Maybe you can use this unit for your Champion:
Ah, looking at the posted images helps sometimes...Thanks.
I have seen the Highland swordsman unit before. Not what I am looking for. He uses a great two-handed sword, such as a Claymore. For the Civ I am building, what I am looking for is two seperate short swords, one in each hand, as per the link for the concept: http://img405.imageshack.us/g/pictbrave.jpg/
The Picts did not use two-handed great swords, so it doesn't really fit the Civ I am creating.
I know it is in Cultural Diversity, which is no longer supported by its creator, but I don't know if the model is available seperately.
Wonder if that would work? Could the animation work with the vanilla swordsman, or would it have to work only with the archer?
Might work, but there might be some glitches because the bone structure might differ. The easiest way should be using the archer model with swords instead of knifes, which should be a simple nifswap of weapons. If you don't like the archer model, that one can always be swapped via Blender.I like that idea!
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I've put a unit together with Blender. It uses the standard archer animations.Hey SaibotLieh. Had a close look at the Archer animations in battle, and they would be perfect, except maybe if with long swords, there may be some glitches as the swords go through his own arms. But if not, it would be perfect!! Maybe the swords could be even shorter, like the Roman Gladius?? As the archer puts away his bow and draws out his knives, he pulls them from his back, so there is the potential of having the swords on the units back, until drawn. That might look cool. Although walking around with two swords in hands also looks good.
If it is possible to attach the animations to other units of simular stature, I think Sepamu92's 'Celtic Scout' would be great for the iron age 'Pict Brave' with loin cloth. I have used this unit in my Mod for the 'Pict Scout'. Ambrox62's 'Brit Swordsman' has smaller and nicer swords, and good looking shoulder armour than the vanilla swordsman, and would look great as the 'Pict Champion' or 'Swordsmaster' (swordsmaster sounds better
I did a little photoshop image to show what the units could look like IF they where to work, and IF someone was interested enough to take this on:
http://img863.imageshack.us/g/swordmaster.jpg/
Unfortuneately I only have a Mac, and while I can open blender and view figures, nifskope does not work on a Mac. So I will have to stick to what I do best (graphics) and just hope someone has the time and interest to create these two units. I think they would be a great addition to any Civ.
If someone does take this on, I would certainly help in anyway I could, though other than creating the skins, not sure how I could help. Maybe exchange for some skinning of another unit?
I've put a unit together with Blender. It uses the standard archer animations.
I hope it looks like you imagined.
J_mie6 and SaibothLieh,
you or someone to clear this up for me, please? Is it posible to implement the catamaran from Civ 5 to Civ 4?
xxx.nif are the unshadered units, xxx_fx.nif the shadered ones. xxx.dds are the skin artwork files with teamcolor/transparency information in the alpha channel. xxx_gloss.dds are the files for the gloss (shiny) information. Most of the time they are in greyscale. The brighter, the brigher will that part will shin. Just open the files of known units and you should get the idea how they work.And some file differences like xxx.nif and xxx_fx.nif or xxx.dds or xxx_gloss.dds are also not really clear...
Further, these tutorials might help:The problem here is that you have mixed the settings for a nonshadered and for a shadered unit.Hi guys,
After my few weeks break, I've put together my first Eurasian/East European (Hun/Hungarian) renaissance warlord.
Thanx for SaibothLieh's tutorial:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9203025&postcount=3534
(I used the "normal" renaissance warlord's movement with the skin of the Hungarian musketman. This musketman originally had an independent head, that's why the head and the body are not one mesh)
But there is a thing what I couldn't fix yet: (please see my first attached picture)
Do you know why the skin of the body is fully team-coloured (green)?
Although, the relevant files are in the right folder.
I have tried to do something in Nifscope by change of the setting of the .nif file, but I'm not sure what's the source of this problem.
Nevertheless, I know, if I change the shader line value to "no" in the .nif file's NiTriShape details (see the second picture) the body would be invisible in the Game. Even though in Nifscope looks everithing fine...
Actually, what's the difference between the shader and nonshader units? I mean the file system and Nifscope setting?
May I ask
Could somebody do this?
I've put a unit together with Blender. It uses the standard archer animations.
I hope it looks like you imagined.
bought a new mac now, and thankfully had made a recent back up, so not too much lost. 
