From all the links I've visited, people didn't seem to have a resolution for the lines
info_pic_dir and
card_pic_dir in the EDU, and they aren't included in the few mods I've checked, so I'm counting this a new discovery in relation to the community at large.
The lines are much simpler than previous attempts have tried to utilize them. The game already assumes that
/ui/unit/ or
/ui/unit_info/ are the preceding directory to whatever you enter. Adding the lines in red:
Code:
type Naginata Shinobe
dictionary Naginata_Shinobe ; Naginata Shinobe
category infantry
class spearmen
voice_type Light
banner faction main_spear
soldier Naginata_Shinobe, 60, 0, 1
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw
move_speed_mod 1.0
formation 1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 3, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 5, 0, no, 120, 50, melee, melee_blade, piercing, none, 25, 1
stat_pri_attr short_pike
stat_sec no
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 4, 8, 2, flesh
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 0
stat_ground 0, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental 8, disciplined, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 500, 150, 100, 100, 500, 1, 200
armour_ug_levels 0
armour_ug_models Naginata_Shinobe
ownership minamoto, taira, champa, daiviet, dali, goryeo, jin, khitans, khmer, mongols, pagan, song, tibet, xixia, ghurid, challenge, scripting, slave
info_pic_dir minamoto
card_pic_dir minamoto
recruit_priority_offset 0
This causes the game to look for the info pic at
/ui/unit_info/minamoto/naginata_shinobe_info.tga and the card pic at
/ui/unit/minamoto/#Naginata_Shinobe.tga.
These cards and info cards are workable across all factions. So while the unit has 18 factions listed as having ownership, all 18 factions look for the card and info card in one central location, greatly reducing the number of images which have to be put in these folders for utilization of AOR. So if the same EDU unit has separate 'textures' and subsequently separate cards based on which faction it's a part of, you probably don't want to use this functionality for those specific units. For all AOR units though this is highly recommended, as it exponentially reduced the number of files which need to be stored.
It should be noted that these lines
supersede faction folders, so if you have one in another faction folder which is specific to that faction, it will take the one listed in the EDU before it. This is my observation as of this time, and may be disproved from further exposure.
Furthermore, it doesn't matter what you put there, it doesn't have to be a faction or culture name. In my first test of this functionality I put
nubpics there instead of
minamoto, and it looked for the files in
/ui/unit_info/nubpics/. I have yet to try appending trailing slashes to the folder name, but then I also fail to see why they'd be necessary when you can already specify separate folder names ad infinitum.