Question about units...

[djdemo]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place...

I have a question regarding the custom unit graphics that have been made here.

Is it possible to have unique graphics for each nation, but the units are the same.

For example... the 'Fighter Unit' - currently in the default game, all nations have the same graphic.

would it be possible that each contry has their own unique graphics for the fighter unit, but the units remain the same - ie, a 'fighter' is still the same stats as the orginial game, but the German fighter is a FW190 the British have a spitfire etc.

My intention is not to change each nation to have their own unique units, but rather just to give them unique graphics.

Or is it not possible to have the same unit have different graphics depending on which nation built them?

I'd like to have complete sprite sets for modern and industrial era specific to the nations, thus for the Modern Armour - the US have the M1 Abrams, the Germans have the Lepard II, the British have the Challenger II - but the units have the same stats, so the actual game play would remain the same as the vanilla game.

Would also look neat for 'lend-lease' when nations loan units to other nations.

 

[Vehem]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place...

I have a question regarding the custom unit graphics that have been made here.

Is it possible to have unique graphics for each nation, but the units are the same.

For example... the 'Fighter Unit' - currently in the default game, all nations have the same graphic.

would it be possible that each contry has their own unique graphics for the fighter unit, but the units remain the same - ie, a 'fighter' is still the same stats as the orginial game, but the German fighter is a FW190 the British have a spitfire etc.

My intention is not to change each nation to have their own unique units, but rather just to give them unique graphics.

Or is it not possible to have the same unit have different graphics depending on which nation built them?

I'd like to have complete sprite sets for modern and industrial era specific to the nations, thus for the Modern Armour - the US have the M1 Abrams, the Germans have the Lepard II, the British have the Challenger II - but the units have the same stats, so the actual game play would remain the same as the vanilla game.

Would also look neat for 'lend-lease' when nations loan units to other nations.

The easiest solution I can see is to use the "Unique Unit" system to mod in the new graphics (England could have the Spitfire, Germany to Me109), but keep the unit stats exactly the same. Effectively - it's the same unit, but with a different name, graphic and is available to only 1 nation.

This has been used in a few of the new civ-mods to make a "flavour unit" (one that is no different in game mechanics terms, but adds character the civilisation).

 

[Chalid]

With the SDK and some programming language you most probably could create a function similar to that that changes the appearence of workers dependend on the eras, but quite now I'm sure the only way to archieve this is by using unique units for every Nation (with same stats of course).

 

[Crighton]

check out some of nautils posts, there's a link in there for how to add them, then before you lose heart as i did read ALL the way to the bottom of the original posters posts and you'll find the part about making them country specific.