How to change merc's so that they adopt your factions color??

**Plantagenet** · 10-19-2004, 21:45

You have to modify the textures themselves and then create new unit cards so they appear correctly in info/review panels.

I'm about to try it myself (convert Greek Hoplites to Macedonian faction); from what I understand, you need 3D Studio Max with the .CAS plugin to edit the models/textures, and you have to unpack the unit card files from the pak folder to edit them. I don't expect it to be overly difficult since all I'm doing is changing colors...assuming it works, I'll be back with a step-by-step...

**Duke John** · 10-20-2004, 05:27

At the moment I think it's impossible. But I would like to see it working, so when I have time I will certainly test some possibilities.

**Ypoknons** · 10-20-2004, 09:57

Actually I think the textures are in one of the pak files, already ready in dds format for editing.

**Duke John** · 10-20-2004, 14:14

Editing textures is not the problem. The problem is assigning different textures to mercenaries. They are green for a reason; it's the common colour for all mercenaries. Probably done by CA to make the stand out from the regular troops. Mercenaries don't swear allegiance to a particular faction so it is in a sense logical to give them no faction colour.

**Ypoknons** · 10-20-2004, 16:35

Sorry I meant that to Plantagenet's comment... Good point about the common color thing though. I've always thought that adding an entry in the descr_model_battle.txt would work... I suppose it doesn't?

**Plantagenet** · 10-21-2004, 06:39

Originally Posted by Ypoknons

Sorry I meant that to Plantagenet's comment... Good point about the common color thing though. I've always thought that adding an entry in the descr_model_battle.txt would work... I suppose it doesn't?

Just ignore Plantagenet's comment.

You were right, they were in the pak files...and I've been looking through all the .dds and .cas files with Photoshop & 3DS Max, and I have no friggin' idea what I'm doing.

When somebody else posts a step-by-step, maybe I'll try again.

**Plantagenet** · 10-21-2004, 07:00

Ok, the textures I wanted to create already exist in the pak files (Greek Hoplites & Armored Hoplites with Macedonian colors).

So how do I make RTW use them instead of the Greek colors? I've already edited the appropriate text files to allow Macedonia to recruit them.