Problem with recruitable mercs

**Pannonian** · 06-06-2005, 14:39

You also have to create a new map.rwm file in data\world\maps\base. Rename your old copy in case anything goes wrong, delete map.rwm if you've left it in there, then start a new campaign. The new map.rwm will pick up the new hidden resources. Once the hidden resources are there, changes to units.txt and buildings.txt will be detected without having to start a new campaign.

**khelvan** · 06-07-2005, 06:49

Just to correct an error - it is in fact possible to recruit a unit tagged as "mercenary_unit." The only differences between this type of unit and a "normal" unit are that it can be placed in the mercenary pool (descr_mercenaries.txt) and it will use the mercenary texture in descr_model_battle.txt, no matter which faction recruits it.

Other than that it will be recruited just as any other unit will be. You must add the faction to the ownership line of the unit in export_descr_unit.txt, add a recruitment line (or multiple lines) in export_descr_building.txt, add the hidden resource to the hidden resource list at the begging of export_descr_building.txt, add it to the unit's recruitment line as you have done, and add it to the region's resource list in descr_regions.txt. Then, delete map.rwm and voila! It should work fine.

**Sfwartir** · 06-07-2005, 07:45

Thanks a lot everybody, it seems to work out fine now

**Sfwartir** · 06-10-2005, 11:10

...except, as I just realized, the unit card shows a peasant in a black shirt, and it holds no unit description.
This is kinda weird, 'cause I un-paked and added UNIT and UNIT_INFO for the relevant units from the folder "mercs" in the "pack" folder to my greek_cities UI folder (yes, lots of "folder" in that sentence).
I haven't had any problems with peasants on unit cards since I downloaded xpak and started using it..hrm. Any suggestions?

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-10-2005, 12:02

Sounds like the dictionary name has changed, check inside text\export_units.txt to ensure there's an entry which matches the edu dictionary line.

**Sfwartir** · 06-10-2005, 19:41

Sorry for asking noob questions and all, but the "edu dictionary"? Where do I find that?

**khelvan** · 06-10-2005, 19:44

EDU refers to export_descr_units.txt (sorry, we use abbreviations for common text files). "Dictionary" is quite easy to find if you look in EDU - each unit has a "dictionary" entry. This entry is used in other places, notably to check for a unit card .tga and an info pic .tga. If the dictionary entry changes, you'll need to change the corresponding names of the unit card and unit info pic .tgas.