I need help with reskinning units

[Bryan711]

i am new to the modding process. i currently made a new civilization (which replaces germany) and it works properly. right now i am at the point of reskinning units to just give my new civ a new feel. the units will have the same stats but just look unique and a lot cooler. i am thinking about going in a making my own "style", so instead of "european" or "middle eastern", it will be my own style. i want to use the following skins/skin packs.

German Medieval Tricolor skin pack
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=291495

German industrial units
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10400

WWI german infantry
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=134956

WWI machingunners
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=213329

WWI infantry and machinegunners JUST have .dds files.

so i want to know how i would go about inserting these in my mod. if you can help it would be much appreciated.

thanks,
Bryan

 

[mechaerik]

So its not reskinning units, but using them as flavor units? I know it has something to do with the ArtDefines XML and the Artstyles, but i dont know how to go about doing this. Ill also be interested, however.

 

[Refar]

You need to look into the Civilizations\CIV4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml - there you can define a new art style, sticking whatever units you like to use in it; The ART_DEF_.... thingies referenced there, come from Art\CIV4ArtDefines_Unit.xml; Refer to an adding units tutorial (There should be others as well in the tutorial index) for details here - you only need the part concerning the Art Defines from there; Once you have the art style done, you can just go into Civilizations\CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml and assign the new style to any civ you want via <UnitArtStyleType> tag.

 

[Bryan711]

hey, thanks.

here is my progress so far.

i have everything from the tricolor mideval mod in my mod as flavor units except the knight, chariot, and horseman which show up all weird so i just deleted the flavor files for those 3 units. maybe later i will PM the creator and ask for some help.

i also downloaded a WWI infantry pack but did not work properly so right now im going to stick with the original infantry unit.

i also have a link that i posted above for a different infantry file but it only has a .dds file so im not sure how to insert that into my mod files.

but over all i made a decent amount of progress today.

-bryan