2 Unit-Related Mod Questions...

[mrkingkong]

Hey there, il keep this short and sweet:

1. Is there a limit to the number of new units you can add to the game without doing "dodgy things" to the civilopedia etc?
Because i have added a few new units, and they all worked fine. I have now added two further units and all of a sudden there is no pedia entry for these two units- im talking just the .dds button pic and NOTHING ELSE on the units' pedia screen.

2. Can i just change the scale of units to make them bigger/smaller (eg. a giant would have, say, 0.8 scale) without altering their specific animations and dds textures etc?

Thank you,
mrkingkong

 

[NikNaks]

1. No. You've done one of two things. Either you've mis-referenced the KFM (which is most likely) or you've not referenced the ART_DEF_UNIT entry.

2. Yep, add (or change) the <fScale> tag in the ArtDefines file.

 

[mrkingkong]

Thank you kindly.

On looking at the file and "fiddling" (technical term) with the kfm, i found that it was my kfm that was the problem. I used a different kfm and it was all fine and dandy.

Just for my general interest, what are the kfm and nif files? Is the nif the model and the kfm the animation, or something like that? Or is it far more technical and complex and im being a bit of a noob?

thanks,
kingkong

 

[NikNaks]

Nope, that's right. The kf and kfm files are animations while the nif is the model itself.