Importing BE content

[sawi_13]

I'm sure thuis is being discussed someplace I just don't have the time to look through all of the threads, so please just direct me to the proper thread. Thank You.

I'm hoping to mod BE units into CivV.
How do I go about it?

(I do not need a basic modding tutorial I've been modding my CivV for a while now. But where do I find the graphic files of BE units so that I can import them?)

 

[Nutty]

See the Nexus Buddy 2 thread, including post #238.

Short version:
Unpack the BE FPKs in the game's resource folder with the script in Nexus (part of the SDK), or use Dragon UnPACKer (a third party tool available on SourceForge) if you don't want to extract everything.

Copy the units' .fxsxml, .ftsxml, and all of the .dds and .gr2 files, then do a batch convert of the .gr2s in Nexus Buddy 2 (after going to "Advanced Actions" > "Load String Database," and choosing "unitmodels_stringdatabase.gsd," then "Resave All Files in Directory").

You'll also need to tweak the .ftsxml files for those units with particle/projectile effects and reuse an effect from Civ5 instead, since you can't export the effects (yet).