Slave to Faction Question

[Bwian]

OK Unit cards....here we go!

First off, we are just going to 'borrow' another set of unit cards from the Roman Velite Gladiator. IF you want to change them afterwards, you can do so in Photoshop or PSP. You will need to watch out for the alpha textures if you do though! Don't know how good you are in Photoshop / PSP but this should get you started!

Step 1... Find your unit cards!

If you look in your RTW data folder, yo ushould find a folder called 'UI'
Inside this folder you will need to find 2 folders

a) UNIT_INFO

b) UNITS

There are unit pictures in both of these folders, and you will need to do both for a 'proper job'

Starting with UNIT_INFO :

Find the ROMANS_JULII folder. Inside this folder, you should find a unit card with a file namee of 'ROMAN_VELITE_GLADIATOR_INFO.tga'
This is the picture that displays when you select the detail of the unit in the build unit. It's coloured 'red' since it's a Julii unit, but you could carefully paint out hte red and put in something more thracian later on! Copy this file, and paste it into the 'THRACIAN' folder, Change the name from 'ROMAN' to THRACIAN. Now...you remember in the previous section we named our unit 'thracian_velite_gladiator' ... well,the unit card MUST have the same name for it to link up ( just with _INFO tacked on the end! ). so you get

THRACIAN_VELITE_GLADIATOR_INFO.tga

Easy :D

Now for UNITS :

These are the unit cards that display at the bottom of the screen when you use the unit in combat, and also in the selection screen for a custom battle.

Go into the UNITS folder, and find the folder for ROMANS_JULII. Again, we are going to copy the Roman one, so it will be in a red uniform. You can change this later.
Find the file named '#ROMAN_VELITE_GLADIATOR.tga' and copy it. Go to the THRACIAN folder ( in UNITS this time though) and paste it in. Again, change the name to read

THRACIAN_VELITE_GLADIATOR.tga

And you are done!

[LestaT]

Don't we have to add something in descreption_unit_battle ? I was trying to change something basically like this but it CTD.

Thanks. in advance.

[Epistolary Richard]

Please check the name of the file you're referring to, because they all sound similar but have very different effects. Hard to help unless we know what you're taking about
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[Ciaran]

That would be descr_model_battle.txt, and yes, you need to make an entry there, too, to tell the engine which skin to use for the new faction. One skin can be used many times over, but the line has to be there.