Help Duplicating / Editing Units

[JamesRoper1403]

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I'm having another go at trying to add some new units to my game prior to the expansion pack coming out. I figured out copying units from the base game, but I cannot figure out how to use the artdef from other sources...

I'm not sure if I have the folders setup incorrectly... But for example, I made the MOAR units a dependency, and copied the artdef for the Equite unit, but it still doesn't show up in my game.

What am I missing? Is anyone able to offer any assistance?


Thanks!

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I had a simple little mod that I enjoyed in Civ 5 - I had added some extra naval units by duplicating existing units and tweaking their stats.

In the previous game I just altered a framework for changing a unit that someone posted on here. Can anyone give me a framework or assistance in doing the same thing in Civ 6?

I'm looking to change the combat stats / cost, change the melee naval units into naval ranged units, duplicate the battleship and tweak it to become a battlecruiser, things like that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Gedemon]

It's not that simple with civ6, no problem for the stats, but see here about the difficulty of doing a "framework" for cloning any unit art: https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...it-the-appearence-of-an-existing-unit.619357/

 

[JamesRoper1403]

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what to do exactly... I tried imitating the data of the Yamato from the moar units mod to add a Battlecruiser instead, but was not successful. This just seems way beyond my comprehension...

 

[Gedemon]

I'm still looking/hoping for someone to come with an easy way to do it.

Or some kind of documentation for modbuddy, maybe there is already an easy way to do it...

 

[Deliverator]

There is a ProxyUnit entry in the Units entry in Units.artdef which I think can be used to reuse Unit graphics but you still need a separate entry for each new Unit so that isn't really a big improvement over copy/paste the Unit entry completely. Hopefully Firaxis will improve how this works at some point.

 

[JamesRoper1403]

Thanks for the replies, you guys are awesome. It's a shame there isn't more support for you from the developers right now.

Is there anything that might help guide me through adding a duplicate unit to the game so I can change the stats and text details?

 

[Deliverator]

Modbuddy has an example template for creating a New Unit mod based on existing art. That should get you started. Other than that you'll just be copy/pasting values from Units.xml for the Gameplay data and Units.artdef for the art.

 

[JamesRoper1403]

I've managed to get new units to show up in game with the icons and text that I'd like, but they are showing up as warriors when I build them.

For example, I've been working on the Cruiser artdef and making sure its matched up to the destroyer which I was basing it on, but it shows as a group of warriors. I'm not sure what the issue is... Is anyone able to figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Any help would be appreciated

Update - Uploaded latest version of the mod

Update - Uploaded latest version of the mod again

 

[JamesRoper1403]

I'm having another go at trying to add some new units to my game prior to the expansion pack coming out. I figured out copying units from the base game, but I cannot figure out how to use the artdef from other sources...

I'm not sure if I have the folders setup incorrectly... But for example, I made the MOAR units a dependency, and copied the artdef for the Equite unit, but it still doesn't show up in my game.

What am I missing? Is anyone able to offer any assistance?

 

[raen]

I replicate units in my mod all the time, since i dont have the skills to fully import from civ 5's units at the moment....

I think the problem you having is related to the icon, but let me see later.

Edited: but i didnt tried from moar...but i want too

 

[JamesRoper1403]

Icons seem to be ok - it’s just the unit art that doesn’t appear. When I try to use artdef from anything other than the base game I just get an invisible unit.

 

[raen]

Icons seem to be ok - it’s just the unit art that doesn’t appear. When I try to use artdef from anything other than the base game I just get an invisible unit.

Yeah, not the same problem I used to have, I actually don´t get any unit from moar or built any on modbuddy, still to get there yet...

 

[Deliverator]

See this tutorial:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/leugis-civ-6-unit-asset-tutorials-level-1.26698/

 

[raen]

@Deliverator That tutorial is very nice! Its the same for ships? Or a manual for ships is to come out? THANKS

 

[Deliverator]

@Deliverator That tutorial is very nice! Its the same for ships? Or a manual for ships is to come out? THANKS

Yes, no difference for ships. You should just copy the Units.artdef settings for an existing ship. There is also a Level 2 tutorial here:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/leugis-civ-6-unit-asset-tutorials-level-2.26699/

 

[JamesRoper1403]

Thanks for the links to the tutorials, Deliverator!

Does anyone know what you would enter in the ModArt.xml file to add dependencies to the .dep file?

 

[raen]

Thanks for the links to the tutorials, Deliverator!

Does anyone know what you would enter in the ModArt.xml file to add dependencies to the .dep file?

Try this tool