Arabian Cavalry

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Rabbit, White

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #1

This was requested by J_Period.

Download

Thanks to RogerBacon for pointing out a feature of NIF Viewer I didn't think of (and that came in handy while making this unit).

The art definition of the unit (CIV4ArtDefines_Unit.xml) should be something like this (of particular importance are the bolded parts):

Code:

<UnitArtInfo>
	<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_ARABIAN_CAVALRY</Type>
	<fScale>0.42</fScale>
	<fInterfaceScale>0.9</fInterfaceScale>
	[b]<NIF>Art/Units/arabian_cavalry/arabian_cavalry.nif</NIF>
	<KFM>Art/Units/Scenario/companion_cavalry/companion_cavalry.kfm</KFM>
	<SHADERNIF>Art/Units/arabian_cavalry/arabian_cavalry_FX.nif</SHADERNIF>[/b]
	<ShadowDef>
		<ShadowNIF>Art/Units/01_UnitShadows/HorseShadow.nif</ShadowNIF>
		<ShadowAttachNode>BIP Pelvis</ShadowAttachNode>
		<fShadowScale>1.0</fShadowScale>
	</ShadowDef>
	<fBattleDistance>0.35</fBattleDistance>
	<fRangedDeathTime>0.31</fRangedDeathTime>
	<bActAsRanged>0</bActAsRanged>
	<TrainSound>AS2D_UNIT_BUILD_UNIQUE_UNIT</TrainSound>
	<AudioRunSounds>
		<AudioRunTypeLoop/>
		<AudioRunTypeEnd/>
	</AudioRunSounds>
</UnitArtInfo>

Enjoy

P.S. The shield and the scimitar are suppose to be shiny, but they're not, I have no idea why (it works with other units).

 

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GeoModder

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #2

Nice one.

 

seZereth

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #3

good stuff!
another thing i will have to reskin for WH FB

But please tell us (or me) the mysterious nifviewer feature you talk about!!!

 

Ploeperpengel

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #4

Awesome Rabbit! think we should delay the public release to put that in too first

 

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Rabbit, White

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #5

seZereth said:

good stuff!
another thing i will have to reskin for WH FB

But please tell us (or me) the mysterious nifviewer feature you talk about!!!

Click to expand...

Oh it's nothing big, but scaling bone nodes scales anything skinned to them, and in this case I scaled the ponytail node to 0.5 thus removing the ponytail.

 

seZereth

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• Mar 26, 2006

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Rabbit said:

Oh it's nothing big, but scaling bone nodes scales anything skinned to them, and in this case I scaled the ponytail node to 0.5 thus removing the ponytail.

Click to expand...

I dont know if i understand u right, but well, i will try around with that and if i does what i think it does,... then well, "nothing big" is not the real expression.
But well, i shouldnt cheer before i actually tried around with it!

 

J_Period

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• Mar 26, 2006

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Wow awesome! Thank you!

 

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Wyz_sub10

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• Mar 26, 2006

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Looks perfect for my Yemen mod, when I can do an update.

 

nautil

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #9

great model, as always !

and, will you be so kind to specify what NIF viwer feature you are talking about ? thank you in advance

and another question please, can anybody say if there is a way to edit thread title ? thank you.

 

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Rabbit, White

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #10

@nautil: I explained the feature in post #5, if it's not clear from what I say there just open up a model and change the scale of one of the BIP nodes, you'll see what I mean.

As for the thread title, you can edit it when you go into advanced editing mod (i.e. edit post->go advanced). However, the new thread title will only show up once you open the thread, i.e. as the title of the first post. It will not show up on the boards themselves, and as far as I know there's no way to change that.

 

C.Roland

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• Mar 27, 2006

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Nice job again

Rabbit said:

Oh it's nothing big, but scaling bone nodes scales anything skinned to them, and in this case I scaled the ponytail node to 0.5 thus removing the ponytail.

Click to expand...

Yeah ! I already did it wit the tank explosion for the futuristic shrick's tank remake. The explosion is 10x bigger than normaly.

 

Kael

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #12

I really like the moon shape of that shield. You can just picture him glinting over the top as he charges into archer ranks.

 

Thunderfall

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• Mar 28, 2006

• #13

Nice looking unit there, Rabbit, White.

You should announce your work in this new file announcement thread for inclusion in the weekly announcement. This way alot more people will see it.

 

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Rabbit, White

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• Mar 28, 2006

• #14

Thanks, I'll make sure and do that for my next units.

 

Los Tirano

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• May 19, 2006

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This is really good. I like it, and since i play Arabs i look forward to using it.

 

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• May 20, 2006

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Ansar warrior reborn!

 

tlucky4life

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• Jun 19, 2006

• #17

I know thgis is a month old thread but I have a request could you make this unit as a regular swordsman, not on the horse? This is a great unit Im a big fan.