Making Units from LHs

[RenaissanceFan]

I'm trying to make a few units from the existing leaderheads, but I'm having trouble with the animations looking odd. I remember a mod in Colonization having this type of unit, so, what's needed for it to work?

 

[SaibotLieh]

I'm trying to make a few units from the existing leaderheads, but I'm having trouble with the animations looking odd. I remember a mod in Colonization having this type of unit, so, what's needed for it to work?

How did you do so? Did you replace the upper part of a unit with the leaderhead mesh via Blender or 3dMax? Then I guess you'll have to readjust the Bone Weight of the leaderhead part, since leaderheads have more bones than units do. The_Coyote's tutorial for Bone Weight Copying should help you here.

Altogether I don't know if it is a good idea to use the leaderhead meshes for units, since you'll end up with a relative high polycount and large dds files. I would guess that the Colonization mod has unit that are inspired by the looks of the leaderheads, and are not made directly using them.

 

[Voyhkah]

And wouldn't replacing the top of a unit with a leaderhead give the unit an ungodly amount of vertexes?

 

[mechaerik]

Yes, a unit based on a LH isn't really a great idea, it would certainly slow things down.

I do know that someone made a Tokugawa unit, but it was mostly proof-of-concept, he recommended not using it.

 

[SaibotLieh]

Yes, a unit based on a LH isn't really a great idea, it would certainly slow things down.

I do know that someone made a Tokugawa unit, but it was mostly proof-of-concept, he recommended not using it.

I don't know about that one, but there has been made a Bismarck unit.

 

[stolenrays]

Remove double vertices in BLender, then to reduce shading click on edge split. Then, in nifscope select the meshes and remove doubles again. That should drastically help reduce any polygon issues.