; Eastern cavalry - Zradha Shivatir / Zrahakir Netadzik (Armenian) type steppe_cavalry_zradhashivatir_zrahakirnetadzik skeleton fs_mounted_archer, fs_thp_m_spearman indiv_range 40 texture parthia, eb/data/models_unit/textures/eastern/ebeastern_cavalry_zradha_shivatir_kali_parthia.tga texture romans_scipii, eb/data/models_unit/textures/eastern/ebeastern_cavalry_zrahakir_netadzik_kali_scipii.tga texture carthage, eb/data/models_unit/textures/eastern/ebeastern_cavalry_zrahakir_netadzik_kali_scipii.tga model_flexi eb/data/models_unit/ebeastern_cavalry_zradha_shivatir_netadzik_alin_high.cas, 15 model_flexi eb/data/models_unit/ebeastern_cavalry_zradha_shivatir_netadzik_alin_med.cas, 30 model_flexi eb/data/models_unit/ebeastern_cavalry_zradha_shivatir_netadzik_alin_low.cas, 40 model_flexi eb/data/models_unit/ebeastern_cavalry_zradha_shivatir_netadzik_alin_lowest.cas, max model_sprite parthia, 60.0, eb/data/sprites/eastern/ebsprite_eastern_missile_cavalry_zradha_shivatir_all.spr model_sprite romans_scipii, 60.0, eb/data/sprites/eastern/ebsprite_eastern_missile_cavalry_zrahakir_netadzik_all.spr model_sprite carthage, 60.0, eb/data/sprites/eastern/ebsprite_eastern_missile_cavalry_zrahakir_netadzik_all.spr model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

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Now when I try to start EB (after it was working fine previously) I get midway through the EB loading screen and it ctds. The only thing I can grasp is that every time I start EB and it crashes the EDU gets changed to normal (any attack/morale value I changed gets reset and the Carthage line for ownership gets deleted).

Any help is very much appreciated!

Are you using the trivial script? you need to replace the EDU in the sp game edu backup folder as well.

ps as a little tip for the future put "-show_err" in the target line of your EB icon as this will sometimes tell you whats gone wrong to cause the game to crash.

Target line should be something like this.

Code:

"C:\Games\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -ne

Hope that works out for you!:2thumbsup: