Colonization-safe leaderheads and units

[drjest2000]

Feeling like a noob having to re-learn all this, so please bear with me.

I know that LHs in BTS are generally unsafe to use in Colonization. If I remember, it's because of something to do with shaders. And maybe there was something about animations too. Not sure. The brain goes stale if left in the container too long.

Is there a list of which models are safe to use in Colonization? I know any derived from BTS are right out, but are Warlords LHs OK?

I know not to use any of the files associated with the Civ version LHs, that's kind of a no brainer.

I know the same probably holds true with units. I remember crashing the game A LOT figuring that out.

 

[Kailric]

Feeling like a noob having to re-learn all this, so please bear with me.

I know that LHs in BTS are generally unsafe to use in Colonization. If I remember, it's because of something to do with shaders. And maybe there was something about animations too. Not sure. The brain goes stale if left in the container too long.

Is there a list of which models are safe to use in Colonization? I know any derived from BTS are right out, but are Warlords LHs OK?

I know not to use any of the files associated with the Civ version LHs, that's kind of a no brainer.

I know the same probably holds true with units. I remember crashing the game A LOT figuring that out.

I don't remember having a problem adding any LH. I download ones uploaded by modders and them put them in my mod no problems... I think. Custom Units on the other hand have to be "converted" as I call it. A good tutorial is here http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=317419.

Also, I discovered on my own how to get most custom units into the game. Its a pain but it works most times. The simple of it is, I Import the Custom unit into Blender, right click the unit (very important step), then Export it. Then, Its always good also to, with nifscope, copy and paste the unit into a known working similar units nif, fix the team color as in the tutorial above, then your good to go.

 

[drjest2000]

Thanks for clearing that up, Kailric. That's the problem with picking things up again after four years. The memory blurs two things together.

I was just working on the Jesuits and was about to lose my mind because the LH I'd chosen kept crashing the game. I went crawling line-by-line through the files until only the LH was left as the source of the crash. As I was crawling through the file in NIFScope and discovered that the problem was that the maker of the LH had set the link for the texture to a directory on his hard drive... complete with

 C:\Documents and Settings\etc...

It was easily fixed, then it worked like a charm.

The New Scotland file though.... I still have no idea why that one pukes.

I'll figure it out eventually.

 

[orlanth]

Another common problem I've come across is when a unit imported from Civ4 or another mod refers to DDS files kept in /Assets/Art/Shared folder from the other mod or Civ4. I ended up copying most of that folder from Final Frontier into an /Assets/Art/Shared folder in the 2071 mod which solved a lot of problems. Some units also have special effects associated with their KFM animations which are kept in Art/Effects, make sure to bring those over as well.