Civ5 Swordsmen Pak 1
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Androrc the Orc
Emperor
I need help with my first try, building a swordsman unit. The problem is, NOTHING to see in the game!!!
Could someone help me please; what is the problem with this model? (maybe the *_sref.dds?)
I haven't myself tried yet to add these swordsmen to the game, but Putmalk has added the Greek Swordsman graphics to his Ancient World mod, so you could take a look at how he set it up there.
Androrc the Orc
Emperor
Oh! Sorry then. Did you try taking a look to see if your unit appears under the game's DirectX 9 version? Some converted Civ4 units seem to only appear under that version, for instance the Spatzimaus' the Age of Ascension's Colony Pod.
bernie14
Filter Manipulator
I need help with my first try, building a swordsman unit. The problem is, NOTHING to see in the game!!!
Could someone help me please; what is the problem with this model? (maybe the *_sref.dds?)
ok...first of all, GOOD JOB!
i took a look at the files and found a couple of issues.....
first, the fxsxml file had some roman legion stuff in it, that may have been causing part of the problem.
next, your blend to fbx export was not "exact".....the model name is cAp_SeNsItIvE, so writing WORLD_Center will cause the model not to move....took me a while to figure this one out....in this case, it is World_Center"
the other thing I noticed was for some reason, your dds file was not showing. i loaded the model in asset viewer and got that white and red checkerboard pattern thing.....i noticed that your dds file was "off" on the usual kb size, so i just resaved it using the DXT1 RBG (or) the DXT3 ARBG and IT WORKED!!!!
i dont think the sref file has any thing to do with the file not working in game, but it is easy to make a proper sref, just take your normal color dds, chage the name to the sref, copy and paste as new layer, darken the new layer and erase the areas that are supposed to be "shiny"....
check out the pic on top that illustrates the steps i've mentioned
you will need to go back to your blend and do a proper/corrected fbx export
i have also included a 7z with the new dds, sref and fxsxml for reference...
GOOD LUCK and keep at it!!!
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Ekmek
on steam: ekmek_e
wow bernie you really know this stuff. probably should add it as trouble shooting to the How to guide.
With your help I hope to finish this work soon. Thank's a lot.
Nutty
Deity
You've got to carefully line everything up with the template model to make sure it looks OK with the existing animations, as described in this tutorial.
unit finished at this http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=18733
Androrc the Orc
Emperor
I found out that my old fxsxml doesn't make a difference. The roman legion stuff in it is o.k. I compare it with the vanilla swordsman.fxsxml. So I test the model with the overwritten vanilla fxsxml, and it worked too!
I'm not sure about the influence of the bone path in the fxsxml, because they are different to the blend file (e.g. <Bone name="HumanRibcage_x"/>) and incomplete too.
But it worked. So anyone can explain this?
Nutty
Deity
I found out that my old fxsxml doesn't make a difference. The roman legion stuff in it is o.k. I compare it with the vanilla swordsman.fxsxml. So I test the model with the overwritten vanilla fxsxml, and it worked too!
I'm not sure about the influence of the bone path in the fxsxml, because they are different to the blend file (e.g. <Bone name="HumanRibcage_x"/>) and incomplete too.
But it worked. So anyone can explain this?
Very nice.
I've found that the .gr2 seems to override <Texture...> and <BoneUsage> in the fxsxml. I'm not sure about the other entries. I suspect that has to do with a difference between the implementation of gr2 that NexusBuddy exports and Firaxis' implementation.
By the way, you didn't rename your sref file, so it will conflict with the existing swordsman3_sref.dds.
bernie14
Filter Manipulator
great job!
Ekmek gives me too much credit, i am more an artist, but just wrote the TUT based on what i learned from others that know much more than i...
Ekmek gives me too much credit, i am more an artist, but just wrote the TUT based on what i learned from others that know much more than i...
Ekmek
on steam: ekmek_e
could this be why its invisible at times? the nexusbuddy gr2 overrides the texture and bones???
I found out that my old fxsxml doesn't make a difference. The roman legion stuff in it is o.k. I compare it with the vanilla swordsman.fxsxml. So I test the model with the overwritten vanilla fxsxml, and it worked too!
I'm not sure about the influence of the bone path in the fxsxml, because they are different to the blend file (e.g. <Bone name="HumanRibcage_x"/>) and incomplete too.
But it worked. So anyone can explain this?
<Bone name="HumanRibcage_x"/> used for the effect.
Nutty
Deity
Can you explain this? Are you referring to viseffects?
