I have tried to add a new unit graphics for the first time, but CivIII conquests crashes (standart message: occured fatal error and needs to close or so) at the time i build my first city. This happens when playing civilizations which are not supposed to have that unit at all too. And unit prerequisite is Robotics. Nobody has robotics at the time civIII crashes.
If I don't build a city at the first turn but wait for a while instead, program doesn't crash with with city building. It crashes when i try to give building orders instead (clicking on icon).
the unit is Crawler (named as SpiderMech at the site) from
Civ3Files.com
I made the following changes:
1. Renamed Crawler.ini to Mechanized Arachnid.ini
2. Renamed folder from Crawler to Mechanized Arachnid
Added following lines to pediaIcons.txt:
#ICON_PRTO_MechanizedArachnid
art\civilopedia\icons\units\MechanizedArachnidLarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\MechanizedArachnidSmall.pcx
at #start units
and
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Mechanized_Arachnid
Mechanized Arachnid
at # Unit animations
Needed .pcx files do exist in given location. Units_32.pcx icon set was also modyfied, adding needed Crawler icon.
Unit has following characteristics:
30/12/4
Blitz
Anti-Air 2
Shield Cost: 120
Prereq.: Robotics
Required resources: Aluminium, Iron
Actions: load, airlift, pillage, capture, all standard orders
Civilopedia Entry: PRTO_MechanizedArachnid
I can see it's icon pretty well in editor and in civilopedia too.
Thanks for any help