How to alter CIV4ArtDefines_Unit to prevent unit graphic change

[BobCW]

I've been playing the Planetfall Mod, where certain promotions will change the appearance of the unit it's applied to (as in, swapping in a new model). Unfortunately, one of the units, the "Rotor", has two promotions which each lead to a different unit model that's glitched- winning a combat after taking the promotion will cause the game to crash, sometimes locking up my entire desktop.

I found a post from 2015 on this forum where someone resolved the issue by editing the " CIV4ArtDefines_Unit file so the units art won't change" , but they didn't provide instructions on how to do so. They did link to an appropriately modified CIV4ArtDefines_Unit file, but alas the download is no longer available.

I'd appreciate any guidance on how to do this myself!

 

[SaibotLieh]

I am not sure if it is handled in the Planetfall Mod like in vanilla Civ, but there the graphical change due to promotions is handled in the "CIV4PromotionInfos.xml" file by the <LayerAnimationPath> entry. That entry leads to an entry in the "Civ4AnimationPathInfos.xml", which in turn leads to an entry in the "Civ4AnimationInfos.xml" file. The entry "ANIMCAT_'AnimationName'" in that file points towards a kf animation file that handles the graphical change, with the unit's kf file named "'UnitName'_md_'AnimationName'". Either changing the <LayerAnimationPath> entry to 'NONE' or removing the kf file should prevent the graphical change (if Planetfall is doing it that way).

Some time ago I created a mod doing using a promotion graphic if you want to have a look at an example: https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/medic-promotion-visualization.20312/