siege weapon textures

[Ibrahim]

Hey,

does anyone know if its possible to give differing factions differing textures, or is it, as I suspect, hardcoaded?

I've been considering making different siege weapons different colors as a source of fun.

[Makanyane]

Do you mean rams or onagers?

Onagers yup, give the faction its own onager in EDU using a new entry in descr_engines.txt then you can set the path to it's cas file like

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
type lycan_onager
culture all
class onager
projectile boulder

engine_model_group normal
engine_skeleton onager
engine_collision bi/eod2/data/models_engine/onager_lycan.cas
etc.......

If you've got 3D max you can change the texture the .cas is looking for if you haven't
you can copy the cas and put it in other folder like
engine_collision bi/eod2/data/models_engine/greeks/onager_lycan.cas
and the cas file will look in models_engine/greeks/textures so you can put re-coloured texture with same name as old one in there.

Rams and towers I think you can only have as culture specific.... there is a tutorial somewhere in scriptorium on culture specific rams.

[Ibrahim]

Do you mean rams or onagers?

Onagers yup, give the faction its own onager in EDU using a new entry in descr_engines.txt then you can set the path to it's cas file like

If you've got 3D max you can change the texture the .cas is looking for if you haven't
you can copy the cas and put it in other folder like
engine_collision bi/eod2/data/models_engine/greeks/onager_lycan.cas
and the cas file will look in models_engine/greeks/textures so you can put re-coloured texture with same name as old one in there.

Rams and towers I think you can only have as culture specific.... there is a tutorial somewhere in scriptorium on culture specific rams.

excellent-that is exactly what I need

what is the limit number of siege onagers/engines in descr_engine, if any?

[Makanyane]

what is the limit number of siege onagers/engines in descr_engine, if any?

no idea - copy and paste one of the entries a lot of times and just rename the
'type' entry in each copy if you really want to find out.... I've not seen anyone mention limit so I assume they haven't met it in normal use (?)

[Ibrahim]

no idea - copy and paste one of the entries a lot of times and just rename the
'type' entry in each copy if you really want to find out.... I've not seen anyone mention limit so I assume they haven't met it in normal use (?)

I see.

well, another good piece of news in a series I've mangage to discover.

thanks!