how can i create a unit of 1 soldier only?

[attila_of_nazareth]

ah i see! the men are there btw they were hidden by the sheer size of the giant lols.
he doesn’t act like an elephant at least he is not on all fours.

now i just got to change the movement speed and the way he attacks, at the moment he acts like other soldiers but slashes away in the air.
thanks a lot makanyane!

how many riders must go in desc mount? i put 12 and got an error

[Makanyane]

yeah I didn't mean he'd be on all fours... the skeleton animation you use in DMB determines that bit, but you should find that he's throwing other units around and 'trampling' them


note he can only use the secondary attack in EDU as an attack - the primary attack goes to the riders and as they aren't attached properly to the mount will give crash if they try to use it.


in descr_mount.txt - did you also add offset's for the right number of riders? if you look at existing ones it has

tusk_radius 5
riders 13
rider_offset 0.0, 4.75, 5.224
rider_offset 1, 4.94, 3.0
rider_offset -1, 4.94, 3.0
rider_offset 1, 4.94, 1.9
rider_offset -1, 4.94, 1.9
rider_offset 1, 4.94, 0.8
rider_offset -1, 4.94, 0.8
rider_offset 1, 4.94, -0.3
rider_offset -1, 4.94, -0.3
rider_offset 1, 4.94, -1.4
rider_offset -1, 4.94, -1.4
rider_offset 1, 4.94, -2.5
rider_offset -1, 4.94, -2.5

for oliphant - 13 riders = 13 rider_offset lines required.

EDIT:(I must admit I've had trouble getting these type units working properly too! Ours did in the end but he was meant to have 12 per unit so set ups a bit different)

[attila_of_nazareth]

makanyane, hi

you should find that he’s throwing other units around and ‘trampling’ them

that looks ok when you have a giant taller than the trees lol [9.0 scale]
i use the elephant indian, it has 3 riders, so i presume then that i make it 1 rider and 1 offset!

tusk_radius 2.0
riders 3
rider_offset 0.0, 1.225, 1.306
rider_offset 0.0, 1.1, 0.5
rider_offset 0, 1.1, -.25

to

riders 1
rider_offset 0.0, 1.225, 1.306


thanks for your help mate, this has been surprisingly difficult.

[Bardo]

I have posted some info in the complete edu guide related to this topic. I'm sory I didn't see this thread before:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...t=88860&page=3

the number of soldiers is based on the number of riders.

If you put 12 invisible riders per mount, and make the unit size 6, then even on large unit sizes the 1 mount will be 1 unit I believe.

I'm afraid it is not than simple, but something similar is possible. The number of riders acts as a maximum of crew for a certain mount, but it does not define the number of soldiers per mount. It is the EDU entry soldiers/extras, I think.
If you make the unit size 6 and the number of riders 12, it will appear 12 soldiers with 2 mounts on large settings, and 24 soldiers with 4 mounts on huge. I have tryed it for long time until I have found the effect of the attribute general_unit over the minimum soldiers of a unit.

Note: sorry for talking about the same issue on several threads, but I have found it interesting enough to redirect all them to my answer.