Um, this is embarrassing but please forget my previous post. It turns out that I made a syntax error in my sql, causing the relevant ArtDefine_UnitMemberCombats and _UnitMemberCombatWeapons to not be inserted.Ahem.
I've now put the mod in question on CivFanatics. The thread for it is over here. It's a bit bothersome to screenshot in mid-attack, but this picture should give you a quick idea of what it does:I never saw your previous post before you edited it out....
What matters is that they work correctly; feel free to show off your work here and let us know how you did it!
I've now put the mod in question on CivFanatics. The thread for it is over here. It's a bit bothersome to screenshot in mid-attack, but this picture should give you a quick idea of what it does:Spoiler :
Copying the game's base .fxsxml and .ftsxml and replacing the bones with ones I actually have, I've reused Civ5 effects for as many of the units in that mod as I could. One tip I can give for if your animations stutter is to look at the timing of the effect compared to the length and timing of your animations. If you run out of animation before one of your effects is scheduled to take place, it will (in the best case scenario) keep running the animation until the appointed time. So if you have imported short animations, you'll want to adjust the effect timings to fit. If the effects include a sound effect that lasts longer than the animation (this can happen with Great People) there's not much you can do.
I was asking for help earlier because I had some trouble getting the redone archers to work, but I've now successfully redone them at the proper size, making the arrows the proper size as well. If you're importing CivIV units, the way to get it right the first time is to use the Scale Correction value when importing the .nif. As a rule of thumb, assuming the unit is properly sized in CivIV, you'll want this value to be 10 times the Scale value of the corresponding Civ5 unit in ArtDefines_UnitMemberInfos. Then use the base Scale value as your own Scale value for the new unit, thereby keeping the effects at the appropriate scale. (Example: regular Civ5 Archers have Scale 0.14000... in the ArtDefines_UnitMemberInfos table, so you'll want to import custom archers with Scale Correction 1.4 and give their entry Scale 0.14 in the database.)
Yeah, basically. Though sometimes ranged units just attack multiple times, especially when bombarding cities and when a heavily damaged ranged unit (with just one model left, say) still deals heavy damage to the enemy (picking off multiple models one attack at a time).
Oh, this was the case too, since I generally tested against weak barbarian units and my test unit only used one member. It was just that often after the first shot, the model animation would play without the railgun effect, and then I'd eventually get a load of them being fired from the one gun at once.
And now for just a bit of showing off:
Trebuchet effects work out really nicely when the size is fixed.Spoiler :
Yeah, basically. Though sometimes ranged units just attack multiple times, especially when bombarding cities and when a heavily damaged ranged unit (with just one model left, say) still deals heavy damage to the enemy (picking off multiple models one attack at a time).
And now for just a bit of showing off:
Wait, are you talking about animations or effects? If you mean effects then I could take a look, but I wonder what I would be doing that you couldn't fiddle around with yourself. If you do mean the animations then you'd have to ask clanky4. He animated the ponies for CivIV and I converted them.
