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Thank you, SMZ. Unfortunately, I have only three sub-folders in that folder (_generals_and_captains, _units, attachmentsets) and no other files. I ran the unpacker twice, but that didn't help.
Well, no luck, thanks for help anyway. Will have to bear with invisible units:) (just tried to give Naffatuns to Byzantium).
A question about textures, models, animations and such things(that I have absolutely no idea of):
Are the models(or would that be textures?) of a unit linked with their weapons? Or can you add any weapon you want? For example, say you want to give Ghazi's spears, can you just add "spear" in the EDU file, or would you have to make a new model with a guy with a spear?
sorry to hear Rollon... I'm not very experienced myself, so no clue why yours is different and how to fix
@HoreTore - adding "spear" would just be the first step - second you'd have to go into the modeldb file and alter what weapon the model was equipped with (at least I think that's how it would be done, haven't tried it myself) and the reason I haven't tried it, is the third step - which we can't do right now, (and I don't know how to anyway) is to change the animation so your newly designed soldier doesn't look odd while fighting... ie: if you just put a spear in his hand, he'd just swing it like an axe while in battle
I can however think of a way to do what you want, which is create a new Ghazi unit out of a current spear wielding type of soldier, and disable the old version of Ghazi... ie: use Saracen Militia or something - this is in fact what I did for my Kharijites, used the Saracen soldier as basis and the Afghan Javelinmen for the texture... and tada, spear armed jihad troop
Wasn't really trying to do anything, just wondering if there was a really easy way to make new units... Guess it'll take more time to do so.
@SMZ: your new jihad units sound great. Have you finished making them and if so, do you plan on releasing them because I would be interested to add them to my game too.
yup, they're working just fine - I finally managed to get my Mujahideen to act almost completely like I wanted... they're explosion and subsequent lingering flames on the ground are great - I'm still trying to tinker it to where the explosion is large enough to catch them in the radius, had no luck with that so far - I've worked around it by giving them only one ammo, weak stats and the automatic charge after firing... so usually they go down after completely wrecking an enemy unit
I added one more, and my last Jihad unit yesterday - a fast, tough, small size horse archer for scouting - unit is called the "Sirya" and unlike most of the Jihad mercs, they're found more on the edges of islams domain, rather than the central areas
As far as releasing them as a mod... once I have everything tweaked just right, I might try that - but I really have no clue how, I'm a complete beginner at this, just learn kinda quick I like to think... so that's why I've been just posting the file edits I did, if that's what you meant - I'll make sure to add those onto this thread tonight
Hey SMZ if you're still around can you post up please. Would love to see any progress you made.
Hi All !Quote:
7. Missile Weapons I'll explain this one too later, but I redid a number of the missile unit numbers to fit more what I think history was like.
Self Bow: 120, Longbow: 170, Horse Crossbow: 140, Crossbow: 160, Steel Crossbow: 210, Horse Composite Bow: 150, Composite Bow: 170
Nahptha: 40, Javilin: 55, Pistol: 50, Hand Gun: 100, Arquebus: 140, Musket: 190
Ballista: 225, Catapult: 240, Trebuchet: 290/225
Bombard: 355, Rocket Launcher: 275, Grand Bombard: 410, Mortar: 305, Ribault: 165
Culverin: 460, Cannon: 425, Serpentine: 500, Basilisk: 500, Monster Ribault: 165, Monster Bombard: 500
Elephant Artillery: 380, Elephant Rocketeer: 250
Can someone please tell me how I should change this in the EDU.txt. I'm sure these are values from that file but I don't know what effect these changes will have. Will this affect rate of fire or ... ?
Never mind the last question. There's an explanation on the top of the file which, belive it or not !, I completely overlooked.
What those figures do is change the missile range.
But I still have a question: is it enough just to chage the missile range like that or don't you have to change the weapon itself somewhere ? i.e if I change longbows to range of 190 (example) in unit des file don't I then also have to change the weapon itself somewhere else so that it's range is universally applied to all longbows ?
Thanks for the help.
One more question: How do you increase the rate of fire of the longbow ?
If I change the parameter ; Min delay between attacks (in 1/10th of a second) it does'nt seem to make much of a difference to rate of fire. I'm guessing this refers to melee. So what's the parameter for rate of fire ?
You can't. Swing speeds/fire rates are all controlled directly in the game by animations, which we do not have access to. There's a thread in the mod area Sinan if you can find it, I posted some findings in there along with some others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinan
Edit - Linky: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=82997
@ Carl \/ \/ \/ - Indeed, negative numbers have no effect. I couldn't even get positive numbers to really have an effect either, which leads me to somewhat suspect that this variable is broken or unused.
The value you want is "stat_fire_delay" and it's currentlly as low as it will go. An annoying fact i can tell you.
If I recall the math correctly, the current maximum velocity for arrows is such that it allows a trip of ~230 meters on flat ground. So provided you don't set any ranges too close to that distance, you should not have to modify the projectile stats at all. That's how all bows are controlled, by the way - they fire arrows, which have defined stats in the projectiles file, just like all other projectiles do. As far as the game is concerned actual ranged weapons do not exist - bows or guns are simply graphics attached to soldiers, and have no real game effect. Projectiles do all the work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinan
Hullo, i'd like to request one showing of how to add buildings to a nations building list, tried adding the name in the "requires" field of the desc_building file but it didnt seem to work so obviously im missing something.
Ta muchly :)
Just got net again and the 1.2 patch - fiddling away at the present - will post more soon...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinan
wow wb, youll notice the 1.2 patch is an improvement
I don't see a link to this file in your sig. Can you point me to a place I can find the file?Quote:
Originally Posted by Foz
Thanks.
Nice setup with the adding of units. I'll try that. I'm thinking of modding Norman Knights for the English. Will that be as difficult as adding a new unit?
Another mod I've done is to add Kings Stable to every nation and added the line that upgrades Generals units from Rome. That way you can have late Generals in the late game..
I have Rome removed from my computer, so could you please post the line that upgrades generals?