Using civilian unit graphics for combat units

[PawelS]

I'd like to use units like Missionaries and Inquisitors (and perhaps other civilian units, like early Great Generals) as combat units in my mod (with a melee or ranged attack). Is it possible to make changes in the art defines to adapt their animations for combat (they don't have to look very good, I just need something that looks like a unit making an attack), or the models lack appropriate animations, so it's not possible at all?

 

[Gedemon]

Not without creating new animations for those units.

But it may be possible to add ranged effects, and the great general may have a combat animation...

 

[PawelS]

Can you help me with adding the ranged effects? I tried to apply the ranged attack of a Cannon to them using a similar method as it's done with mages (recolored Scouts) in the Fearun Scenario, but it doesn't seem to work...

Also, if an enemy unit attacks a unit based on Missionary graphics in melee, the attacker's attack animation is not displayed.

and the great general may have a combat animation...

Good news, I'm going to use them as heroes in later versions of the mod