How do you disable Leaderhead Animations?

[Officer Reene]

Does anyone know the code/file to disable the leaderhead animations...

or replace the leaderhead animations with a blank pic?

I am having problems in Multiplayer (both LAN and IP Direct connection) around 1500 AD (Normal Game Speed) where when a human player's diplomacy window appears, the game slows then stops and then it disconnects from the other human players.

I believe the animation is causing this... because all other features run ok... and this disconnection only occurs when a AI civ tries to talk to human Civ.


If I can disable the Leaderhead animations... this may stop the lag and ultimate disconnect...

If I can not do this... I figure a blank screen instead of the leaderhead pics would also stop the disconnect problems...

anyone have any ideas or solutions?

Please help!

 

[MrCynical]

There doesn't seem to be an option in the ini file for this, but it might be possible to do something in the XML. Have a look at the Civ4LeaderHeadInfos and Civ4ArtDefines_Leaderhead XML files. You could try removing the file names for the art for each leaderhead in the Artdefines file, which should certainly stop them working, but might cause problems. You could try copying this file into the corresponding custom assets folder, removing the file names for the leaderhead animations from the copy, and then seeing if the game, and diplomacy will still work like this. I wouldn't try altering the original file as this could well cause problems with the game, and the copy in the custom assets folder will act as a mod and override the original as long as itis there.

 

[Officer Reene]

I d/l static leadheads from here

it works in SP but crashes in MP when I try to "Launch" from "Staging Area"

I need to stop leaderhead animations in MP due to lag and disconnect issues (SP is fine..because there is no lag for me)

Any other ideas?