How to; allow officers to keep weapons on precursor units

[wlesmana]

I solved it by simply cloning the weapon twice and renaming them as secondary weapon and fakeweapon. I hope nobody will look so closely to my models.

Actually, just clone the weapon, call one "primary weapon" and the other "secondary weapon". All this does is make the file slightly larger by a few bytes. In-game the model will only show either primary or secondary weapon. Of course, you also have the option of not labelling the weapon either primary or secondary weapon. The downside to this is the weapon stays with the model even when the soldier/officer dies.

[Red Spot]

Actually, just clone the weapon, call one "primary weapon" and the other "secondary weapon". All this does is make the file slightly larger by a few bytes. In-game the model will only show either primary or secondary weapon. Of course, you also have the option of not labelling the weapon either primary or secondary weapon. The downside to this is the weapon stays with the model even when the soldier/officer dies.

Iirc, that doesnt work. The game removes the primairy weapon from officers when pilum trowing units run out of ammo, but doesnt swap it to a secondairy weapon .... iirc .. (I remember I tried that and it didnt work, but it has been some time that I messed around with this ...)

[wlesmana]

I've never tested it on pilum units so I can't say. I tested it on bow units and the officers keep their weapons (more like, they swapped one for another but they look the same). I personally never bothered with it and labeled officer's weapons as "weapon" so they are never swapped.