How to import a unit from Civ 5 ?

[Dannythewolf]

Hy everyone !

I'm working on a CivBE MOD for myself, to create a new unit class : armor (heavy tanks). At this point, the MOD works (I'm playing with heavy tanks in my modded CivBE) but the problem is graphics : it's so annoying to have heavy tanks with a rover 3D model !

Until now, I didn't managed to export the Modern Armor 3D model from Civ 5 to CivBE ... I would like very much to do that. I downloaded ModBuddy and Nexus, but afther some days, I still don't understand how to unzip the 3d model files of Civ 5 and export them in my mod.

Any help is appreciated ! Thanks !

 

[Bobert13]

IIRC, Civ BE stores some data regarding bones or weights (or some other nonsense related to meshes ) in a single large database instead of storing in the models themselves. I think that someone has gone back from Civ:BE to Civ V with models by getting all of the data out of the database and putting in the model where V expects it to be but I haven't heard of anyone successfully importing from V to BE.

 

[HandyVac]

The unit graphics for Civ V are all bundled together inside a .fpk archive.

There is a script in Nexus to unpack those archives and extract all the individual files, you should find it under the "script browser" tab in Nexus, called something like "Extract PAK files".