Civ5 Swordsmen Pak 1

this is the first of hopefully several paks of swordsmen from civ4, converted to civ5....all, except for the egyptian (i think) are Bakuel creations

the files included are the dds's, gr2 and blend for each unit (these are not working "mods" and have only been tested in asset viewer)



DOWNLOAD

Please feel free to link to your favorite civ4 swordsman for inclusion in (hopefully) the next pak.....better yet...GET INSPIRED and convert some more units on your own!

Beautiful.

No, seriously. You are like my hero now.

Are there supposed to be .fxsxml files included in, or can we get them working in-game without them?

yes ! another great one from Bernie! thanks Bernie, they are beautifull.

Looks great, are you planning to do Axemen and Macemen? (these will be needed for modmakers as there aren't such units in Civ5)

Bernie, you're awesome .

Right so...how do I get these in-game without the .fxsxml? O_O I would like to add these to Ancient World.

Putmalk said:

Right so...how do I get these in-game without the .fxsxml? O_O I would like to add these to Ancient World.

Click to expand...

sorry, did not include the fxsxmls for each unit but they are simple enough to make....

use the "standard" swordsman.fxsxml for all the units (they all use civ5 swordsman animations).....all you have to do is rename the particular unit's fxsxml to your convenience, some like more descriptive names, such as "persian_swordsmanV1.fxsxml", i usually just keep it to abbreviations, such as persm1.fxsxml.....

now, open up the file with your favorite "notepad"-type editor and change the name of the gr2 to the name of the gr2 corresponding to the unit (if you use the names of the gr2s in the download, they will be civ5_persm1.gr2, civ5_arasm1.gr2, etc...scroll down some and find the references to "diff and sref" and change the names of those dds files to the one's for the particular units as well...that's about it...now you have the fxsxml for each unit....

if you want to include all the unique units in a mod, you will have to incorporate them correctly by modifying the Civ5ArtDefines_Units.xml and Civ5ArtDefines_UnitMembers.xmls in modbuddy...Nutty gives a fine explination HERE

bernie14 said:

sorry, did not include the fxsxmls for each unit but they are simple enough to make....

use the "standard" swordsman.fxsxml for all the units (they all use civ5 swordsman animations).....all you have to do is rename the particular unit's fxsxml to your convenience, some like more descriptive names, such as "persian_swordsmanV1.fxsxml", i usually just keep it to abbreviations, such as persm1.fxsxml.....

now, open up the file with your favorite "notepad"-type editor and change the name of the gr2 to the name of the gr2 corresponding to the unit (if you use the names of the gr2s in the download, they will be civ5_presm1.gr2, civ5_arasm1.gr2, etc...scroll down some and find the references to "diff and sref" and change the names of those dds files to the one's for the particular units as well...that's about it...now you have the fxsxml for each unit....

if you want to include all the unique units in a mod, you will have to incorporate them correctly by modifying the Civ5ArtDefines_Units.xml and Civ5ArtDefines_UnitMembers.xmls in modbuddy...Nutty gives a fine explination HERE

Click to expand...

Thank you, good sir. I'm quite aware of how to integrate the art into a mod, just needed the know-how for the .fxsxml. The greek swordsman will be a fine addition as the regular swordsman for my Ancient World mod. Thank you very much!

PawelS said:

Looks great, are you planning to do Axemen and Macemen? (these will be needed for modmakers as there aren't such units in Civ5)

Click to expand...

as for right now, certainly i (dont know if others) have yet to discover a way to make new animations for civ5 units...it's been darn difficult to get a working template of existing animation units (see my failure with the archer WIP-not even one response to date....guess this is not too easy)....

i am currently nearly finished with a decent longswordsman template.....with such a unit, the sword can be replaced with an axe or mace, the same can be done with the swordsman, but the animations with be the generic civ5 animations for those templates (for now at least)

consider taking a look at Deliverator's converting civ4 units to civ5 tutorial, and my getting civ5 meshes to create civ5 units tutorials, both use blender (a free program)....making templates is tough, but converting units once the templates are made is not too bad...hopefully more people can get into it....changing heads, weapons and shields should be fairly simple for those with some blender experience since i always include the blend files in the downloads

The animations don't have to be perfect. I need units for my mod, but I don't care much about things like quality of animations... The units I need the most are fantasy priests/wizards and monsters of all kinds, which I guess will be much harder to do than units similar to existing civ5 ones. My mod is still in development and will be for a long time, but if there are no such units for civ5 in the next several months, I will try to convert some civ4 units myself, but I have no idea about 3d animations at all, so I guess it would be hard for me to learn...

(sorry for hijacking the thread)

By the way, I successfully implemented the greek swordsman into my mod, it works and looks fantastic! Great work, matey! Awaiting more!

Thanks for doing these - they look great. Looking forward to putting them in my mod .

Has anyone been able to add these successfully to a mod? I keep getting a CTD every time the game attempts to display one of these units.

