I have a question:
I plan on having a conjurer, who supposedly "conjures" some beast to fight along him in battle.
If I manage that just by having the unit consist of 3 or 4 "units" (like the settler)- one "conjurer" and 2 "beasts";
is there a way to ensure the beasts fight first, i.e. the conjurer begins to fight only after both beasts are "killed" ? I mean, to avoid "a beast appears to remain without a conjurer" situation.

Of course, ideally I would have the conjurer appear alone, and the beast(s) appearing only in time of battle. Maybe that's possible?

I have a question:
I plan on having a conjurer, who supposedly "conjures" some beast to fight along him in battle.
If I manage that just by having the unit consist of 3 or 4 "units" (like the settler)- one "conjurer" and 2 "beasts";
is there a way to ensure the beasts fight first, i.e. the conjurer begins to fight only after both beasts are "killed" ? I mean, to avoid "a beast appears to remain without a conjurer" situation.

Of course, ideally I would have the conjurer appear alone, and the beast(s) appearing only in time of battle. Maybe that's possible?
I don't know if the order of attacking can be modified in any way, but making the beasts invisible during, for example, the idle animation is not much of a problem. Creating a nice effect for their appearance is harder though and one for their disappearance might even be impossible.

making the beasts invisible during, for example, the idle animation is not much of a problem.

Firstly I'll opt just for this.


... by the way, I've understood at last how and where are the sounds and effects referenced :) I'll start experimenting tomorrow.

... and I'll also try to make alter one of your elemental mages to make some kind of a male verision

Firstly I'll opt just for this.


... by the way, I've understood at last how and where are the sounds and effects referenced :) I'll start experimenting tomorrow.

... and I'll also try to make alter one of your elemental mages to make some kind of a male verision
Sounds good. Drop me a line if you are stuck somewhere and I'll try to help. After you have managed to change the sounds/effects I can explain you how to change visibility.

Edit: You also might find some help in this thread (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=377315). We've done some basic and somme advanced NifSkope modification work there.

woohoo Managed to change the sounds and effects of veBear's mounted mages ! (I used the fire effect from your elemental mage); it works good enough for now. :)

Firstly I'll opt just for this.
... and I'll also try to make alter one of your elemental mages to make some kind of a male verision
this I'll pass for now, I'll never succeed.


conjurers... uhm... meanwhile It'll just be 3 meshes - 1 conjurer, 2 beasts.

A question

getting svartalfar druid from FFH2 gave this:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=309799&stc=1&d=1324648581

is there a way to get rid of that pink square? Is it something about some graphical issues handled differently in FFH2?

It seems that there's an effect attached to the staff, so you dig through the .nif itself to see how it is named, and then take a look at the EffectInfos.xml from FfH2 to find the definition there.

fixed! thx!

It was dds's files from FFH2 shared folder, copying them solved it. :D

Another question: (I don't want to start yet another thread)

What governs how injured units are shown? I mean, if the unit is 3 meshes, and it's strength is 1/3, only 1 will show. I want for 1 specific unit to show all of the meshes, even if it's injured.