What makes units able to ride on horses?

[Malachus]

I tried to give some greek cavalry units an officer (not captain), but when the game loaded, these cavalry units had the officer... but he was standing on a horse, not riding one. Is there a simple fix to this or not?

[hoggy]

You need to give him a cavalry animation in descr_model_battle. It sounds like you've taken a ground unit and made him a cavalry officer.

[Bwian]

You need to change the skeleton used in descr_model_battle to one from a cavalry unit. The model is OK...it will work on a horse....you just need to give it a horse-riding skeleton. The animations will follow ;)

[Kraxis]

So if I copy the
"skeleton_horse fs_hc_swordsman"
to the various standardbearers and officers it should be fixed? Or am I missing something here?

[Malachus]

OK, thanks for the help guys. One more question, what if I wanted to make a standard infantry unit able to ride a horse, is there such an easy fix too or do I have to do more?

[Kraxis]

Apparently it wasn't as easy as I thought.

I copied the said line from the general to first the greek standardbearer then an early centurion. But neither worked (CTD) when I added them to a cavalry unit.

Should I add the entire four lines? What am I doing wrong here?