Cannot find art

[IbnSina]

Sorry to trouble you. I have added some units to a personal mod, and they work great... except that the game cannot find the art for anything. Every unit looks like a spearman, though it has all the stats and such that I assigned for game play. I used Kael's tutorial as my guide, but I note now that the moderators have indicated that it has much out of date. My current attempt used Gedemon's XML as a template, but... still no joy. At this point I am at a loss to understand what is modern, what is not, and generally how I have gone wrong. I would appreciate any help anyone can give.

Part of the current XML follows. Incidentally, I know many people prefer modding the SQL directly, and I know SQL, but I like the organized look of the XML. Personal preferences...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Created by ModBuddy on 7/20/2016 6:40:46 PM -->
<GameData>
	<ArtDefine_UnitInfos>
		<Row>
			<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_MOD_MERCENARY</Type>
			<DamageStates>1</DamageStates>
			<Formation>Barbarian</Formation>
		</Row>
	</ArtDefine_UnitInfos>

	<ArtDefine_UnitInfoMemberInfos>
		<Row>
			<UnitInfoType>ART_DEF_UNIT_MOD_MERCENARY</UnitInfoType>
			<UnitMemberInfoType>ART_DEF_UNIT_MEMBER_MERCENARY</UnitMemberInfoType>
			<NumMembers>9</NumMembers>
		</Row>
	</ArtDefine_UnitInfoMemberInfos>

	<ArtDefine_UnitMemberInfos>
		<Row>
			<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_MEMBER_MERCENARY</Type>
			<Scale>0.14</Scale>
			<Model>Assets/Units/Art/halberdier/halberdier.fxsxml</Model>
			<MaterialTypeTag>METAL</MaterialTypeTag>
			<MaterialTypeSoundOverrideTag>METALSM</MaterialTypeSoundOverrideTag>
		</Row>
	</ArtDefine_UnitMemberInfos>

	<ArtDefine_UnitMemberCombats>
		<Row>
			<UnitMemberType>ART_DEF_UNIT_MEMBER_MERCENARY</UnitMemberType>
			<EnableActions>Idle Attack RunCharge AttackCity Death BombardDefend Run Fortify CombatReady</EnableActions>
			<DisableActions></DisableActions>
			<HasShortRangedAttack>1</HasShortRangedAttack>
			<HasRefaceAfterCombat>0</HasRefaceAfterCombat>
			<HasIndependentWeaponFacing>1</HasIndependentWeaponFacing>
		</Row>
	</ArtDefine_UnitMemberCombats>

	<ArtDefine_UnitMemberCombatWeapons>
		<Row>
			<UnitMemberType>ART_DEF_UNIT_MEMBER_MERCENARY</UnitMemberType>
			<Index>0</Index>
			<SubIndex>0</SubIndex>
			<VisKillStrengthMin>10</VisKillStrengthMin>
			<VisKillStrengthMax>20</VisKillStrengthMax>
			<WeaponTypeTag>METAL</WeaponTypeTag>
			<WeaponTypeSoundOverrideTag>SWORD</WeaponTypeSoundOverrideTag>
		</Row>
	</ArtDefine_UnitMemberCombatWeapons>
</GameData>

 

[whoward69]

No such file as "Assets/Units/Art/halberdier/halberdier.fxsxml" in the base game that I can see, so if this is a custom model, make sure you have all the correct attributes on your files (typically VFS=true) - see the third link in my sig

 

[IbnSina]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, that's right. This was a new unit I was trying to add (thanks Zwei833!), and I put it in that directory. My biggest problem was confusion over differences between Kael's discussion of unit art and Gedemon's.

It turns out that I got this to work last night. I used an SQL tool to view the actual databases, got the column names and so on, and compared my data with what the game saw for other comparable units. I have modified my code to show what was needed to make it work.

For future reference, I can say that Gedemon's tutorial is correct. Kael's tutorial is fine for the unit behavior definitions and promotions and such, but his discussion of the art defines is now obsolete.