Difficulties With New Unit I'm Making

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I am trying to convert the Iroquois' Unique Unit, the Mounted Warrior, into a Mounted Settler. First, I changed the icon to that of the Explorer. I increased Defense to 3. I lowered Attack to 0. I kept movement points at 2. I changed Shields to 10. I changed Population Decrease to 1. I made sure the only attributes the unit had were Mounted and Starts Golden Age. The boxes on the right that indicate what abilities it has are equivalent to those of the settler. However, whenever I try to zoom to the city that builds one, or when it is built, the game crashes. Is there anything I can do?

 

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As you didn't state what you actually do (whether you added another new unit or modify the current mounted warrior into a mounted settler) I will try to guess what you have done

I assume this is your first attempt to add a new unit (you should read Zippo's post on how to add a new unit) and you are just changing the mounted warrior to become a mounted settler. First, the animation for the units are stored in the directory CivilizationIII/Art/Units/ and each unit has its own folder which has the same name as the unit. Inside each folder is also an ini files which has the same name as the folder which tells the program which animation file to use for moving, attacking, etc. One of the file endeded with xxxxxDefault.flc. This is the file where the icon for the build que comes from.

Since you renamed your unit to Mounted Settler (I assume), the program cannot find a folder by that name and also the ini by the same name and therefore it crash. What I would suggest is you copy the folder for Explorer and rename it as mounted Settler. Also remember to change the name of the ini file to mounted sellter.ini and after that you can then build your new mounted settler which looks like an Explorer. Welcome to the world of modding