Making custom armies

[ShiroKobbure]

I tried making some army units but came across some huge problems with the pallete.
Do I have to have a flag for army units?
And what factors are thete?

 

[AnthonyBoscia]

ShiroKobbure,

The Army palette has 4 rows of colors for the flag in addition to the normal smoke and civ colors. This leaves 96 colors for the unit. Even if the unit doesn't have the multi-colored flag in the animation itself, those colors still have to be set. I used the Firaxis Army palette as a base, but the problem was that some of those flag colors were already in the unit. It would seem that either the palette colors need to change or the unit colors need to change. I think the challenge for Army units is that just as civ-color cannot appear anywhere in the original animation other than where you want it, the Army unit also cannot have any of those flag colors in the original animation except where you would want it.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

Thanks for the info, would you mind posting the army Pal?

 

[Vuldacon]

ShiroKobbure... this will help you:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=124735&highlight=Army+Palette

 

[AnthonyBoscia]

Yeah, Vuldacon's is even better. I just used the Firaxis one... it's in the Palette folder for the Amerindian Chief.

 

[Vuldacon]

I placed both the Blue and Red Palettes in that Tutorial along with the Alpha.pal Palettes for both.

 

[imperator1961]

I placed both the Blue and Red Palettes in that Tutorial along with the Alpha.pal Palettes for both.

I've tried time ago to use the tutorial, but I have obtained a very horrible unit, because I wanted to do a new army unit. That I need is a tutorial how to create a NEW army unit, and not to convert an already existing unit. Can anyone help me?

 

[Vuldacon]

The Tutorial is Not about how to make a Unit... that would be a Unit making Tutorial.

IF you have a Unit that you want to make into an Army Unit, that is explained.

If you have a Unit, you can make it an Army Unit. That would be a New Army Unit.

The only difference between a "normal" Game Unit and an Army Unit are the Palettes.