New Unit Animation Question

[sman1975]

Greetings,

I'm building a new civilian unit that is basically a "healer" - has a couple of Medic promotions - and the unit uses the Inquisitor animations.

I'd like to be able to add a Repair capability, similar to what workers do to pillaged/fallout squares, so I added that to the Builds in the unit XML file. The command shows up just fine when the unit is on a pillaged square. But as the Inquisitor doesn't "build" anything, the unit just stands there in Idle mode when "Repair" is selected. Not bad, but not good either.

So, I attempted to add a Worker model into the the overall unit. The Healer unit now has two figures - the Inquisitor-based model and a Worker-based model taken from the game. Each of these figures use the correct .fxsxml file.

When the game starts, the unit is correctly shown. When I put the unit on a pillaged square and select the Repair option, the game quickly CTD's on me. It's odd how each unit - if they were separated into two different units - will repair a square without crashing the game. Put them into one unit, and CRASH.....

I've looked through a lot of animation threads, but can't find anything that works. Has anyone successfully blended units like these and seen it work?

 

[sman1975]

OK, nevermind...

After using the different models in different combinations, it appears my problem was with the Inquisitor-based model. You simply cannot combine them with any other model that has an attack. You also cannot combine them with a worker unit and then try to Repair something. One version of the healer unit had the Inquisitor and an escort "wolf" model from LeeS' Wildlife Reborn mod - but this combination crashed the game while simply moving the unit to the next square. There's just something about Inquisitors (and I suspect Missionaries and GPs) that don't play well with other models. I'm sure it's because there's a missing gr2 file or something to that effect. I thought about trying to customize a new ftsxml file to expand the Inquisitor animations, but that's a bit beyond my skills/interests, and probably wouldn't work anyways.

Well, back to the drawing board. Sorry for the interruption....