Cladoniaceae
Chieftain
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2017
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Novice modder here.
I was toying around with making a more shamanic-looking alternative to the Missionary unit and thought it would be fairly simple to make a new art define by copying the Missionary XML and pasting in the already existing unit members Barbarian_EURO_Alpha (for the deerskin headdress!), Great_Prophet_Male, and Great_Prophet Female in the places of Missionary, Missionary_01, and Missionary_02. Actual code below:
Unless there's something obvious that I missed in the cut and paste above, it seems that wasn't enough because when I tested the mod, the unit just came out looking like default-placeholder-you-did-something-wrong Spearmen. Everything else worked fine, except for the expected lack of any animation or sound when spreading religion.
Is the problem that the game simply won't load unit models that don't have animations corresponding with the actions they're intended to perform? I.e. the Barbarian Euro Alpha model is a military unit and doesn't have any animations associated with, f.ex. a spread religion action, therefore it didn't load at all? Would the process of making this work be similar to making a custom unit model from scratch? Any clarification/tutorials referred would be much appreciated.
I was toying around with making a more shamanic-looking alternative to the Missionary unit and thought it would be fairly simple to make a new art define by copying the Missionary XML and pasting in the already existing unit members Barbarian_EURO_Alpha (for the deerskin headdress!), Great_Prophet_Male, and Great_Prophet Female in the places of Missionary, Missionary_01, and Missionary_02. Actual code below:
Spoiler :
Unless there's something obvious that I missed in the cut and paste above, it seems that wasn't enough because when I tested the mod, the unit just came out looking like default-placeholder-you-did-something-wrong Spearmen. Everything else worked fine, except for the expected lack of any animation or sound when spreading religion.
Is the problem that the game simply won't load unit models that don't have animations corresponding with the actions they're intended to perform? I.e. the Barbarian Euro Alpha model is a military unit and doesn't have any animations associated with, f.ex. a spread religion action, therefore it didn't load at all? Would the process of making this work be similar to making a custom unit model from scratch? Any clarification/tutorials referred would be much appreciated.