EDIT:

Putmalk said:

By the way, I successfully implemented the greek swordsman into my mod, it works and looks fantastic! Great work, matey! Awaiting more!

Click to expand...

Oh, I guess so. Hmm...

EDIT #2:
Had an XML typo. Oops.

Had dark shadered units on display. Anyone with the same problem?

I rename the vanilla civ5_swordsman.fxsxml to russm1.fxsxml, overwrite the strings to russm1_diff.dds and russm1_sref.dds in this fxsxml for the russian swordsman. Got the same result with the egypt swordsman data. So I believe something wrong with my xml in the mod.

Could someone assist me, please? These units are so beautiful and I hope for more to come.

My xml data:
(civ5_units.xml)
<Row>
<Class>UNITCLASS_SWORDSMAN</Class>
<Type>UNIT_RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN</Type>
<PrereqTech>TECH_IRON_WORKING</PrereqTech>
<Combat>11</Combat>
<Cost>75</Cost>
<Moves>2</Moves>
<HurryCostModifier>20</HurryCostModifier>
<CombatClass>UNITCOMBAT_MELEE</CombatClass>
<Domain>DOMAIN_LAND</Domain>
<DefaultUnitAI>UNITAI_ATTACK</DefaultUnitAI>
<Description>TXT_KEY_UNIT_RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN</Description>
<Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_CIV5_ANTIQUITY_SWORDSMAN_TEXT</Civilopedia>
<Strategy>TXT_KEY_UNIT_SWORDSMAN_STRATEGY</Strategy>
<Help>TXT_KEY_UNIT_HELP_SWORDSMAN</Help>
<MilitarySupport>true</MilitarySupport>
<MilitaryProduction>true</MilitaryProduction>
<Pillage>true</Pillage>
<ObsoleteTech>TECH_GUNPOWDER</ObsoleteTech>
<GoodyHutUpgradeUnitClass>UNITCLASS_LONGSWORDSMAN</GoodyHutUpgradeUnitClass>
<AdvancedStartCost>20</AdvancedStartCost>
<XPValueAttack>3</XPValueAttack>
<XPValueDefense>3</XPValueDefense>
<Conscription>1</Conscription>
<UnitArtInfo>ART_DEF_UNIT_RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN</UnitArtInfo>
<UnitFlagIconOffset>14</UnitFlagIconOffset>
<IconAtlas>UNIT_ATLAS_1</IconAtlas>
<PortraitIndex>14</PortraitIndex>
<MoveRate>HEAVY_BIPED</MoveRate>
</Row>

<Row>
<Class>UNITCLASS_SWORDSMAN</Class>
<Type>UNIT_EGYPT_SWORDSMAN</Type>
<PrereqTech>TECH_IRON_WORKING</PrereqTech>
<Combat>11</Combat>
<Cost>75</Cost>
<Moves>2</Moves>
<HurryCostModifier>20</HurryCostModifier>
............

(civ5artdefines_unitmembers.xml)

<UnitMemberArtInfo>
<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_MEMBER_RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN</Type>
<fScale>0.14</fScale>
<Granny>russm1.fxsxml</Granny>
- <Combat>
<Defaults>ART_DEF_RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN</Defaults>
</Combat>
<MaterialTypeTag>ARMOR</MaterialTypeTag>
<MaterialTypeSoundOverrideTag>ARMOR</MaterialTypeSoundOverrideTag>
</UnitMemberArtInfo>

<UnitMemberArtInfo>
<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_MEMBER_EGYPT_SWORDSMAN</Type>
<fScale>0.14</fScale>
<Granny>egysm1.fxsxml</Granny>
- <Combat>
<Defaults>ART_DEF_EGYPT_SWORDSMAN</Defaults>
</Combat>
<MaterialTypeTag>ARMOR</MaterialTypeTag>
<MaterialTypeSoundOverrideTag>ARMOR</MaterialTypeSoundOverrideTag>
</UnitMemberArtInfo>

your "materialtype" seems to be wrong, I used the template of the warrior and it works :


For those who need them here are the art files ready to use. All credits are due to Bernie14;

Edit : I repacked the zip with the codes for the artdefine files. Enjoy.

Thanks for your quick help Hulfgar and yeah, very special thanks to Bernie14 for really great work!

Your structure showed me my mistake. Material using is O.K.(same as vanilla swordsman)
My problem was very simple. The folder of swordsman data must be named like in the unit_art xml defined! (unit: RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN = folder RUSSIA_SWORDSMAN) .... my was RUSSIAN_SWORDSMAN

Patum333 said:

My problem was very simple. The folder of swordsman data must be named like in the unit_art xml defined!

Click to expand...

That can't be it. The folder structure doesn't make a difference.

That can't be it. The folder structure doesn't make a difference.

Click to expand...

I agree. The folder structure is totally irrelevant, as you can check in many mods.

As a matter of fact you could put all files of the mod in one folder if you wanted.

The good news is that you solved your problem the question is : what did you change aside from the folder name ?

I deleted the cache too. Maybe this have worked.

great work as usually